Nexus OoC IV: We're All Mad Here

**Lex-Kat** · 2010-10-19, 10:14 PM (ISO 8601)

The cult of what?

**EleventhHour** · 2010-10-19, 10:20 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Beans

Cockroaches. If the first part of that word is taken to refer to a rooster (probably isn't, but who cares?) then imagine albatrossroaches.

~~Cockroach is the complete word. Roach is shorthand.~~ Albatrossroach is still a silly idea. >.>

::I'm too sleepy to think, shush.

**The Bushranger** · 2010-10-19, 10:23 PM (ISO 8601)

What about the Ostrichroach, then?

**lord pringle** · 2010-10-19, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by The Bushranger

What about the Ostrichroach, then?

MY GOD!

*monocle pops off*

**Beans** · 2010-10-19, 10:27 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by The Bushranger

What about the Ostrichroach, then?

In that case, you're pretty much forkplated.

**Lex-Kat** · 2010-10-19, 11:35 PM (ISO 8601)

Or how about a Rocroach.

**InyutheBeatIs** · 2010-10-19, 11:54 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Lex-kat

Or how about a Rocroach.

Don't you mean RAWKroach?!?!!!

...Aside from that horrible joke, if there was such a thing as a rocroach, we're all dead. There is no escape.

...I think someone found a new post-apocalypse enemy.

**Ashen Lilies** · 2010-10-20, 12:06 AM (ISO 8601)

Part of me wonders whether I should dredge Keld back up from the swampy pits of deadtime. Rescue Teb, or something.
...
*shrugs*

**ApeofLight** · 2010-10-20, 12:08 AM (ISO 8601)

Nah, he's going to be completely fine.

...

...

... I think.

**NineThePuma** · 2010-10-20, 12:34 AM (ISO 8601)

Hi. I'm new-ish. Long time RPer in vaguely freeform environments, new to FFRP in Nexus. I've taken the liberty of filing a character already, and think I did fairly well with him. I'll admit he's a self insert (of a sort), but would like opinions on power level. I do believe a +7 Elemental Burst (Acid, Cold, Elec & Fire burst enchants) Keen Adamantine Longsword isn't so bad when it's only a +3 Elemental Adamantine Longsword most of the time.

My aim was an approximately level 15 character with the gear given, with his Gestalt Abilities and Epic Level stuff hidden behind seals that only break when Party Member Death is imminent. So when something really bad is going to happen to someone he cares about, he goes One Winged Angel.

**happyturtle** · 2010-10-20, 12:36 AM (ISO 8601)

Gah! Crunch!

*dives under Magtok's cardboard box*

*hand pokes out with a sign*

Originally Posted by The Sign

Welcome to the Nexus

**Artemis97** · 2010-10-20, 12:45 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by apeoflight

Nah, he's going to be completely fine.

...

...

... I think.

He'll live, if that means anything.

Also, Welcome New Person! We don't worry too much about character levels around here, so long as you can play nice with others. So... don't try to completely obliterate anyone on the first day.

And now, I need sleep. Goodnight Nexus!

**Ashen Lilies** · 2010-10-20, 12:54 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by happyturtle

Gah! Crunch!

*dives under Magtok's cardboard box*

*hand pokes out with a sign*

Don't worry, I've got the Bigger Fish handy for when we need it!

**happyturtle** · 2010-10-20, 01:03 AM (ISO 8601)

Oh Dyth, make sure to read the guidelines in post 3 of the FFRP Central thread, if you haven't already.

*returns to hiding from crunch*

**NineThePuma** · 2010-10-20, 02:20 AM (ISO 8601)

I read the various spoilers (nothing I wasn't already aware of, to be honest) and am now idling as I consider options to start. How crazy is TOWN? Population wise, I mean. How far out would a anthropomorphic cat stick? If its not at all I do believe I have an introductory post, though I may have to start a new thread.

Edit: and I play well, I just want some feed back on approximate power levels. I don't want to be ridiculously awesome.

**Ashen Lilies** · 2010-10-20, 03:23 AM (ISO 8601)

Anthropomorphic cat? I think we have... several billion of those. Minimum. So yeah, pretty conspicuous.

**NineThePuma** · 2010-10-20, 03:33 AM (ISO 8601)

That's what I thought. =D

Now some stupid punk can try to jump the 'under armed' cat cause the Anthro doesn't have 'futuristic' technology.

**Lix Lorn** · 2010-10-20, 04:01 AM (ISO 8601)

Crunch?! In the Nexus?! What is this I don't even.

**Project_Mayhem** · 2010-10-20, 05:48 AM (ISO 8601)

Technically Raz is very strictly defined by crunch. I just didn't bother writing it down :p

**Lix Lorn** · 2010-10-20, 08:26 AM (ISO 8601)

Emily has crunch, but it's pretty loose, and understanding it would require SO much knowledge of various things.

**Ashen Lilies** · 2010-10-20, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)

None of my characters have crunch.
Not having any sort of pen and paper roleplaying experience helps.

**Reinholdt** · 2010-10-20, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)

I'm not even sure what crunch is.

Welcome Dyth. Butler says hi.

At least until his head was smashed in by bricks due to some mean paperclips.

**Quincunx** · 2010-10-20, 08:38 AM (ISO 8601)

Crunch is useful shorthand if two characters come from the same set of mechanics--cuts down on tedious exposition when you can just say one phrase and have people look up what pages it implies on their own time. Problem is, most people here don't share mechanics.

Originally Posted by Moros66

Am I the only one that find's Reinholdt's "White Walls" thread incredible creepy. Its like something David Fincher would direct.

Somewhat, but then I remembered I've watched people who were doing this sort of thing for real stakes, and how they were neutralized. Then I sat there and laughed loud enough to rouse Dio and order me to tone down the triumphing. I've ridden the shoulders of giants, baby. Shoulders of giants.

I would love to have Tzimfemme call down the loas of life against the good doctor Stroffelnburg, but frankly there's a plot unfurling there and it takes precedence. Still, once that's over and if you're bored, tap me on the shoulder.

**Project_Mayhem** · 2010-10-20, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Reinholdt

I'm not even sure what crunch is.

Welcome Dyth. Butler says hi.

At least until his head was smashed in by bricks due to some mean paperclips.

Crunch is the general term for mechanics in an rpg, as opposed to the fluff, or story. Although, despite using it, I'm not so sure how much I like that distinction - kind of implies that the rules are the more important part, which is BLEH imo

**Ashen Lilies** · 2010-10-20, 08:49 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Reinholdt

I'm not even sure what crunch is.

Welcome Dyth. Butler says hi.

At least until his head was smashed in by bricks due to some mean paperclips.

Some villains seek nothing more than the complete and total annihilation of the entire multiverse. Some villains are omnicidal maniacs who would see all crushed and burned within their wake. Others were once heroes, who went too far and fell into darkness.
Clippy's just kind of a ****.

**Reinholdt** · 2010-10-20, 11:09 AM (ISO 8601)

SAINT is now up.

**Morty** · 2010-10-20, 11:13 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by The Bushranger

Ditto.

...also, *pokes DC and KK to Morty's plot with the +5 Poking Poker of Poking*

>.> Thanks. It's got to be one of the longer plots in the Nexus history... I blame the three players and the GM having rather incompatibilie timezones.
Also, regarding Clippy: o.0

**The Bushranger** · 2010-10-20, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)

*Burns Clippy with fire*

Originally Posted by Kid Kris

Don't worry, I've got the Bigger Fish handy for when we need it!

*Summons it*

**Terumitsu** · 2010-10-20, 11:56 AM (ISO 8601)

Crunch isn't really all that bad if one wants to find a good way to quantify character power. I occasionally crunch my RP characters just so I have benchmarks to better play them. It's just how I do things.

Also, seeing as I have not been active in the Nexus for a bit of a while, I'm thinking of trying to break back in. Is there anything going on that could use a kindly fey/black market mechanic/childlike harlequin/person with a shotgun and mild anger issues?

**NineThePuma** · 2010-10-20, 01:43 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Terumitsu

Crunch isn't really all that bad if one wants to find a good way to quantify character power. I occasionally crunch my RP characters just so I have benchmarks to better play them. It's just how I do things.

This. Even if I never use the crunch again, I like to have it for a bench mark early on. I enjoy fluffing things. I just have more fun fluffing crunch. Building a character is more fun when you gather disparate elements and fuse them.

Nine, for example, is built using the d20 system, but has influences from a great many of my prior RPs. And I will admit that he's incomplete right now. I mostly want a look at how he seems now so that I know how to scale and tweak his balance.

Edit: And it's worth noting that if it uses a D20 and I can make it work, I'll combine stuff, at random.

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