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Topic	Mobile Suit Geekdam: Geek vs Zeta Geek
ParanoidObsessive 08/31/18 9:41:12 PM #94:	Zeus posted... tbh, most fortunes are lost a few generations a generation or two in because the wealth is split between many wasteful descendants. Didn't we learn anything from the failures of Salic Law?! ~tears at beard~ I_Abibde posted... Did the term chirurgeon make it to the Age of Sail? looks it up The term dates to the late 1200s, if I am reading this correctly, but there are examples of it being in use into the 1700s (including one example from Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period), so it is at least plausible, IMO. No idea. I usually think of that spelling being more of a faux ye oldey time medieval sort of thing, not so much a thing by the time we hit the buckling of swashes. I_Abibde posted... Meanwhile, I had a classic Dungeon Master folly yesterday. I had a perfectly good dungeon full of back story hooks (both for the general plot and for individual characters), puzzles to solve, traps to foil, all of that, and one player got sulky and made the party just go all the way to the bottom floor, get what his character needed, and get out (because he dislikes dungeon crawls, though I designed this one to be short). ... 'Tis a bummer to see my work go to waste, but this happens. Alas! Was he being surly and kind of dickish about it? Like, everyone else wanted to explore but he was being really obstructionist? Because in that case I would have absolutely deliberately fucked him over and had what he was looking for not be where he thought it was supposed to be, and then leave absolutely no clue where it was for him to follow up on. Because that sounds like an asshole player, and asshole players need to be punished (and preferably cut away like a tumor). But if it was more just a case of him being "Hey, let's just go get the thing and leave", and everyone else was okay with the idea because they weren't overly invested either, that's different. Then it's just PCs being their usual unpredictable and rebellious selves. But a player actively being disruptive and going against what the group wants to do, and digging in their heels and acting surly until the group just goes along with them out of disgust is a huge no-no for me. Especially if they're the sort of player who basically demands that you cater to their interests, but then basically shut down any session where you're catering to a different player's interests. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:907899970] in Mobile Sui... [t:76923012]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote>tbh, most fortunes are lost a few generations a generation or two in because the wealth is split between many wasteful descendants.</quote> Didn't we learn anything from the failures of Salic Law?! ~tears at beard~ <cite>I_Abibde posted...</cite> <quote>Did the term chirurgeon make it to the Age of Sail? looks it up The term dates to the late 1200s, if I am reading this correctly, but there are examples of it being in use into the 1700s (including one example from Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period), so it is at least plausible, IMO.</quote> No idea. I usually think of that spelling being more of a faux ye oldey time medieval sort of thing, not so much a thing by the time we hit the buckling of swashes. <cite>I_Abibde posted...</cite> <quote>Meanwhile, I had a classic Dungeon Master folly yesterday. I had a perfectly good dungeon full of back story hooks (both for the general plot and for individual characters), puzzles to solve, traps to foil, all of that, and one player got sulky and made the party just go all the way to the bottom floor, get what his character needed, and get out (because he dislikes dungeon crawls, though I designed this one to be short). ... 'Tis a bummer to see my work go to waste, but this happens. Alas!</quote> Was he being surly and kind of dickish about it? Like, everyone else wanted to explore but he was being really obstructionist? Because in that case I would have absolutely deliberately fucked him over and had what he was looking for not be where he thought it was supposed to be, and then leave absolutely no clue where it was for him to follow up on. Because that sounds like an asshole player, and asshole players need to be punished (and preferably cut away like a tumor). But if it was more just a case of him being "Hey, let's just go get the thing and leave", and everyone else was okay with the idea because they weren't overly invested either, that's different. Then it's just PCs being their usual unpredictable and rebellious selves. But a player actively being disruptive and going against what the group wants to do, and digging in their heels and acting surly until the group just goes along with them out of disgust is a huge no-no for me. Especially if they're the sort of player who basically demands that you cater to their interests, but then basically shut down any session where you're catering to a different player's interests. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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