@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”

Also contractually obligated to make that joke.

@MisterBoring said in Multisphere pressure:

@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

Classic Battletech?

I regret that I was not paying attention to the forum, because I definitely was going to go there. STOMPY ROBUTTS!

@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

Classic Battletech?

I regret that I was not paying attention to the forum, because I definitely was going to go there. STOMPY ROBUTTS!

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

Classic Battletech?

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

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

I can only ever play one character at a time, but I know many players who loved to just load up on alts. And in most cases it is mostly about odds of finding RP. The more spheres, the more alts. The more alts, the more chances at finding RP. I suspect… that some of them are looking for a “specific” type of RP. And the more alts you can get, the more chances you have of playing with and/or finding that specific type of RP.

Against that, all other concerns become less important.

In this community, people acting against their own self-interest is exceptionally common, unfortunately. Sure, they’d have a better chance with a game that’s healthy and thriving and not spread threadbare. But. You know. Logic.

Cognitive reframing around running MUSHes.

I don’t think you can CBT yourself into better MU design.

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@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.

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@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.

I am immensely guilty of this myself.

i think this one is pretty simple: players push for the spheres they specifically want to play in. they’re not thinking about the big picture health of the game. people just want their favorite splat

What Roz said.

I also think that there’s this general fear among game runners that if they’re not offering enough spheres, they’re not going to draw a large enough playerbase for the game to perpetuate player-led RP. Like if someone’s favorite sphere is Mage, they’re just not going to join a game that only offers Werewolf and Changeling or something.

And while that may be true to a limited degree, what will more often end up happening by adding Mage in is that you may get a few new people, sure. But mostly what you’ll see is people who love WoD and willing to play there are already on the game, and if they love Mage or just love shiny new things, will make Mage alts. At which now you’ve simultaneously splintered the player base into smaller groups, spread the concentration of RP out over more characters, and compounded the work for staff. That might be worth it if you’re expanding staff to accommodate that and have someone who is both competent and interested in telling stories in your new sphere, but mostly? It’s not going to be worth it.

The pressure of new and shiny is real though, and the excitement of new stories and new plots was too hard to resist.

Which is why we did it: excitement for something new, something more.

And the intensity of their desire is usually inversely proportional to how common the sphere is in other games.

it isn’t that I “desire” to play Ananasi it’s that I deserve to

And the intensity of their desire is usually inversely proportional to how common the sphere is in other games.

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