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ulmont posted:In the original Hunters Hunted, which is consistent with Project Twilight, this is what the FBI SAD knows:
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Mors Rattus posted:It's also for an entirely different universe and set of gamelines. Ah, right, confused The Vigil and The Reckoning.
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May 23, 2019 22:55
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What does VASCU feed vampire prisoners awaiting trial? Expired medical blood? The less popular goats from the herd?
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May 23, 2019 23:10
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Nessus posted:What does VASCU feed vampire prisoners awaiting trial? Expired medical blood? The less popular goats from the herd? I would imagine some form of animal, myself.
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May 23, 2019 23:17
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Nessus posted:I imagine direct sun exposure in space would be just as bad for a vampire as it was on Earth, if not worse. A vampire would have a number of other advantages in space of course, they wouldn't need a pressurized suit for instance. The dark side of the moon would not permanently protect them, but there are those places in the polar craters that NEVER get sunlight... that'd be a good place for Neo Carthage. In my current firefly/OWoD/other things crossover game I'm playing the GM has said that only Sol-light hurts vampires, however only people born on earth-that-was can be embraced We found an assamite with a complex gyroscopic prayermat so he can always pray to mecca it was dope
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quote:Raphael spoke, saying I mean it depends on which vampire-containing universe you're talking about but in V:tM the injury sunlight does to vampires is because an angel of God Almighty decreed it. I don't see any reason why UV light would do anything- it's the really curse that burns, not anything so brute and material as the electromagnetic spectrum.
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May 24, 2019 03:41
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Pope Guilty posted:I mean it depends on which vampire-containing universe you're talking about but in V:tM the injury sunlight does to vampires is because an angel of God Almighty decreed it. I don't see any reason why UV light would do anything- it's the really curse that burns, not anything so brute and material as the electromagnetic spectrum. Some games I've seen interpreted it such that "Caine was cursed to walk the Earth," so vampires fall into torpor as soon as they leave orbit
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May 24, 2019 03:48
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This is a conditional statement:quote:"Then, for as long as you walk this earth, So, if you do NOT walk the earth, you do NOT fear the dawn and the rays will NOT burn you like fire. Since this is the same Talmudic "Oven of Akhnai" diety we can assume they will be bound by the most literal interpretations of their decrees. In conclusion, cogito ergo sum, SPACE VAAAAAAAAAAAAMPS!
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May 24, 2019 03:54
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Nessus posted:What does VASCU feed vampire prisoners awaiting trial? Expired medical blood? The less popular goats from the herd?
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May 24, 2019 04:59
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jakodee posted:The Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit doesn't actually uphold or really have some special insight into the SECRET VEIL separating monsters from normies. They are an openly operating division of the FBI who get by by just... being vague about what exactly their "special techniques" are (they can see the future, distant places, your thoughts, etc.). They certainly know more about the supernatural than your average cop, but their primary interest is in making sure people (including supernatural people) get prosecuted for violating federal US law. They also have Jason Voorhees trapped in a concrete block in their headquarters just radiating hatred 24/7/365. They have no real idea how to deal with him. Sooner or later that concrete block will break and he'll get loose again. VASCU owns but they are entirely constrained by the law.
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To get vitae from a corpse or blood bag it's 1 Vitae per Blood Potency * 2 pints. So it can work for low BP vampires but gets super impractical quickly. Over at spessvampires, i've actually got a chart based on lux that says how hard a star screws vampires over. For, you know, just in case mages are being rude or when I finally get around to running a game in my Revealed setting way in the space future. For Sol, being 10 AU out is enough to waive the damage even if its super uncomfortable. They have to go out to 31 AU to find it harmless.
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Mors Rattus posted:I mean, they do still use normal judges, just ones that know that vampires are a thing. (Which explicitly includes the entire supreme court, which is kind of funny.) Yeah, I get that VASCU and Valkyrie don't like each other and it is an important difference that VASCU only goes after criminals rather than supernaturals generally. My point was more that I'm dubious how much due process you'd actually get in a secret trial for a monster. Is any judge really going to say 'yes, the accused is a terrible denizen of the night but the evidence presented does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he drained the blood of the victims, so let him go'? Considering how dodgy the criminal justice system operates in real life, I don't think the people arrested by VASCU are likely to get treated very fairly. It shows what a good addition they are to Hunter, since most of the other groups are more about various degrees of vigilante violence, whereas VASCU provides a very different vibe.
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UrbicaMortis posted:Yeah, I get that VASCU and Valkyrie don't like each other and it is an important difference that VASCU only goes after criminals rather than supernaturals generally. That's fair! The original Slashers book does seem to suggest that sometimes, the monsters do not actually get convicted, but I would imagine the rate of conviction is higher than average. e: also, they still get lawyers, which suggests that there is an entire subdivision of the public defender system that is aware monsters exist.
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Mors Rattus posted:That's fair! The original Slashers book does seem to suggest that sometimes, the monsters do not actually get convicted, but I would imagine the rate of conviction is higher than average. drat, now I really want to run a legal drama game following the defense lawyers for monsters.
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May 24, 2019 16:39
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UrbicaMortis posted:drat, now I really want to run a legal drama game following the defense lawyers for monsters. fuckin' do it, LAW FIRM OF WEREWOLVES, let me play
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May 24, 2019 16:47
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Mors Rattus posted:fuckin' do it, LAW FIRM OF WEREWOLVES, let me play That’s just The Wire.
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Mors Rattus posted:And? Play it.
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May 24, 2019 17:30
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Looks like Mark Rein-Hagen went off about an article for the V5 production on Facebook. Another writer apparently had a stroke while on the job. https://www.reddit.com/r/WhiteWolfRPG/comments/bslwtp/wod_creator_mark_reinhagen_calls_vampire_5_launch/
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nofather posted:Looks like Mark Rein-Hagen went off about an article for the V5 production on Facebook. Assuming he's not lying, because at this point he seems to say whatever puts him in...what he thinks the best light is, he's not very good at it.
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Mors Rattus posted:Assuming he's not lying, because at this point he seems to say whatever puts him in...what he thinks the best light is, he's not very good at it. For someone who was trying to stop all this behind the scenes, he sure offered his full-throated defense in public at the time. That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 22:13 on May 24, 2019 |
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May 24, 2019 22:10
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UrbicaMortis posted:drat, now I really want to run a legal drama game following the defense lawyers for monsters. This is where the Adamantine Arrow Lawyer works.
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That Old Tree posted:For someone who was trying to stop all this behind the scenes, he sure offered his full-throated defense in public at the time. And also claimed that anyone who wished to oppose facism should be willing to lay their life on the line to do so.
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ZiegeDame posted:This is where the Adamantine Arrow Lawyer works. This is also where Adamantine Arrow Prosecutor works.
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Kurieg posted:And also claimed that anyone who wished to oppose facism should be willing to lay their life on the line to do so. But only by letting the fascists kill them without a fuss. We can't leave that bit out because otherwise, sure, I can get behind 'if you want to stop fascism, you must be willing to die fighting against it.' 'Let them murder you until they feel bad!!' not so much.
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Loomer posted:But only by letting the fascists kill them without a fuss. We can't leave that bit out because otherwise, sure, I can get behind 'if you want to stop fascism, you must be willing to die fighting against it.' 'Let them murder you until they feel bad!!' not so much.
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Loomer posted:But only by letting the fascists kill them without a fuss. We can't leave that bit out because otherwise, sure, I can get behind 'if you want to stop fascism, you must be willing to die fighting against it.' 'Let them murder you until they feel bad!!' not so much. While true, I wanted to focus mostly on the juxtaposition of "We must be willing to die for our principles" and "Whoever this brave person was, it wasn't me, because I want to live and would not write such a thing." e: Cause once you bring up the "Letting facists kill them without a fuss" thing the core of his argument at that point was 'the only reason we won WW2 was because enough Jews were willing to let themselves be heroically murdered.' Which is... sure one hell of a take about WW2. Kurieg fucked around with this message at 04:07 on May 25, 2019 |
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The assistant line developer for Modiphius just retweeted a tweet slamming Onyx Path for screwing their freelancers. I would guess they're referring to pay on pub and the 3¢ per word payrates among other things. Unless I misremember, exempting the previously licensed content for the V5 kickstarter and 20th anniversary products, Modiphius is the steward of world of darkness ttrpgs going forward. https://twitter.com/FSohns?s=09 https://twitter.com/ReverendMalcus/status/1132342116988809217?s=19
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I assume they're also referring to Holden Shearer's claims about/crusade against OPP? Since the same account also retweeted Holden's backhanded defense of NuWW for not criticizing Zak S or saying anything about him being awful even now that it's common knowledge.
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Joe Slowboat posted:I assume they're also referring to Holden Shearer's claims about/crusade against OPP? Since the same account also retweeted Holden's backhanded defense of NuWW for not criticizing Zak S or saying anything about him being awful even now that it's common knowledge. I wouldn't trust the hamster at all, but machineiv made a lot of similar claims about pay on pub causing her to have a 5 year lag on compensation and not getting compensated for work on changeling.
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Octavo posted:I wouldn't trust the hamster at all, but machineiv made a lot of similar claims about pay on pub causing her to have a 5 year lag on compensation and not getting compensated for work on changeling. This is true. They typically pay half on draft, half on pub, though line leaders may be paid entirely on pub, I'm not sure.
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Nessus posted:I think Gandhi proposed something like this, but I think in the same paragraph he also observed that the reason he'd had such success in India was that the British could be shamed, and that this would likely not work against people who did not feel shame. Gandhi of course was also willing to stand up himself and take the retribution. Whereas Rein*Hagen talked a big game about how other people should get killed, and claimed to be a big serious fighter for freedom...right until there was the slightest potential of blowback, at which point he freaked out and started disavowing the whole thing. And is now trying to claim he was against it from the start. I'm guessing in another 6 months to a year, he'll be back to pretending he's a hardcore activist on the front lines.
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Gandhi's peaceful resistance was also taking place in an India where there was an ongoing and incredibly violent insurgency fighting the British. Gandhi allowed the Brits an avenue to exit without openly surrendering to that insurgency. (Diversity of tactics works, is what I'm saying.)
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I forgot that the UV thing is shown in VtM Bloodlines. That guy who runs experiments on vampires bathes your character in UV light and asks if it burns while you just stand there and wait for the next room.
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SuperKlaus posted:I forgot that the UV thing is shown in VtM Bloodlines. That guy who runs experiments on vampires bathes your character in UV light and asks if it burns while you just stand there and wait for the next room. I also like that they try a cross, which the PC treats as not unlike a flying gnat (and it's a callback to Jack in the tutorial telling you about vampire weaknesses). Sadly the poor man had no True Faith.
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Yeah and that's kind of funny too when two dungeons later you're trying to land clean hits on Bach and he keeps blinding you with unfiltered Jesus. I kinda wish he could have been spared somehow. I was running my Gangrel as vampire Goku / shonen protagonist. All he wanted to do was Protean War Form transform and fight the strongest opponents around, to see if he could. I even went full swagger and battled the Gargoyle toe-to-toe. "Why do you want to help kill hengeyokai?" the hunter girl asked. "My Clan Saiyan...uh...Gangrel blood calls me to battle!" So I would have liked to let Bach go somehow like Goku letting Vegeta go. Gangrel can have monkey tails right?
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The pay rate isn’t 3c. It’s still low compared to writing, say, “what your surname means” articles for genealogical magazines, but it’s better than 3. The smart money used to be in porn, but it’s not so good an income stream any more. The last I looked at OPP, some writing people get full on delivery. Everyone else is half and half. Developers are when the job is done, which nowadays means after the errata thread, etc. The difficulty when improving things is that you have to decide whether to alter existing contracts as well - OPP hasn’t, so it has books still in process on much worse terms than it’s newer projects. They are not alone in this regard - another publisher is now one of the best places to be a freelance developer or writer, but they still kept me waiting five years after delivery before the book came out, because six years ago they were entirely pay on pub. Really, if you’re worried about knowing when your pay will arrive (as a full time freelancer should be) you should only work for pay on delivery firms or go into business for yourself. Or learn to draw or edit, as the artist’s and editor’s lives are much more certain.
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Dave Brookshaw posted:The pay rate isn’t 3c. It’s still low compared to writing, say, “what your surname means” articles for genealogical magazines, but it’s better than 3. The smart money used to be in porn, but it’s not so good an income stream any more. Holy poo poo you get paid half of your money when OP finish their errata process? So you only ever get paid half of what you're owed? Also, cool to see a 'learn to code' unironically in the wild.
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