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Soonmot posted:Has anyone run a play by post over discord? My normal group has been using facebook but every day zucc makes things more and more inconvenient. Enough of them are afraid of the forums old reputation to get accounts here, plus not having an automatic notification of a new post means they need to actively check a thread. So i'm trying discord and looking for tips on how to organize posts and make things readable.
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Soonmot posted:Has anyone run a play by post over discord? My normal group has been using facebook but every day zucc makes things more and more inconvenient. Enough of them are afraid of the forums old reputation to get accounts here, plus not having an automatic notification of a new post means they need to actively check a thread. So i'm trying discord and looking for tips on how to organize posts and make things readable. I’ve done it on Skype (and IRC) way back in the day. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work on discord. Posts will probably end up as paragraphs and not many paragraphs, but it does work fine.
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May 19, 2021 03:16
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There's a number of discord dice bots and you should use one. Definitely recommend splitting the dice into its own channel and restrict permissions on the bot. Discord lets you scale complexity as your group needs. Anything from one channel up to an entire city divided up into chat rooms. Even with a small group its neat to have separate channels for different city locations. You can sticky the modifiers or description at the top of the channel for each, you can organize them by neighborhood or controlling faction, and have different things happening around the city if the group is split up. There's some really big WoD discord servers out there that really give discord a workout. Stuff like this, a small portion of the setup for a prague V5 game: 
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May 19, 2021 03:44
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Thanks for all this, pals. Seems like I'm circling back to the 1990s playing vtm in rhydin by night on aol
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Dawgstar posted:As I can determine they're just that slot's power - Vicissitude is Protean 2's slot - but you also need Dominate 2 to be able to take it. This is correct.
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May 19, 2021 21:04
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Yep! And it's one of the things that makes the whole character creation/predator type and EXP system just that little bit more annoying to deal with.
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May 19, 2021 22:53
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Not gonna lie this all makes V5 sound even more terrible and half-assed.
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May 20, 2021 02:05
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ritorix posted:There's a number of discord dice bots and you should use one. Definitely recommend splitting the dice into its own channel and restrict permissions on the bot. This is very cool
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May 21, 2021 06:56
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https://twitter.com/VonAether/status/1396088454425976835 Aw. Good times.
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May 22, 2021 14:53
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No ring.
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May 23, 2021 00:15
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MonsieurChoc posted:Not gonna lie this all makes V5 sound even more terrible and half-assed. I ran a few sessions and liked it. I like Hunger as a replacement to blood points. The XP difference from optimizing chargen is a mechanical failure, but it's not such a wide difference that characters felt like they were at different levels. If anything it highlights a different problem; XP per the RAW is too stingy for anything other than very regular very long term play. And that's addressed easily enough with house ruling. I wouldn't dumpster the whole edition over it.
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May 23, 2021 07:48
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If a new and original splat for world of darkness was made (not a revival, remake, or reinterpretation of a previous one), what kind of thing would you want to see? I feel like at this point all of the general horror monster archetypes are accounted except for aliens and slashers (I know there are much more than that but those are the 2 that come to mind), but I feel like something interesting could be done with something insect-themed (like the film Mimic where giant bugs evolve that mimic humans and live underground) and it'd probably be hard to do properly but I'd like to see something where you're a representative of a moral. When I'd first heard about Beast before I heard of how awful it was, I thought it would be something like that where you'd be the incarnation of not necessarily a fairy tale but some kind of aesop or moral story and your existence is to continue to guard and protect the world by being given this singular moral you protect and draw power from. Someone had said that there was a type in changeling that did pretty much exactly that but I still think it's an idea that could stand well enough on its own as its own splat.
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May 23, 2021 08:04
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There's not a stand alone book for slashers, but the Hunter The Vigil supplement does the job pretty well.
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Tsilkani posted:There's not a stand alone book for slashers, but the Hunter The Vigil supplement does the job pretty well. Are they similar? I don't know anything about Hunter except "is a person who hunts other supernatural creatures"
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May 23, 2021 19:24
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FirstAidKite posted:Are they similar? I don't know anything about Hunter except "is a person who hunts other supernatural creatures"
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FirstAidKite posted:If a new and original splat for world of darkness was made (not a revival, remake, or reinterpretation of a previous one), what kind of thing would you want to see? Aliens. We had some UFO lore stuff in the nWoD but not even a blue book about alien horror, let alone a full splat.
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May 23, 2021 23:09
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Deviant kind of covers any idea I try to come up with that isn't already in another book. I suppose some kind of bound being like a Djynn? Though Blood bound vampires sort of deal with that, but A whole splat where you are stuck having to deal with some mortal who has you on the leash.
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May 23, 2021 23:14
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Skeleton the Rattling
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May 23, 2021 23:36
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FirstAidKite posted:Skeleton the Rattling https://twitter.com/dril/status/361282749086175234
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May 23, 2021 23:49
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FirstAidKite posted:Skeleton the Rattling Fuel stat is bones. Actual number of bones. The human body has around 200. Don't spend too many.
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The six clans of Skeletons: Dooty/Musical Spooky/Scary Red Closet Dapper/Well-Dressed Harryhausen Internet I Am Just a Box posted:Fuel stat is bones. Actual number of bones. The human body has around 200. Don't spend too many. Ah, "Skeletism" FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 01:36 on May 24, 2021 |
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May 24, 2021 01:26
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Twibbit posted:I suppose some kind of bound being like a Djynn? Though Blood bound vampires sort of deal with that, but A whole splat where you are stuck having to deal with some mortal who has you on the leash.
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FirstAidKite posted:If a new and original splat for world of darkness was made (not a revival, remake, or reinterpretation of a previous one), what kind of thing would you want to see? I've still got my mermaid / Innsmouth / Black Lagoon fansplat thing on the back burner. One of these days. 
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May 24, 2021 02:10
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Are yetis and the like covered by any of the books? I'd assume if any touched on them that it'd be Werewolf but I'm not big on what is and isn't in the Werewolf books. I guess Cryptids would work too as a potential thing but Cryptids tend to be so varied that you can probably toss any of the well known ones into one of the other splats and they'd fit in fine.
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May 24, 2021 02:26
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I had an idea that Slasher would maps great to over-the-top action movie heros if you reskin them into Rambos and Machetes. But that's never actually made it to the table. We never really got a Cryptid splat. Most cryptids don't have a lot of interaction with groups, but Black Eyed Kids could be fun. A lot of others can be explained as misidentification of existing monsters. We also didn't get Invisible Man, Black Lagoon Creature, or Phantom of the Opera books. Phantom and Invisible man could combine into a "monster" representing obsessive criminal geniuses, and the creature could be a primal thing. What Beast was pitched as. They can also get Swamp Things.
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May 24, 2021 02:59
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Wanna play a Moleman game. Play as a race living deep under the sewers. They've faded so far from popular culture that when your characters burst out onto the scene no one even knows the trope you represent anymore and they keep confusing you for vampires or mutated werewolves or something.
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moths posted:I had an idea that Slasher would maps great to over-the-top action movie heros if you reskin them into Rambos and Machetes. But that's never actually made it to the table. As for the rest, Invisible Man at the very least can be a Deviant starting character easily enough (self-inflicted, permanent camouflage is doable straight out of chargen). Lots of other cryptids can be built with their rules if you just say the origin for each of them is a Genotypal Deviant (born that way), and the conspiracies hunting them can pretty quickly and easily be something like "what if more sinister X-Files" or just straight up, Cheiron Group from Hunter.
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FlocksOfMice posted:Wanna play a Moleman game. Play as a race living deep under the sewers. They've faded so far from popular culture that when your characters burst out onto the scene no one even knows the trope you represent anymore and they keep confusing you for vampires or mutated werewolves or something. Even better if the trope is a really uncomfortable and dated one and the Molemen don't even mean to be.
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I think one issue these guys have is that Mage and Sorcerer encompass a bunch of ideas with fairly modest adjustments, so that eats up a ton of design space. I remember a fan splat for Scanners that seemed pretty decent.
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moths posted:We also didn't get Invisible Man, Black Lagoon Creature, or Phantom of the Opera books. Deviant: The Renegades is 100% the Invisible Man book, as well as the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde book. Probably fits Phantom of the Opera alright too. Like not just as "Deviant's pretty versatile you can do a lot with this," but "core inspiration this is the niche Deviant is there to fill" territory.
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I completely forgot Deviant exists, yeah they pretty much have all the bases covered.
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FirstAidKite posted:Are yetis and the like covered by any of the books? I'd assume if any touched on them that it'd be Werewolf but I'm not big on what is and isn't in the Werewolf books. More importantly, I'm not sure what the core gameplay loop would be? Cryptids' whole deal is wanting to be left alone, which means it could either be a road game like Promethean where you're constantly jumping from location to location after being made, or an anti-colonialism metaphor where you're a primal and chaotic spirit of the land fighting back against an ever-encroaching force of categorization and control Froghammer fucked around with this message at 16:12 on May 24, 2021 |
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May 24, 2021 16:08
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Wasn't one of the Black Dog spoof games one where you are a Sasquatch?
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Froghammer posted:More importantly, I'm not sure what the core gameplay loop would be? Cryptids' whole deal is wanting to be left alone Also consider that modern society has numerous groups who publicly believe in the existence of cryptids so the core loop very well could be trying to protect your turf, yourself, your family/friends/social circle, while dealing with being hunted to the brink of extinction to the point that you've had to get extremely good at not being seen. With just how public everything is, it's a whole different ballpark compared to the vampires hiding in the night, werewolves having their human forms, demons having to switch covers, and prometheans using their azoth to at least cover up a little. Something like a sasquatch, a mothman, or a hidebehind wouldn't necessarily have those same societal protections just because of how much society legitimately believes in their existence and actively searches for them. I Am Just a Box posted:Deviant: The Renegades is 100% the Invisible Man book, as well as the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde book. Probably fits Phantom of the Opera alright too. Like not just as "Deviant's pretty versatile you can do a lot with this," but "core inspiration this is the niche Deviant is there to fill" territory. And, of course, Phantom of the Paradise. FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 17:52 on May 24, 2021 |
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May 24, 2021 17:46
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What about Alien game about crash landing on Earth? The goal is to return home without being capture by the government.
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Play as the alien lizardmen impersonating people of power. Balance the need to be a public figure with an exciting life, controlling the world, and ACTUALLY controlling the world as a lizardman. Bonus points, you don't automatically know what other political figures are lizard people, and end up having to read conspiracy websites and trawl them for clues if Senator X really DID blink sideways or if that was just a photoshop.
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Ither posted:What about Alien game about crash landing on Earth? Oh you mean Demon. Yeah, it’s cool
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I Am Just a Box posted:Deviant: The Renegades is 100% the Invisible Man book, as well as the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde book. Probably fits Phantom of the Opera alright too. Like not just as "Deviant's pretty versatile you can do a lot with this," but "core inspiration this is the niche Deviant is there to fill" territory. The little kid inside me saw the Chimeric clade and wants to play a Mutate from Gargoyles.
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My personal favorite thing to do with Deviant characters is, because of how their power levels are outlined so crisply, start from the basic lowest-possible-dots level then thinking about what their end-state, "should probably get snagged by an SCP-type organization, honestly, for the safety of the world at large" power suite looks like, and just vibing at how that would come together along the way. Like the guy who starts out hard to see, and ends with a contagious permanent invisibility/silence/uncontrollable phasing touch that self-propagates and would end in a world where everyone can't see or hear each other and isn't necessarily occupying the same plane at the same time.
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What about splat about controlling a hive mind creature like in the movies The Thing, or The Blob, or Slither?
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