Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
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I don't really care for Reddit, myself, but they've really been cracking down over there the last few years.
I mean, they still got problems, but with how garbage search engines and "help" articles are becoming, it's sometimes the only reliable place to go to get information I need quicker than trying to scour several YouTube videos.
Hmmm, yeah. Guess it's anybody's bet at this point.
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Ichigo: What even *are* you?!
Kenpachi: Some say my mother was a train. Some say that I'm a rejected Godzilla monster too strong for the series canon. But everyone says: I'M THE KEEEEENPACHIIIIII!!!!
Thought up some other things. Babies and kids are no zombies too, forever stunted in growth. New parents are left to take care of a baby who will never grow up and be dependent on them forever. Kids are stuck in perpetual childhoods. And don't forget the elderly, people in their twilight years who even with the aches and pains of old age gone as zombies aren't in the best of health still. They'll need to be taken care of, although an aged population that never dies and is never replaced by the newer old generation and is reliant on welfare may spark up some ageism protests from the young worked class. Though like you mentioned that's well after the first several years or decades later. And there's people on death's bed who now can't die but being zombified doesn't make them better. Plus people still get injured, but medical care becomes more complicated when flesh can't heal. Sure with dead bodies many reasons to get surfers no longer apply, but some still do - like putting in screws and plates for badly broken bones.
Honestly the best setting for the first year or two of that disaster might be a hospital.
How'd you get past them? You don't have to share if it's uncomfortable though.I've had to come to a lot of self-flagellating realizations myself over the years. It can be a rough time.
Yeah, shame I'm not really into TTRPG books or I might have something - I honestly have a stupid amount of setting and scenario ideas to fill up a library of such books. But I don't really have the passion for that kind of material to make something like that. Also they all require technical rules and things for how the gameplay works and that's really not my wheelhouse.I get this problem a lot, myself. :V
Makes me think back on how many of the old, classic sci-fi books these days read like, "So here's this really cool idea for a setting I had", and the whole "story" is a bunch of cardboard cut-out scientist archetypes wandering around, commenting on what they see. Rough reads, but fascinating ideas. I feel like that style of story just doesn't have the audience it used to, though, as most fictions really focus heavily on drama or comedy, so you really need that over just having a neat idea. I think that sort of "idea story" writing has mostly migrated its way into TTRPG books.
I liked discord, played a lot of dnd there and found a couple comforting communities there. But I don't really use it anymore.
Why do you need the energy? Something wrong with discord?
It's a chat program. Therein lies the issue. Note: this issue is MY issue with Discord - I completely get it works for other people.
So Discord would be used right now for two things I find interesting: Online gaming and Discussion of Interests.
For the latter, that means if I'm going there to discuss something I find interesting, I need to take a huge amount of time sitting and going through all kinds of conversation in order to glean information I am looking for. It's not like a forum, where I can go and look at stuff at my leisure. I absolutely MUST go on or the conversation/discussion gets so long and unwieldy that it's a frustration for me to work my way through and find interesting tidbits.
For the former, Discord RPGing is NOT play-by-post. It's more like a version of tabletop (real-time). However, it's a pale shadow of tabletop for me in that there's no actual tone, body language, or anything. And if someone really tries to put in loads of writing for that, Play-by-Post style, they'll quickly find that the game has left them behind, real-time. Additionally, since it's real-time, it means people absolutely must show up for the 'game session'. I don't have time for that in my own, daily life on a regular basis, so even if I do play I'll be left behind. All of which basically means that I like Tabletop sessions (still do them), I like Play-by-Post (love it), but do not enjoy Discord games.
So even though I know there's good stuff and good people on Discord, the idea of going on is rather exhausting. Take, for example, the Anima RPG Discord. There's really good information on there, really nice people, it's awesome. But maaaaan, do I have problems motivating myself to go back to it. I was so much happier when it was forums.
I expect I will go back at some point.
Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
This is still partly the case, but (at least on the Anima Discord) some of the lore topics and rules questions are now broken out as individual separate threads, so the conversation doesn’t get lost, doesn’t move fast and is all focused on the topic in question. So that helps.
Actually, Discord RP can be exactly like the long-form RP stuff you’re used to. In fact, in the Anima game I’m in (Mob’s game), it’s exactly that.For the former, Discord RPGing is NOT play-by-post. It's more like a version of tabletop (real-time). However, it's a pale shadow of tabletop for me in that there's no actual tone, body language, or anything. And if someone really tries to put in loads of writing for that, Play-by-Post style, they'll quickly find that the game has left them behind, real-time. Additionally, since it's real-time, it means people absolutely must show up for the 'game session'. I don't have time for that in my own, daily life on a regular basis, so even if I do play I'll be left behind. All of which basically means that I like Tabletop sessions (still do them), I like Play-by-Post (love it), but do not enjoy Discord games.
Built-in dice roller, uploading character sheets, private threads for solo personal side-quests or when the party splits etc.
Ironically, the extreme pace is one of the main reasons I’ve dropped out of an RPG here and avoided them here since (I’d have loved to have continued playing my megalomaniac psychic armadillo in Cleric’s game, but I knew I was never going to keep up).
I don’t have that problem at all in Discord.
I guess it depends on the group in which you’re playing or the way that GM runs it. *shrugs*
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Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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Ah, good memories of being blasted to pieces in Siriel's Anima game all those years ago
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