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MonsieurChoc posted:This reminds me (in a good way) of the Rumours thread we used to have on RPG.net. Someone put them all into a pdf: Compiling this PDF was my only real self-taught Scribus project, and I did it the hardest-headed way possible. If I ever wanted to update it, editing it internally would be a nightmare. Every chapter of rumors is one continuous text string that overflows from one page's text box into the next. If I ever do it again, I gotta do it smarter. Fortunately, I think the problems are mostly invisible on the reader's end. It just doesn't look quite as pretty as I could have made it if I were smarter. I'm very proud of the "back cover" that exists solely to mimic the format of actual books. And yes, the Rumors in the Style of Unknown Armies threads were amazing, which is what motivated me to put this together.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Make one newsletter where it's just Rot13 text of the Book of Nod. Offer (fake) Noddist lore to curious camarillians and when the prince gets cranky say a higher up asked you to sew disinformation amongst the curious to dissuade anyone discovering Horrible Truths. Posts like these make me want to play VtM again.
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Inzombiac posted:This is why I prefer the version from Lucifer. Presence is more ethical than dominate for sure
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Oberst posted:Presence is more ethical than dominate for sure Hahhahaha good joke v funny
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Potence/Vigor is more ethical than Dominate or Presence.
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Libertad! posted:Posts like these make me want to play VtM again. I'm still interested in helping with that comedy themed game if anyone else wants in.
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ZearothK posted:Potence/Vigor is more ethical than Dominate or Presence. There is no ethical blood consumption under vampirism.
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I Am Just a Box posted:Compiling this PDF was my only real self-taught Scribus project, and I did it the hardest-headed way possible. If I ever wanted to update it, editing it internally would be a nightmare. Every chapter of rumors is one continuous text string that overflows from one page's text box into the next. If I ever do it again, I gotta do it smarter. I’m just glad I’m in it. Thanks for the hard work. 
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01011001 posted:There is no ethical blood consumption under vampirism. Fortitude is the only ethical choice, because it's an invitation to be punched every time you show your face in public.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:I'm still interested in helping with that comedy themed game if anyone else wants in. I would but my home game is ramping up and we'll be starting on a week or two. If I get any good stories out of it, I'll post them here. Talk to me about your Nosferatu mutations. I don't want to play someone that is just monsterously ugly, I want to be unnerving. Like a big frog mouth or an aura that makes people have really dry eyes.
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Inzombiac posted:I would but my home game is ramping up and we'll be starting on a week or two. Every breath sounds like exactly a death rattle. Sure, vampires don't breathe, but they do to talk and blend in. So either your Nosferatu is silent and never breathes - unnerving on its own - or he's death rattling just to say 'Pass the bloodbag'. Alternatively, an isopod-shaped tongue with a goddamn human face that whispers secrets in place of an ordinary voice.
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Also tonight we finished the first part of the Darkness Revealed adventures for 1E Trinity and my players seem really into it. They liked the setpiece gunfight in the giant crystal building rolling down Olympus Mons on Mars.
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Inzombiac posted:I would but my home game is ramping up and we'll be starting on a week or two. Every time she's around, everyone's palms, inner elbows, the backs of their knees, and their crotches get really sweaty. It just comes out of nowhere the moment they see her, and it doesn't stop until she's gone again. No other effects.
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Permanent partially-working Obfuscate; segments of your head and body are completely invisible, revealing the organs inside. A curse to loudly fart every time a room is completely silent. Features completely wiped off; skin the texture of a mannequin on a far-from-beautiful face.
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Inzombiac posted:I would but my home game is ramping up and we'll be starting on a week or two. A solid chunk of bone in place of separate teeth A cluster of holes like lotus flower seed pods where your ears should be Hair that looks like spiraling fingernail clippings Nose with a single, central nostril Footsteps and incidental contact (like brushing a hand against a desk) that always sounds wet and sloppy Hands that leave sticky, full handprints on anything they touch Arms and legs without visible elbow/knee bones, the flesh just bends there
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Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:Eyelids that blink from the bottom up
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Nessus posted:You're just describing Yuffie from Final Fantasy 7 now.
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A gnarly but hardly monstrous scar that just never seems to be in the same place each time you look at it. But you're not sure.
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Human teeth in a place where there should not be teeth, and not in the place where there should be teeth Parasitic twin that talks Rogu?
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These are all really great. I had a Nos NPC in my last game that was Ken Doll perfect. It mixed well with that he never used Blush so he straight-up looked plastic. Even his hair looked like a single object, like a LEGO piece.
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It's from a Tzimisce I played (almost two decades ago Jesus loving ugh) but something I was really jazzed about was giving him vaguely coral-textured "skin" on his lips, cheeks and the palms of his hands. It was subtle enough that he just looked kind of weird at a distance in good light, but they were all these minuscule sworls of razor ridges, like exaggerated fingerprints on all the exposed skin that's socially considered "intimate." In between the ridges the tissue was a soft sponge, so that the rough prominent surface could quickly abrade and slice skin and then he could "drink" as the blood flowed into the crevices. If you ugly it up so that the Nos looks like a walking patch of eczema or a cellulitis or burn scar, and take away the benefits of the Kiss, that right there's a hosed up dude just looking for a hug.
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a mouth that opens all the way down your neck, like this weird nightmare yoshi 
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Or an adult-sized harlequin baby.
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eyes all over the inside of your mouth and throat alternatively, looking like one of those images where they swap the mouth and eyes
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No gross external physical abnormalities, but tiny hands pushing outward from the inside, always, like the body is a thick plastic sack full of struggling babies.
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Inzombiac posted:Talk to me about your Nosferatu mutations. I don't want to play someone that is just monsterously ugly, I want to be unnerving. Like a big frog mouth or an aura that makes people have really dry eyes. LARPed once where I drew circuit patterns on some duct tape i wrapped my arms in (the cheap poo poo doesn't hurt coming off) along with goggles i also drew circuit patterns on. This would be tough to do in LARP but make it so your voice seems to come from behind the person you're speaking to. Mouth is a Flower
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Joe Slowboat posted:Hahhahaha good joke v funny Well if you think vampiric mind rape is good, then ok I accept but don't condone your viewpoint
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Loomer posted:Alternatively, an isopod-shaped tongue with a goddamn human face that whispers secrets in place of an ordinary voice. So would this be a tongue that speaks actual secrets? Or just bullshit "It's gonna tell you inane poo poo or get you into trouble since we can't have too much of a mechanical bonus attached to this downside" secrets? Because i'm imagining the coterie just letting out an exasperated sigh every time Tonguesy Mcgee over there opens his mouth to try and contribute to the conversation only for his freaky human-meets-xenomorph tongue to inadvertently pop out to gently caress with everyone's minds again.  Alternatively, it could just be the most obnoxiously boring and useless poo poo ever like that energy vampire from the What We Do in the Shadows TV show. "Tonight, Baron Cruthers decides to feed her cats. Did I say Baron? I meant Baran. No, no, don't mind me. Carry on, neonates." Archonex fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Aug 31, 2019 |
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Oberst posted:Well if you think vampiric mind rape is good, then ok I accept but don't condone your viewpoint It's unequivocally an evil thing to do... to the character. So long as the player you're using it on is okay with it then it's not 'evil' for you the player. You're playing a role and that role requires you to do not nice things. It becomes dickish when you use mind control to take agency away from the other players because you're the big dick vampire and you can.
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Archonex posted:So would this be a tongue that speaks actual secrets? Or just bullshit "It's gonna tell you inane poo poo or get you into trouble since we can't have too much of a mechanical bonus attached to this downside" secrets? Why not both?
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Oberst posted:Well if you think vampiric mind rape is good, then ok I accept but don't condone your viewpoint I mean, you're the one pushing vampire rohypnol as preferable to direct vampire mind control, which is a bit rich. Majesty is just as coercive as Dominate, it's just less direct. "Mind-controlling you to be my friend" isn't less mind control than "mind-controlling you to do what I say." E: Plus both are fictional, and as long as the players at the table are having fun, they're good tools in the game. But just on a pretty basic level, I think making that distinction is hilariously besides the point. "It's ok, this coercion looks like being friendly" is basically what those vampires run on - the idea that they're a better class of predator, maybe even morally fine, because they manipulate people rather than commanding them. All of these vampires are bad. Joe Slowboat fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Aug 31, 2019 |
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My daily check of DTRPG for updates has just alerted me that nearly every White Wolf scanned book in my library has been updated with an OEF file. This is not a drill.
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Loomer posted:Why not both? Pretty sure that would be the  It reminds me a bit of that joke elder the thread came up with hundreds of pages back. Elder Hardluck, I think his name was. A (presumably Gangrel) survivor of the ages that somehow keeps finding himself stranded at ground zero in the worst events that history can throw at him --- Pompeii, Three Mile Island, the works. Poor bastard's seen it all, and every time he gets back on his feet and starts the typical vampiric scheming disaster strikes in his general area just loving everything up. On one hand, you'd hate to be around the guy. On the other hand, would you ever want to to gently caress with someone that could survive all that bullshit and come out relatively unscathed? Archonex fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Aug 31, 2019 |
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Inzombiac posted:I would but my home game is ramping up and we'll be starting on a week or two. One of my favorites was a Nosferatu (the prototype Angle-Daughter actually) whose thing was she was perfectly symmetrical. Not a picto-meter of variance in her features. She wore piles and piles of scarves and long baggy clothing everywhere to try and blunt it along with big silly sunglasses. Human brains naturally look for the little variances, so when someone saw her face it didn't hit all at once. You just sort of swam in this vague sense of wrong for a minute or two before it slammed into place and you felt very, very uncomfortable. Another had tapetum lucidum in her eyes. Humans were always vaguely aware of the light reflected off them, and could sometimes catch flashes of it the way you'd see a cat or dogs.
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Kurieg posted:It's unequivocally an evil thing to do... to the character. So long as the player you're using it on is okay with it then it's not 'evil' for you the player. You're playing a role and that role requires you to do not nice things. It becomes dickish when you use mind control to take agency away from the other players because you're the big dick vampire and you can. Aren't vampires supposed to be horrible people? This seems on brand for being a vampire. I don't see why you can't also be massive dicks to the people you're playing with.
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