Oh Hai.

[atolnon]

I wanted to write something after I've had so many new friend requests from the rpg.net thread, but the only thing worth noting from yesterday is that I drank a good amount of gin & tonic, then went to bed after watching Snatch and finally introducing my roommate to Cowboy Bebop like I've been threatening to do for so long. Also, a bit of Dead Space. It's not terribly original, but it's a whole lot of fun, and I'm really enjoying it.

Aaaanyway. Brantai asked how I was handling some problems with the Changeling mechanics re: upcoming game. If you're new, then you may not realize that our irritation regarding Contracts is profound. I think you could follow the Changeling tag to run into one of those rants, if it suits you. The difficulty of making the character I wanted to play for the venue stopped me from going to the Cam games, actually, since the character was totally non-feasable.
There's also the 'no technology' rule that seems to keep cropping up. The Gentry don't do computers, I guess, and there arn't any Contracts that work with technology in any real way. In some respects, I understand this, but mostly it just aggrivates me. I can't imagine why the Gentry wouldn't have been as interested in technology and how it defines us as we are. It just seems like such a rich vein to tap, but no dice. This isn't really accurate, but it feels like a nagging remnant of the 'science is banal' that turned me off of Changeling : the Dreaming.

Despite that, it's not really an issue for this particular group. I  mean, it's either a non-issue in that the players take the power set at face value or the players disagree with my particular stance. Which is just fine for me as an ST, because it stops it from being a problem at the table.

So, in conclusion, if you're new - welcome. This is the part where I'm bored at work in between calls and read your stuff.

Comments

[dimfuture.livejournal.com]

Gin and tonic plus Cowboy Bebop is a fine mix, one I've indulged in more than once!

It's actually been many years since I've watched Bebop. I really should revisit it. I loved how tight the stories were.

[baronsamedi.livejournal.com]

While I have not really played up a technological angle for the Gentry, I would not bat an eye at Gentry with a realm like a dark-halled space station, stalked with their personal sort of alien. I'd be more likely to make their "technology" strange and should not work, but unless I have missed something...I don't really see why tech is athematic. So the Cam is strict on this point? Seems like kiths like the Blightbent would come from that.

Anyway, howyadoin. ;)

[atolnon.livejournal.com]

Oh my, I've been just fine. Yes, indeed.

The Cam is only strict on the point in that there are some stated rules, and home-made Contracts seem like they'd be terribly difficult to get the approvals for. Pacts, which are listed in the book, are at the very highest levels of approval for player-created ones, and I reckon it's not worth the effort.

I think there was a rule in the Changling core that Gentry couldn't have Science or Computer higher then 2 dots, or something. My concept had been that a computer science student had been kidnapped and altered to what the gentry thought that computers should be. It never really flew - there weren't any real contracts or changling types that worked with it.

[baronsamedi.livejournal.com]

That sucks.

There may be something arbitrary in an early "sample" Gentry or something, not sure. This is the first I have heard of it, and I have run Changeling almost 2 years now.

That said, the Cam strike me as odd, so I have avoided them since the 90s.

[atolnon.livejournal.com]

I haven't found the Cam to be any worse then any other large gamer subset. The biggest problem is typically logistics, really.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Multi-noob question: is this the nWOD Changeling?

And hi!

[atolnon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the new Changeling. oWoD Changeling certainly had its fans, but I have to confess that I never was one. Too busy playing Mage, I guess.

[brantai.livejournal.com]

I guess you don't have anyone playing an Autumn, then, because the mantle bonus to contracts that use occult? Might be useful if there was more than one.

[atolnon.livejournal.com]

Damned if I didn't recall that specific issue. You're absolutely right, we may have to make a modification after all.