World of Darkness (New & Old) - General Discussion Thread

Werewolf came out about three days ago and is Obvious Beta. Typos everywhere and two of the pages are in the wrong order. They'll release the proper version in a few weeks. For free, if you bought the crap version.

It's not as skeevy at it sounds; the developer have picked up the Early Access idea from Steam after they realized how crap White Wolf's editing department is, as seen here. If you buy the book as it is now, you get to be a beta tester, the new pdf free when it updates, and a discount on the Print-on-Demand book, which is the fully errata'd version.

Oh hell yes. A World of Darkness thread.

Admittedly, I learned about Wo D through the Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines video game, but the RPG is superb. (Also, it's saddening that CCP has cancelled the Wo D MMO. ;_;)

I'm actually in the middle of (trying to and noobishly) ST'ing a Mage game that crosses over with God-Machine and its Angels. Lately there was an entire fight between the PC (who were only two then) against one angel. The Mages were fucked, but then a Demon actually went Loud and saved them. Our session ended there.

Anybody else got good ideas for crossover games? Because I have some other chaps who want to play Changelings and Vampires.

Question: How much would the balance be broken if I set a Mage game in a world without Paradox?

Ascension or Awakening?

Awakening.

You could always play up the canonically "Mmmaybe?" connection between the place Mages call Arcadia and the place Changelings call Arcadia?

From what I've heard that's going to be an explicit "no" in second edition, but trust the faeries to miss the memo.

So, I have this idea of setting a Mage The Awakening game in pre-revolutionary America.

How bad is this idea?

Depends. If you can do it well then good for you. There is a Steampunk adventure for Call Of Cthulhu after all and it was pretty good on its own way, thanks to the execution of course.

edited 9th Apr '15 11:03:47 AM by YoKab

I have a Vampire the Masquerade realated question: is it possible to use Command to order a character to "Die"?

No. "The subject cannot be ordered to do something directly harmful to herself, so a command like “die” is ineffective." - 20th Anniversary Edition.

Ditto "sleep" during combat or even social contexts where the character may feel sinecure about falling asleep.

edited 13th Apr '15 1:33:31 PM by Earnest

The Errata'd Werewolf: The Forsaken Second Edition is out now, by the way.

How bad of an idea would it be to give the main bad guy the Whispering Blade?

If you mean the Artifact Weapon of the same name (an Absurdly Sharp Blade with a collective of the dead its killed inhabiting it), it depends; does your bad guy personally kill people?

If not, do as you please. While it's crap as an actual killing weapon (the dead aren't fans of others suffering their same fate), it's excellent for large-scale property damage, nonlethal wounds, and if s/he's a necromancer, a potential source of minions.

Anybody here like the Dark Ages setting for Old World of Darkness?

Been a long while since I visited his thread.

Beast The Primordial is looking super interesting. I am hyped. Myself and my other Story Tellers of our shared setting are figuring out how it's going to slot into our every-splat setting.

On the topic from two pages ago. My players we're interested in doing stuff with the moon because they were convinced there was something supernatural and massive living there. We ended up creating a logarithmic equation for Size and discovered the Moon was Size 128.

They never did anything with this fact.

Beast looks neat, yeah. Especially once I realized that Hunger for the Hoard could be satisfied by becoming a Phantom Thief using ones primal nightmare powers.

Saw the preview for Changeling 2E Kiths today, and the new thing where any Seeming can have any Kith is pretty dope. You can have a Levinquick Darkling or a Truefriend Fairest if that's what your little heart desires. Also, The Greys look like a fun Kith.

I'm pretty sure most of the big supernatural things on the moon hitch-hiked back to earth in the late 60's.

Since it's been a while I figured a new post was in order.

Random thought: Do you think at size 2 a strix is big enough to spread itself over a car windshield and cause a pile-up?

What even is a strix?

Shadowy owl demon vampire thing.

Maybe, maybe not. It does have ever so many feathers it might shed that can intangibly phase into the car cabin to obstruct visibility though. All of which dissipate post crash except for the tantalizingly out of place one that the coroner finds in the victim's lungs.

On Changeling: Me, I like the new paradigm for Seemings, in that they're less of a birth splat and more of a Prestige Class you picked up before the game began; they're how you broke free of the True Fae's influence (also, it should be noted that many Loyalists, having been let go under their Keeper's influence, do not have Seemings).

The Fairest...are a bit of a confusing one, I'll admit (all the Seemings are themed after personality traits an abuse survivor picks up, and Fairest are martyr complexes-with the added trait that everyone thinks they're natural leaders, which can be a bit restrictive for all involved if they actually are). But that's why we have Open Development, the writers have stated they're rewriting them a bit.