TRPG General Chat

12:09 AM

@Barker As SSD's comment says, an account was compromised and the community noticed. Per standard policy, the moderators locked it down to give the user an opportunity to resolve the issue.

( SSD hasn't been in chat recently enough for @ pings to push an alert to them.)

Barker

@BESW Does that mean the kid wasn't real?

BESW

It means that there was evidence multiple people were using the same account, which is cause for concern according to the Stack Exchange Terms of Service and needs to be resolved.

That's all we need to know; the resolution of the situation is between the user, the moderators, and the Stack employees. If the user returns we'll assume the problem's been resolved and act accordingly.

The user's privacy and dignity is more important than our curiosity, and if they need assistance the moderators are better equipped to offer it than we are.

daze413

@Ben pinged you over at discord, wondering if you got it so im pinging you here. o/

Barker

@BESW Ok, thanks, that is fine, I just was concerned since he had said he was afraid.

BESW

Yes, I think we're all concerned and that's good!

But we need to be careful that concern doesn't turn into voyeurism. If the user returns, we can offer more support within the scope of the site. Meanwhile the mods are aware of the situation and are better able to escalate to actual intervention if that seems necessary.

(In particular, speculation and gossip can poison the user's ability or willingness to participate in the community later.)

Sorry to be such a buzzkill, I know we're just concerned about the situation. And it's good that suspensions are so unusual here that we can take a personal interest in them.

Barker

12:50 AM

@BESW Yeah, sorry, I wasn't trying to get personal information or anything like that, but with the question locked there isn't really an appropriate place to ask something like "I noticed you didn't accept an answer, what are you looking for that you didn't find here?" I was mostly looking to know if it was likely to get unlocked again.

BESW

We don't know exactly what's going on with the asker's situation and the account being compromised. They've got a one-day suspension for things to cool down, but that doesn't necessarily mean the question will get unlocked after the suspension period.

So... unknown. We can hope.

Mike Q

What's fishy is the shared account things. I can't think of any reason why a group of people (who are presumably conflicting with one another) would share an account on the site where their conflict is being discussed

Given sufficient time and string, I could conjecture plenty of interesting theories about the user's situation. But I won't because it's all speculation and not productive.

BESW

Thank you. I think patience and self-control are the watchwords for us onlookers at this point in the journey.

Barker

I choose to believe someone cast awaken on his dog and the dog was using his account to try and help him improve his campaign.

Mike Q

1:07 AM

Besides, there are much more entertaining ways to be unproductive

BESW

1:22 AM

[pokes Roll20 for Fate of Agaptus]

trogdor

1:32 AM

Hehehe

BESW

1:52 AM

I think I like the "weight" mechanic in FoA.

Gonna have to see it in action though.

Basically you calculate how much advantage one side of the conflict has over the other by adding up each character's "weight." In a physical conflict most creatures have a weight of 1, but a really big or powerful creature might have a weight of 2 or 4.

And some creatures are so small or weak that they have weight 0 individually, and can only add weight to a conflict if they attack as a swarm.

Social conflicts have weight too, but that's a measure of influence, respect, credibility, etc.

If one side has at least twice as much weight as the other, any roll by the dominating side can turn one fate die to +.

If they're dominating by four to one, they can change two fate dice to +.

trogdor

Oooh I skimmed over that part

BESW

(This only applies to rolls where the weight matters narratively, of course.)

trogdor

I didn't know the effect

Yes of course

BESW

And weight only adds up in each zone.

So if you've got fifty soldiers with you, but you run ahead into the heart of the enemy army alone, you're still outweighed.

trogdor

Also very fair

I was not expecting weight to count outside one zone

BESW

2:02 AM

(Though, presumably they could probably roll to create an advantage like "Intimidating war chants," get their + benefit from weight, and pass you the free invoke.)

trogdor

I mean, really, zones are as big as they need to be

If your group needs weight to count in a larger area, you can make the zone bigger

The point is people can't add thier weight up from far away from each other

BESW

In physical combat FoA assumes zones are probably the standard "you can take a few steps and punch someone" size.

trogdor

Yeah

BESW

But it's also got some advice for social zones!

trogdor

@BESW and yeah as always there is room for creativity

@BESW I should do a full read through soon

Probably will as soon as I get home today

BESW

2:06 AM

BTW, I think I might stop waiting to figure out how to hack Cthulhu Confidential for non-horror stuff, and just try it and see what happens.

Also I'm wondering what it'd be like to play CC with a GM and more than one player, but the players collaborate to control the PC.

....that might be worth a mainsite question.

trogdor

Ooh

Ok

I just figured the main reason you were so interested in the system was because you sometimes only have one other person

BESW

Definitely.

trogdor

(often, but not necessarily always, me)

BESW

But I'm always curious about outside-the-box-ness, and one thing I've been thinking a lot about is how to tell one-character stories in multi-player groups.

Without, you know, Lovecraftesquing it.

Shalvenay

2:23 AM

hey there @DanBryant, welcome to the RPG.SE lair :)

BESW

@trogdor Basically I'm imagining that you and Greener, or you and Raycia, would probably have lots of fun co-driving one character, but I'm concerned about the implementation details. And I've got a homebrew system concept in the early percolation stages, too.

(Each player would take on one of the PC's priorities or values, and table-level discussion about what the PC should do would be role-played as the character's conflicted internal monologue.)

trogdor

Oooh

Color me interested

The concept and the people involved are both Nice ideas

BESW

(And each player would have their own stats that represent the PC being better or worse at tasks depending on why he's doing it.)

trogdor

Mm

BESW

Like, if you've got Revenge and Justice as your player concepts, then interrogating a criminal would look very different depending on who was dominant for that scene.

Or Clear My Name vs Solve The Murder.

Mike Q

2:38 AM

Hola @Shalvenay

trogdor

@BESW yes and for both examples you could want both things but still feel like you have to choose between them at any given time

For the first one you definitely can't have both reasonably

For the second you could, but not if you are being chased by interested parties

daze413

3:20 AM

Been deleting and retyping my comment on this question: rpg.stackexchange.com/q/122779/23064 I don't know how best to tell the OP about how to think about getting better constraints for the Q

Shalvenay

hey there @daze413

daze413

@Shalvenay heyo o/ whats up?

Shalvenay

not a whole lot, saw Dawn poking their head into Discord the other day :) as to you?

daze413

Just saw this question rpg.stackexchange.com/q/121990/23064 and since it's not closed, I'm mulling over how to ask about how to make the first chapter of OotA more interesting

Shalvenay

ah. what is going on with the stuff with Dawn?

daze413

3:27 AM

@Shalvenay been busy lately. Dawn's been playing a lot of overwatch since that world championship thing

Shalvenay

@daze413 ah, I see

daze413

@Shalvenay They've been missing a lot of our guild's activities as well. Only comes by to chat for a few minutes