Even in way more super intensive RP games, OOC remains necessary. Perhaps paradoxically, the more intense the RP gets the more it fundamentally relies on OOC communication.
Some of the best RP sessions I've ever had (in text games) were …
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Except IRL if doctors can't figure something out they tend to outright dismiss stuff as being all in your head, rather than obsess about the mysterious puzzle you are. Never be afraid to seek out a second, third, or fourth opinion.
That's easier said than done, Minkahmet. Over the past couple years, I've definitely gotten the sense that IRE has all but given up on recruiting new people. It really seems more about milking the few who stay for as much as they can.
India was a fun ride, even if it is perhaps a bit too easy.
From a Rashtrakuta start, all of the Deccan Empire is easily consumed within a generation or two. I then had a choice marriage where my Punjabi wifey lived miles and miles away, …
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With the added psychological benefit of "Yes! I have a discount!" starkly visual right there on the prices. I forget sometimes what shops it's active for me at.
I love this idea. I'm just curious what happens if I list something I'm willing to buy, and in forgetting I did that accidentally spend the credits somewhere else.
It doesn't seem like my credits have been set aside in some kind of escro…
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I don't think it's worth getting worked up about. Honestly I get amused when I discover a string of revenge disagrees, especially if it's just caused by a bit of saltiness from an unrelated discussion.
I am no longer a vulnerable adult! Legally, anyway.
Spending so much time in hospitals and inpatient facilities was most definitely not how I imagined my thirties would go. But I'm out again, at least for as long as I can keep going on be…
If a current Elder were to splinter into shards again for whatever reason, do they become a new race instantly, or something that eventually happens over time?
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I've been inviting the third or fourth person on their line of succession. If all of them like their liege too much, I murder the head of state until they like me better. Give that guy a piece of land (so he's an actual vassal, not ju…
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Pretty much anybody from the opposing alliance. Because inter-org RPs are hard, but awesome. And it's fairly rare for people to feel comfortable interacting with somebody that they disagree with.