Nakahama

I'm fine with that, haha! Foundations of ideas are built on another set of foundations? Credit is where credit is due, Mindshred/MS did provide the basis of these daily game 'events' in the first place with Hollow Throne. Many games built a top of that with their own spins and ideas. Banner is just one of them!

Before that...was a bit of the dark ages for daily PBP activities. It was either 'first to three hits' at the dojo or make this one roll and call raises, maybe. Or "CFS", Challenge Focus Strike, which was like running a combat-based event.

Adapting from tabletop to forum has been an ongoing experiment.

I'm glad to have gotten to take part, here and elsewhere.

Boogiepop wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 10:37 am I'm fine with that, haha! Foundations of ideas are built on another set of foundations? Credit is where credit is due, Mindshred/MS did provide the basis of these daily game 'events' in the first place with Hollow Throne. Many games built a top of that with their own spins and ideas. Banner is just one of them!

Before that...was a bit of the dark ages for daily PBP activities. It was either 'first to three hits' at the dojo or make this one roll and call raises, maybe. Or "CFS", Challenge Focus Strike, which was like running a combat-based event.

And I recall Burning Jewel, a Legend of the Burning Sands game did first the Influence/Bid roll mechanic, which has been a big staple since then for most appropriate games.

Granted, it was daily when we were still so young and reckless....

Like how we had a 2/2/3 OOC:IC game day breakdown in ye olden times.

When we and all the world were young,
And joy was found in every tongue
That spoke or sang, then life was good--
And since, we've done all that we could.

I had epic failpost planned and Sakkaku decided . . NO TODAY Ki-Kun WILL SUCCEED AT EVENT.


Knew I should have taken 3 artillery and exhausted them round one.

I still think it would have been hilarious to have a Cursed by Jigoku pop star, myself.

The success-post was good, though!

Miya Kisha wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 1:26 pm I still think it would have been hilarious to have a Cursed by Jigoku pop star, myself.

The success-post was good, though!

Heh that was tired player eyes seeing the bolded number and thinking it was the base. I probably wouldn't take Cursed by Jigoku on a character so very unlikely to ever be in a combat. It feels like cheating for free points.

Kakita Hiroki wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 1:28 pm Heh that was tired player eyes seeing the bolded number and thinking it was the base. I probably wouldn't take Cursed by Jigoku on a character so very unlikely to ever be in a combat. It feels like cheating for free points.

I can see that perspective, and I don't disagree. But I also think it could be leaned into...and one never does know when the Horde will emerge again...

More importantly, I always enjoy reading your posts, success or fail!

I did ask the GMs ahead of time it was ok to take Bad Fortune (Secret Enemy), making sure it wouldn't be extra work for them but also that it wouldn't just be free points on my sheet. I had taken it on one character in the past, and over two games nothing happened at all (despite me being more active in those games than in this ^^; ), so I wanted to give it another go.

I am so happy it worked out well and was a crazy event that included other folks!

Disadvs like Secret Enemy and Secret Love can be really really interesting but they can also be a lot of work. I've had some uh...very scary uses of those disadvs in previous games I did like how it was used here though

My sworn enemy didn't show up at banner, but I didn't take it for free points, it was for crafting the backstory I wanted. I'll admit it was not someone who was going to show up easily. It was not "nearest person who can immediately ruin my life." But they could have shown up and if they found me it was going to be very very bloody. And when a future Banner game rolls in where I can reprise Hato without tone them down, the gm's will have had years to prepare the bloodbath XD

It is really important to at least define boundaries with players for sworn enemy stuff. When a player had an enemy at Sapphire I asked her about her boundaries, and she gave me, "No SA please" My kneejerk reaction was, "Isn't that a given?" followed swiftly by "It's the internet, of course that's not a given." The Kakita Artisan who terrorized the proceedings with fart paintings and Kakita Artisan tech delighted her, and brought out some really tense drama in the player that was bitter betrothed to them. Tying players together by bonding their disadvantages together, efficient!

The fart paintings were entertaining, indeed!

I was more angling at disadvantages deliberately taken to be easily avoided in game.

Like here, I could easily have made my Phobia 3 be bears or big cats . . . but no, I saw island based with lots of water and fishing . . . and DELIBERATELY took Phobia Sharks and Large Fish.

And then the fishing Event turned up . . . that was no accident that I was first in with my post. That event made my disad for me.

TYVM GMs for giving me perfect FAILPOST opportunities.


And remember folks, KITTEH CAN DO ANYTHING. Always.

My disad hasn't come up yet, which is fine. It did in Shadows.

Most of my disadvantages (compulsion: speed, fascination: bikes, infamous) have been used and rped. I'm very happy for it! Saddly low pain threshold cannot easily come up for a courtier.

Kakita Hiroki wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 2:35 pm I was more angling at disadvantages deliberately taken to be easily avoided in game.

Like here, I could easily have made my Phobia 3 be bears or big cats . . . but no, I saw island based with lots of water and fishing . . . and DELIBERATELY took Phobia Sharks and Large Fish.

And then the fishing Event turned up . . . that was no accident that I was first in with my post. That event made my disad for me.

TYVM GMs for giving me perfect FAILPOST opportunities.


And remember folks, KITTEH CAN DO ANYTHING. Always.

Can and does. We are grateful for the time we get with Kitteh. It's never enough. But removing you from your ball in the corner and talking to you until you came around....

Heh.


I guess I've repaid the favor from Shiro Hiruma, neh?

Most of my disads where present and used except for one but it hangs over Shiwahime's head rpwise regardless

Yasuki Taraka wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 2:42 pm
Can and does. We are grateful for the time we get with Kitteh. It's never enough. But removing you from your ball in the corner and talking to you until you came around....

Heh.


I guess I've repaid the favor from Shiro Hiruma, neh?

Huh? . . . Oh . . . .OH . . . the Wall Speech . . . one of the early KITTEH HALPS! posts.

My disadvantages didn't end up coming up mechanically but damn if I didn't lean hard into them being part of Ichitaiyo's narrative and description. Part of me wishes that somebody had taken the time to bully Ichitaiyo for being a Black Sheep.

Kitsuki Ichitaiyo wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 2:48 pm My disadvantages didn't end up coming up mechanically but damn if I didn't lean hard into them being part of Ichitaiyo's narrative and description. Part of me wishes that somebody had taken the time to bully Ichitaiyo for being a Black Sheep.

If I had brought someone other than Sunshine-and-Rainbows-Kanna, I might have.