@KorvinStarmast You guys using typographic smileys: Are you using mobile phone apps and putting them in by icon? Or are you typing them as ;-) and then they get substituted? Or are you accessing them in yet another way?
Wanderhome also sounds interesting because it does yet another distribution of ‘traditional GM responsibility’ among players. Although it doesn't sound like it would address your problem of divesting your ‘suggestive story power’.
In any case, some general pointers (we are currently game hopping quite a bit) are already better than wanting to establish consent and comfort without knowing how.
There were definitely moments when I refrained from suggesting things or felt awkward for things going on in the scene and didn't know how it could be X-ed by others or by me, and as it turned out there had been no established ways to do it. So I thought you might know some ways that work and some ways that don't work in the vein of translating X-cards and other tools to online play.
I was somewhat part to a Fiasco game last week, and that showed a severe lack of tools to establish consent. I was late and someone else had done the explanations and the setup and in the post-game discussion when I asked they realized they had only vaguely explained how to establish common ground and how to veil or veto sensitive content.
I have seen Balikbayan that popping up while looking for Belonging-outside-Belonging games, and it did not capture my interest as much as other games in that family, but one of my friends also found it. Wanderhome is high on my list, only beaten by Flying Circus because that same friend is into aviation and 20th century history and stuff, so it won out.
So so many things. I haven't been here in ages, have I? On the role playing front, I've dug deeply into Cyber- and other punk games earlier this year, and now I'm delving into travel&coming-of-age.
It wasn't as single-minded as I just made it sound (I had forgotten about the meeting, not tried to squeeze the hello in desperätely), but it was as heartfelt as you just received it.
@BESW I was just in for tiny moment, but I should get round to coming in more often now. I was just very happy about your wave, so I couldn't ignore it before rushing to a zoom meeting this EU-morning
:52629185 Have you read the new Eberron book and want to compare notes? I haven't, but it might be one of the few reasons I would consider playing D&D for again. (I'm normally on the Indie side of games.)
I have about 9.50€ Google Play credit to blow (I could put a bit on top for a really good one), because for some reason it does not transfer when moving country, and it cannot be transfered in other ways either. What's a good game for me to buy? I love foreign cultures, exploration, interesting procedurally generated content and optimistic stories. I'm not used to computer games, even less so on a tablet, and I hate pixel-specific or time-pressure options.
I might collect a group of random strangers to play some cyberpunk one-shots with, without too much time investment, and then invite a few people, who I like, who I am on the same page with for such a game, and who seem dedicated enough, to follow up play a longer campaign devised by the group together.
Are you expected to submit a document that is your best guess at how the final result will look like, or is there space to add editing remarks, change layout etc.?
