It's a small subset of stupid gamers that are terrible (someone from the company said they had no idea and supported fan works 100%). I'm sorry that happened to you, and glad that you created Lumen and Nova!
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Great deal on a Blades in the Dark/Scum & Villainy bundle on MassDrop for the next few days. MassDrop is a membership site, so you have to sign up, but they have great deals and though it takes a while to ship (this one closes in a week and ships by April 18th), they have some great deals.
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Not sure of the policy on this, but you might want to put some time limit on deleting posts (and even perhaps editing). In a recent spat, a user deleted all of their posts, and the conversation doesn't flow as well with the posts removed. I know that some forums impose limits on such actions to prevent this type of behavior.
Nice to see this space here! A bit of feedback on the Play portion of the PbF board; you might want to have two separate boards there- one for planning a game, and one for playing it. Helps people to see what kinds of games are on the blocks, so to speak, and to gauge interest in a game before spinning up a thread.
I should have read the LFG thread first- I thought it was just for Looking for a Group, not for IC's also.
In most cases, I like using an existing system. But the system I'm currently working on is a result of frustrations in PbEM and non-asynchronous games. Either you slow things down, or everything becomes purely narrative. I'm trying to find a middle ground.
The reason that normally I go with something that's already there is because of my play style- I only mine things in other systems for ideas, as knowing a system, you can really get an idea about it's strengths and weaknesses over time with it. A new system you have to start all of that from scratch.