Coyotedancer

While it's true that being a jerk knows no borders, I've run into a lot more trolls using KB as their weapon-of-choice than bad Stalkers or prima donna Tanks.

I still like the "Master of"/"Grand Master of" idea. Preserve the original settings and badge while adding the new ones as sort of the Next Level.

KB has its place... But trolling your team and acting like an ass-hat with it is a quick way to wind up one-starred and on my in-game ignore list. Life's too short to play with jerks. 😝

Since it's more than apparent now that I'm in no way part of the target audience for the thing, I'll keep my feedback short and to the point. The mechanics are interesting. What I saw of the dialogue was well done. My 7-player PUG team did just fine. But even on the lowest difficulty, I doubt that my usual little family SG team of four would ever be able to complete it. Some of that would be down to skill and experience levels, but- The big issue is that it really is just too f-ing long. This beast would have made a *great* mission arc that you could take on in pieces, as others have said. As a SF, though, it tried my patience. My nephews and their mom would never be able to pass that level of Attention Span challenge. Honestly, having seen it now just to be able to say I did, I doubt I'll ever run it again,

Most of my crew don't have easily isolated and explained inspirations... They're combinations of a lot of different ideas from a lot of different sources mixed into something that, in all honestly, usually ends up sounding pretty boring. On the surface of it, they're all "just people" and that's usually not terribly thrilling. You have to talk to them to see the weirdness. Which is probably why they absolutely fail at ever being more than animate wallpaper when it comes to City roleplaying. 😝 They tend to end up being the perpetual background characters in everyone else's stories. Anyway, no one has one single inspiration. They're a very piecemeal bunch. I think that makes them more realistic... in a sort of abstract-fictional-construct sort of way, anyway.

I have to admit... as fond as I am of Scirocco and as much fun as it would be to see the guy get an honest shot at "going hero", I'm very, VERY wary of anyone actually trying to write that arc and to make all of the changes that would have to come from it. I just don't have the unquestioning faith in The Powers That Be that many of you guys seem to. Not when it comes to messing with a favorite, anyway. (And to be completely fair, I didn't have much faith in the old devs getting that right, either. When I read about the plan? I was honestly kind-of glad that they DIDN'T get the chance to do it. Odds are it would have ended up a ham-fisted mess, and I would have hated to see Scir basically taken out of the game as an active contact.) What *do* I want to see, though? I want us to go to the moon,

How Ivory would react would depend entirely on how the letter was addressed... If it showed up in the brownstone's mailbox addressed to Lasya Stanton, she'd shrug and toss it into the pile on the hallway table assuming it was from the neighborhood association or the University fundraising committee or something boring and ignorable like that. If it ever got opened, it would happen at least six months after it arrived, when Azure was going through one of his periodic decluttering sprees. If it was addressed to Graceful Ivory Mask at that address, she'd pay a little more attention. It's annoying when people try to make you bring "work topics" home.

Secret World does have some good ones... I ❤️ Said the Mummy. (Who's voiced by John Hannah 😆)

Tentacles. Tavaris says that there's nothing a sufficiently large number of inky black tentacles made of void-born darkness can't fix. But then, he's a Death Mage. He may be biased.

... A few days late, but still-

Pick up the Teleport Other power if you can, I found that being able to move my SIngularity around and reposition it back nto the middle of groups if it tried wandering off helped that situation A LOT. Enough to make it not-annoying for the melee types.

Has Di ever found ANYTHING that he likes about the game? (Well, anything except coming to the forum and complaining, anyway...)

I like this idea. It's very much what I imagine most of my own female characters' reactions to Dean would be. (I mean, seriously. I just can't see Semnai or Okuri. for instance, *not* threatening to punch him into next week for that kind of crap... 😝) I'll also just toss out there that Dean's smarmy dude-bro dialogue reads as even more creep-tastic if the female character you're running is very young. When I went through it with supposed-to-be-sixteen year-old Kai, it struck me as particularly NOPE.NOPE.DONOTWANT.

Kai has a thing about a guy named Travis. 'Just some random Journalism major at Paragon U. You know, your typical, everyday "average guy". He has nothing to do with alien expats, or mind-reading or evolving bioarmor. And he certainly doesn't get involved in any dangerous, heroic shenanigans like saving the world, or anything like that! Nope, Nothing like that at all. He's more worried about passing his midterms. He swears. Long, long ago, before the war with the Mu or the Circle's forced retreat into darkness, Amtes... a well-travelled magus called "the Historian" by her people... happened to meet a jinn while out exploring in the Atlas mountains. He was a friendly sort, made of animate stone, and in spite of all of the wandering she'd done, Amtes had never met anyone else quite like him. She especially appreciated his wicked sense of humor and his well-developed sense for the absurd. When she returned to the Temple and Thorn Island to settle into her role on the council, she brought Khalil with her. He's been at her side ever since. Even through war and disaster, and centuries of having nothing but a ruin full of ghosts for company.

Speaking of improbable things going Metal...

John Moreland... And my favorite version of 'Let it Go', from Connor Engstrom and Anthony Nuccio But... ask me no questions.

Given that most of mine are well-nigh-immortal body-snatching ancient ghosts? They don't tend to worry too much about it. When you've been drifting around for fifteen thousand years, being fifteen minutes late for a meeting here or there just doesn't seem like a huge deal. It drives a few of their very punctual mortal friends absolutely bonkers. 😝

Oh, great gods of game design, are City NPCs ever a disaster when it comes to stairs... It's just ridiculous how many times I've seen them get caught on the stairs on the Praetorian lab and underground maps in particular. It's bad enough that it's become a running joke. "Come on, Vanguard guys! You can do this! Walk down those stairs and show them who's boss! We believe in you!" 😆

I'm debating how much I really want to drop on the things this year,,, I don't marketeer with them. I keep anything they drop. But I also rarely end up using the enhancements on anything but a fire farmer (and I have no plans to make another one of those-). Merits and such? Yeah. Those are useful. The Os? They just sit there in the bin. It just seems like there ought to be better uses for the INF.

Hmm... The "wrong alignment for a zone" thing might be a big issue with an "anywhere" InstaGull. How about a Base Gull instead?

Not the One maybe? XD

Shortest Path to Save the World - Spend 24 hours on sewer maps (It's a minor trope... and a running joke among my goofball gamer friends... that in nearly any given game, video or tabletop, the shortest path to some critical objective will involve at least one sequence that takes place in a sewer. 😝)

The Sanctum has a hot spring... That's Kai's usual answer to the end of a long, annoying day.

*worldly Oranbegan fist-bump* More player-character magi are always a Good Thing. 👍

There are a lot of family connections among my crew... Andris and Narada are siblings. Lasya (Ivory) and Dorian (Gentleman Spectre) are, too. Kai is, essentially, Tavaris' adopted daughter. Oreviel and Bahir are a couple, as are Olympia (Code Merlin) and Morgan (Code Mordred). Most of the Nova Primeva time-travelers are the descendants of my "current era" characters or their families... Tessamun traces her ancestry back to Semnai, for instance. Jessamine Dare (Joyful Noise) is the [multi]great-granddaughter of one of Ajda Dare's (Windwhispered) named-but-unplayed NPC siblings. It's been fun building that 'family tree', even though the connections very rarely come up when I'm actually playing the gang. You could probably count on one hand the number of people who have any idea that Ivory or Dorian are related to Kai, or any of that.