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That's mostly ElfCollaboratorI learned from the best
For me, if your character is decent, a paragraph of bio is enough.
Not yet, give it time and we'll get corpsewalling soon enough.I get that approach. I prefer to buff in favour of my players rather than nerf, and a retroactive change just changes the rules of engagement, which is never good for the players. You don't want them thinking you'll whisk something away from them as and when convenient; I've been on the receiving end of that and I actually quit that game as a result.To be fair Elf, your players probably don't do dumb decisions multiple turns in a row, necessitating the Royalty of their side to exact their frustrations on the design team.
Nah, for real. If I had half the aptitude you seem to have for AR (from what I hear) I'd be twice as productive.Now as a GM it takes a buttload of time and I am verydumbsmart for taking on four of them at once.
I do this with arms races. We're part of a prettystupidexclusive bigbrained club. But making things is addicting, and having people enjoy the things you make even moreso.
-snip-Ah, yeah, if that's what you mean then it can be a commitment for the long run, yeah. The fastest a campaign has run was about....a year and a half (one of my own FEFs, actually, Whereabouts of Drink and Coin).
"I see." "Are you two ready to go?"
If I were feeling petty, I would copy a list of the forum bans and point out how many of them were from FG&RP, but I don't have any particular desire to extend this argument for any longer than is strictly necessary. If you're not willing to listen, why should I waste time talking to you instead of designing my new roleplay, updating Vestals of the Waves, or, hell, even playing video games?There was actually one attempt, back at the dawn of time, to run a live session of FEF on Maptools.
One person does not a pattern make. Follow Occam's Razor: is there a big exclusionary culture that everyone is a part of, or do you need to step back for a bit before you damage your reputation even further than already? I know which one is simpler.I see. I'm surprised FEF has survived so long with that kinda thing stopping other, more popular games from hitting it off.
....granted, I'm also the one running a lot of the FEFs nowadays, but we're getting that community drive to move stuff off now that we have an actual calculator to do things.
FEF has a huge community around it sustaining it. I can't tell you how it got to that point - you've been in the community for a lot longer than I - but I suspect the reason that no other game has gotten to that point is that there aren't enough people willing to launch something. GURPS, to use that example, is fairly niche among TTRPGs - and chargen has a Hell of a learning curve, so it almost demands that the GM is around to help. That sort of closeness just isn't possible with PbP, so you would almost certainly need to communicate off-site (i.e. Discord) and at that point why not just skip the middleman and run your game there?
Were there any experiments running FEF, or something like it, in real-time? I suspect since the system is not designed for that it won't work well, which makes it much harder to lose players to offsite games.
excellent, someone to convert to the cultI've thought about trying FEF many times, but I'm not sure I am capable of the time commitment. What would you say it takes to get into it?I remember when I wanted to do a PbP GURPS game. Looking back, that was ill-advised - GURPS is crunchy enough that doing it play-by-post would be like waiting for a glacier to carry you across the Atlantic.I see. I'm surprised FEF has survived so long with that kinda thing stopping other, more popular games from hitting it off.
....granted, I'm also the one running a lot of the FEFs nowadays, but we're getting that community drive to move stuff off now that we have an actual calculator to do things.
I remember when I wanted to do a PbP GURPS game. Looking back, that was ill-advised - GURPS is crunchy enough that doing it play-by-post would be like waiting for a glacier to carry you across the Atlantic.I see. I'm surprised FEF has survived so long with that kinda thing stopping other, more popular games from hitting it off.
-snip-I disagree, but for a different reason.
-snip-Not entirely true; I can confirm at least that he DID get himself excluded from a FEF over trying to co-opt (read; steal) someone else's application to that game on this very forum, which is what I believe he is partially referring to. However, aside from that, I cannot think of a single game that he HAS gotten himself excluded from, which further begs the question; where are the other examples, and what did he do leading up to those?
"Hm....that can be arranged, if he has the time.."
"Well, there's a difference between being well-liked and having friends, Lin. It's hard to find an emotional or physical equal, sometimes."
