A Good Judge of Character

There has been tidy. My desk is devoid of random bits of paper, the coffee mugs are washed, and generally all is cool. I even signed my offer letter and put it in the internal post. Aren't I a good little performing monkey? Ook. (No, sorry; that's orangutan.)

cholten99 has told me that most people wind up playing the same types of characters in RPG over and over again. Toos is given as the classic example -- no matter what her character starts off as, he (and it's always a 'he') winds up behaving like a 14-year-old. Kat, on the other hand, plays the unlikely hack-and-slash types, for the most part (even Richard, who's kind of a girlie-man from what little I can tell). So I'm thinking about the characters that I've been playing and wondering if they conform to type at all.

Aidan MacIntyre: (7th Sea; on hiatus)
Medic, scholar, inventor and general intellectual. Weedy, over-polite and generally nervy. Unlikeliest luck in combat. Scarred, romantically speaking. About as hard as a sofa cushion.

Alison Smith: (7th Sea; current)
Spy, assassin, Jenny and all-around party girl. Dumb as a sack of Panzerhands. Knows manners, but doesn't see the point of using them most of the time. "Tart with a heart", but too flighty for relationships. Pretty, and knows it.

Mila: (Immortal; defunct)
Medic, Guide, herbalist and weather-witch. As countrified as they come; sort of wide-eyed and whimpery. Good with animals and at least not impolite. Claustrophobic. Generally, dull as dirt.

Violet McLean: (Buffy; current)
Witch, student, misanthrope, comparative theologist. Rude to the point of hostility, she displays all the people skills of a rabid hyena. Feels the best defense is a good offense. Bland appearance, volcanic emotional landscape.

Leah Burden: (Angel; pending)
Medic, cook, waitress, pyrokinetic. Attractive, but does not notice or care. Maintains polite distance from others, keeps emotions on a tight leash. Ice-maiden type.

So then there's Victoriana and Exalted. I really want to try my hand at all-out insanity next. I don't think full-on Lucrezia-style lunacy would work for an adventuress -- I think she'll just be a bit looped. My sun-priest for Exalted, however, I'd like to be almost dangerously warped. Not sure exactly how I'm going to play either, but I'm sure I'll think of something once I'm more familiar with the rules.

Well, apart from most of them being girls and at least three being medics (with one of the others good with first-aid), that's pretty varied. Good. Hate to think I was typecasting.

Theah go down the (Porte) hoooole...

According to a recent post on the EN World forum, courtesy Simson:

"Alderac Entertainment Group has released an announcement, posted here by scooper jaerdaph, that it has 'postponed indefinitely' the publishing of further works in the 7th Sea/Swashbuckling Adventures line. It will continue to support the 7th Sea/SBA line "through the electronic publication of some of the oldest out-of-print items and a regular series of new material on the AEG website and selected fan-created sites. [They] will also continue to post errata, and an official 7th Sea forum has been created in the Alderac forums site."

And excuse me while I go Jake Morgendorffer.

GAH, DAMMIT!

And Kevin Thompson:

AW, MAAAAN!

Then we have Guy Fawkes' Day:

BOLLOCKS!

And again, Homer Simspson-style.

D'OH!

Okay, fine. Rumours from a scooper. But it wouldn't surprise me. After all, no one seems particularly keen on keeping things on the shelves. No one's said anything about when 1669 will be out. It always surprises the hardcore guy down at Orc's Nest that someone wants to buy 7th Sea stuff. And in short, the entire thing stinks of "going gently into that good night".

It just pisses me off. I mean, just about everything I've even remotely liked in the past few months has been summarily canned -- Angel's the biggie, but then Joan of Arcadia, Wonder Falls... I'm not counting Kingdom Hospital because that sucked anteater dick and even I, the biggest Stephen King fangirl this side of Annie Wilkes, can admit that. Daria, of course, got shitcanned mid-season and had to tie up the nagging ends with "Is it College Yet?" -- weak name, NBC Weekend Special plotline, and everything thrown together as with one of those salad mixer gadgets.

Not that things continuing is all that great either. I'm trying to draw a veil over Ascension, Gehenna and Apocalypse (depending on your White Wolf fandom). I read in that forum that people were bitching about roll&keep; excuse me, but the Storyteller system isn't any fucking better. If a numerophobic like myself can take well to roll&keep, it cannot be that bad. When Andy P says, "Make a Wits roll" (after the inevitable question, "Do we get Keen Senses?"), we roll the number of dice we have dots in the Wits attribute (plus an extra for Keen Senses, if we have it). We then keep the highest dice up to the value of the attribute, and if it beats the target number (usually 15), we did good. It's none of this "Any dice roll over X is a success but 1s are complete botches and negate one success per 1" crap. It's simple -- we either made it, or we didn't.

*siiiiiiiigh* Okay. I think I'm done venting. After all, it could be worse. After all, our GM wrote a fair bit of the core material. No better person to have as a GM when they've stopped bringing out the books, right?

DOUBLE STANDARD!

When I have a nasty migraine, or sore wrists, or am just too fucking tired to work, people tend to tell me to stop. (Unless they're nightskywarlock, who just o_os at me, but same basic difference.) And they expect me to listen. And I've started to, as I am starting to see the wisdom of what they're saying.

When other people are too tired, or sore, or generally unhappy to work, and I tell them to stop, what happens? Do they take their own advice as it issues from my lips?

Do they bollocks.

Despite the fact that none of it's life-altering and it could probably all wait until at least Wednesday (if it actually needs doing at all in the grand scheme of things), does it wait? Does he just lie down, have a hot bath, and let it sit for a couple of days? No. He insists on doing it, insists on torturing himself ... and then further insists on bitching about it.

If I wanted to hear a bitch about people's deteriorating physical health, I'd stay at work. At least the patients are for the most part trying to do something to better their situation instead of playing fucking martyr or torturing themselves with diddyshit unnecessary crap in some bid not to self-analyse or whatever the hell prompts some people to do things for others rather than themselves.

In short...

Double standard.

Double standard.

DOUBLE FUCKING STANDARD!

*pantpant* Thank you.