General World of Darkness Discussion Thread QQ Edition

[kamenhero25]

Paradox put Lasombra and Toreador behind a day one paywall

Bastards

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Day One DLC is a fucking cancer. I'm surprised they didn't put Malkavian there too if they were going to be deliberately slicing off popular clans.

 

[shadowdice]

Day One DLC is a fucking cancer. I'm surprised they didn't put Malkavian there too if they were going to be deliberately slicing off popular clans.

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that would require writing the amount of dialogue necessary for it to be considered a malkavian play through. Which would be more effort. Surprised they went to the trouble of making the oblivion discipline In Game. You have sections playing as Fabien who is a malkavian who at least believes he is a detective so they might have programmed Dementation or just reskinned dominate.

 

[Rakdos92]

So, is the pc still an antedivullian or did they change that too?

 

[shadowdice]

So, is the pc still an antedivullian or did they change that too?

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Elder but a dumbass one as the playthroughs I saw had the elder tell the prince's sire that has their hand up the prince's hand they were weakened in an auto cutscene

The thing no elder should ever do

 

[Gereh]

Elder but a dumbass one as the playthroughs I saw had the elder tell the prince's sire that has their hand up the prince's hand they were weakened in an auto cutscene

The thing no elder should ever do

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Unless:

They want to provoke the prince into taking action.
But the Prince will also suspect that.
Which the Elder planned for so the Prince is more cautious.
But the Prince of course already suspect that too.
Which was all part of the Elders plan.
But the Prince isn't stupid so he knows something is up, so he leaks the information to the radical part of the Anarchs about an weakened Elder, so they can test if he is weakened or not.
Elder barely survives, so now everyone knows "oh he is really weakened" so both the prince as well as the Anarchs are now gunning to take him down.

But it was all all ploy and he got both of the to take the bait, he and his allies take them out, now the prince is weakened and the Anarch are in shambles which allows the Elder and his allies to take over the city. The End

 

[Rakdos92]

Unless:

They want to provoke the prince into taking action.
But the Prince will also suspect that.
Which the Elder planned for so the Prince is more cautious.
But the Prince of course already suspect that too.
Which was all part of the Elders plan.
But the Prince isn't stupid so he knows something is up, so he leaks the information to the radical part of the Anarchs about an weakened Elder, so they can test if he is weakened or not.
Elder barely survives, so now everyone knows "oh he is really weakened" so both the prince as well as the Anarchs are now gunning to take him down.

But it was all all ploy and he got both of the to take the bait, he and his allies take them out, now the prince is weakened and the Anarch are in shambles which allows the Elder and his allies to take over the city. The End

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That's the 4D Chess-slash-Risk planning I'd expect from an Elder. Hey, you could even lean into the "weakened" angle by including a supermode where he just uses his powers before theatrically playing up how this drained him and he's left even weaker and- (c'mon, you welps! Take the bait!)

 

[heralding_bubble]

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stealing this for my next WoD campaign

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>Drone: The Tireless.

>Customer service jobs being literally soul draining instead of just metaphorically.
>Jiangshi drones form due to every receipt they hand out being a writ with hidden corporate fineprint runes that siphon life force.
>Eventually the wagie keels over and is reanimated as a Jiangshi.
>There is barely any difference to be noticed.
>Need to manage two resources, Will to Live & Malice.
>Will to Live needs to be built up and maintained (Or drained from others) if it hits zero you become one of The Severed and lose control of the character.

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View: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/_vbTturQW1Q

>High Will to Live is the fabled work-life balance.
>Malice helps you disobey your Middle Manager and grants other offensive options.
>It accumulates when you drain Will to Live from others and drains through actions such as therapy, combat or medication, accumulate too much and you enter the crash-out state.
>The crash-out state has the character behave in an erratic and self-destructive way to drain Malice back to a set level.

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View: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/dmgQ4lI04JA

>Other drone types include:
>The Caged (Warehouse employees, cybernetically fused to machinery.)
>Mannequins (Usually clothing/fashion shops. Start having their features smoothed over.)
>The Mascots (Actors, performers, clowns, etc. Bodily distorted to better match their role)
>The Idols (Idol culture. Shoujo manga distortions appear arround them, rose petals, sparkles, etc.)
>The Clankers (Difficult to tell if they were once IT workers or actual AI possessing bodies after mistreatment. Perhaps both origins are valid.)

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Vibrance as the stat name instead of 'Will to Live'.

Set it up to be a need to enjoy basic life ammenities to refill Vibrance, and hedonistic pleasure refills it fast but damages Malice because you've gotten too cozy to push for freedom.

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Ooh, I like that and the idea of requiring Malice to make the push for freedom even if you generally don't want to hit the Crash-out state too often. Got to time it right in-story.

Like, a low Vibrancy Crash-out is depressing and dangerous to the self.

But at High Vibrancy, Crashing out is a potent but risky tool in the attempt to reclaim your personhood and independence.
A spark of defiant wrath to burn the chains that bind the player character and face the future with tempered resolve and reignited hope.

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If you keep going I will make a cyoa out of this.

I don't know if that is a threat or a promise, but the premise intrigues me.

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I just like the idea of rebelling against the genre of the setting.

Here you are, ignorant of much of the darkness of the world, crushed under the wheels of industry, society, time, the plots of millenia old creatures of darkness and the very genre of the world you find yourself in.

The lowest point. Merely a civilian that has lost your spark of humanity to the ceaseless night.

Find Hope amidst Despair.
A Dream, like a thorn, sticking up and drawing blood from the wheels and boots of the reality that seeks to crush you underfoot.
Burn this World of Darkness to the ground.
Light Up The Night.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gkLvpt9Z3fA

...we might be a bit off topic by now though, so I'll have to stop.
This thread does have the habit of occasionally sprouting some pretty great ideas though.

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Malice is born from enduring terrible shit like people who insist on returns without any receipts or proof of purchase, being forced to deal with someone that is clearly high out of their minds, theft, putting their child's bare feet on the table, and higher ups doing absurd shit that make it harder for everyone else at the workplace along with random shit that makes it feel like God hates you

Sadly these events also drain will to live

Customer: What is that cracking sound

Server: that is the random homeless people who are cracking whips outside

Customer:…where did they get the whips

Server: they make them

Too much malice leads to fights in the Waffle House and such which gets you at malice 0 and wounds depending upon your rolls

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Don't mind me, just doing an archival from the Funny Pic thread.

 

[NoFunposter]

Don't mind me, just doing an archival from the Funny Pic thread.

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Thank you, here is some more from the Jumpchain thread.

>The other supernatural factions warning fledglings not to go outside after the Black Friday sales finish up.
>Especially not near any Waffle Houses.
>Just customer service Drones venting Malice enmass in such quantities that the world visibly distorts these locations into an eclipse.

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>It's basically an annual brawl/get together/riot.
>Their managers cannot stop it from happening, firstly because of the sheer Malice build-up making their orders ineffective and secondly because it'd put a target on their back and might give the masses an idea to work together to display their displeasure in a more directed manner.

>It's a modern Hyakki Yagyō for the Jiangshi drones.
>The other drone types likely have their own annual event where they come together as a community and vent.

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Also, on the shared themes of Drones.

They're all non-living.
Not dead or undead, but rather not alive.

And as Vibrancy drops it becomes clearer and clearer that they're becoming modern cryptids, until Vibrance hits zero and they become Severed.

Spoiler: Jiangshi (Customer service)

Jiangshi Drones: They look pallid, tired or unwell to start with, but become more and more ghoulish/corpse-like as Vibrance drops.

Jiangshi Severed (Zombies): Basically a zombie at this point, incapable of speech or fine motor control they simply clock in and out. Incapable of even the minimum self-care they inevitably rot and wear down till they cease being capable of movement.

Spoiler: Caged (Warehouse/Factory)

Caged Drones: It starts with some sort of prosthetic, perhaps the result of a workplace injury, but as Vibrance drops more and more of the body is replaced until...

Caged Severed (RoboCop Borgs): Completely mechanical they resemble automated factory equipment more than people now, the Borg never even returns home, they are company property and will work 24/7 until they inevitably break down and get replaced.

Spoiler: Mannequins (Fashion stores and models)

Mannequin Drones: Become more and more plastic as Vibrance drops, their features starting glossy and fake but slowly getting smoothed over, lessened until their identifying features disappear entirely.

Mannequin Severed (Dummys): Typically featureless and often missing limbs, Dummys lack any semblance of life and remain motionless unless commanded to move. And when they move, they move as one entity.

Spoiler: Mascots (Actors, Clowns and Mascots)

Mascot Drones: The mascot drone varies the most in appearance, from permanent make-up to costumes and mascot suits they resemble the characters they play.
As Vibrance drops it becomes harder and harder to drop the act, remove or alter the costume, physical features distorting to better match the role.

Mascot Severed (Masks): Like the Mascots, the Masks are the most varied severed and the least likely to be controllable by managers, fully consumed by their role they fully believe they are the character they play and behave as such. This escape into delusion ends with tragedy however, the Mask will inevitably, and literally, break as it encounters scenarios beyond this limited worldview.

Spoiler: Idols (Idols, Vtubers, Influencers)

Idols: Being in the public eye more than any other Drone means the idols are the most adept at hiding their affliction, the loss of vibrance displays itself as temporary sparkles and out of place showers of petals and other such eye catching events, but internally the idol is hollowing out and losing weight.

Idol Severed (Marketable Plush Dolls): The Idol Severed have become what their managers made them to sell, a product. Lifeless dolls of stuffing, porcelain or other materials.

Spoiler: Clankers (IT, abused AI, unlucky Hikki-NEETs)

Clanker Drones: Clankers are often the most socially isolated of Drones and as such their tells are more extreme than others. The skin of a Clanker is tight, even at high vibrance, as it begins to drop metal, screens and robotic features tear through, the very epitome of a Drone, the form is visually human but the substance is purely mechanical.

Clanker Severed (Bots): The human form is no longer present, neither is the capability for movement. The Bot is reduced to a shape, more accurately, a server. They are at this point, quite literally an automated bot farm in every way.

If the Caged and Clanker seem similar it's by design, one is a workforce being replaced by automation while being treated as just as disposable, the other is a workforce being replaced by AI and often socially isolated/verbally abused.

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[Skitzyfrenic]

lmao

Good shit maynard.

 

[gadrial]

Lol, my thought was that using a MCDONALD'S receipt to make a jiangshi was something for Mage since that is the exact kind of goofy that you'd want for it. like it would mostly be used by Pentex aligned mages, with o Tully's receipts being used, but other mages could use non Pentex receipts if the store/restaurant/whatever was popular enough

 

[LeftWaiting]

Lol, my thought was that using a MCDONALD'S receipt to make a jiangshi was something for Mage since that is the exact kind of goofy that you'd want for it. like it would mostly be used by Pentex aligned mages, with o Tully's receipts being used, but other mages could use non Pentex receipts if the store/restaurant/whatever was popular enough

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Reminding me of Unkown Armies and That Which Shall Not Be Named.
I wonder how Pentex would measure up against Mak Attax and their diabolical plan.

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No, I'm actually dead serious, that isn't a joke.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/345726/break-today-unknown-armies-2e

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/345727/to-go-unknown-armies-2e

Upsize your soul one fast food burger at a time with the bizarre occult conspiracy known as Mak Attax. These mystically aligned restaurants serve up magical enlightenment along with their value meals. Either they're complete losers or the most dangerous threat the world has ever faced.
Learn more about the Maks' real nutritional value in this Unknown Armies second edition supplement. Inside, you'll find detailed background information, GMCs, artifacts, rituals, new archetypes, four new magick schools (anagram gematria, plutophagy, herpemancy, and geomancy), rules for familiars, and scenario hooks). Also coupons for a free combo meal.

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For a decade, the occult conspiracy known as Mak Attax has been charging America's magickal batteries, one fast food combo at a time. Now their plan is coming to a head, and the great kundalini serpent winds its way across the landscape.

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[Konradleijon]

I wonder what would happen if a Beast: the Primordial Beast found themselves in the Magnus Archive universe? Would everyone they feed have them slowly became a avatar to what ever Entity matches their Horror.

 

[Ragura]

Beast: the Primordial would make for an interesting Persona crossover.