General Discussion Thread IX

[Patlin]

And though I posted this humorously, I do think it isn't impossible to have more Living games.

If anyone wants to create a living Eberron game, I'd definitely play -- with my Knight Phantom! I'm a pretty big Eberron fan.

 

[Patlin]

I guess I never addressed this part. I would think 3 YES votes and 1 NO should still be fine, but maybe a second NO should bump the required YES votes up to 4. To phrase that in your supermajority terms, it would be a 2/3 majority then, I guess.

Or perhaps simpler, YES votes need to exceep NO votes by at least 2 to pass, with a minimum of 3 YES votes. If NO votes exceed YES votes by at least 2, with a minimum of 3 NO votes, the matter is closed. Voting will remain open until either of these conditions has been met for a continuous period of 48 hours, at which point the decision becomes official.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I'd play Living Planescape or Living Spelljammer (and my large number of Spelljamming games which all share a persistant world is proof that at least a few people might play a LSJ). That could be pretty cool. How about Living Dark Sun? Not quite as cool as the other two but still cool.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Or perhaps simpler, YES votes need to exceep NO votes by at least 2 to pass, with a minimum of 3 YES votes. If NO votes exceed YES votes by at least 2, with a minimum of 3 NO votes, the matter is closed. Voting will remain open until either of these conditions has been met for a continuous period of 48 hours, at which point the decision becomes official.

That could work. But what do you do if (I can't remember exactly how many judges there are but let's say it is 10) 5 judges vote YES and 5 vote no (thus all judges have already voted)? Despite the fact that I like more accepted proposals, I think we should default to not accepting on a perfect split or an off-by-one in case of odd number of judges, even if the 1 more is in favour of the proposal. Then again, considering the low low rate of voting on proposals, this will probably never happen.

 

[Patlin]

I'd play Living Planescape or Living Spelljammer (and my large number of Spelljamming games which all share a persistant world is proof that at least a few people might play a LSJ). That could be pretty cool. How about Living Dark Sun? Not quite as cool as the other two but still cool.

I've never played any of those, excluding cRPGs, but I'd certainly give it a try. I know there's a broader world of play by post out there, but I like Living Games because you don't lose a charater if a game happens to fall apart.

 

[Patlin]

That could work. But what do you do if (I can't remember exactly how many judges there are but let's say it is 10) 5 judges vote YES and 5 vote no (thus all judges have already voted)? Despite the fact that I like more accepted proposals, I think we should default to not accepting on a perfect split or an off-by-one in case of odd number of judges, even if the 1 more is in favour of the proposal. Then again, considering the low low rate of voting on proposals, this will probably never happen.

Agreed. I'll make a proposal thread.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I like Living Games because you don't lose a charater if a game happens to fall apart.

That's true. What you gain by not playing in a living world is the ability to do stuff without the mess of all these proposals. I've probably said it too many times already, but Wizard is my favourite class, and I would never consider playing one in LEW. I play Psions because the XPH rules were created realising that they weren't going to get very much support beyond the book and thus they do a good job of giving you everything you need to play a wide range of fun psionic types. Without splatbooks, the PH does not give you everything you need to play a wide range of fun wizarding types.

I've never played any of those, excluding cRPGs, but I'd certainly give it a try.

Planescape and Spelljammer are totally awesome. As a rule, in nearly all of my Homebrew games (exceptions being my Post-Arthurian homebrew and others that obviously wouldn't fit with this), the Planescape and Spelljammer cosmologies are utilised, allowing the PCs to dip into some of this if they like.

 

[Erekose13]

Hey there are other Living worlds on Enworld ~ LS Living Supers. Its quite fun too, come and join us

Rystil's SJ games have a sense of Living quality to them because they are all run in the same world by the same DM.

Regarding proposals, I'm of the opinion that if its balanced then we can probably use it. I tend to be open to new things, especially stuff created by players.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Hey there are other Living worlds on Enworld ~ LS Living Supers. Its quite fun too, come and join us

I can't--don't own the rules. I've read LS's fluff, though, and it gave me an idea for an adventure. Me and my crazy GM-centric thought processes

Rystil's SJ games have a sense of Living quality to them because they are all run in the same world by the same DM.

Yup, I was sort of trying to get at that above, but I didn't put it as plainly. There have already been several NPC crossovers, and if/when any of the adventures end, players will be more than welcome to bring their characters from the old adventures back to a new one, or even to crossover swap between two characters in different groups that meet up or something. That sort of intricate spiderwebbing is fairly infeasible for anything on this scale though. It only works because "Living Rystilworld" is all run by me

 

[Patlin]

I can't--don't own the rules.

Me too. I got as far as looking at it, finding out that it was a published system I wasn't familliar with, and looking about for some sort of SRD similar link.

Although I did have a moment of enjoyment remembering a completely broken DC Heroes character I came up with in college.