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[Magistrum]

Long, well thought out post with sources

I had stopped checking the forums for a long time, now I come back.

After a long time in this forum, I just realized that wierd is 99% of the times right in any discussion or argument.

I fell weird for taking so long.

Everything is still the same.

I will try to get in an argument with him sometime, to check how it is.

[Helgoland]

Nonono. 99% of the time he is not wrong. However the same often holds for the other side.

[Mech#4]

Does this movie sound familiar to anyone? I would like to know the title of it.

Involves a young man working at a mansion where a bitter old lady lives. She has a wardrobe full of dresses that, I think through the uplifting friendship she gains with the man, she starts wearing one of every day until her passing. I think the last dress she wears is her wedding dress.

[TD1]

Sounds a tiny bit like Great Expectations, though probably not

[wierd]

Certainly not. While the bitter old lady + wedding thing has similarities, Miss Havisham is not at all interested in Pip, except as a training aid for her niece, to better enhance her man-eating qualities.

[TD1]

I am well aware. I assumed that was what Mech was referring to as "uplifting"

[Mech#4]

I believe they end up as close friends, not romantically involved. The young person bringing life and joy to the elder style thing. The story, from what I vaguely remember, was overall positive not like the raising hopes and dashing them of Great Expectations. It might not've been a wedding dress but certainly it was the most impressive/special dress she owned.

A few other things to clarify. It was live action and probably from before 2010. I'm assuming it was in english but I can't remember any dialogue so...

[Scoops Novel]

Guys, help me out.  Is there any conceivable way to run a game of dark heresy over play by post without my players knowing about, or finding out about, 40k? I love the scrappy random feel of it, but every goddamn time it's ruined by players sticking to 40k stereotypes, or worse, knowing everything in advance. Even when i run it with noobs, they end up digging into 40k lore and the game suffers for it.

And the thing is, a game like this has enough roleplay and worldbuilding that play by post actually is the best home for it.

[Egan_BW]

Are there any people online who play roleplaying games and don't yet know 40k?

[Reelya]

Guys, help me out.  Is there any conceivable way to run a game of dark heresy over play by post without my players knowing about, or finding out about, 40k? I love the scrappy random feel of it, but every goddamn time it's ruined by players sticking to 40k stereotypes, or worse, knowing everything in advance. Even when i run it with noobs, they end up digging into 40k lore and the game suffers for it.

And the thing is, a game like this has enough roleplay and worldbuilding that play by post actually is the best home for it.

How about run the game as an "original setting" and just cut/replace all the 40K terms like madlibs. I think you'd be surprised how long it would take people to work it out. Also, then when they do start digging up 40K lore, if they work it out, you can start subtly changing things up. If you treat the system as separate from the lore as one often does in e.g. D&D, then you can surprise your players.

[EnigmaticHat]

Guys, help me out.  Is there any conceivable way to run a game of dark heresy over play by post without my players knowing about, or finding out about, 40k? I love the scrappy random feel of it, but every goddamn time it's ruined by players sticking to 40k stereotypes, or worse, knowing everything in advance. Even when i run it with noobs, they end up digging into 40k lore and the game suffers for it.

And the thing is, a game like this has enough roleplay and worldbuilding that play by post actually is the best home for it.

Have them play as characters who wouldn't know.  Like one of those primitive worlds the space marines recruit from or some such.

[Frumple]

That place specifically, no luck finding a price. You could float them an email or call, I guess, to ask, though. Their website's pretty easy to find.* Nearby prices seem to range in the couple hundred USD (presumably per night, wasn't looking too close) region for the low end, though.

* I'd recommend email if your curiosity is idle, by the by. Bit more polite than gnawing on their phone lines while people that actually have money might be calling.

[TD1]

Noun - Naming
Verb - Doing
Adjective - Describing

So... fractured is probably what you want.

[smjjames]

Is there an... adjective (Never been good at remembering what the hell nouns, adjectives, and such actually are) for fracture?

The word I'd think of would be "Fractuitous", but apparently that's a nonexistent word.

fractured is one.

ninja'd anyhow.

[Frumple]

Fractious may actually be better. Fractured is past tense, and all that.