well
shit
They wanted feedback, they got their fucking feedback. You know what Elf? You're right. You shouldn't have to look through anything grabbed from my idea pools one iteration at a time. You shouldn't have to have people badger you to look at their sheet or approve actions. You shouldn't need to do all that with Sanure alone. The players ought to be mature enough to give them a few cursory glances, give constructive feedback, make an actual blood contribution rather than this verbal diarrhea and dead air.
For heaven's sake, Tinker in Einsteinian Roulette is easier to handle than this. It's just chunky salsa, not stat bonuses, no need to worry about Perks or Passive or any of that. They have a Council. A FUCKING COUNCIL. AN ENTIRE SECRET CONSORTIUM OF PLAYERS TO BALANCE IT. AND A PLAYER RUN WIKI. A MOTHERFUCKING WIKI. A veteran Tinkerer overseeing and filtering the suggestion input. And a good chunk of the playerbase willing to assist people in their Tinker Projects.
If the players want to make their damn sheets with their own Actions and Perks, the least they could do is get involved. Quite frankly, I'm amazed that this game is still running and that Elf hasn't blown his damn top at anyone yet. This has got to be the only game I know of where people can just get into heated arguments, not debates, actual arguments with the GM and remain in the game.[/rant]
And RP, I believe, is the main counterargument to Emp.
My rebuttal is your own words. This is about a group of people. They've been forced to band together for survival. Some have known the others for months by now. Are we to say that they cannot even after all they've gone through, learned how to work together? Plus they did have specialties in their own world, and their Perks and Skills should at least internally synergize.
With or without initial teamwork, we should still have never come to a point where some characters have utterly underpowered Actions and where you're stuck reading through them one at a time with no one else's opinion to see.
I am all for people redoing their sheets, mind you. I even recommend it.
Oh good, hopefully, circumstances shall be better this time.