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geably if you re like me and see a space game with a name like imperium in it and immediately think of evil galactic empire don t worry the third imperium is definitely not that the closest way i can describe the imperium and charted space in general is that it is the age of sail in space distances still have to be crossed for communication and while the jump drive does connect star systems it does take time for a starship to cross the vastness of space subspace communications ala star trek and star wars simply don t exist if you ignore the gurps stat blocks and or tweak them to your own version of traveller you re using the writeups for these gurps splatbooks are fantastic to mine for ideas and setting materials i think the only drawback now is that they might be hard to find in print not as hard to find as merp for example but definitely not something that ll just show up in the cheap bin in a random game store however steve jackson games has pdfs of the splatbooks for sale at their warehouse 23 website this is a pale echo of the same argument about realism by modifying a pc s character stats in ad d 1e due to aging or gender i understand the desire to make a pc realistic by modifying character stats if you want to play an aged cleric for instance but you don t need to modify stats for that any dm worth their salt would accommodate this without resorting to changing a character s stats at all same with playing a male vs female human pc just because the average male human is stronger than the average female human doesn t mean that female pcs should have a lower ceiling on their strength stat after all you re playing an outlier to the average human so artificial limitations to the stats for the sake of realism make no sense i know now that eve online isn t like that it just seems like it at times so that little quip here was to just tweak the eve fans out there after all we can t all be so lucky as to win a freighter in a game of sabacc and if you did can you imagine that the crew of said ship would be happy about that posted by redbeard at 2 55 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels comic memes rpg from the past traveller wednesday december 14 2022 are we not gods it s a problem that every rpg dm or developer has to grapple with eventually what do you do when the players in your campaign or game become too powerful i m not talking famous or powerful or admired but powerful as in demon lord slaying on home plane powerful or defeating death powerful or godslayer powerful or you get the idea that was a problem i grappled with back when i first played d d as my first characters to survive to l20 or higher were so powerful that i had to do something with them they steamrolled orcus and demogorgon for pete s sake and while that was also back in the days of dungeons containing rooms filled with five red dragons i at least understood enough that i ought to retire my characters so i rolled a die and adjusted my characters stats upward anointed them as gods and retired them having the original deities and demigods book by tsr around didn t exactly hurt in that regard but still what to do with overly powerful characters is a problem that people wrestle with all the time whether it be in a pencil and paper rpg campaign or a video game baldur s gate 2 confronts that problem in the course of the main storyline and without invoking spoilers let s say that i totally understand bioware s solution to the conundrum i d like to think that i could handle that situation as good as they did but i do realize that i never really had the chance that solitary situation in my youth was the only time i ve ever been a part of a campaign where my characters levels reached crazy powerful territory i mean the cleric in the recently concluded 20 year d d 3 0 campaign never reached above 9th level it was just the nature of that game to not progress fast and while that lack of progression didn t bother me the lack of progress on the overall story did none of the games i cited above had the baked in issues that are confronted by online games such as mmos however mmos especially those who have a progression based model will eventually confront the problem of the characters are too powerful and i don t mean too powerful for low level zones either because that s a separate although related issue this is more along the lines of when a main character in a novel becomes so powerful that they venture into mary sue marty stu territory such as pug and tomas in raymond e feist s first riftwar series or say the problems confronted by saitama the one punch man yeah pretty much from imgflip com part of the problem is the scale of the enemies a player faces because of the scaling up in power the enemies have to scale up as well so you may have started from humble beginnings but by the end you re hobnobbing with the rich and powerful every video game rpg ever from reddit do this a couple of times over the course of a few expansions and the next thing you know you re consorting with godlike beings here goes nothing eeep now this trajectory doesn t have to happen at least to at this much a degree as it has in some mmos but eventually all online rpgs that hang around long enough will hit this wall but is it a wall well once you get past a certain point the scope of the game changes you re no longer in kill small creatures questing scope but kill big ol demons territory or you progress beyond that into slay an old god territory the people you interact with in game changes either slowly or quickly depending on the game involved and you re far beyond those salad days of digging up turnips for a farmer in the shire he looked all round him and it was only then that he recognized the place as his own cell yes said he there s the stone i used to sit on there are the marks where my shoulders rubbed their shape on to the stone there s the stain left by the blood from my forehead the day i tried to batter my brains out against the wall oh and these numbers i remember from the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas unabridged edition pp 1048 edmond dantes in the count of monte cristo d artagnan from the three musketeers is another comes into power and consequently the story changes around him the stakes are higher because the people edmond seeks revenge upon have maneuvered themselves into positions of power and prestige but they remained fundamentally the same lowborn conspirators who betrayed him all those years ago or in baldur s gate you re introduced to the big bad in game in the intro only you don t realize what the context is until you ve played the entirety of the game by the end of the game your position in life has changed but the big bad has not both however are works with a defined beginning middle and end mmos don t really have that luxury so the stakes constantly change with each expansion and the easy way out for mmos is to raise the stakes with each successive expansion unfortunately that can back developers into a corner content wise a legion thing i presume from know your meme that meme aside when you get successively more earth shaking and more powerful end bosses in each new expansion whose plots to do whatever are even more outlandish than the one before it you get past a breaking point lotro had it easy relatively speaking because that mmo followed the books right up until the end when the ringbearer completed his quest and sauron was destroyed now the mmo becomes what do we do next to top that and there s no easy answer but other mmos such as wow have a harder time of it when you have to raise the stakes with each successive expansion without falling into any one of the following traps i m not bad i m defending us from the next big bad meet the new big bad same as the old big bad bait with one plotline and switch to a repeat of an old plotline an i was good or at least neutral but now i m bad big bad changing the backstory to create a new big bad out of whole cloth plotline even if the plotline of an expansion covers one of these traps you can still find an mmo story expansion that doesn t necessarily have a corresponding escalation in power to match the players own arms race it s not a given by any stretch however it takes a rare mmo to avoid falling into the more bigger better more design more gear more shinies more powers more everything and then you wake up one day and wonder just how you started out as this and then you find yourself looking like this and this is before the current expac in wow classic and you are hanging around with people like this you bet your ass she s bowing or this i m running out of screen space how the hell do you describe this to people back home without them wondering what has become of you and what do you do when a suitably lofty opinion of yourself creeps into your psyche when beings of this amount of power and prestige call you friend and invite you to sit at the table it can t help but influence your opinions of yourself and just how far away from your beginnings you have come more indeed there s no easy answer to the power creep per se since to a lot of people there is no problem at all there s always another hill to climb another challenge to overcome but i guess getting on toward middle age has taught me a bit about that spiral how there always is an upper barrier on what can be achieved and eventually we all have to live with our limitations our regrets and our failures of course a game that provided such an outlook wouldn t have a lot of players because it s more fun to win than be reminded of our mortality dark souls notwithstanding even changing the overall trajectory of the power creep just a little bit whether it be by level squish or moving the focus away from a world shattering in game story can engender more than its share of angst think of dragonflight and how there were more than its share of detractors when the expac was announced i for one applauded the movement away from the world is ending vibe that tends to permeate the wow ecosystem but i wasn t so foolish as to think that wow was going to stop being on a gear treadmill once the dragonflight released that treadmill is still there and the surest sign that wow is still wow is that you get to help choose the next leader of the black dragonflight think about that for a moment why would the two rivals for leadership of the black dragonflight a flight in famous for their haughty attitudes toward all lesser beings be wanting your support they only respect people more powerful than their own that i ve yet to see a post saying hey waitaminute from my blog feed pretty much shows that people simply accept that you can make the choice not necessarily that you may want to but that you are in the right to do so in effect you are the cardinal richelieu of azeroth who are you for king wrathion or cardinal sabellius d artagnan probably i guess that this is the nature of the beast that power creep is inevitable and you either accept it or jump off the train okay there s a third option to simply ignore it and i hear silvermoon is nice this time of year or maybe just hang around the pig and whistle and roleplay or maybe the lion s pride from reddit or create a twink for bgs and just do that or run one of those places in ffxiv or form a band and play in bree on fridays or maybe be a roadie for that band fwiw this band still plays on friday afternoons on the gladden us server there are things to do but they are decidedly against the spirit of mmos or are they nothing says that you can t simply ignore what the developers want you to play and just do your own thing crafting your own resolution to the hero s journey isn t necessarily a bad thing to do after all you re in effect doing what i did all those years ago retire your character from active adventuring and again nothing says that you can t spend your days playing a d d campaign that consists of minding a tavern as adventurers pass through just gonna put this here i was so happy to give my local bookstore my money for this of course you re not obligated to buy any new mmo expansion or in the case of lotro or swtor or some other mmos you don t have to buy anything at all but that s up to you if nothing else you can control your own resolution to the power creep which is a good thing you have the option to say that you are not a god you are a person and even the heroic need a reality check from time to time i think i officially called them demi gods because being a good catholic kid i wasn t messing around with actual godhood itself some mmos guild wars 2 swtor elder scrolls online adjust your level downward if you re in a low level zone and dole out rewards accordingly this has varying levels of success based on the amount of tuning the devs have performed but at least it s an attempt at a solution some mmos don t even bother trying i d have called it spoilers but you can t throw a stick in a retail wow blog without some mention of it in there admittedly the twilight drake vesperon says you pose no threat lesser beings give me your worst but come on where do you think that vesperon got that idea from posted by redbeard at 3 00 am 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books ffxiv lotro memes musings retail wow monday december 12 2022 meme monday miscellaneous memes because the memes can pile up without a specific theme here s a few of an assortment of memes this is cardwyn as dps facing patchwerk in naxxramas pretty much from pinterest because i can t resist teasing my son but there s a bit more to this than just that something worthy of an actual post from know your meme this along with it took you more than a week to get to level cap are two defining features of old versus new mmos from elder scrolls online forums and that s why i m a bit of a minimalist regarding addons from know your meme posted by redbeard at 12 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes friday december 9 2022 and we just couldn t get rid of him well i guess the era of megamergers is over for the time being this is the graphic the bbc used for activision blizzard i was about to use the acryonym ab but that was too close to anheuser busch for my mind the us government filed suit to block the microsoft acquisition of activision blizzard blizzard was essentially along for the ride anyway with this acquisition as this was mainly about activision and call of duty go figure right i guess that means that we re still stuck with bobby kotick for now posted by redbeard at 7 23 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news video games monday december 5 2022 meme monday you all meet in a tavern memes it s a standard trope in any rpg whether it be a tabletop game a video game or even an mmo that you meet at an inn tavern is how the 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