Surely one of the most takes of all times.

A blood choke also lasts like, 7 seconds. I knew a guy in highschool who used to do it to himself as a party trick.

Removed link to pirate content. I feel you but please don’t do stuff that will get our site host in legal trouble.

For sure. Or just chat with them outside of the session some time

Yeah I mean, basically anything can work with the right campaign, players, characters, etc. But my opinion doesn’t matter; your player’s opinions are the ones that do.

I’ll also add that the element of surprise is overrated. You think it will be cool when the player discovers this effect at a dramatic moment but it is far, FAR more likely that they never discover it at all. Or they only discover it after it’s been frustratingly negating everything they’ve tried to do so far. Or that they discover the curse at an un-dramatic moment and make the rational decision to just never trigger it again. That’s why I say it’s much better to tell the players ahead of time and set the expectation that being cursed will be a major part of their story; then they can DECIDE to have their character “accidentally” trigger the curse at a dramatic moment or what have you. You won’t have to tell the player “you’re compelled to yell now” they’ll automatically go “GOD I just feel like YELLING right now FOR SOME REASON!” and feel good about playing their character instead of feeling bad that you’re taking over their character.

With something more than an incidental curse, you really need player buy-in. I recommend meeting with each player, telling them you’d like to give them a cursed item that will be a major part of their character’s arc throughout the story, and the broad strokes of what you have in mind for their particular curse. Then, be receptive to feedback on that. Good players will recognize that this is a roleplay opportunity for them and try to fit it into the arc they had in mind for their character, but they may want the details tweaked to fit their particular narrative goals…eg to make the curse an ironic reflection of their flaws or a nod to their backstory or whatever. I recommend you try to approach this premise with a collaborative mindset.

Once in my early days, I ran a game where the players were all werewolves. I was reading a lot of GRM at the time and it was very edgy and I tried to give them a moral quandary: an injured baby. Do they curse the child with lycanthropy to save it?

That’s when the players hauled out the cursed healing potion from 15 sessions ago they’d been hauling around this whole time :/

It wasn’t sporting, it foreshadows

The temptation to just post the address of a certain bar and a time is nearly overwhelming

TNG infamously had an episode about an asshole captain who, among other things, made arbitrary and annoying changes to the scheduling system. Did you feel the same way about it then? It just seems to me that bureaucratic and management difficulties are a totally plausible problem to deal with in starfleet.

This is good advice but I will add that putting a timer on player’s turns is also itself a bit of a problem…it comes off as infantalizing.

People razz nasa about the tampons but then if you ask them what a reasonable number is they won’t give you a number

That’s not really how bots work. It would have to be coded to actually read and reply to your responses

By our standards it’s just a regular bathtub

In a world where any doctor can make the whole bridge crew into Klingons in an afternoon, outpatient, there’s no reason I can’t become my fursona.

Janeway would ABSOLUTELY release weaponized smallpox to get coffee.

Yeah we made a machine that burns a million miles of rainforest and drains a lake of drinking water every time you use it, and we’re forcing everyone to use it, but you’re the wasteful one for saying slightly more to it.

Rookie mistake.

“Computer, Anime Waifus, Hot.”

Ooh, this looks neat. I don’t think I’d use it for spurious notes but it might be a good replacement place to do the making-it-good part

You can use Google Forms to get the RSVP functionality you’re looking for. And maybe a dedicated Discord channel with suitable posting restrictions so it’s JUST DMs posting such forms? Or you could even have them DM you their pitches and you post them, such that you can make the channel so only you can post. I also like using this tool for scheduling: https://www.when2meet.com/