Lots of things piling up, I can't point out one specific problem. End result was me losing interest in this franchise. It just didn't feel worth it and enjoyable to engage in this stuff anymore.
Maybe they can bind mortals to Oaths and grants them some powers?
I would say "fuck those people, it's called fanfic for a reason", but if you really worry that much about, maybe try to look on stuff from a different angle, because how much fluff you have to interpret mostly depends on what kind of story you are trying to tell. If you write a story that is more focused one character development and is shown from the chraracters point of view, it's okay to just don't explain stuff or have them come to conclusions, that may or may not wrong, as in presenting something not as "that the way it is" but as "that how character X things it may be, but they aren't really sure themself".
What kind of contest are we talking about? Because Fight to the Death is a bit strange, because (from my limited understanding) I'm not sure either of then can "die" (at least in a traditional way).
Make your story from the PoV of a Vampire childe being sent as a (completely expendable) diplomat to the local Fae court.
Make your story from the PoV of a Vampire childe being sent as a (completely expendable) diplomat to the local Fae court.
A long time ago, I ran a VtM game. I had the players, all Bruha childe, go pick up another young vampire from his home. When they got there, they found a Unselie Sidne in command of some Redcaps chowing down on their mission and his family for the crime of being in their territory. After fleeing (and only losing 2 characters), their Elders decided they needed representatives in the Fae court and sent the players. As a ST, it was fun as hell. I just always had to remember to filter all the lore through what the Changelings wanted the Vampires to see. Something made funnier when one of the players, who was probably the only one who had no idea about CtD lore chose a Pooka as his primary source of information.
If I not misremember stuff the God-machine is unable to directly interact with the world and as such I'm not sure if there is anyway to harm it directly. So the on!y way it can act is via it's matrices, so I guess the one way to defeat it is make sure it can't create any more by killing all and everyone that is able to help finish them. Which more of less comes down to wipe out all live. So is Tiamat able to wipe out all live before the God-machine is able to stop it? So depends on the world, how long can the inhabitants survive against Tiamat? Because giving enough time I' m unsure of the God-machine can be beaten, everytime (I'm aware of) we see it "lose" are more short term setbacks and/or it being like, "Nah, I will not tuck with that right now, will wait for a better moment to do it" (P.s. sorry for horrible editing, I'm on the phone and the site is fighting me all the way while typing it)
What did you actually mean here?
Like I said, I have no experience with nWoD. Since the 2 books I have in the nWoD both call it that, I assumed that CofD was the abbriviation for the new Changeling game.
The whole argument is a bit stupid, as the God-Machine isn't really an "On-Screen" Actor, it's an entity who manipulates stuff in the background, so it strength in a direct conflict comes from how powerful his agents are and Tiamat seems to be a very active Actor whose strength comes from it's own immerse power. So it's comparing two very different type Actors.
Honestly I may be biased because I really like CofD a lot more or it may be my limited understanding of Fate, but shouldn't "Fate Arcana" Archmages be a hard counter to anything from Fate, as say can manipulate key concepts of a being and as such freely manipulate opponents Saint Graph.
That sounds like the new plot they will come up for Mage 5th Edition