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I've been working on my Nos all week. I've dialed him into someone that is highly intelligent but is very insecure about it. So I'm thinking that his aura makes people feel like he's always about to UM, ACTUALLY them.
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'guy that everyone assumes is going to sealion them immediately' is a powerful Nos aura.
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Sep 3, 2019 17:41
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Angry Lobster posted:I heard that the Giovanni in V5 got mauled by the inquisition/Harbringers, and are merging with the Samedi and remaining Cappadocians. Is that even true? Sounds a bit unlikely. Strangely yes, at least the merge part. I don’t recall exactly why it’s happening.
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Sep 3, 2019 17:57
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PantsOptional posted:Strangely yes, at least the merge part. I don’t recall exactly why it’s happening. From what I read the Second Inquisition took out a number of the elders and the younger members of the clan made a deal with the other necromancer clans. The younger ones might have sold out the remaining elders, like the Lasombra did, but they haven't gotten a full write up yet.
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Angry Lobster posted:I heard that the Giovanni in V5 got mauled by the inquisition/Harbringers, and are merging with the Samedi and remaining Cappadocians. Is that even true? Sounds a bit unlikely. That does feel as bland as I've to come to expect from V5.
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The best way to merge the Giovanni with the Samedi and Cappadocians is for the latter two to eat the former.
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Sep 3, 2019 20:13
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Yeah that would be fairly consistent with the 'writing backwards from the conclusion' style of V5.
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Sep 3, 2019 20:16
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more nosferatu disfigurements hair naturally looks like a really bad wig eternally bleeding nose skin exposed to any light gains a burned appearance a day later and "heals" slowly teeth shaped like tiny clawed hands large protrusive eyes that occasionally extend themselves on small stalks
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ogresque posted:more nosferatu disfigurements
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Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:The best way to merge the Giovanni with the Samedi and Cappadocians is for the latter two to eat the former. Honestly, all the “independent” clans could go the way of the Ravnos and the setting wouldn’t lose much. They all started out (in 2e) as dumb, offensive stereotypes. There have been heroic efforts to retcon them into something interesting, but there’s a limit to how much you can polish those particular turds. Then again, I prefer Requiem for just this reason, so I’m probably not the target audience here. But if you’re committed to nostalgia over actual quality, why bother to make changes at all? (I know, I know — because Ericsson wanked all over 5e, and the new writers have to deal with the mess he left. Poor bastards.)
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DSPaul posted:Honestly, all the “independent” clans could go the way of the Ravnos and the setting wouldn’t lose much. They all started out (in 2e) as dumb, offensive stereotypes. There have been heroic efforts to retcon them into something interesting, but there’s a limit to how much you can polish those particular turds. Then again, I prefer Requiem for just this reason, so I’m probably not the target audience here. But if you’re committed to nostalgia over actual quality, why bother to make changes at all? (I know, I know — because Ericsson wanked all over 5e, and the new writers have to deal with the mess he left. Poor bastards.) Rather than a metaplot being "here's what changed ok go, go, go, STOP THIS IS EXACTLY AS FAR AS ANYTHING EVER CHANGES" which is the sense I get of a lot of it.
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Sep 3, 2019 21:28
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The translation guide had clans like the Giovanni and setites act more as secret covenants that any clan could be a part of. I liked that so much that I still use it in my Requiem games.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:59
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Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:The best way to merge the Giovanni with the Samedi and Cappadocians is for the latter two to eat the former.
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Sep 3, 2019 23:50
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ZiegeDame posted:Say you're trying to solve a murder, and you walk up to this Nos and make a wild guess about who the culprit is. Does the Nos then go into excruciating detail about how the deed was done and by whom? Probably not? I meant the obscure part as in trivia. But the idea of a Nos being cursed with a pedantic, oracular shadow that constantly corrects him is a powerful one.
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Not World of Darkness, but I just found out this was a thing and it should be in my hands tomorrow: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1689960671/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Sep 4, 2019 06:36
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Soonmot posted:Not World of Darkness, but I just found out this was a thing and it should be in my hands tomorrow: Pounded in the Butt by My Demon Roommates' Embed Key.
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Sep 4, 2019 07:04
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Soonmot posted:Not World of Darkness, but I just found out this was a thing and it should be in my hands tomorrow: Proof the Seers are losing!
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Sep 4, 2019 20:32
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So I've been checking Mors' Rattus' F&F of Shunned by the Moon when I can, and it's a pretty stellar Werewolf sourcebook. As someone who only has the 2e CoD book of WtF, can any shapeshifting veterans in this topic recommend me some of Werewolf's other best books?
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Libertad! posted:So I've been checking Mors' Rattus' F&F of Shunned by the Moon when I can, and it's a pretty stellar Werewolf sourcebook. As someone who only has the 2e CoD book of WtF, can any shapeshifting veterans in this topic recommend me some of Werewolf's other best books? Predators was also good, I'm moving onto the Pure book next paycheck.
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Sep 4, 2019 23:03
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Libertad! posted:So I've been checking Mors' Rattus' F&F of Shunned by the Moon when I can, and it's a pretty stellar Werewolf sourcebook. As someone who only has the 2e CoD book of WtF, can any shapeshifting veterans in this topic recommend me some of Werewolf's other best books? The only other 2e book currently out is The Pack, plus the Werewolf eras in the Dark Eras and Dark Eras Companion books (of which The Sundered World from the former and Forsaken by Rome from the latter are quite good). Looking over 1e Werewolf books, Predators was the go-to book for grasping the ecology and character of the Shadow throughout first edition (and contains some classic spirits like Little-Road-Tyrants, the extremely bossy and not especially powerful spirits of traffic lights). Night Horrors: Wolfsbane is the 1e counterpart to Shunned by the Moon and follows a similar format with some thematic similarities, although it's not quite as creative as some of SbtM's ideas and cleaves more to individual characters than classes of character. It's got Urazakh-Angir, though, who remains one of my favorite Werewolf NPC writeups. The War Against the Pure, while it only devotes one chapter to it (and is otherwise about large-scale conflict with the Pure and epic gifts and blessings), is the favored choice for introducing other types of shapeshifting breeds to the nWoD, given that the book ostensibly dedicated to providing this was the execrable World of Darkness: Changing Breeds.
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Predators, like Damnation City, is a book I find myself using all the time even when I'm not running the game line it's supposedly for.
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LatwPIAT posted:I actually wanted to go in the other direction: play down the Italian and maybe gangster aspects, play up the tight-knit Clan of necromancers with particular Embrace customs. A vampire group that Embraces solely (that is to say, tries to and fails frequently with lots of bastard children they refuse to acknowledge) within loyal ghouls from their own extended family is a pretty unique thing that I think could be kept. VTM-with-extra-family-politics is a wonderful avenue for playable conflicts, and there's a certain horror to play up in being part of a powerful, rich, and controlling family. But then again I dislike 75% of VTM in general for being a white man's idea of what morally grey issues are.
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To be honest I do like the general idea of KotE as "Psychic/Literal Vampires whose souls escaped from Hell".
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I love that when they tried writing something culturally considerate they ended up being MORE wrong and offensive than if they had just showed up with their balls hanging out of their pants, slurring "everything we're using we learned about from the movie Robo Vampire and the Magic Cop/Mr. Vampire saga, fuckin deal with it nerds."
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Praying for our Carolina gamers right now 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Libertad! posted:So I've been checking Mors' Rattus' F&F of Shunned by the Moon when I can, and it's a pretty stellar Werewolf sourcebook. As someone who only has the 2e CoD book of WtF, can any shapeshifting veterans in this topic recommend me some of Werewolf's other best books? Blood of the Wolf has a lot of good information in it for getting into the mindset of a werewolf, just ignore the  stuff in there.
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So after my ST brutally chopped my Brujah's head off for a masquerade breach I decided to reroll as a setite/Ministry member who is a tattoo artist who has a cult following/herd to feed on. My understanding is that setites basically "get off" on metaphorically walking someone through self realization and coming to terms with a truth, be it for better or worse? So during a tattoo session/feed a member of his herd basically admitted that she was an exotic dancer to get through school and I decided that my character was going to push to see if this was merely a way to pay for school or if she actually desired that lifestyle and even further preparing to go into the field of being a sex worker full time. The NPC said fairly firmly it was for school while I pressed. It didn't go over so well. My group has a system that I believe is vaguely described in the books to manage our groups comfort level with a scene using green for 'this is okay', yellow for 'haha slow your roll chief' and red for ' I Am Uncomfortable'. We conduct the sessions through roll20 and skype but post memes and stuff in a discord. I was in roll20 at the time and couldn't see the discord or the Webcam of my coterie faces but afterwards I tabbed over to see:  I'm embarrassed as hell that I didn't see it and mortified that I took it so far trying to RP a setite wanting to know someone's true nature. Am I doing this right? I guess it got weird but am I track for what a setite is trying to do? I'm all over the place and am super embarrassed but want to keep playing this character. I sincerely appreciate any advice. Edit: sorry, this is V5 Blitz of 404 Error fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Sep 5, 2019 |
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Man, quit playing with those assholes. E: Not for using RED, obviously, but this is the same ST who nuked your character for playing the game "wrong," right? moths fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Sep 5, 2019 |
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I hope you apologized.
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Less a WoD specific issue but more of a general roleplaying issue. Stoplight system is generally a good thing, especially if the setting touches on issues that necessitate it. Generalizing based on the lack of context in your post, but the context of your kinda toxic table based on previous sessions, I’d say it sounds like the ST saw the red, and diverted the NPC encounter. You’re both probably responsible for taking the conversation down that route, but if it were me I would (delicately and non-confrontationally) ask the player what you can do to avoid the situation from happening again.
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I would say that if you've agreed to this traffic light system (which I like) but neglected to use it, you should apologize to everyone and maybe send a PM to the person who had the issue with the scene. It doesn't sound like you didn't anything malicious but people need to be really careful and cognizant about the comfort levels of others.
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Blitz7x posted:So after my ST brutally chopped my Brujah's head off for a masquerade breach I decided to reroll as a setite/Ministry member who is a tattoo artist who has a cult following/herd to feed on. My understanding is that setites basically "get off" on metaphorically walking someone through self realization and coming to terms with a truth, be it for better or worse? If you're going to use the traffic light system maybe you should actually follow through. It's important to respect the feelings of others when you agree to a safety system like this Ingame: situations like this might be when you need to presence her into avoiding her future path of misery and guide her towards your ministry
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Inzombiac posted:I would say that if you've agreed to this traffic light system (which I like) but neglected to use it, you should apologize to everyone and maybe send a PM to the person who had the issue with the scene. Yeah consent is really important. But if this is being played in chatrooms, why didn't the ST say something OOC about things going too far? I'm not sure how I feel about having to monitor multiple windows in multiple programs when playing, since I am an Old and don't like multitasking.
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moths posted:Man, quit playing with those assholes. You do realize this is his fault for not following the agreed upon safety system Imo blitz isnt giving us the whole picture and this 2nd post is more indicative of what is actually happening in his game
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Wait you're telling me the guy who refused to answer my question might not be telling the whole story!
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Oberst posted:You do realize this is his fault for not following the agreed upon safety system No poo poo I do, I said as much in the clarification edit that you yourself quoted. I'm surprised that he's still playing with his garbage group. But he's also playing V5, so his trash tolerance is probably much higher than I'm used to.
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The Masquerade clans weren't worth saving.
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Antediluvian is my favorite bloodline.
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Do you have any Vampire devotions you'd like to share? I tend to write a lot but don't usually take them. Here are two: "Dressed to Suppress" Req: Majesty *, Obfuscate ** Cost: 1 Vitae While active, this devotion clouds the minds of those that can see you. You are given a glamour that turns your clothing (or lack-there-of) into a pristine outfit that best suits the environment. A Willpower may be spent to turn the clothing into that of an authority figure, even if you don't know what it should be. Being touched breaks the glamour for the person doing the touching. "Fear Eater" Req: Nightmare **, Vigor * Cost: 2 Vitae Activating this devotion increases your Strength by 1 for every nearby creature that has the Afraid condition.
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Kurieg posted:As far as first ed books, War Against the Pure is a good one, and has some non-wolf shapeshifters in it, can be used for inspiration if nothing else. I rather like Hunting Grounds: Rockies even if I can't recommend it entirely because it's got stats for every werewolf except the pack leaders who are in the 1E book. One of the main conflicts is a juicy nobody's right and nobody's wrong ideological one, so that's always cool. Shadows of the UK is somewhat woof-centric, but is a great read on its own with things like Glasgow's The Other City.
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