My favorite thing in PA settings is seeing how things get repurposed. A fun way to highlight human ingenuity and give a bit of irony, especially when you let yourself get a little goofy with it. Like some order of bridge keepers that all bear a stop sign affixed to the armor they've cobbled...
Name: Tabula Rasa
Reasoning: It's still young, it's even a little hazy but for myself at least that's part of the draw. It's the possibility in the setting and characters I think merit notice. The anticipation of discovering things in-game, both those planned by Grey and things that come to be...
Pfffft. One particular thread I won't ever forget was a civil war (Because everyone is suffering from unrest all the time forever) that we decided to intervene, with the untold intention of just toppling his government ourselves by using our offered support as an excuse to get into the country...
It could be super fun! But my big fear of a nation building game would be a nationstates outcome where it comes down to "I have more X than you!" or people getting really intense about minute mechanical details they have no actual knowledge of how they work.
It was really fun making/seeing...
Usually time is the best murderer of games. Waiting for a player to respond, waiting for the storyteller to advance stuff. Life comes up and someones gone for a week or more, the next person is sluggish to reply, it all accumulates until someone loses interest and causes more delays. I've also...
Take heed you don't underplay or overplay it. It's kind of hard to get it right, but you don't want to make it purely a gimmick or just something that exists to be a problem whenever is convenient.
Also be careful with mental illnesses, it's very easy to play them poorly and offensively. With...
Hand waved explanations are just fine. Those don't bother me, s'long as it's not being played purely for EDGEFACTOR!
I mean the stuff that has absolutely no reasoning, no drawbacks and just exists to be a very minor inconvenience to push through a poor plot.
I remember back in the olden times of AOL chat RPing, one girl was constantly pregnant. Kept having kids and making them new characters.
The pregnancy itself, not weird.
The near constant pregnancies that lasted all of like, two days with children that aged anywhere from 5-20 something years...
Idea: I wouldn't use cobras if you're sticking harder to central/south america. That's more Africa/Asia-ish snake.
Still totally approve of the choice of setting inspiration, love dem mexica people.
It wasn't exactly a botched roll for my character, but -I- botched my perception of what was going on.
I kinda sorta accidentally turned what was meant to be a subtle and quick investigation to see who was going to and from a particular house into a stakeout/takedown with a little over...
Oooh! That reminded me of something we were disbarred from when making an Only War regiment.
We're not allowed to make our regimental kit 15 knives with repair cement to attach them to the front of our issued tank to make it more orky.
We are however allowed to make the kit consist of...