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Apocalypse World / Re: The "twinky" battlebabe
« on: March 28, 2011, 04:26:51 PM »
Terrific, thorough answer. Thanks, Vincent.
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Apocalypse World / Re: The "twinky" Battlebabe
« on: March 28, 2011, 04:04:20 PM »
I think this is the Battlebabe thread that was referred to earlier.
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Apocalypse World / Re: The "twinky" battlebabe
« on: March 28, 2011, 03:25:15 PM »
She's definitely not whining, this is just something that seems unfair to her. I'm pretty sure it's not unfair, though, so I just have to find language to make that clear.
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Apocalypse World / The "twinky" battlebabe
« on: March 28, 2011, 02:51:51 PM »
Hey folks,
I'm about to start a game on Skype set in a brothel after the world suffered a treepocalypse. My sense of the group's gaming experience is that it largely consists of White Wolf games, though there's a great deal of experience with other games, including some indie games.
One of the players said this:
My response was that I think that Battlebabes are of the hyperfocus type, and Drivers (et al.) are more of the generalist type. My sense is that this is right, but how do I respond to it?
I'm about to start a game on Skype set in a brothel after the world suffered a treepocalypse. My sense of the group's gaming experience is that it largely consists of White Wolf games, though there's a great deal of experience with other games, including some indie games.
One of the players said this:
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Battlebabes are at +4, while everyone else is +3, except Drivers and someone else who are +2. Stuff like that irritates me.
My response was that I think that Battlebabes are of the hyperfocus type, and Drivers (et al.) are more of the generalist type. My sense is that this is right, but how do I respond to it?
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brainstorming & development / Re: The Stormguard
« on: December 25, 2010, 02:19:24 PM »
This is cool, I love the idea of the selling out "technology" used this way. What would be the fictional nature of the sellout? Why do these actions cause you to sell out?
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brainstorming & development / Re: dedicated hack forums
« on: June 30, 2010, 01:08:16 PM »Could I get a forum for the Song of Ice and Fire hack? I think I'm ready to start throwing down some more specific hackageThat excites me.
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Exodus / Re: Open notes thread (or, Rob "reads" BSG)
« on: June 19, 2010, 04:51:09 PM »
Do you want to answer things definitively vs. do you want to leave mystery? Seems like a central question in art. I like the tension between those things, even you're not allowed to by a certain point of view.
This is a tension in BSG and every other spec fic series, especially, I think.
It's also a tension in extemporaneous art, like rpgs-as-played can be.
(Extemporaneous, ephemeral art with an extremely limited audience.)
This is a tension in BSG and every other spec fic series, especially, I think.
It's also a tension in extemporaneous art, like rpgs-as-played can be.
(Extemporaneous, ephemeral art with an extremely limited audience.)
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Exodus / Re: Open notes thread (or, Rob "reads" BSG)
« on: June 19, 2010, 04:46:39 PM »
Questions of bigotry vs. forceful imposition of security. "I kill the Cylon" vs. "I try to understand the Cylon."
The liberal view: Try to understand the terrorists. Figure them out. Maybe we can interface, stop the need for killing. Sometimes even get duped by people who are manipulating your trust, or be antiauthoritarian to stupidity's end.
The conservative view: People are going to fucking die here. I won't let people die. I will do whatever I have to to stop my monkeysphere from being hurt. Sometimes even hurt my monkeysphere in the short term to help it in the long term.
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Your creations get twisted and misused. Gaius's programing skillz.
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Frankenstein thing gets skirted. I don't know if I want to preserve that for genre and feel or strangle it because I feel it's been overdone. Maybe allowing for another balancing act? You decide: is this the Frankenstein problem, or Frankenstien is dead, we have new paradigm.
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James Callas's / writers' ability to interweave dialogue and have one guy respond to two people (head Six and Gaeta, frex), is fun to watch and fun to do. Support?
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Move?:Sexual teasing, seducing. Very important.
The liberal view: Try to understand the terrorists. Figure them out. Maybe we can interface, stop the need for killing. Sometimes even get duped by people who are manipulating your trust, or be antiauthoritarian to stupidity's end.
The conservative view: People are going to fucking die here. I won't let people die. I will do whatever I have to to stop my monkeysphere from being hurt. Sometimes even hurt my monkeysphere in the short term to help it in the long term.
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Your creations get twisted and misused. Gaius's programing skillz.
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Frankenstein thing gets skirted. I don't know if I want to preserve that for genre and feel or strangle it because I feel it's been overdone. Maybe allowing for another balancing act? You decide: is this the Frankenstein problem, or Frankenstien is dead, we have new paradigm.
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James Callas's / writers' ability to interweave dialogue and have one guy respond to two people (head Six and Gaeta, frex), is fun to watch and fun to do. Support?
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Move?:Sexual teasing, seducing. Very important.
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Exodus / Re: Open notes thread (or, Rob "reads" BSG)
« on: June 19, 2010, 04:36:15 PM »In the first season, at least, there's tons of situations where practical matters of survival challenge ideals. Mixed in with this is a lot of 'what does the greater good justify?' kind of stuff. That was a large part of why I liked the series so much in the first season.Fucking A. Nice. Thanks, Jeff, Ill be looking for that now.
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Exodus / Re: Open notes thread (or, Rob "reads" BSG)
« on: June 19, 2010, 04:32:58 PM »
2nd half of the miniseries observations/ideas:
the more you use the opening to weird, the more there's a tip in the scales from self-determination to destiny. weird is where the heaviest weight of control powers should be
Maybe an alternate +5 history, that indicates you're in love. You don't get the XP for it going back to 0, it stays and it says "I love this person." Love powers could be more controlly versions of sex powers (I don't know how controlly sex powers are). Or maybe sex should be more controlly and love more hands-off on the player's control.
the more you use the opening to weird, the more there's a tip in the scales from self-determination to destiny. weird is where the heaviest weight of control powers should be
Maybe an alternate +5 history, that indicates you're in love. You don't get the XP for it going back to 0, it stays and it says "I love this person." Love powers could be more controlly versions of sex powers (I don't know how controlly sex powers are). Or maybe sex should be more controlly and love more hands-off on the player's control.
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Exodus / Re: Rob's BSG (was Re: Where is the Dragon Killer?)
« on: June 19, 2010, 09:07:09 AM »
Jamey, I started a thread with my live-notes.
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Exodus / Re: Open notes thread (or, Rob "reads" BSG)
« on: June 19, 2010, 08:59:15 AM »
Questions of faith are important, answers of faith in the series are problematical.
Major force is love. Making people love you, what love can do to you.
Major force is love. Making people love you, what love can do to you.
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Exodus / Open notes thread (or, Rob "reads" BSG)
« on: June 19, 2010, 08:55:48 AM »
Purposes of this thread:
* For me:To write any notes that occur to me as I watch Battlestar.
* For you: Chat with me (so, kinda for me, too) about my observations. I.e., feel free to participate.
EDIT: 6/19, I am posting VERY raw ideas, here. This is first-draft shit. It comes from my eyes to my fingers as I watch the discs. I don't mind discussion on these side-points, but please respect that these are exceedingly raw ideas. Some of them might be stupid.
* For me:To write any notes that occur to me as I watch Battlestar.
* For you: Chat with me (so, kinda for me, too) about my observations. I.e., feel free to participate.
EDIT: 6/19, I am posting VERY raw ideas, here. This is first-draft shit. It comes from my eyes to my fingers as I watch the discs. I don't mind discussion on these side-points, but please respect that these are exceedingly raw ideas. Some of them might be stupid.
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brainstorming & development / Re: dedicated hack forums
« on: June 14, 2010, 01:46:09 PM »
Yes, thanks.
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Exodus / Re: Rob's BSG (was Re: Where is the Dragon Killer?)
« on: June 14, 2010, 01:44:56 PM »
I'm going to rewatch the series with a notebook and figure out what they do, but I'm diagramming AW because I want to try to throughly understand how it works, too.
Tangentially, I actually DID some of this with Freaks and Geeks, LOST, the Dawn of the Dead remake, Avatar: the Last Airbender, and the second half of the 4th season of Angel (the Jasmine stuff).
(Oh, also, figuring out how you made AW work will help me know what kinds of things to look for when watching the show.)
Tangentially, I actually DID some of this with Freaks and Geeks, LOST, the Dawn of the Dead remake, Avatar: the Last Airbender, and the second half of the 4th season of Angel (the Jasmine stuff).
(Oh, also, figuring out how you made AW work will help me know what kinds of things to look for when watching the show.)