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Luminous Obscurity posted:You should be pulling names from roller derby. Thanks, I'm now throwing out all the NPCs for my NYC Mage game and replacing them with these.
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Ferrinus posted:Picking Thor or Yahweh or something as your shadow name is the ultimate alpha move because you know nobody else had the nerve to. All the other Mages who started out naming themselves Thor but realized after six months how loving stupid they looked and sounded all avoid eye contact.
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Nov 5, 2015 00:03
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It was a thing in the Skulduggery Pleasant books that you only get one Shadow Name and if you pick something like "Blade Nightchill" and then fifty years down the line you're a fat bald dude, you will get laughed at. Mages are strongly encouraged to come up with something reasonable to avoid this. I loving love Shadow Names as a concept though. Played well, the right Shadow Name can tell the players an awful lot about NPC mages. Hmm that Free Council Obrimos called himself Duke Nukem, I wonder what his world view might be?
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Nov 5, 2015 00:26
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Attorney at Funk posted:All the other Mages who started out naming themselves Thor but realized after six months how loving stupid they looked and sounded all avoid eye contact. I just think they got constantly bombarded with jokes in the vein of "You thay you're Thor? I bet you could barely thit down after thex latht night!"
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Nov 5, 2015 01:36
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Ferrinus posted:Picking Thor or Yahweh or something as your shadow name is the ultimate alpha move because you know nobody else had the nerve to. actually, this is at most half a step above a neonate calling themselves Lestat
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Nov 5, 2015 03:09
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gtrmp posted:actually, this is at most half a step above a neonate calling themselves Lestat Yes, that's the penultimate alpha move.
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Nov 5, 2015 03:10
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Is there anything stopping a Mage from going the Prince route and making his Shadow Name really loving hard to pronounce or not even a name?
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Nov 5, 2015 03:15
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Kavak posted:Is there anything stopping a Mage from going the Prince route and making his Shadow Name really loving hard to pronounce or not even a name? The practicality of using it.
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Nov 5, 2015 03:17
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Kavak posted:Is there anything stopping a Mage from going the Prince route and making his Shadow Name really loving hard to pronounce or not even a name? Everyone at the local Consilium barely suppressing a snicker whenever they use it. Libertines complimenting you on how creative it is. Acamoth telling you to come back when you're serious when you introduce yourself.
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Nov 5, 2015 03:21
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gtrmp posted:actually, this is at most half a step above a neonate calling themselves Lestat
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Nov 5, 2015 03:26
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Yawgmoth posted:Where is Turbodracula on the naming scale? 1/10 to anyone who takes Mage stuff really serious (In-game), 11/10 to everyone else.
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Nov 5, 2015 03:43
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Effectronica posted:Everyone at the local Consilium barely suppressing a snicker whenever they use it. Libertines complimenting you on how creative it is. Acamoth telling you to come back when you're serious when you introduce yourself. Acamoth would actually be the only one who know how to pronounce your weird hosed up squiggle name correctly, driving you insane instantly when they do so.
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Nov 5, 2015 03:55
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Loomer posted:But, instead, we get poo poo like this. Yawgmoth posted:Where is Turbodracula on the naming scale? That depends. What's your drive score, and how much crazy poo poo can you do while driving? If you're a vampire with the right specs, it drat near makes you an automatic prince.
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Nov 5, 2015 03:56
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Trollhawke posted:You wanna post your source for that quote there, champ? ...are you talking about the vampire I played with Drive (Carmageddon) as a specialty, or is this just a really weird coincidence?
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Daeren posted:...are you talking about the vampire I played with Drive (Carmageddon) as a specialty, or is this just a really weird coincidence? I didn't know you played a vampire with drive at all, but good choice.
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Nov 5, 2015 03:59
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Trollhawke posted:You wanna post your source for that quote there, champ? Hahah, do you have a problem with me pointing out stupid poo poo? http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/...rged-x10/page37 Knock yerself out.
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Nov 5, 2015 04:00
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Trollhawke posted:I didn't know you played a vampire with drive at all, but good choice. I ran out of Specialty ideas when making him so I just gave him Carmageddon since he had like two dots in Drive. It represented that the more he drove like a maniac in an action movie, the better he was at it. It eventually became one of his most relied-upon skills. Turns out that you can solve a surprising number of problems when you are not only completely and unhesitatingly willing to, but incredibly able to leap a highway divider and drive into oncoming traffic at triple digit speeds in a panel van without dying! (It also makes you deal with a police investigation into who the gently caress the street-racing maniac in the panel van with a wizard airbrushed on it is, but hey, omelets and eggs.)
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Nov 5, 2015 04:05
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Loomer posted:Hahah, do you have a problem with me pointing out stupid poo poo? Nah, just seeing if your source had anything else funny. Cheers mate.
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Trollhawke posted:Nah, just seeing if your source had anything else funny. Thanks for the posts, chief.
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Nov 5, 2015 06:04
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Kavak posted:Is there anything stopping a Mage from going the Prince route and making his Shadow Name really loving hard to pronounce or not even a name? Can you make your shadow name a symbol? Can you go around calling yourself the Arcanist formerly known as Greg?
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Nov 5, 2015 16:23
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Kind of defeats the point of a shadow name if you tell people what your real name is by trying to tell them what to refer to you as.
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Nov 5, 2015 16:30
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Loomer posted:Man, the amount of negativity floating around about Paradox buying WW is absurd. As we all know, Paradox aren't one of those companies that know anything about managing obscure nerd properties with insane, devoted fanbases full of toxic factionalism and downright absurd beliefs about history and their product... oh, wait a minute. That poo poo is their bread and butter. You couldn't ask for a better owning company when it comes to that poo poo. Wait, there is negativity? A lot of what I have seen is positive. All CCP did with the property was fail to make a WoW clone and clearly cared more about Eve than its WoD IPs. It has been left rotting for years now and Paradox is a great gaming company.
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Are there still online communities for WoD games? There used to be some forum/chat based games set up back in the early 2000's that ranged from hilariously bad to decent, and pbem games as well. Do those even exist anymore? I didn't find many current ones during my quick and lazy googling.
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Dapper Dan posted:Wait, there is negativity? I think he means in the WoD community at large, which is incapable of being positive about any change. It does look like the people over at VEKN are seeing this as a fresh shot at reprinting VtES, however. They released some info about a Kickstarter they'd been planning with One Book Shelf, including a box mock-up. moths fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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Prickly Pete posted:Are there still online communities for WoD games? There used to be some forum/chat based games set up back in the early 2000's that ranged from hilariously bad to decent, and pbem games as well. Do those even exist anymore? I didn't find many current ones during my quick and lazy googling. I used to play a lot of them, but I remember them fading around the time of Requiem. I lost touch with most of the people I knew. It seems to be relegated to small online groups and maybe MUSHes. moths posted:I think he means in the WoD community at large, which is incapable of being positive about any change. Ah, that makes sense Still, it is the best choice besides maybe CDProjekt. It would be cool if they did something like VtmR, with the storyteller system like NWN. I used to play the hell out of it despite being so limiting. loving WoN network, eight players to a map and leaving games to change maps. But it was fun to get a group together and at the time it was unique since NWN wasn't out yet.
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Mors Rattus posted:Kind of defeats the point of a shadow name if you tell people what your real name is by trying to tell them what to refer to you as.
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Nov 5, 2015 19:39
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Libertine Obrimos, shadow name; Green Lantern. *gets devoured by paradox halfway through session 2*
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Error 404 posted:Libertine Obrimos, shadow name; Green Lantern. Plot hook: Mastigos Apostate shadow-named Sinestro tries to unite the Lancea Sanctum, Hunters in Darkness, Autumn Court, Scarecrow Ministry, a few dozen fear spirits, some local hunters, and a Beast into the Sinestro Corps.
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Fans universally pan the event for admitting that Beasts exist.
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Nov 5, 2015 22:34
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SIlver Ladder Moros with the Shadow Name Leon Trotsky.
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Dapper Dan posted:Wait, there is negativity? A lot of what I have seen is positive. All CCP did with the property was fail to make a WoW clone and clearly cared more about Eve than its WoD IPs. It has been left rotting for years now and Paradox is a great gaming company. Yes, there's lots of negativity floating about, and lots of peculiar fears about what's to come. Personally, I'm all for the acquisition.
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MonsieurChoc posted:SIlver Ladder Moros with the Shadow Name Leon Trotsky. I tried playing exactly that character in a WW2 setting game but the game died on the launch pad.
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jim truds posted:I tried playing exactly that character in a WW2 setting game but the game died on the launch pad. I'm disappointed you didn't get brutally murdered in Mexico. Edit: Character! I meant your character!
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Nov 6, 2015 06:12
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I did it, I found an Adamantine Arrow lawyer: http://www.lawiswar.com/about-conrad/
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Nov 6, 2015 15:30
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Ocanthus posted:I did it, I found an Adamantine Arrow lawyer: http://www.lawiswar.com/about-conrad/ Holy poo poo, this guy is a direct to video action movie hero waiting to happen.
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Ocanthus posted:I did it, I found an Adamantine Arrow lawyer: http://www.lawiswar.com/about-conrad/ Holy poo poo, the hype is real. Existence Is War, everybody.
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Nov 6, 2015 19:15
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Welp, found my next Mage character.
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So let's say you're a werewolf in a rural, impoverished, but not blighted/DustBowled area in 1937. You have some cool Merits - what's the coolest? I'm especially looking for specifics in terms of social merits.
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JDCorley posted:So let's say you're a werewolf in a rural, impoverished, but not blighted/DustBowled area in 1937. You have some cool Merits - what's the coolest? I'm especially looking for specifics in terms of social merits. The one that lets me have my union bros back me up. Things might be going badly, but Miners' Local 221 has my back, and I've got theirs.
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What do you mean "the coolest"
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