How's The Game

[wearethecrystalmods]

HOW'S THE GAME?

Welcome to Cosmographia's first "How's the Game"! This is essentially an open forum for discussion about where to take the game from here and anything that might need changing. A lot has happened in the past week and going forward we feel it's more important than ever to have a discussion like this.

This is not a place for criticism of specific players or characters. This is purely about the game itself. Please save player specific criticisms for the upcoming How's My Driving. Any disregard for this or out of hand conduct will be frozen or deleted.

We are inviting not just all current players (old and new) to participate in this discussion but also past players that have left and new potential players considering the game; we encourage everyone to pitch in their two cents. That being said, since this is the game's first HTG we are currently going to do it without anon or sock journals (for future HTG this may change).

Like said this is a completely open forum. We have a list of topics we want to discuss (listed below), but after all those have gone up players are completely free to start their own threads with anything not covered by the other sections.

Current sections (please wait until all these are up and linked to post your own they're all up now!):

The Staff
Applications
Setting Suggestions
The World Outside Waverly Bay/Potential World Plot
Event Schedule/Power Distribution
Player Plot Approval
Power Limitations/Guidelines
Fate of Cosmonet
Network Comm?
Day Cycle Comments
The Temp. Drop System
Future Event/Plot Suggestions

Comments

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

I like this. It's easy to grasp, thematic, and gives everyone options no matter when they show up.

EDIT: And of course right after posting I think of something else I wanted to ask. Under this system, would it be possible to use your tokens to change a power into something different? Like, I'm not particularly invested in Amelie's Diamond Storm, and her Zygarde Forme ability is basically invalidated by shapeshifting being a freebie, so would I be able to save up four tokens to change them into something more appropriate to her character?

[foolreversed]

I don't see how that would be a problem! A retcon/change will probably stay at two tokens because going forward that also encourages people to think it through what powers they want (but doesn't leave them stuck with ones they don't want indefinitely).

edit: older players in your case I think might get a retcon for free now that I'm thinking about it, since as you said, shapeshifting becoming a freebie invalidates one of those powers (unless you wanna do something different with the forme ability, since shapeshifting doesn't grant special abilities that may be associated with a specific form otherwise)

[lifeisfun]

Frankly the Zygarde Forme was based on incomplete information, especially since it turns out that Zygarde is some kind of swarm of living Legos that can form up into a dog, dragon, or giant robot.

An actual Zygarde-themed power would be something like turning into multiple tiny versions of yourself.

[foolreversed]

................man pokemon is weird

[onaroll]

Given the information that's been released, it is possible that at any given moment, Zygarde can be: a Giant Robot, two Land Dragons, or up to ten super-speed Dobermans. So yes, Pokemon are weird. Let's not even get into the lava slug that's hotter than the surface of the sun or the heart-attack pig.

And Amelie's got like six skills and only two of them are character defining so retcons for the other ones are my top priority for her right now. I picked a theme of 'legendary pokemon' and stuck with it even though in retrospect I probably shouldn't have.