There was a game set in Honolulu in the late 90s! I played myself (basically) and became ghouled to the toreador primogen.

@Jennkryst said in PyReach:

I guess I’m finally finishing that post about one of trans ally and author of Animorphs Katherine Applegate’s other series, Everworld.

Animorphs is one of those Missed Settings things for me. Where are the animorphs mushes!

@MisterBoring I would play that Everquest one, that would be fun as hell

@catzilla Pillowfort was a private server that was occupied by a very connected friend group (or clique, depending on your perspective) of MUSHers. I believe it ran from the late 90s to the early 00s? I was never there myself, so I only have my knowledge as per WORA and other boards’ descriptions of what actually went on there.

There were rumors that it was often used for fairly nefarious means, like orchestrating attacks on disliked players, large scale ostracism of certain players from games, and “invasions” (in quotes because most of my information on that is from people who experienced it, rather than people who participated in this) of games where a sphere would suddenly be made up entirely of Pillowfort players, which understandably pushed other players out. Seanan McGuire was a member of the Pillowfort for a while. I’m also pretty sure that VASpider was as well, but that could just be a rumor from back in the day.

@Jennkryst said in PyReach:

@MisterBoring said in PyReach:

@somasatori So when is the soft launch and what California city is it set in?

Whyfor California, when Miami is right there?

It’s a running gag since more recently we had City of Hope, Liberation and Dies Irae pop up in California.

If I were to run a modern nWoD game, I’d probably make it either in the Midwest (like more Great Plains style around Oklahoma City or something rather that Chicago), Pacific Northwest (probably Eugene or Portland due to familiarity) or the Rust Belt, probably Pittsburgh. Each of these settings would inform the spheres I’d use, with the Rust Belt being Geist and/or Vampire, PNW being Changeling, Mage, or Werewolf (or two of those), and the Midwest being Hunter (I have an idea for a hunters-only game that I’ve been talking out with folks). I also had this idea of a southwest desert sort of thing, set in maybe New Mexico or maybe Arizona, but I don’t really have the personal connection to either of those places that I do with the others.

ETA: however, I do not have the time to run a game atm!

Basically everything I’ve been doing lately has been in support of the sheet. I’ve reached a fairly comfortable place when it comes to data entry and displaying that to players. I’m not great with the Evennia web stuff, so I’m trying to make sure there are utilities available within the client to view details. I might try to dive in to look at how to display these on the web. Theoretically it shouldn’t be reinventing the wheel since I’m just using python dicts. All of our data entry on Dies Irae was based around loading JSON files which ended up being fairly easy to incorporate into Django. I am fairly sure that’s why Kumakun decided on that route.

I reworked the +info from Dies Irae a little bit and have it displaying the data directly from the dictionaries. It seems to work… better than when we were importing from JSON? Cautiously? One of the big plus sides of nWoD/CofD is that there are fewer stats and, more importantly, fewer stats that are called exactly the same name. The big ones I’ve run into so far have been Mage spells having similar names to merits, but that’s easy enough to work around.

Some examples:
+lookup (the new +info) on its own:

Let’s look at Forces spells:

Let’s take a look at Control Heat:

Now let’s take a look at some Vampire powers. Let’s check out Animalism:

Let’s see what Summon the Hunt does and requires:

As an aside, the bottom is wrong. In this case I’m broadly using the lookup output method I use for Rites/Ceremonies/Gifts/Contracts/etc. for leveled powers like Disciplines. Animalism is tracked by using +stat animalism=<value>. If you wanted this specific power, you would do +stat animalism=3, or +xp/spend Animalism (three times). Then you would have Animalism 3, or the first through third level abilities.

So largely I took the information on Codex of Darkness to quickly fill this out. I’ve gone back through to verify that everything looks copacetic with regards to their book entries.

Oh yeah! I also took the “generic” commands from Dies Irae and put them into a folder. I also stripped out some of the overcomplicated bits from them that often caused them to fail miserably. For instance, I removed any web-based workflow from +finger so that it solely interacts with elements on the character db object. I wrote up a readme file explaining what to remove if you didn’t plan on using the PyReach/CofD system. There are only a handful of commands that rely on other things, most notably the say/emit/pose system and languages. In Dies Irae, and inherited into PyReach, you could speak a different language in poses and emits by using the tilde (~) key. You could, for instance, write out something like…

@emit Listening to John, Soma gives a short, curt nod and responds, “That all sounds workable.” They turn to Sam and say ~Where are we with the plans for tomorrow night on your side?

If I had my language set to Arabic, the text after the tilde and before terminating punctuation (question marks, periods, exclamation points) would display to anyone who also had Arabic set as one of the known languages, otherwise would show a general “something you don’t understand” message if someone did not have that language. This way you could flip back and forth out of the language by alternating between ~ and standard quotation marks.

If you’re not planning to use the language system – for example, if you aren’t using the characters.py typeclass in PyReach – then there’s a small section in the pose/say/emit commands that you need to comment out, which I explain in the readme. I’m going to have another Evennia developer dummy test this to verify that it all looks okay – a lot of this stuff is Dies Irae code which was worked on a lot, but could be questionable at times – and hopefully would be a good, easy-to-implement command set for people who might be nervous about Evennia due to familiarity with Tiny/Penn.

Lest we forget, the Pillowfort.

@Warma-Sheen said in Multisphere pressure:

I suspect… that some of them are looking for a “specific” type of RP.

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

@Noraaa said in Multisphere pressure:

YOU DON’T SAY

Shock and surprise of the decade~

I long for being able to finish that game. It’s very beautiful and the story is great, I just had such trouble parrying and dodging on account of having to play it with the sound off on a Steam Deck.

@Pavel said in Multisphere pressure:

@Noraaa I don’t have the ST ADHD but I definitely have the character concept ADHD, wherein a character concept kicks down my door at three am and screams in my half-awoken face “HELLO YOU ARE NOW OBSESSED WITH BRIAN FUCKING BLESSED FOR NO REASON HERE MAKE A CHARACTER AND MAKE IT FIT WOD.”

Unfortunately I have both ST and concept ADHD. And a condition on the second is a sense of immediate excitement as soon as someone brings up something cool.

I was thinking of ways to trick myself if I were to run a game again, such as having multiple “spheres” as being groups of factions with the same template; Hunter conspiracies and compacts grouped together, are an example, or building up a great deal of story and PrP/staff support around specific Vampire Covenants, so you have your Invictus “sphere,” then your Ordo Dracul “sphere” and so on. Cognitive reframing around running MUSHes.

@hellfrog said in Play Silent Hill f:

Did! Just not willing to play it the 2 more times to see the story firsthand.

I hear you there, I’m also a little meh on NG+ and NG++ mechanics. I couldn’t make it through Nier as a result and I’ve got like three different NG+ Persona games (and also Metaphor Refantazio) sitting around waiting for me to fight the ultra secret super powerful boss

Hello, I’ve been working on more sheet stuff. Most of the time I’ve been spending with this has been on data entry, but I was able to play around with the sheet output and also refactoring some of the methods to call from the template files rather than be inline within the command files.

Here’s the main sheet for a mage:

Mage sheets now have this second section to store all of the Mage-specific data (accessible through +sheet/mage):

Sin-Eaters similarly have a special section for their Geist. This is only for the 2nd edition CofD Sin-Eaters (default):

I’m not sold on the color but eh, I wanted to give it a kind of gravitas and make it distinct from the regular character sheet. Compared to the Mage specific stuff above, I think the +sheet/mage bit looks a little cleaner. Anyhow, this is +sheet/geist

that’s it, that’s the post

(ignore my profile picture, I am not biased)

@Ominous said in Missed Settings:

Since we are talking Weird West, how about Weird West but D&D fantasy? This is a really good OSR adventure: Tomb Robbers of the Crystal Frontier

Taking this time to plug my favorite podcast which has an episode on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0GCCgNIKbo

There’s also another recent Weird West setting out there put out by Monte Cook and using the Cypher System, which is Gunslinger Knights. It’s very much “what if The Dark Tower but RPG” but that in itself is a weird west setting.

@KarmaBum WEIRD WEST, HELL YES

Out on the pampas in Argentina would be a cool setting. Gauchos tend to have similar stories to American cowboys and Mexican vaqueros, but also would probably not grab that Americana vibe that most folks are going for with a Western.

@labsunlimited said in Historical Games Round 75:

The beef between ancient Assyrians and Greeks might as well be a beef between vampires and werewolves for how relevant it is today.

I think that this is a good point, but man, some of these ancient grudges are 100% still around. From my own experience, they also tend to manifest in very strange ways and usually when you might not expect it (especially as an American).

Few people have been traumatized by weaponized lightning bolts, disintegration rays,

That’s what the academic elite want you to think! /s

@Pyrephox said in Historical Games Round 75:

But these societal forces shaped the era and had a lot of impact on the culture, the structure of society, and the pressures that drove people to accomplish amazing and heartbreaking things. When you remove, for example, the fact that suffragettes could be and were tortured and murdered by law enforcement for campaigning for women’s rights, then the courage it took to be a suffragette is diminished. If you’re talking about union-building, I think you have to include the fact that union-busters used racism to try and drive working class groups apart, even if that effort fails in the context of your game. If you’re talking 1920s-30s, it’s a bit repugnant to me to not make it clear that it’s an era when the people who made some of the defining music of the era couldn’t have a drink in the “respectable” clubs they played in. It also helps contrast some of the speakeasys which were integrated and even havens for LGBT folk of the era, etc. The fact that people had to find refuge in criminality because the laws were bigoted and unjust is a huge part of the story of the era.

This whole passage is generally why I’m against the removal of -ist/-ism speech in art. If we don’t see how ubiquitous it is that characters are frequently denigrated or have slurs thrown at them, it’s hard to appreciate the movements that worked so hard towards changing that perspective. There are also thematic constraints that come with including bigoted characters that are often subtextually difficult to explore without them. I could point at media that explicitly looks at the semiotics of racism or sexism like Get Out or more recently Silent Hill f, but also at things where the racism is front and center and its endemic nature shows us how a myopic worldview can lead to the development of a specific genre: Lovecraft and the other pulp-era writers on racism and sexism, Robert Heinlein on sexism, etc. Edit: I forgot to finish this point out. We can see that there are many other elements in these genres now that have moved away entirely from these perspectives, and have played with the old school -isms in different ways to elevate the genre. Lovecraft Country is the obvious example, but also modern sword and sorcery revival literature tends to turn sexism on its head.

On a personal level, I will rarely play characters that are front and foremost with my RL identities. I’ve only played one Muslim character and I rarely have my characters engage with their sexuality, so there have only been a handful of times when someone used the f-slur towards a character of mine and one particularly memorable time when someone used some (admittedly mild) Islamophobia against my character which was very much rooted in the cultural perspectives of the United States. It does get my hackles raised a bit if I don’t know the person, though, and I can imagine that if I were Black I would probably get deeply emotionally exhausted attempting to play through a perfect recreation of 1920s Appalachia, warts and all.

@labsunlimited said in Your first game?:

It was humiliating to be fifteen on a WOD game.

It was. This is why I was 19 for like four years. You know, thinking back, it’s interesting no one ever questioned that the age never changed.