Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
POSOC’s idea: “Not another RPG (we have, what, over a dozen now?), just a thread where we can discuss various role-playing games, both those on the blog and off.”
We’re not sure exactly what he has in mind, but he groveled so abjectly that we had no choice but to accede to his demands. Righto, MBers, it’s all yours.
Date: May 29, 2009
Categories: Life, RRRs, RPWs, and RPGs
Since this is for RPGs both on and off the blog, I have two words for you: Golden Sun.
BEST. GAME. EVER.
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What is Golden Sun?
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It’s this really really really really REALLY awesome turn-based RPG for the GBA, and it’s totally the best game ever. Think elemental magic-wielders called Adepts crossed with a quest to save the world.
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Eh. It’s an OK game. I don’t like it too much.
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? GOLDEN SUN IS TEH PWNAGE!
The second one wasn’t so good, but I just LOVE the first. It sits smugly on the top of my “Best Video Games ever” list and has really become my standard for judging turn-based RPGs.
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meh. I just think there are better games out there. The fight system was sort of bizzare to me, with all the weird pauses, and it was 3D in a GBA? I just don’t think it worked out.
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I once played golden sun…. it’s confusing…:?
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1- have you played Dungeon siege it is pretty good.
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Excuse me, could you type proper sentences, perhaps? Thank you.
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*blink*
I must say, that’s more than a little embarrassing… but on the other hand, I suppose I deserved it.
*claps hands* Righto. Well… What do you think brought on the sudden prevalence of RPGs on the blog?
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2) I rather like RPGs… Okay, I’m on basically all of them, but I like the ones on the blog *is too tired to think intelligently*. They’re all very different, though.
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I don’t know. I’ve never been in one. Every time I checked one out everyone had already been too engrossed in it, so I just never participated.
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4 – That doesn’t matter. Just ask for a summary, design a character, and find a way to integrate yourself into the current scenario.
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I always add my characters when someone is about to get killed(or something like that). It’s more dramatic.
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I don’t like RPGs because things move too quickly. If I can’t think of a continuation for a couple of days, fifty new posts appear and I’m lost in the depths. Also, no one ever really seems to notice my character, and I’m too…I dunno…not-powerplay-y? scared of messing up someone’s character? to write in their reactions to my character. The only RPG I ever really enjoyed was Studge Academy. And Ships’ Logs, back in the day…
Unfortunately, RPGs are everywhere. I swear half the blog is RPGs now. I remember the good old days when it took weeks of begging the GAPAs to get an RPG, and now–Mary Sues, Bunny Apocalypse, more Bunny Apocalypse, Reclusive Gardens… The list goes on.
It’s kind of disappointing really.
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I don’t find it disappointing… I’m just surprised at how fast the trend has grown. I used to try to get in on every single one, but that’s no longer feasible. I guess Ships’ Logs was the only RPG I ever really loved.
And maybe the ever-so-cliche RPW #1… but that was only because I got to play an awesomely powerful, tragically villainous Egyptian cat. *reminisces*
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Oh, RPW #1… I remember being so horrified when you turned bad on us… I felt like my world had just been turned upside-down. Though really I should have seen it coming.
I did love that story, though looking back, it was appallingly cliche. I grew very attached to Rhoda. I kind of miss it sometimes.
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MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*cough*
Ahem. Yes. Well. I must say I enjoyed being evil.
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You made a very good and devilishly clever villain.
If we could cut out some of the more cliche elements, I sometimes like to think that it could be a halfway decent story. But then when you think about it, the whole thing was cliche beyond all hope of recovery.
I liked it when it started getting intense with people dying in all directions. Unfortunately, the thread died along with most of the characters.
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What about off-blog RPGs?
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Other Muse academies has been moving at a steady pace lately…
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It still takes weeks. The GAPAs refused to do the Mary Sue RPG for months. It’s just that all the new RPG threads created now are continuations of RPGs already created, instead of new things.
And yes, we have a ton of BA threads. I admit to that. But we are slowing down.
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Reminds me. If anyone here plays D&D (Interactive LOTR, basically), do you remember encountering any explosive fungus?
It’s very likely that our DM made it up, but I just want to be sure that the alchemists aren’t pulling a fast one on us. To say nothing of “FLASHBOOMBANG” Kibrek…
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I kind of want to invade Games Club (aka all the very socially awkward geeky guys at my school play I’m-not-sure-what after school with the geeky teacher) and make them teach me D&D. I think they’d be shocked enough by a female that they might comply.
Lianna accidentally walked into the games club in our middle school a few years ago because she needed to give something to the teacher and they all stared at her like they’d never seen a girl before, and one actually said “Oh my god it’s a girl!”
XD I thought it was all a joke that people/cubs could get that stereotypical O.o But I don’t think any of them were joking.
BUt I would like to learn to play D&D.
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How do you define an RPG? Alice mentioned Our Reclusive Gardens, but we purposely called it a daydream to set it apart. Some people tucked in some RPG elements, but the residents have always been free to ignore them.
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9- I define an RPG as anything in which Musers take on characters and realities other than this one. The balls are RPGs too. A daydream is much the same thing. I don’t mind RPGs in themselves (I have them in my head constantly), but they seem to have taken over.
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What about the H&H?
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In my opinion, that’s not an RPG because people aren’t playing different roles. They’re just socializing.
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10.1- I’m not sure. I haven’t been the H&H for quite some time. I suppose it is an RPG, in a sense, but there’s no narration or ongoing story, so I don’t generally think of it as one. But I guess it is.
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Wait! I think I know how I would define an RPG. It has narration. People say things like: “I walked to the library. Browsing among the shelves, my eyes fell on a book. I sat down and started to read.”
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YAAY! IT GOT APPROVED!
((Sorry, just noticed it…))
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But one of the biggest observations about RPGs is that they move too fast. That could hardly be said of the Gardens, the H&H, or the Ball (possibly excluding the adventure on the Rooftop). And when people complain, I don’t think those threads are the ones they have in mind, though I could be wrong.
Maybe there are subgenres.
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I enjoy RPGs, because there are so many different ones and one just jumps around from fantasy to fantasy.
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I don’t think RPGs move fast by nature. I think that’s just what happens to some. to me an RPG is when you write “in character” and with narration, as Alice sad, when being written/typed.
RPGing in “real life” to me is kind of like acting except… different but not all that much. Improv at least.
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The first time I did something that was specifically called “role-playing,” it was training for a crisis hotline. At 16, I was too young to handle the phones, so I tabulated data from the calls instead. (By hand, no computers.) But everyone was required to take the training. My role wasn’t much of a stretch: a distraught teen.
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Something has always surprised me about the Muse Academy threads: Because we define MA as the school of each MBer’s dreams, I expected that people would want to attend it as themselves. Instead, in the MA RPG threads, they invariably enhance themselves with futuristic technology, thousand-point I.Q.s, and assorted superpowers. That’s one reason we’ve always made it clear that the Muse Academy RPGs are noncanonical.
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Yes, I hate that. Something perfectly normal, such as a letterboxing trip, turns into us running through a tunnel being chased by giant rats. Honestly. That’s why I’m sitting and eating lunch in the current thread.
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It’s because people see themselves as themselves and their dreams are, as yet, not reality.
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Some numbers:
If we don’t count the H&H, only 2 RPGs were created this month out of 25 threads (I didn’t include announcements). Those two were both for the May Day Ball. All active RPGs accounted for 1089 out of 6727 comments posted in May as of this afternoon.
Last month we made 3 new RPG threads, 1 in March, 4 in February, and 1 in January. That’s actually 6 fewer than we created in the same time span last year. The biggest single month ever for RPG creation was May of 2008 when 8 appeared.
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Ahh. RPGs. Well, Alice may be against them, but I feel that they’re almost our interactive stories. It’s fun to create a setting, and then your character, and allow the story to play out as the creators of the characters would want their characters to act. After all, who could forget the great pie war?
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6.1) It is, if you have a lot of computer time. But I guess one of the reasons I like RPGs so much is that my so-called friends at school won’t do any sort of creative writing, and that I don’t dare to show them stories I wrote. Also, it gives me something to think about in latin class. And finally it also gives me something to read. I guess it sort of makes up for stuff I used to invent with friends… *is lonely* The only RPGs I don’t do are H&H (if that is an RPG) and the balls, since they move to fast for me (of course, I have the hindrance of being on the wrong time zone).
17) Hmm… But I think that most people look for more adventure in schools, and I definitely wouldn’t mind being a real genius 
. It’s interesting…
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(20, 17) bookgirl: There’s no need to be greedy. You all are impressive enough already.
It’s as if a genie offered you three wishes, and you said: “I’d like to go to the perfect school. And I’d like a whole bunch of ultra-cool kids to go there with me. And, oh yes, I’d like us all to be cartoon characters.” Painting the lily, you know?
But I just teach there, and everybody knows teachers have no clue about what’s really going on.
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In my (only) appearance, I went as my son.
However, that was only because it’s probably not going to be built in my lifetime.
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now what MMORPG shall i talk about?
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I like Bunny Apocalypse and I was on it last summer for a while but once school started I could no longer keep up so I killed my charachter. then I tried to come back but I realized that I couldn’t keep up so I stopped posting after like 2 days. I think I will start again in june. I was also on the mary-sues and superheroes one but I stopped posting because I didn’t have time.
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Yeah, come back! We need someone fresh, we’re kind of not really doing anything right now…
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Does anybody here play Pirates of the Caribbean Online? It’s great, although I wish Basic Access members got more of the game.
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My brothers used to play it, but they switched to Lord of the Rings Online.
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Oh, ships logs was a RPG? I lurve ships logs! It’s sort of slowed down though. 
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25- Speaking of which, the entire Musiverse (i.e. ships’ logs, PPP, chronicles of museica, pie isle, etc.) has really slowed down lately. What’s up with that? Why aren’t people joining the old RPGs instead of making all these new ones?
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Because there’s so much history behind them. PPP part Six, Chronicles part Six, Ships’ Logs part… what, Eleven now? I think I retired at Nine. People don’t want to have to read through five or more threads to get the backstory and context.
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Yeah… I never “officially” retired but I stopped visiting more and more, and then there was too much to catch up on to keep going. It was fun while it lasted, though.
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Exactly! That’s what I’m saying!
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Simple solution to many problems.
Every one chooses 5 things from their room to take with them to a planet. No magic. One day equals one game day. New characters simply fall onto some place in the planet and meet other people. The planet is populated by squid, HPBs, Wungs, and tenrecs.
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27- I have an idea that might change that. Maybe I can *hint hint* do something with me ol’ battleships…
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Or not. I suppose that would be a little too random (and I think my post on the MA RPG thread was deleted). What to do…
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I really like RPGs. I think I’m on all the current ones, except for MA. Must get around to reading and joining that one.
Re: Joining new RPGs instead of old
It’s easier to remember to post if the page is on the first page, and so many revival attempts fail so miserably. Plus, you oftentimes have to read several threads before you really get what’s going on, and that takes forever.
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Yo0u’re battle ships? 
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I need to find a RPG that is new so I can intagrate myself into it.
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Re: Golden Sun: DO WANT. I’m just too poor for it.
8 (Jadeypoo)- Do it! I mean, you’re a girl, they’ll be thrilled. I thought this was a myth until I accompanied a friend of mine to Game Club. It is truth. I suppose an online D&D game would be rather difficult and complicated…
Essential RPG: Fire Emblem. I repeat, Fire Emblem. It’s the greatest thing ever invented. The most recently released game in the series is a remake of the original, now for the DS. It’s madly addictive. You play the tactician for Prince Marth’s group of fighters, and help them retake his kingdom, gaining levels, learning the story, and finding allies all the way. The two before that were for the GameCube, and Wii, and the latter release was a sequel to the former. In those, you play as Ike’s band of mercenaries, first to restore Crimea’s crown, and then, as a few different bands of fighters who eventually meet up to save the world! It’s the awesomest thing ever, I promise. I swear, I’m not a pathetic fangirl -twitchtwitch-
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*squeals of joy* OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG THE NEXT GOLDEN SUN GAME HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED AND IT LOOKS AWESOME WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
Yeah… it’s that important .
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What platform?
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DS. And the cool thing is, it’s real 3-D and it focuses on the descendants of the original heroes. I can’t wait.
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Three Words:
Super. Mario. RPG.
also, Paper Mario, Paper Mario 2, Super Paper Mario.
These are the most flamboyant games… EVER!
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Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario don’t look that good, Paper Mario 2 is so-so, and Super Paper Mario looks great.
But seriously, is there NO ONE here besides me who is a Golden Sun fan?
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I am… I played a long time ago, when I was young. All I remember is that I loved it because of all the magic. My little brother erased all of our files one day so… I do remember making it up to the part when you’re in a giant tree. I could never get passed that… I was only 6 or 7, so I didn’t follow the plot too well. *looks at date on post* Oh, well, I guess I’m late again on replying…
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I hated Inside Tret. It was a relatively simple dungeon and the boss was easy. But I loved the original game because of the magic and plot line.
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We should do a time travel RPG where we all time travel. I always wanted to do that.
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That would be cool. And someone messes up something, and then the other people have to fix it before they disappear or something.
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hear ye’ GAPAs!!
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I think I’d want a little more detail than that before creating a time-travel thread.
How many RPGs are already active right now, by the way? Has anyone counted?
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Ooh, a time travel RPG would be cool, but I’d prefer it to be:
a) Less fast paced (No “We run into Montezuma and then we meet Napoleon and then guess what we save the Earth from colliding with it’s future self!)
b) More subtle. I can’t really give an example of what I want, but certainly not common time travel where you somehow seem to never run into your future self, though you meet your previous selves all the time.
c) Focused on the story rather than characters. The flow of time should be something they preserve, not wander willy nilly throughout. They should be focused on the job they have to do, and so should the story.
d) Not cliche. No going to Pompeii, or pepperpots with one word vocabularies, or blue police boxes. (Sorry, Who fans).
Of course, I could write my own story…
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maybe we could be a squad that keeps time in order. and there can be hpbs and other things that try to mess up time and we work for the guy who made time travel possible.
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Thinking about this?
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no.
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