#tyvani

[dungeonmistrix]

First ArtFight attack of the year - the lovely Tatiana, for @tyvani ! 💜

[prokopetz]

I know you do TTRPG recommendations sometimes and I actually thought of one I could ask for from you. I'm interested in running a short vampire PC game in a light-hearted style like the movie/show What We Do in the Shadows, but I only have experience with Pathfinder and D&D 5e. Would it be better to homebrew based on the rulesets I know? Or is there another TTRPG that could actually fit that better? I could give more detail about how I'd run it if it helps.

Depends – you could go in a lot of directions with the brief of “vampire comedy one-shot”. The common factor is that very few of those directions would be well suited for Pathfinder; you ideally want a system where the rules have something to say about your game’s premise, and Pathfinder is notably light on mechanics that directly address apartment life, vampiric or otherwise.

Supposing, for example, that you’re thinking of something that’s goofy but not terribly mean-spirited, you could have a look at Rose Bailey’s Die For You. It’s focused on the right sort of premise and very easy to pick up; the drawbacks are that it might skew a little more “coffee shop AU” than you’d like (there are no mechanics for, say, casual murder), and it tends to assume that player characters are fairly youngish.

On the other hand, if you’re more in the mood for something where the player characters are just objectively awful people and don’t mind doing a bit of homebrewing, you might have a look at Skulduggery. The temptation mechanics make for a particularly fun way to model the vampiric condition, and it has just enough crunch to be interesting; you’d have to write your own playset, though, and the rules have some assumptions about comedic pacing baked into them that aren’t 100% on point for emulating WWDitS.

Or if you’re going the TV show route in particular and want to run a game where the player characters are basically just bags full of weird stereotypes and not-terribly-useful vampire powers, you could give Risus a shot. I mean, it’s free, so it’s not like you’ve got anything to lose by checking it out!

[turbolesbo]

tyvani replied to your post: pls give advice on how to evade a twitter...

Huh?? How’d you get suspended in the first place?? Is there any way to appeal it?

i got suspended for tweeting “i will kill jj abrams with my own hands” lmao

i did send an appeal but i’m thinking it might be permanent cause i’ve received temporary suspensions before for similar tweets and those times i just had to delete the offending tweet and the suspension lasted only 12 hours or 24 hours or something, but this time it didn’t give me an option to delete the tweet and no mention of it being timed. so this might have been my third strike.

[zenjestrr]

tyvani replied to your post “so I’m a science teacher now”

:O Congratulations!! How do you feel about it?

i think it’ll be interesting. I’m curious to see how this’ll play out

[hoiist]

24. answered here x

20. To solve other peoples problems, they say to murder the problem J’aadar, Xucie and Aldressa. Maybe Xa'piera

24. answered here x

30. Will sends meme in the group chat Xucie, Candy and Dominicus

34. Has a sweet tooth Vii, Candy and like all of Vii’s kids

meme

[bioticbutt]

Top 5 things you'd change about Mass Effect?

Mass Effect is tricky because it’s a whole series and in all honesty, I could very easily focus on just one game of the series and do a lot of changes, but I’m gonna try to evenly distribute my ideas as best as I can.

5. It’s hard for me to really talk about the first game. The first game was awesome and what flaws it did have were mostly corrected or scrapped when ME2 came out. For its time, the first game was amazing. I absolutely fell in love with it and then ME2 came out and is still my favorite game of all time. One thing that I am 10000000 percent glad they changed were the husks. I remember trying to do an insanity/completionist playthrough of the first game and I came across this bunker that was absolutely swarming with husks. Well, in the first game, the husks would explode with electricity and that dealt a RIDICULOUS amount of damage. Me, being an infiltrator in a room filled to the brim with these exploding demons, was the worst experience of my life. It was terrible. Fortunately, the game changed husks from ME1 to ME2 and I am so grateful.

4. I’m gonna group these two together because they basically overlap anyways, but Kai Leng and the treatment of Thane. I enjoyed Thane as a companion (I tried to romance him, but Shepard immediately professing their love for him after he talks about his dead wife was really a turn off, but I’m getting off topic) and he honestly deserved better treatment than Kai Leng’s jab. KL as a character could have been good; he could have been a wonderfully engaging and intriguing nemesis, but he honestly felt like a 2D cardboard cutout- like he fell under a Mary Sue, sci-fi, samurai assassin guy stereotype thing. He felt almost like a walking trope. What dialogue we did receive from him were supposed to be taunts, but ended up sounding like a sniveling buttface (it’s late and I’m tired). I guess it really falls under the possibility of lazy/ rushed writing.

3. When Shepard meets the Virmire survivor in ME2. It felt as though the dialogue for that scene had been skipped over. Of course the survivor would be absolutely pissed if their late best friend/ commander/ love interest suddenly came back from the dead and all they say is, “hey, sup?” Like, the dialogue options are aggravating and I just wanted to have the option to try to explain myself and from the options given, I just couldn’t stand any of it. Trust me, the reaction from the survivor is perfect for the situation, though.

2. Of course, it makes its way onto probably most people’s lists, but the ending to ME3. It was rough. Even with the fixes to the ending, it was so disheartening to play all three games only to end with a massive disconnect between the hours and decisions put into the game versus choosing a color. Personally, I don’t know how I would have ended the series, but what we were given wasn’t satisfactory. It did have its moments (ie Shepard dragging themselves up and asking, “what do you need me to do?,” Anderson’s dialogue about how proud he is of Shepard, the score that goes along with that scene, etc). Have to still point it out, though.

1. My number one thing I would change about the series is the jump from Mass Effect 3 to Andromeda. I’ve seen people talking about this before, but basically change the timeline to really fit and create a more motivating story to Andromeda itself. Instead of sending the Arks as a solely scientific mission right around the time Shepard is resurrected, I believe it would have been a more compelling story had the Andromeda Initiative left even just a few years later- around the time of the time of the Reaper invasion of the third game. Not only would the story revolve around scientific discovery, but it would add more desperation and drive to colonize and rebuild what is, for all they know, left of the Milky Way.

edit: general spelling/grammar errors. ALSO! SORRY I DIDNT ADD THIS BEFORE BUT THANK YOU!! <3

[creamsiclesquid]

tyvani replied to your post “well apparently i missed a shift today at work lmao so I go in...”

Hopefully they'll understand, especially if it's a first-time mistake. There's actually been a couple times where I've misremembered my schedule so bad that I thought I had a day off when I didn't, but it was fine for me since I am otherwise great about being there on time

I think I’ve proven myself as a worker the few days I’ve been there but their tolerance policy is....vvvveeery low. Worst case I just apply at my mom’s work anyway, and I’m still working for my parents anyway but...still, I’ve never been like, fired before. This is the second time in my life I’ve fucked up and missed a shift. :\

undynedevotion

*hugs big* I hope they are nice about it!!!

me too, I don’t want to cry really uuuUUUUGH

[taxevaderoftheday]

tyvani replied to your photo “Today’s Tax Evader Of The Day Is: Laura Croft. An evader so nice,...”

It's Lara Croft. There's no "u" in her name.

Laura Kraft Mac ‘n’ Cheese loves to horde all her tax money and use all that extra cash to make a mac and cheese pool