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** A vampire with high Potence was wielding a OneHandedZweihander and getting all kinda of lucky dice rolls, both in saving throws ''and'' attack rolls, and was one more lucky roll away from killing a PC. So what does Joy Livingstone do? Use Matter and Forces to make the damned thing exactly as heavy as it looked, causing the vampire to drop it even ''with'' Potence. He was dust the very next turn.
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* CuttingTheKnot: [=STs=] in this game oppose {{railroading}} on principle, meaning this is an entirely valid tactic for players clever enough to figure out a way to do it. Some examples:
** A group of extremist KnightTemplar Hunters took an old Cold War era fallout shelter and converted it into a heavily-boobytrapped fortress, hoping to lure the [=PCs=] into a death trap where the Hunters would stage their LastStand. The [=PCs=] instead planted demolition charges in the main entrance tunnel and warded the exterior (meaning they couldn't escape via magical means or even radio for help), leaving the Hunters inside to slowly starve to death once their supplies inevitably ran out.
** In a similar manner, a group of renegade Mages had holed up inside a building that the [=PCs=] were ''sure'' was boobytrapped. While the other [=PCs=] were arguing amongst themselves how to attempt to disable the traps remotely with magick, the [[EnemyMine Technocrat]] present stomped right passed them and fired a single canister of totally-mundane CS gas through a window. The Mages were outside surrendering while violently coughing less than a minute later.
--->'''Jim Mathers''': "And you wonder why you're losing the Ascension War."
** A group of extremist KnightTemplar Hunters took an old Cold War era fallout shelter and converted it into a heavily-boobytrapped fortress, hoping to lure the [=PCs=] into a death trap where the Hunters would stage their LastStand. The [=PCs=] instead planted demolition charges in the main entrance tunnel and warded the exterior (meaning they couldn't escape via magical means or even radio for help), leaving the Hunters inside to slowly starve to death once their supplies inevitably ran out.
** In a similar manner, a group of renegade Mages had holed up inside a building that the [=PCs=] were ''sure'' was boobytrapped. While the other [=PCs=] were arguing amongst themselves how to attempt to disable the traps remotely with magick, the [[EnemyMine Technocrat]] present stomped right passed them and fired a single canister of totally-mundane CS gas through a window. The Mages were outside surrendering while violently coughing less than a minute later.
--->'''Jim Mathers''': "And you wonder why you're losing the Ascension War."
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* ShoutOut: Several. Characters regularly make references to everything from ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' to ''Series/GameOfThrones''. When [[TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen Lucifer]] finally appeared, he was pretty blatantly, well, [[Series/Lucifer2016 Lucifer]].
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Several. Characters regularly make references to everything from ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' to ''Series/GameOfThrones''. When [[TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen Lucifer]] finally appeared, he was pretty blatantly, well, [[Series/Lucifer2016Lucifer]].Lucifer]].
** When the [[TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning Hunters]] needed help dealing with some rogue [[TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion Wraiths]], a type of supernatural they are ''not'' well-equipped to deal with, they came up with the idea of asking the [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Void Engineers]] for help. The ST of that scene titled the scene, "[[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Who You Gonna Call?]]"
** Several. Characters regularly make references to everything from ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' to ''Series/GameOfThrones''. When [[TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen Lucifer]] finally appeared, he was pretty blatantly, well, [[Series/Lucifer2016
** When the [[TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning Hunters]] needed help dealing with some rogue [[TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion Wraiths]], a type of supernatural they are ''not'' well-equipped to deal with, they came up with the idea of asking the [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Void Engineers]] for help. The ST of that scene titled the scene, "[[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Who You Gonna Call?]]"
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* WorldHalfFull: Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness is one of the most notorious examples of a CrapsackWorld in all of tabletop. It pretty much defined the GothicPunk subgenre. While it's still very much a CrapsackWorld here, Starke is a rare island in an endless sea of crap, but even those that live there question as to how long it can possibly last until the rest of the world takes notices and tries to throttle it in the crib.
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* WorldHalfFull: Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness is one of the most notorious examples of a CrapsackWorld in all of tabletop. It pretty much defined the GothicPunk subgenre. While it's still very much a CrapsackWorld here, Starke is a rare island in an endless sea of crap, but even those that live there question as to how long it can possibly last until the rest of the world takes notices and tries to throttle it in the crib.crib.
* XanatosGambit: How Pentex has boxed the Technocracy into a corner when it comes to the stalemate between them. They know the Syndicate can't run their usual playbook against them given that Pentex going bankrupt would bring a considerable portion of the global economy down with them, which in the long term means more suffering for the Masses and therefore more Banes. More direct action is out of the question as well, given that the vast majority of Pentex's employees are innocent members of the Masses who would inevitably be caught in the crossfire. Pentex can't win against them, but they don't have to, because they can't ''lose'', either.
* XanatosGambit: How Pentex has boxed the Technocracy into a corner when it comes to the stalemate between them. They know the Syndicate can't run their usual playbook against them given that Pentex going bankrupt would bring a considerable portion of the global economy down with them, which in the long term means more suffering for the Masses and therefore more Banes. More direct action is out of the question as well, given that the vast majority of Pentex's employees are innocent members of the Masses who would inevitably be caught in the crossfire. Pentex can't win against them, but they don't have to, because they can't ''lose'', either.
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* MutualDisadvantage: Sums up the state of the conflict between the Technocracy and Pentex. The latter knows that it can't win a straight fight against the former due to being massively outnumbered and outgunned, and waging economic warfare against a group counting the Syndicate as one of its main assets would be financial suicide. The former, however, is extremely reluctant to bring down the full force of its vast arsenal and financial assets against the latter due to the fact that Pentex has a nasty habit of using its employees — most of whom are [[{{Muggles}} average Joes]] just trying to earn a paycheck and have no idea what their bosses are ''really'' up to — as human shields, and considering that Pentex is the very definition of 'too big to fail,' it going belly-up financially would trigger a global economic recession if not a full-blown depression with Masses feeling the worst of it, and that's assuming it doesn't get just bailed out by the taxpayers. The result is a stalemate that only the player characters can break, meaning they have to decide if aiding the LesserOfTwoEvils is worth it.
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* MutualDisadvantage: Sums up the state of the conflict between the Technocracy and Pentex. The latter knows that it can't win a straight fight against the former due to being massively outnumbered and outgunned, and waging economic warfare against a group counting the Syndicate as one of its main assets would be financial suicide. The former, however, is extremely reluctant to bring down the full force of its vast arsenal and financial assets against the latter due to the fact that Pentex has a nasty habit of using its employees — most of whom are [[{{Muggles}} average Joes]] just trying to earn a paycheck and have no idea what their bosses are ''really'' up to — as human shields, and considering that Pentex is the very definition of 'too big to fail,' it going belly-up financially would trigger a global economic recession if not a full-blown depression with the Masses feeling the worst of it, and that's assuming it doesn't get just bailed out by the taxpayers. The result is a stalemate that only the player characters can break, meaning they have to decide if aiding the LesserOfTwoEvils is worth it.
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* MutualDisadvantage: Sums up the state of the conflict between the Technocracy and Pentex. The latter knows that it can't win a straight fight against the former due to being massively outnumbered and outgunned, and waging economic warfare against a group counting the Syndicate as one of its main assets would be financial suicide. The former, however, is extremely reluctant to bring down the full force of its vast arsenal and financial assets against the latter due to the fact that Pentex has a nasty habit of using its employees — most of whom are [[{{Muggles}} average Joes]] just trying to earn a paycheck and have no idea what their bosses are ''really'' up to — as human shields, and considering that Pentex is the very definition of 'too big to fail,' it going belly-up financially would trigger a global economic recession if not a full-blown depression with Masses feeling the worst of it, and that's assuming it doesn't get just bailed out by the taxpayers. The result is a stalemate that only the player characters can break, meaning they have to decide if aiding the LesserOfTwoEvils is worth it.
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* NerdsAreNaive: Simon was noticeably apprehensive about changing into the VR system's synaptic bodysuit with TeenGenius Alissa watching during his first Seeking scene. Alissa, oblivious to ''why'' Simon didn't want to get half naked in front of her, instead surmises that it must be because that bodysuit was universally hated by Technocrats at the Symposium due to it being made from uncomfortably form-fitting FutureSpandex. She then assures him that she personally overhauled the VR system and it no longer ''needed'' the suit.
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** The 'Character Save Card' is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example. Once per character, if that character ''is'' going to die and there are no more saving throws left for the player to attempt, they may invoke their card to have the Storyteller pull a DeusExMachina to save them. Note, however, that this cannot be used if the character death was the result of being TooDumbToLive (i.e. purely the player's fault and not the fault of the dice), and it only saves them from ''death'': That character is still at the Storyteller's mercy, and could very well end up owing a life debt to an NPC or with a very nasty flaw, in a few notable cases pushing this into CruelMercy territory on the part of the Storyteller.
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* CanonWelding: Needs to be done sometimes as the books directly contradict each other often when not keeping to the same splat. [[UpToEleven And sometimes they do it in the same splat as well.]] [[FromBadToWorse And sometimes in the same sentence.]]
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* CanonWelding: Needs to be done sometimes as the books directly contradict each other often when not keeping to the same splat. [[UpToEleven And sometimes they do it in the same splat as well.]] well. [[FromBadToWorse And sometimes in the same sentence.]]
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** Also averted with the names 'William,' 'Daniel,' and 'Madeline.' Taken UpToEleven with the name 'Alex,' when there were 'three' different characters named Alex at once, two male and one female.
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** Also averted with the names 'William,' 'Daniel,' and 'Madeline.' Taken UpToEleven Exaggerated with the name 'Alex,' when there were 'three' different characters named Alex at once, two male and one female.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: ''Especially'' the {{NPC}}s.
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** Thoroughly averted with the Covid-19 outbreak. Given that several players and storytellers have had their lives negatively affected by the virus, storytellers immediately ruled out having any sort of plotline based on it, as it would have been [[DudeNotFunny in very poor taste]].
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** Thoroughly averted with the Covid-19 outbreak. Given that several players and storytellers have had their lives negatively affected by the virus, storytellers immediately ruled out having any sort of plotline based on it, as it would have been [[DudeNotFunny in very poor taste]].taste.
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* NoCampaignForTheWicked: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. While some character types, such as Nephandi, Black Spiral Dancers, and Spectres are banned due to being impossible to implement into this setting without the game turning into a PlayerVersusPlayer free-for-all, other 'evil' characters ''are'' playable, on the grounds that they can either easily blend in (Sabbat spies and the Baali do it all the time), or that they're only AmbiguouslyEvil or are {{Hero Antagonist}}s (Void Engineers, Waywards). Others are much ''less'' AmbiguouslyEvil, and the splat's [=STs=] are experimenting with allowing certain things to be playable (such Earthbound for ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'').
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* NoCampaignForTheWicked: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. While some Some character types, such as Nephandi, Black Spiral Dancers, and Spectres Baali are banned due to being impossible to implement into this setting without the game turning into a PlayerVersusPlayer free-for-all, other 'evil' characters ''are'' playable, free-for-all. The ones that aren’t banned are allowed on the grounds that they can either easily blend in (Sabbat spies and the Baali do it all the time), or that they're only AmbiguouslyEvil or are {{Hero Antagonist}}s (Void Engineers, Waywards). such as Technocrats and Waywards (though in their cases, they’re Limited, meaning only established players the [=STs=] trust will be allowed to play them). Others are much ''less'' AmbiguouslyEvil, and the splat's [=STs=] are experimenting with allowing certain things to be playable (such Earthbound for ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'').
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** In a similar vein, most Technocrats roll their eyes any time a Traditions Mage accuses them of being a power-hungry fascists, while others will point out that when the Traditions ruled the world, they [[{{Hypocrite}} were even worse]]. They do, however, tend to take offense whenever a Shapechanger of some flavor accuses them of being servants of the Weaver, as they find the idea of them being an UnwittingPawn to some [=EDE=] few of them have even heard of to be deeply insulting.
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** In a similar vein, most Technocrats roll their eyes any time a Traditions Mage accuses them of being a power-hungry fascists, while others will point out that when the Traditions ruled the world, they [[{{Hypocrite}} were even worse]]. They do, however, tend to take offense whenever a Shapechanger of some flavor accuses them of being servants of the Weaver, as they find the idea of them being an UnwittingPawn to some [=EDE=] few of them have even heard of to be deeply insulting.
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: A common reaction from Fallen to being compared to Fomori. They're not offended by being called evil spirits that possess human hosts, they're offended by the implication that they come from the Wyrm, when few Fallen have even ''heard'' of the Wyrm, and indeed actual Fomori have been known to attack Fallen as much as they attack anything else.
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne:
** A common reaction from Fallen to being compared to Fomori. They're not offended by being called evil spirits that possess human hosts, they're offended by the implication that they come from the Wyrm, when few Fallen have even ''heard'' of the Wyrm, and indeed actual Fomori have been known to attack Fallen as much as they attack anythingelse.else.
** In a similar vein, most Technocrats roll their eyes any time a Traditions Mage accuses them of being a power-hungry fascists, while others will point out that when the Traditions ruled the world, they [[{{Hypocrite}} were even worse]]. They do, however, tend to take offense whenever a Shapechanger of some flavor accuses them of being servants of the Weaver, as they find the idea of them being an UnwittingPawn to some [=EDE=] few of them have even heard of to be deeply insulting.
** A common reaction from Fallen to being compared to Fomori. They're not offended by being called evil spirits that possess human hosts, they're offended by the implication that they come from the Wyrm, when few Fallen have even ''heard'' of the Wyrm, and indeed actual Fomori have been known to attack Fallen as much as they attack anything
** In a similar vein, most Technocrats roll their eyes any time a Traditions Mage accuses them of being a power-hungry fascists, while others will point out that when the Traditions ruled the world, they [[{{Hypocrite}} were even worse]]. They do, however, tend to take offense whenever a Shapechanger of some flavor accuses them of being servants of the Weaver, as they find the idea of them being an UnwittingPawn to some [=EDE=] few of them have even heard of to be deeply insulting.
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* WhatTheHellPlayer: Certain [=STs=] have been known to use the Common Sense merit (assuming the character has it) to all but reach through the Fourth Wall and shake that character by the shoulders, especially when they’re about to do something that could get them killed or worse.
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* WhatTheHellPlayer: Certain [=STs=] have been known to use the Common Sense merit (assuming the character has it) to all but reach through the Fourth Wall and shake that character by the shoulders, especially when they’re about to do something that could get them killed shoulders either before or worse.after they make a questionable decision.
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I always forget about that…
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* WhatTheHellPlayer: Certain STs [=STs=] have been known to use the Common Sense merit (assuming a certain the character has it) to all but reach through the Fourth Wall and shake that character by the shoulders shoulders, especially when they’re about to make a huge mistake do something that could get them killed or worse.
