my brain likes to zoomie out entire apps in a day after staring at a blank wall for weeks. it's maddening

Me but Google docs

I think forum rp provides a unique challenge to the murderhobo playstyle versus D&D-style tabletop, namely the lack of a GM. Everyone wants to be the murderhobo, but no one wants their oc to get murderhobo'd. So if murderhobo'ing is to be done, you need disposable NPCs to kill, but you also need an excuse for another player to be threading with you (because otherwise you're just writing a solo fic).

You can potentially get around this... if you have a site where staff are expected to GM the NPCs (so you don't need another oc to participate), or you have a very robust stat system / trust in other players to "play fair" when controlling the NPCs so that everyone gets an equal chance at the kill-scoring.

In related news--
figuring out how to play around the narrative limitations of an oc with overpowered abilities is fun as hell

Disco Elysium's Metric has a grip on my brain

I'm playing it with my husband and I'm the one who has to remind him not to do masochistic things

Reminds me I should pick back up vlr

tfw you realize which "part of you" that you put into the character you wrote and it's not the part you expected it to be

I'm pretty sure the combination of the two is why the credit card game exists

I am once again asking for female-led fantasy that 1) isn't romance and 2) doesn't have rape/SA thrown in for no apparent reason

If the other person is still active in chat/responding to other people I will gently prod them after roughly a month. "Hey, it's been [time] since you replied to thread X, are you still interested in threading or would you prefer to archive it?"

If the other person hasn't been active at all in that amount of time I assume they quietly went on a hiatus from the site, delete it from my personal checklist, and wait for the next ac to see if they're staying or going.

why aren't I eating

Yeah, the default is admins have to approve all name changes, but it's not difficult to switch that setting off.

I've seen a few jcink comms try to take over the space that cttw left, but they're all rl oriented, so I never had any interest in joining them.

Maybe it's just the crowds I run in (animanga offering Ummm Limited diversity of female appearances) but for the most part the sites I've been on have heavily skewed male???

I voted for statless, though I'd probably also be fine with soft stats. Statless requires a certain level of trust that people aren't going to try to out-powerplay each other. My qualms with soft stats are that it has the potential to 1) disadvantage latecomers if players can use site points to buy more stat points, and/or 2) end up with characters only getting to do a limited number of cool things based on what every thread participant's relative stat distribution is. (And you don't need stats to incorporate random outcomes, only a dice roller! Stats are only needed then if you want to have a consistent system to make certain characters more or less likely to succeed at a given action for the sake of "fairness" or "accuracy", but that raises problem 2) above. Maybe if failing spectacularly for the sake of telling a better story were encouraged by the site culture?)

Hard stats to me sounds like trying to play D&D over the internet, and the longer I RP and the more I get into indie RPGs, the more I realize I don't have the patience to number crunch combat and optimize stats, even when I'm playing with a small group of people who are ostensibly already my friends - I can't even imagine how mind-numbing it'd be with a huge group of people who aren't.