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General World of Darkness Discussion Thread QQ Edition

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Liked the new episode, like most of them will probably have to watch it a few times to see all the details.
 
Commander72 said:
Liked the new episode, like most of them will probably have to watch it a few times to see all the details.
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The most important details I've gleamed by listening to it once:

- Matilda is honestly more of a Forsworn/Ronin then an actual Red Talon
- Su Su is an Arachnid (Spider born) Ananasi who is most likely a Pilcare/Tenere Viskr (Weaver aligned Mystic Ananasi)
- Pyotr and company might return, no idea if through Wraith bullshit, Baali bullshit or necromancy bullshit.
- Mike Dragon's Wrath might get more involved if the Werewolf plushies sell more then the old Big D and Kevin plushies
- If Matilda wasn't so close to Harano/had higher empathy for Homid then Amanda maybe could have seduced her. Either way we will probably see far more Yuri fan art of those two.
- And werewolves still remain werewolves because they judged Fatigue not by his deeds but by the actions of his lineage.
 
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Was recently watching a Mage: The Awakening actual play, and holy shit are mages powerful if they want to be, and they're not even that high level.

They were going to fight a whole gang of evil werewolves with the help of other werewolves (both from Forsaken).
In the first encounter with the evil werewolves one mage switched gravity 90% for the werewolves for 6 seconds (letting them run away instantly before any of them took any hit at all).

Then they use a spell to track one of the Predator Kings to their hideout, used scrying to get a hint how many there would be, and locate the Alpha of the gang.
Then they simply went back to their sanctum/appartment, and used the fact that they'd seen the Alpha through their scry to then scry on the Alpha, and used mana to let all of the mages see through it and CAST SPELLS THROUGH THE SCRYING WINDOW!
This let them put a whole bunch of curses and debuffs on the Alpha without them even noticing that it was going on.

These debuffs included things like:
  • Every time the Alpha damaged someone else, they would take that the same amount of damage.
  • Every time the Alpha takes damage he would take 7 additional damage (and yes those stacked, they discussed it).
  • A social isolation debuff that makes the Alpha not want to be around others as much, or have others not want to be around him as much (I don't remember which it was exactly, or maybe if they're both at once).
  • And another debuff that makes him communicating with others harder, so he can't call for help or strategize easily.
These curses last for something like a whole week, and they've obviously been buffing themselves to the gills too and gotten silver bullets and guns to fire them for all of them.

There's basically a war between two Uratha tribes, and the outcome of the war was basically already decided before the battle began, just because 4 lower-mid level mages got involved.
 
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As a thing when it comes to VTM and the blush of life, I feel like the mechanic is underused as a storytelling device

Not getting nourishment and all of that always made sense but I always felt that the blush of life should come with the ability to truly enjoy the sensations for as long as it is active. It taking more blood to pull off the lower your humanity is however works to Add to the idea of a vampire as a life consuming monster because it allows for a vampire that craves human sensation and might leave a trail of bodies behind them to fulfill that even as they spiral down to 0 humanity.
 
Considering the recent episode and it's time jumping. Not to mention Matilda being shown within the Umbra. Assuming she can casually travel and thus bypass the lockdown(which is a magical institution but I don't know how defended it is against Umbra-based-travel).

What are the chances that one "Joke" spoiler of Fatigue randomly exploding was less of a "joke" but actually a response to something(his family's sin, parasitic spirit, whatever the correct terminology is) soul-bound to himself getting killed by Matilda and Friends and thus lashing back to him exploding?
 
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Bommel said:
Was recently watching a Mage: The Awakening actual play, and holy shit are mages powerful if they want to be, and they're not even that high level.
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All Mages get some incredibly potent abilities basically immediately. This post does a fairly good job of explaining what one, two and three dots in any given arcana lets you do, and they basically all open up all sorts of options. Acanthus are arguably the most universally applicable, as "Be lucky" is basically never useless, with the Thrysus ability to coax spirits only being somewhat less versatile as a dice adder. Now, most Mages won't be specialized in more than a few areas, but a group of a couple working together have a phenomenal ability to solve problems.

And yeah, it's pretty trivial for Mages to get long lasting magic going, especially if they have setup time. Hell, Time 3 + Life 3 is sufficient for literal immortality, though that's frowned upon in polite Mage society.
 
So I couldn't find any hints of walkbacks on v6 aside from "We hear the fans concerns" type so is it likely to come out largely the same as the playtest?
Humanity and dramacoins and all?
 
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Was recently watching a Mage: The Awakening actual play, and holy shit are mages powerful if they want to be, and they're not even that high level.
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There's a reason why the usual advice for Chronicles of Darkness crossover games is 'NO MAGES!'. They can and will snap the entire game over their knees if given half the chance.
 
Noctum said:
There's a reason why the usual advice for Chronicles of Darkness crossover games is 'NO MAGES!'. They can and will snap the entire game over their knees if given half the chance.
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Or on the other hand, they might break the game by dying way too fast, cause physically they are still one-hundred percent human.
So killing them in the first combat with the first hit thrown of the story is a good way to piss off the player not getting any fun compaired to the others (had something similar happen to me in D&D at lv1 once, barely got to play 15 minutes out of a 3 hour game).
 
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Or on the other hand, they might break the game by dying way too fast, cause physically they are still one-hundred percent human.
So killing them in the first combat with the first hit thrown of the story is a good way to piss off the player not getting any fun compaired to the others (had something similar happen to me in D&D at lv1 once, barely got to play 15 minutes out of a 3 hour game).
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No, as someone who knows both Mage systems. No, that "they are physical human" is lie, has been a lie, and will always be a lie.
 
Something I have thought of often is that during the Roman era there were definitely vampires that ran gladiator training houses (and is honestly a place where I'd expect a Ventrue equivalent to revenants to pop up)

Dimachaerus (two swords) style for showy gladiators would likely be the type to have developed celerity

Neonates expecting the ancient Roman vampire to have an evil plan but no he is just incredibly into ghoul fight club and has multiple sport franchises

Ventrue Methuselah: Every hockey match is a wonder and I am always happy when there is a major sporting event. One would think a Brujah was trying to make the people riot.
 
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Something I have thought of often is that during the Roman era there were definitely vampires that ran gladiator training houses (and is honestly a place where I'd expect a Ventrue equivalent to revenants to pop up)

Dimachaerus (two swords) style for showy gladiators would likely be the type to have developed celerity

Neonates expecting the ancient Roman vampire to have an evil plan but no he is just incredibly into ghoul fight club and has multiple sport franchises

Ventrue Methuselah: Every hockey match is a wonder and I am always happy when there is a major sporting event. One would think a Brujah was trying to make the people riot.
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He'd probably love the literal actual wars that have broken out over soccer games then. That, or depending on his views on sportsmanship, absolutely loath them.
 
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He'd probably love the literal actual wars that have broken out over soccer games then. That, or depending on his views on sportsmanship, absolutely loath them.
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Ventrue: *lovingly reminiscing over the Nika riots where constantinople was half burned to the ground over a chariot game*
 
While trying to write a WoD story I finally managed create a framework for "how the fuck do you justify all the different narratives, interpratations and such" since I want to work with multiple splats.

I remembered that WoD vs Exalted is a thing, and while I know shit about that setting I know about the other reality warping setting that came from White Wolf and Onyx Path Publishing.

Scion

The various pantheons being active and their whole reality warping shenanigans are a wonderfull tool to explain why some things are weird, contradictory and such.

So yeah I've been having fun trying to work out what fits where in a way that works.

Currently trying to figure out how the War of Rage will go down in a world where a good chunk of the gods might be on the side of the Fera (all the sacred animals, Huginn and Munnin etc.) while the dragons and titans might have been pro-werewolf.
 
Huh? I was wondering if we had a thread for World of Darkness here. I've played the video games and watched Hunter the Parenting...

So, I know very fucking little. But I will admit, I am somewhat inspired. Even wrote a couple of snippets.

I will admit I like Hunts a great deal. I think after Big-D she's my favorite character.

Really hoping the yuri is not doomed...

*Huffs copium.*
 
Rivan9000 said:
Huh? I was wondering if we had a thread for World of Darkness here. I've played the video games and watched Hunter the Parenting...
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Welcome.

We're a very dark cabal of dark people here. Several of us are even Elders!

Lots of complaining. Lots of turning our noses up.

Occasionally pure unadulterated awesome.

Welcome.
 
Rivan9000 said:
Huh? I was wondering if we had a thread for World of Darkness here. I've played the video games and watched Hunter the Parenting...

So, I know very fucking little. But I will admit, I am somewhat inspired. Even wrote a couple of snippets.

I will admit I like Hunts a great deal. I think after Big-D she's my favorite character.

Really hoping the yuri is not doomed...

*Huffs copium.*
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*looks at Red Talon*

*looks at the fact that the Garou are very shoot first ask questions never which is why the locals never learned about Fatigue having instead worked with werewolves*

It is probably doomed.
 
vighzs said:
While trying to write a WoD story I finally managed create a framework for "how the fuck do you justify all the different narratives, interpratations and such" since I want to work with multiple splats.
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Demon: The Fallen explains it fairly well, although IIRC most people dislike the explanation.
TLDR IIRC the world used to make sense, then Literally God threw a temper tantrum and kicked time until it cracked and shattered, and now we have a Multiple Choice Past with mutually contradictory choices where the correct answer is "all of the above".
 
Skitzyfrenic said:
Welcome.

We're a very dark cabal of dark people here. Several of us are even Elders!

Lots of complaining. Lots of turning our noses up.

Occasionally pure unadulterated awesome.

Welcome.
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Thanks! I know I'm coming into the whole thing from a place of ignorance but it really is a fascinating setting. I'll try not to say anything too dumb.

I mean, I'll fail but I'll definitely make an effort.
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It is probably doomed.
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*Copium intensifies!*
 
Sol Hammer said:
If you're interested, I recommend this little gem of a WoD story - Ocean City Nights - featuring one of the most adorable vampires out there, no matter what Skitzy's feral screechings of denial say otherwise. :D
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Read the first few lines.

That was not the Beast.... that was 1000% human reaction. In fact the MC should get a humanity point for not chucking the baby out the window. /jk
 
Sol Hammer said:
If you're interested, I recommend this little gem of a WoD story - Ocean City Nights - featuring one of the most adorable vampires out there, no matter what Skitzy's feral screechings of denial say otherwise. :D
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TOTAL BAALI DEATH!

Kill Baali, behead Baali, roundhouse kick Baali into the concrete, slam dunk a Baali baby into the trash can, crucify filthy Baali, defecate into Baali food, launch Baali into the sun, stir fry Baali in a wok, toss Baali into active volcanoes, urinate into Baali's gas tank, Judo throw Baali into a wood chipper, twist Baali heads off, report Baali to the IRS, karate chop Baali in half, curb stomp pregnant Baali (because they're pregnant with insects), trap Baali in quicksand, Crush Baali in the trash compactor, liquify Baali in a vat of acid, eat Baali, dissect Baali, exterminate Baali in the gas chamber, stomp Baali skulls with steel-toed boots, cremate Baali in the oven, lobotomize Baali, drown Baali in fried chicken grease, vaporize Baali with a raygun, kick old Baali down the stairs, feed Baali to alligators, slice Baali with a katana.

ALL OF THEM!

Infernalists get the sun.

(She's adorable. Ocean City Nights is indeed good stuff.)
 
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