Fan Made World of Darkness Gamelines

I'll being playing Genius:The Transgression and fond it was made of awesome . Has there been any other fan made WOD games you have enjoyed playing?

edited 8th Dec '10 2:32:51 PM by joeyjojo

Genius is definitely the best one out there right now. You can find some other creation attempts in this thread.

If you want similar genius (sic!) ones hat are already finishedI think looking at official and oWoD books is your best bet (there are rules for psychics, demon-possessed, slasher killers and many others) or the oWoD conversions for now.

From the ones in the works, I think that Leviathan The Tempest is the one closest to completion. It may be a bit more depressing if Genius was your first. It's about playing sea creature/Chtulhu hybrids, dealing both with personal horror and loneliness.

If you enjoy body horror you can join us in an attempt to remake Pathogen: The Infected (transformation horror with survival horror strory influences) in this thread (this is a paid advertisement).

Genie The Binding had an interesting premise (beings of infinite power who have to place self-made limitations on themselves to retain a sense of right and wrong, and not become chaotic forces of nature), but it went back too much the classic perception on genies and less on the modern idea, which made it lose points in my eyes (Changeling having a better system for granting wishes than a game about genies is just...not right).

Princess The Hopeful is a yet-unfinished game where you play...anime Magical Girl s. It's surprisingly well made despite the silly premise.

edited 12th Dec '10 9:14:55 AM by Vree

I was going to mention ''Princess the Hopeful'', but I see it was already mentioned. There's actually two forks of it. One at the thread I mentioned, and another on the White Wolf forums.

edited 12th Dec '10 2:36:50 PM by Indalecio

you play a Magical Girl? Okkkkaayyy..... well I will check it out for the lols.

Has anyone ever tried working in spacemen? I could see something like 'Alien: The Invasion' working in the WOD setting in a 90s X-files conspiracy or 50s horror flick sort of way. You know kind of like X-Com.

edited 13th Dec '10 4:06:22 AM by joeyjojo

Aren't you looking for Tech Infantry, perchance?

There are other White Wolf published games (like Trinity's "Alien Encounter) that dabbled in this, but the Wo D setting is just too "goffic" to be able to bear outright sci-fi.

Yeah a straight Space Opera wouldn't work in WOD, but I can see a more nebulous vaguely Lovecraftian extraterrestrials fitting in. The trouble is that there is no Alien Archetype by definition.

What'd a good Lovecraftian/alien archetype look like?

I assume that doing it realistically is the best: no funny foreheads or humanoids in flying saucers, or even spaceships, but make them as different and incomprehensible as you can.

If Pathogen is ever brought under a roof, there's gonna be a splat group inspired by alien invasion stories, so I'm kind of curious what concept you'd have in mind. xD You could do the alien types like Changeling did ogres and goblins; with the actual aliens remaining Eldritch Abomination s.

PS, There was this write-up I saw for an Alien game with WoD rules, here, and some for oWoD here. It's not much, but it's the closest I have now...

edited 13th Dec '10 9:37:48 PM by Vree

What'd a good Lovecraftian/alien archetype look like?

edited 14th Dec '10 4:01:22 AM by joeyjojo

Oh I'll found this massive catalog of fan game lines, Homegrown: The Proliferation Fan-Created Supplements for The World of Darkness if you want a look.

edited 14th Dec '10 4:43:41 AM by joeyjojo

What'd a good Lovecraftian/alien archetype look like?

For reference: Mi-go, Elder Things, and the Great Race of Yith.

well their certainly are a 8.8 on the WTF meter.

By the way, Nemo Ramjet's All Tomorrows used the same "aliens are tranformed humans" idea that worked so well for Changeling. So maybe aliens in the Wo D isn't an unreasonable thought after all.

(Of course, if it's not a core book, then aliens as enemy supplements could use the "alien or demon" approach.)

Man that some seriously random sh... stuff.

One premise a was think about was doing was having Cthulhu Mythos aliens as enemies and taking the use of Consensually Reality and running with it.

Players take on the role of MIB like Hunters call Enforcers. People who have had close encounters with extraterrestrials and get the Call to take on the role of interdimensional border guards.

Their job is to deport Outsiders: beings of great power from other Worlds who while not malicious they are inherently Alien and corrupt the very fabric of reality by their presence. Unusual occurrences such as sudden drops in temperatures. bright lights in the sky, clocks stoping, animals spooked, phone lines dropping out, recurring geometric pattens appearing and lost hours are typical signs that they are near by.

The players role is not just to fight off aliens but to act as physical enforces for the Nature Order Of The Universe. If a good minded if misguided visitor came to a town and made death take a holiday, or gave everyone free money so that everyone could be rich. They are the ones who will have to do the thankless task of seeing to it that people die when they are killed and that the poor stay poor. Least reality starts collapsing.

edited 17th Dec '10 10:14:11 PM by joeyjojo

Personally I went to check Princess the Hopeful, and yeah, it's amazingly good considering its premise. In fact, it's one of my favourite supplements right now.

As for more, I would recommand Dragon: The Embers, which is about dragons as a metaphor for royalties dying out in a modern world. Finding the complete rulebook might be a bit difficult, but frankly it's worth to be checked.