[Mazerin]

I guess there is a degree of forcing yourself into interactions, vampires need to feed for example so for all intents and purposes they might steal a bite off you even if maybe you don’t want to be bitten by one, same goes for higher-tier supes that got to feed on you so they don’t get debuffs, if that’s still a thing. You can still force yourself into interactions while giving agency to the other person, in my opinion at least.

Generally though I agree that characters are there for meaningful roleplay (in whatever shape and form that might take), but from what it seems to me it’s not like higher-tier characters have a long shelf life? If you disregard the Wild Hunt which will take them and gut their tier, there’s acedia. And if you disregard that, there’s other maintenance mechanics. So looking at it from mechanical perspective it seems like higher-tier characters are designed to be short-lived but impactful roles that require constant action to maintain themselves, with higher tier meaning shorter lifespan in return for the ability to practically have storyteller-lite tools.

I don’t claim to be an expert since I haven’t played a T3+ character on H7 yet, and my only experience was a natural T3 on H6, but it feels like the general intention here is that corrupt characters act as a bridge between the monster guest’s explosive power, packaged into a character meant for more flavor antagonism.

As far as the entire convo of this thread goes though, my opinion on this is that the invitiation gain probably needs to be tweaked a bit, but it’s not like I feel it is somehow bad from design standpoint.

[Mazerin]

Hey so, correct me on this if I’m wrong, isn’t antag RP just… Forcing it on people regardless? I mean, it depends on what you mean by forcing, but like. If I pull up to your workplace, delete the kneecaps of your co-worker (NPC) and threaten you for trying to distrupt my plans unwittingly. That’d be forceful RP.

So is taking blood from victimization, biting, etc. All of that isn’t quite ‘consenual’. My point that I’m trying to make is that antag RP will be forced in one way or another, the difference is whether the victim is looking for that kind of RP, if no they can always just go through pathway of being a difficult prisoner, give all the LF/goodies right away and one can be on their way.

From what people are writing here it almost seems like everyone has their own idea of what a T3+ character is supposed to be. Though I’ll admit it does feel like the corrupt characters have been weakened severely mechanically, as far as combat is concerned, but they do get a ton of other improvements, like better appearance score, social rank gain increase, wealth tier cap, you name it.

[Mazerin]

Windermere helpfile was almost completely AI-generated from what I found out when I put all of the text into an AI detector tool. Hadn’t done that to room descriptions, but in short. Mirabel hits the spot. Windermere feels like the shadow of the college we had in previous wipe. Feels like it is better to search for avenues of RP elsewhere in factions and societies rather than the college itself.

I had more fun with society RP rather than college, at the very least.

[Mazerin]

okay maybe this will work

[Mazerin]

normally i don’t play supernatural but after trying them this iteration i think they’re starting to grow on me.

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