@Wuff

Why even play on a game with a large player base that is suppose to interact with each other then? I have always enjoyed large scenes because I believe it makes the world feel more alive. Even if its a scene I have nothing to do in, getting 20/30/40+ people together, online, all at once, is cool. Tables and places can make that more manageable, but I think the chaos of a large scene is part of the charm.

I think the issue is so often when the consequences come around those consequences are out of the player’s control. Which can be completely reasonable/logical! But they feel helpless and more easily feel slighted/pissed/unaccepting of the outcome. Especially if there is a hand behind the outcome such as a GM/Staff telling them what happened.

When bad results happen, I think you have to push it back on the player and let them make a choice. I was recently watching Critical Role’s new campaign and their use of their new system Daggerheart and I thought it was perfect for handling the scenario of a bad outcome/consequences in a MU*.

When a character loses all their HP in combat they are given three choices:

Blaze of Glory - They die, but they get to make an action that is an immediate critical success.
Struggle - They roll and have a 50/50 chance to either die or live.
Knocked Out - They live, are knocked out of the combat, but potentially suffer a permanent injury or setback.

I think a pick your poison style of approach would reduce the negative feelings and encourage people to accept negative consequences. With some tweaking it could also be modified for non-combat bad outcomes.

@Ominous

I am familiar with Lancer! I plan to run a TT game using it sometime in the future.

I think it be a fun setting for a MU*, although you would have to build out the mechanics for social and non-mech interactions.

@dvoraen
Im being audited!

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Also I want a Grimbright/Nobledark sci-fi/fantasy with mechs and lords and ladies and dragons.

Because I am like 14 and hate having to work and laying taxes.

Ratios?

Staff: Exactly as many needed to run the game. It could be 1 person it could be 100.

Players: As many as needed to survive the game detonating because of OOC drama. Every time I see a neat game with 10-15 people, all I can think of is the first OOC drama is going to crater it and it will be dead.

Everything else comes from the character of said players and staff.

I certainly want a grounded game where there can be death and consequences.

On the topic of death and consequences. I feel like the best way to have non-consent death in a game is MUD style where there is cold hard code making that decision and not necessarily GMed rolls. Only MUSH game that I have seen do that was Firan.

You also have to have a game big enough to survive the inevitable blow ups that will happen with players quitting.

You can give r/characterdrawing a try, for free. https://www.reddit.com/r/characterdrawing/s/jbVxrw8lKk

I got some amazing pieces done for some dnd characters.

Theres some amazing artists that float around there and you probably reach out for a commission. And this instagram artist did an amazing job with one prompt. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ1pbVVDCsb/?utm_source=ig_embed&img_index=1

Here is some art where artists responded to my requests.

@GF Its actually a One Piece cross over. Its called Fucky Fuck Fruit.

@Tez I didn’t gloss over it, that was part of my point re worldbuilding by describing how reproduction is handled. In this case reproduction is handled by fuckfruit and the church of fuckfruit.

@Pavel I’ll use et al next time.

@hellfrog LoL. Touche.

@Snackness Isn’t the OOC reason the same as the IC? Its a world filled with humans that can reproduce in some capacity. Its also a Lords and Ladies game wherein reproduction, families, genealogy, ect ect ect, has always been a major focus in that style of game. A Lords and Ladies game without some kind of detail as to how reproduction is treated would be more surprising than one with such details. This one just has a unique world-building aspect that can lead to unique stories specific to the setting.

I find the mockery more in poor taste when such details should be encouraged to give a setting more life. Literally. Ha haa.

@kalakh dont forget the death orca shifters.

@junipersky as long as the Compact can send a manned mission of House Valardin and House Redrain miners, on a ship built by Thrax and Lyceum, with nukes provided by the Abyss.

And the president is Morgan Freeman Grayson.

I feel I was being charitable with 30. I am not sure how many people are active. It does not feel like 30 even if that is how many show up on the WHO or such.

I have many good memories with Arx and probably my favorite character I have ever played in the hobby to date.

If the game does scale back, I think there are a lot of great stories that could be had. Although I feel like it needs a bit of a reset storywise. Maybe a time jump or something. It has felt like the story has been hanging off a cliff for years, or that someone took a great big breath and just never let it out.

Also while 30 people isn’t a bad number, I have always felt these Lords and Ladies games really need a lot of diverse players to sell that idea of a large fantasy world.

@Polk Probably! No real updates in months and whereas before you would see 70+ people theres now barely 30 it feels.

Sooo, Like, Arx is dead, right?

I still bounce on now and then thinking one day it will flourish. Oh well.

@Corinthian Shadowrun can be fun, but in my experience and taste it hits different then “pure” Gibsonian (is that a word? Now it is) Cyberpunk. Both are fun tho!