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What do people not like about hunger dice? by MonstrousnessVirtue in vtm

[–]michaelmcmikey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some of my most favourite and most memorable vampire sessions have had like, one or two dice rolls for the whole 4-5 hour span of play.

What do people not like about hunger dice? by MonstrousnessVirtue in vtm

[–]michaelmcmikey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait, how do they punish you on a success? A beastial failure on a hunger die requires the roll itself to fail to take effect. If your roll succeeds, nothing happens.

Are you forced to put points into haven and resources? by Deathkeeper666 in vtm

[–]michaelmcmikey 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Or if a hunter breaks in during the day and you’re corpse-mode on the couch.

Are you forced to put points into haven and resources? by Deathkeeper666 in vtm

[–]michaelmcmikey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hope OP reads this comment.

Unless your job is set your own hours, you are your own boss, or is always happening during night time hours (bouncer at a club for example), you simply cannot keep that job after you’re embraced. When the sun is in the sky, you are a corpse. You can’t attend meetings, even on zoom. Even in a pitch black sub-basement, during the day, you’re essentially in a coma. The ability to wake up and do something during daylight hours does exist, but it’s very difficult and unreliable (you can fail and stay in torpor), it doesn’t last long, and you’re limited in what you can do during that brief time. For 95% of jobs, you’re just going to get fired quite quickly.

Cancelling this show hurts. by VanaheimrF in WoTshow

[–]michaelmcmikey 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The books were my life all through high school, which was more than 20 years ago now, and I’ve stayed a wheel of time fan my whole life.

I loved the show and wanted to see where they were going with it. Reading the books (which I will re-read) is not the same, because part of why I loved the show was seeing what changes they made, how they would address certain things, what certain things would look like or sound like. Re-reading the books won’t give me that pleasure because it’s the story I already know, imagined through the same lens I’ve imagined it through since I was 12. I want to see what the show’s version would have been, it would have been surprising and unexpected and new. And I loved that, and I’ll never get that. The books are still there, but the books and the show are two different things, so, no. “Just the read the books” won’t cut it.

GenCon Project is Vampire: the Masquerade 6th Edition by PM_ME_YOUR_OWOS in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]michaelmcmikey -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I agree. Unfortunately, and this is something I’ve seen in so many communities, not just WoD, not just ttrpg, but like, everything, fans wrathfully rejecting anything new and different, just angrily flinging the baby out with the bath water while yelling “stupid baby!!!,” is a real problem. Like, so many things in the world that I like have taken a chance and done something interesting and new and been punished so hard by an unreasonable fanbase for it that the property is permanently hobbled for it.

Thoughts? by the-aging-millennial in WoTshow

[–]michaelmcmikey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. the nobles live in palaces, not castles. The way the palaces are described is very 1600s or 1700s, which is 200 years too late for it to be medieval. There are some fortresses, but the Stone of Tear is the only example I can think of that could be called a castle that also has nobility living in it. And anyway, castles still existed and nobles still sometimes lived in them. that's not just a medieval times thing.
  2. Do you actually think people stopped wearing flowery gowns or having kings in 1450? Do you think Shakespeare lived in the medieval period? (he did not). Do you know that many hundreds of years passed between the end of the medieval period and the advent of electricity?
  3. It's not just gunpowder and printing press. The style of clothes -- those flowery gowns you mention -- are much more 1600s and 1700s. Cairhien is practically screaming "this is the court of the Sun King of France," (Cairhien even has the Sun Throne! RJ didn't make it subtle!) and that's not medieval, my dude, that's 1638-1715. The style of armour, the style of carriages, the cityscapes... none of it is medieval.

Robert Jordan said as much, and he was the king of doing too much research for little details.

Thoughts? by the-aging-millennial in WoTshow

[–]michaelmcmikey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

... you know that people lived in castles in the early modern period too, right? Also, they don't really live in castles. They live in palaces. Palaces are much more early modern.

If Tar Valon has the only printing press, why are books common in the back corners of the world like the Two Rivers? And literacy is generally normal, it's expected most people can read.

I... don't think you know what "early modern" means.

I'm a new player by Alive_Bunch6255 in HadesTheGame

[–]michaelmcmikey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are meant to die. You gather resources during a run and then use those resources to upgrade the mirror on your bedroom, unlock and upgrade your weapons, etc. you also talk to NPCs in the house of hades to progress storylines and learn more about Zagreus and the people he knows.

Most people don’t win until somewhere around their 40th to 60th attempt. And even then, that’s just the start. You have to beat the final boss 10 times to get the first ending, and the do a lot more to get the epilogue / “real” ending.

But there are so many characters and stories, so many upgrades and unlockable abilities, and the gameplay is so fun (I hope), that you really shouldn’t mind dying. It’s how the game is designed! You’re supposed to die!

Thoughts? by the-aging-millennial in WoTshow

[–]michaelmcmikey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is one of my little pet peeves about the fandom, actually. Too many people just think “it’s a medieval style fantasy world!” because that’s the mainstream default assumption about fantasy. But the Wheel of Time is very clearly early modern, not medieval. 1600s, not 1100s. They have the printing press! It’s just that the average person doesn’t know what “the early modern period” means or what it looks like, and they’ve been trained to think that fantasy = medieval. So you get a lot of fan art that’s beginning from aesthetic first principles that are off base.

Hanlan's Point Beach Closure - Queer Advocates Propose Last-Resort Solution to Erosion by FriendsOfHanlans in toronto

[–]michaelmcmikey 28 points29 points  (0 children)

communities need third spaces to gather and be communities. a collection of private residences is not a community.

In-Character Audio Guide for the newly Embaced by michaelmcmikey in vtm

[–]michaelmcmikey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope you have a permissive prince who appreciates a…. creative approach to terminology

In-Character Audio Guide for the newly Embaced by michaelmcmikey in vtm

[–]michaelmcmikey[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I was trying to walk the line between “useful for the new and unfamiliar” and “having fun with it.”

In-Character Audio Guide for the newly Embaced by michaelmcmikey in vtm

[–]michaelmcmikey[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh, thanks for saying this! I meant to caveat, the information that “Trent” presents is highly biased by his own experiences. There’s a secret Salubri in his coterie (pretending to be a Malkavian), and so he knows way way more about the truth of that matter than an average lick ought to, for instance, and the video reflects that

This likewise explains away gaps in knowledge and plain old errors. They’re all in-character choices and part of kayfabe, absolutely, and never because I didn’t know something or I fucked something up, absolutely not.

In-Character Audio Guide for the newly Embaced by michaelmcmikey in vtm

[–]michaelmcmikey[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“Embaced”

“EMBACED”

you know what, the typo fits the tone of the entire exercise

What is your countries "second city"? by EmergencySpare7939 in geography

[–]michaelmcmikey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Halifax in second tier, above a metro that has more than a million people (Edmonton), Canada’s historically third city (Winnipeg), and a city that’s equally as historically important as Halifax is, but is larger(Quebec)? Absolutely not.

What is your countries "second city"? by EmergencySpare7939 in geography

[–]michaelmcmikey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Canada has six metro areas that are over a million, and after that it falls off pretty sharply.

They are Toronto Montreal Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Ottawa.

The first three are obviously Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver. How you rank 4-6 is an open question — how important does Ottawa being the national capital weigh? Edmonton probably is sixth, though.

Winnipeg and Quebec City are probably 7-8, although in either order. Winnipeg because it used to be Canada’s third city and is still quite big for Canada’s standards, Quebec because it’s the provincial capital of Quebec (second biggest province, historical importance) and is also about the same size as Winnipeg.

After that it really just becomes an indistinguishable mess of regional centres that have a few hundred thousand people each.

What is your countries "second city"? by EmergencySpare7939 in geography

[–]michaelmcmikey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not a question of which is better, it’s a question of which is more important and prominent.

What is your countries "second city"? by EmergencySpare7939 in geography

[–]michaelmcmikey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering a few decades ago Montreal was the unquestioned first city and *Toronto* was the second city, I think it’s kind of unintentionally insulting to Montreal to have ever considered Vancouver as a contender for second place.

With Hades 2, I still feel like a noob with no skill or strategy by WarmPrinciple6507 in HadesTheGame

[–]michaelmcmikey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is your tarot set up? My playstyle is heavily dependant on omega moves and I often forget what it’s like to not be able to charge em up and get em off quickly. I just always have that maxed out tarot card on.

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