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I Am Just a Box
Jul 20, 2011
I belong here. I contain only inanimate objects. Nothing is amiss.

joylessdivision posted:

Excuse me sir but a certain Mr. Haight would like a word with you about that.

Nobody slides sideways from monster to monster.

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MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
What about Cyborg Tao Pai Pai though?

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


MonsieurChoc posted:

What about Cyborg Tao Pai Pai though?

Tier 3 Hunter who got his hands on some endowments.

Free Gratis
Apr 17, 2002

Karate Jazz Wolf
Question for you Deviant backers with Manuscript Preview access.

As per rules, every Variation needs an equal magnitude Scar entangled to it. It goes on to say that a Scar can entangle multiple variations, but the Scar's Magnitude has to be equal to or greater than the highest Magnitude Variation + number of additional Variations. So a Magnitude 3 Scar could cover two Magnitude 2 Variations or three Magnitude 1 Variations.

In the example Character Generation on pg 9 of Manuscript #2 they present a character with a Magnitude 3 Variation with one Scar Free Dot from their origin (so I assume is counts as Magnitude 2 for Scar purposes), and a Magnitude 2 Variation. As per the rule I just cited above, they should assign a Magnitude 3 Scar to entangle both Variations, but in the example it looks like they just assigned the same Magnitude 2 Scar to each Variation individually?

Am I just misunderstanding something or is the example wrong?

Octavo
Feb 11, 2019





Bosushi! posted:

Question for you Deviant backers with Manuscript Preview access.

As per rules, every Variation needs an equal magnitude Scar entangled to it. It goes on to say that a Scar can entangle multiple variations, but the Scar's Magnitude has to be equal to or greater than the highest Magnitude Variation + number of additional Variations. So a Magnitude 3 Scar could cover two Magnitude 2 Variations or three Magnitude 1 Variations.

In the example Character Generation on pg 9 of Manuscript #2 they present a character with a Magnitude 3 Variation with one Scar Free Dot from their origin (so I assume is counts as Magnitude 2 for Scar purposes), and a Magnitude 2 Variation. As per the rule I just cited above, they should assign a Magnitude 3 Scar to entangle both Variations, but in the example it looks like they just assigned the same Magnitude 2 Scar to each Variation individually?

Am I just misunderstanding something or is the example wrong?

You can entangle multiple variations with one higher magnitude scars, but that's not necessarily the best way to build your character. Maybe you want different, smaller drawbacks to each power. Or maybe you want your scars to have room to grow so you can get free variations. Scars cap out at 5, so if you entangle 3 level 3 variations with a level 5 scar, those variations are not ever getting more powerful (I think.)

Here's a reformatted chart that explains it a bit:

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Octavo fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Oct 3, 2019

Chernobyl Peace Prize
May 7, 2007

Or later, later's fine.
But now would be good.

Also, it's not really that well-highlighted that you can pick the same Scar at different (or the same) levels for different Variations, under this circumstance:

p60 of Manuscript 3 posted:

Repeatable Controlled Scars may have a different criteria for each purchase, if desired.
Which they use in this example, in order to use Perilous 2 twice, for 2 different effects, which also turns Carapace from Perpetual into Controlled effects (as the Perilous Variation Scar is Controlled, so now the entangled Variations are as well).

Same deal for the different ranks of Deterioration attached to Brachiation and Hyper-Competence.

Free Gratis
Apr 17, 2002

Karate Jazz Wolf

Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:

Also, it's not really that well-highlighted that you can pick the same Scar at different (or the same) levels for different Variations, under this circumstance:

Which they use in this example, in order to use Perilous 2 twice, for 2 different effects, which also turns Carapace from Perpetual into Controlled effects (as the Perilous Variation Scar is Controlled, so now the entangled Variations are as well).

Same deal for the different ranks of Deterioration attached to Brachiation and Hyper-Competence.

I think the "Repeatable" keyword is the context I was missing. So if I understand it right, a Repeatable Scar is one that can be applied individually for each Variation, whereas a Scar that's not Repeatable will have be higher magnitude if it wants to entangle multiple Variations?

Chernobyl Peace Prize
May 7, 2007

Or later, later's fine.
But now would be good.

Bosushi! posted:

I think the "Repeatable" keyword is the context I was missing. So if I understand it right, a Repeatable Scar is one that can be applied individually for each Variation, whereas a Scar that's not Repeatable will have be higher magnitude if it wants to entangle multiple Variations?
That's my reading of it as well, yeah.

Another thing I somehow missed at first was that you can't put multiple Scars on one Variation, so once you get that bad boy up above a couple points, you're going to need a single big drat Scar to go with it.

That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


Has anyone done the "buy the advance PDF, get a discount for the PoD later" thing? How long did it take for the discount coupon to be sent out? I've heard more than a few grumblings about the process. I assume, if it's taking an unacceptable amount of time/forgotten, I'd contact DTRPG first since they'll have the actual sales record?

I Am Just a Box
Jul 20, 2011
I belong here. I contain only inanimate objects. Nothing is amiss.

That Old Tree posted:

Has anyone done the "buy the advance PDF, get a discount for the PoD later" thing? How long did it take for the discount coupon to be sent out? I've heard more than a few grumblings about the process. I assume, if it's taking an unacceptable amount of time/forgotten, I'd contact DTRPG first since they'll have the actual sales record?

I didn't use the coupon I received, but I did back Changeling Second Edition and received the discount coupon on the same day the book was released for general non-backer purchase, January 16th. I would assume that you'd contact Onyx Path if you didn't receive the coupon promptly (I do believe they announce when they're generally going out), and Drivethru if you then use the coupon and it takes too long to arrive or there are printing errors or something.

I Am Just a Box fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Oct 3, 2019

That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


I Am Just a Box posted:

I didn't use the coupon I received, but I did back Changeling Second Edition and received the discount coupon on the same day the book was released for general non-backer purchase, January 16th. I would assume that you'd contact Onyx Path if you didn't receive the coupon promptly (I do believe they announce when they're generally going out), and Drivethru if you then use the coupon and it takes too long to arrive or there are printing errors or something.

I get the impression there's regular trouble getting coupons out for stuff like this as opposed to Kickstarter, for some reason. I've gotten the coupons promptly for all the Kickstarted books I've backed (and never used them since I was already backing for the tradprint), but this is Signs of Sorcery. I'll give it a couple days.

EDIT: In fact, going through my order history it looks like I wound up buying Shunned by the Moon as an advance PDF, and then as PoD without seeing a coupon. Pfft.

That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Oct 3, 2019

I Am Just a Box
Jul 20, 2011
I belong here. I contain only inanimate objects. Nothing is amiss.

That Old Tree posted:

I get the impression there's regular trouble getting coupons out for stuff like this as opposed to Kickstarter, for some reason. I've gotten the coupons promptly for all the Kickstarted books I've backed (and never used them since I was already backing for the tradprint), but this is Signs of Sorcery. I'll give it a couple days.

EDIT: In fact, going through my order history it looks like I wound up buying Shunned by the Moon as an advance PDF, and then as PoD without seeing a coupon. Pfft.

Oh, duh, I didn't read your post correctly. I have bought advance PDFs from DrivethruRPG before too, and I received those coupons the same day of hardcover release as well.

I would just give it a day or two, but not longer than that before tapping Drivethru asking about the coupon. One thing to check, too, is your email settings: you have to be set to receive emails from the publisher through DrivethruRPG on your Drivethru account (the ones OPP uses to constantly spam you about every single book they put out), under "select how I wish to be contacted by publishers." They send the coupon through there.

I Am Just a Box fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Oct 3, 2019

That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


Ah yeah, I turned off all emails forever ago. Feh. Thanks!

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012
Feels good when you take down a lieutenant of the camerilla 💪💪💪

thespaceinvader
Mar 30, 2011

The slightest touch from a Gol-Shogeg will result in Instant Death!
OK, so, Oxford By Night. Yes, a decent bunch of us have been watching LA By Night, yes that's how I got into Vampire. The setting is, broadly speaking, What If Oxford, But With Vampires, and we all have at least some experience of the University and its flaws and foibles and my god is But With Vampires a good explanation for a lot of them! Specifically, Oxford is run by the Tremere, and the Prince keeps the centre of the city (bounded by the rivers, broadly speaking) warded against all Kindred who don't have a particular amulet he can provide. Being there hurts, if you're not wearing it. We recently decided that this amulet is a red crystal decahedron, because wearking a blood die is just a fun twist.

A brief rundown of the dramatis personae

My character: Dr Francis John Albert Lovelace de Quincy Struthers. Born in the late 1790s to a minor landed gentry family, a third or fourth son, not particularly important to anything, so mostly left to his own devices. He went to the University to study science, but back then and this being WoD, he found quite a lot of occult information (don't go into the Forbidden Stacks), and was noted by the Tremere as a good potential convert. But Cambridge is run by Nos and shenanigans happened that essentially led to him being turned byt eh Nos. We've not examined this in detail yet in play, so I'm not 100% sure how it went down, but I do know his sire is in torpor somewhere in the bowels of the city... He was pretty progressive, for his era, believed women should be able to read, write, own land independently, believed colonialism was stupid (but largely because it doesn't work, not because of any inherent flaws to do with, you know, not abusing the natives). He's studied a range of things in the past, starting with science and occultism, moving into engineering and some early 1900s technology, and finally some mathematics and cryptography leading up to WW2 when he was involved with Bletchley Park. After WW2 he moved into Classics and completely loving stagnated, so he's still basically an unreconstructed Georgian toff. But he tries. He's been movign from Mask to Mask as a professor using a generous interpretation of Mask of A Thousand Faces and Wake with Evening's Freshness to supervise one Doctoral student at a time, through the life of each mask, then refreshing the mask each time. He has a haven in one of the colleges, which connects into the library, and his herd is students using the library. His current Mask is in his 70s, and will need replacing soon. This will almost certainly cause problems to which I gleefully look forward. In short, he speaks incredibly posh, he's very driven by academics and ettiquette, he knew and hated Cecil Rhodes, but he still calls it Rhodesia. His ambitions are to do with expanding and spreading knowledge.

Kitty Argument. A (possibly fairly schlocky) urban fantasy novelist of fairly significant fame (somewhere around Stephen King level maybe, someone who's known and recognised in the genre, but might be vaguely half-recognised elsewhere) who essentially found herself writing a little too close to the truth. Very into the occult as a mortal, possibly ended up researching in the wrong parts of the libraries (don't go into the Forbidden Stacks!!), and was noticed by the Tremere. She was successfully turned by the Tremere, however, and is now a young up-and-coming leading light amongst them. She continues to be a moderately famous urban fantasy writer, but is no steering firmly away from anything too realistic, and thanks to her mortal connections is something of a PR person for the local Cam. Her herd is her fans and she has (or possibly had, more on that later) a stalker. She's young and attractive and an absolute terror with Awe, and very canny and perspicacious. She has a specialism in knowledge of occult creatures, and routinely ends up with 10-die pools.

Esther Brandt. A Malkavian, with damaging levels of perfectionism as her curse along possibly with the mythical flaw of counting seeds etc, turned during her PhD studies in neuroscience for reasons which are currently a little obscure, sometime around 3 months ago. She's very outspoken and willing to speak truth to power, and she's varying between utterly offended by how completely unscientific all of this is, and utterly fascinated to see whether she can figure out the how of it all, including for instance sticking test subjects in FMRI machines and seeing how their brains work when just told to do something, as opposed to Compelled, etc. She has Iron Gullet and is able to take nourishment from dead blood, which frequiently proves handy, as she works out of a teaching hospital which has a blood bank.

That is our Nerd Squad.

Charles 'Sledge' Hammer. Brujah anarch, owns a vampire-friendly nightclub outside the Tremere forbidding. Former boxer, big and stacked even before he was turned. Also former mortal-drug dealer, turned prisoner, turned former prisoner, now vampire-drug dealer. He is concerned with furthering the lot of the anarchs in the city, and trying to bring the anarchs and the camarilla in the city together. Has copious contacts among the anarchs, a lot of resources, several ghouls, and what seems to be a pretty major chip on his shoulder. In his mid-30s when he was turned during the 90s.

Andy Travers, aka Andy Is Not a Vampire. Andy is an amazing character who has been incredibly interesting and incredibly fun to interact with and develop. Andy was a reporter for the Oxford Mail, who was digging into some weeeeird poo poo going down in Oxford during the time running up to the big kick-off with the Tremere in 2008 (more on that story later), as a result of which, he was turned by the same Malkavian who would later turn Esther to try to clean this all up. Andy was then abandoned, and fell fully into his Malkavian curse, which was the sincere belief that he was not a vampire. He lived that way for ten years, believeing he had a weird sunlight allergy, that he was some sort of serial killer. His fiancee left him because he was acting deeply irrationally, his dog hated him, it hurt to be in the town centre unless he was wearing a certain neclace, it was super weird.

Our coterie met up when Andy was found outside Sledge's club, having succumbed to his beast and nearly kileld a student, which was session 0.

Session 1, coming soon.

thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Oct 5, 2019

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


My next vampire game is kicking off soon and I'm so excited to test out the 2nd Ed. Requiem powers.

The first dot of Nightmare basically being a free horror-themed minor illusion is going to be extremely fun.

I'm playing a Nos with Nurturer/Rebel Mask and Dirge. He's a smart kid who recently graduated highschool but his academics suffered because he needed to take care of his disabled father.
He's also pretty ugly to start with. Basically L from Death Note but more like a frog. So he's been bullied a ton in his life, even got beaten up and nearly killed at one point. The school administrators, of course, did nothing about it.

We haven't done the embrace (all the games have us starting as fledglings) so I don't know what the larger themes will be. However, he's going to always be on the line between being compassionate to the downtrodden and viscously opposed to bullies and authority. I suspect he's actually going to be extremely excited about being a vampire at first and not really understand the horrific implications for a while.

Edit: Since this is my first time being a player in a long time and the ST is new, I've given her a ton of things to take away or threaten with this character. The primary goal for playing a Nos is the ensure at every opportunity that he's not a brooding edgelord.
He's very optimistic and has a genuinely good relationship with his dad.
His world is going to shatter and I can't wait to play it.

Inzombiac fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Oct 3, 2019

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

Entrapta fucking loves robots




Grimey Drawer
Those are awesome. My facebook pbp group is organizing a vtr game. I'm having fun designing my Daeva health goth personal trainer who uses powdered vitae in her client's smoothies as a workout enhancement. Going Guru/Cult Leader for mask and dirge. Also being super goth with the name Raven Frostclaw. If anyone ever finds out and uses her birthname, it'll probably be a breaking point.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


I cannot imagine using fb for pbp, it might be the worst way to communicate on earth. I'm forced to use it for my LARP fpr downtimes and stuff and I hate it more than i hate the joyless players in it

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

Entrapta fucking loves robots




Grimey Drawer
It's taken a few years for me to iron the kinks out, but not all of my FB pals are goons so I can't just make a thread here. Once you work around facebook's limits it's not really any different than normal pbp.

Make a private group. Start every scene with an image post so you can find it by searching the group images, tag the image with the story/chapter/scene. This is really only needed so you can go and look over old stuff. All actions in the scene are replies to the OP, with clarification stuff in replies to individual comments. Since you can bold or italicize text, use parenthesis and brackets. Pin your setting information and rules. Also use group chat for OOC silliness and have a dedicated OOC thread for memes and poo poo so you can have a chance of finding posts by scrolling.

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

thespaceinvader posted:

That is our Nerd Squad.

Those are some fun characters. I especially like the idea of a Malkavian neurologist.

Loomer
Dec 19, 2007

A Very Special Hell
One of these days I want to record a WoD podcast that's very specifically a paranormal radio show on the nights really weird poo poo goes down with knock-on impacts in the mortal world - so the night of Doissetep's fall, for instance where an ordinary night's 'so, ufos - real or bullshit?' is disrupted by callers saying 'Art, my computer screen just turned into a screaming face for a few seconds' and 'Stonehenge is gone, man! STONEHENGE IS JUST GONE!' For maximum effect any time it gets too blatant we can follow the Area 51 caller formula where suddenly the show vanishes and is replaced by a loop from a prior episode of normal content because of a 'satellite failure'.

joylessdivision
Jun 15, 2013



Loomer posted:

One of these days I want to record a WoD podcast that's very specifically a paranormal radio show on the nights really weird poo poo goes down with knock-on impacts in the mortal world - so the night of Doissetep's fall, for instance where an ordinary night's 'so, ufos - real or bullshit?' is disrupted by callers saying 'Art, my computer screen just turned into a screaming face for a few seconds' and 'Stonehenge is gone, man! STONEHENGE IS JUST GONE!' For maximum effect any time it gets too blatant we can follow the Area 51 caller formula where suddenly the show vanishes and is replaced by a loop from a prior episode of normal content because of a 'satellite failure'.

You've kinda described my Malkavian SPC I came up with the other day. Hosts a podcast (I might go AM radio, haven't decided) about the paranormal, mixing legit WoD poo poo with fake stuff to keep the listening audience on its toes.

Strange minds think alike.

Archonex
May 2, 2012

MY OPINION IS SEERS OF THE THRONE PROPAGANDA IGNORE MY GNOSIS-IMPAIRED RAMBLINGS

Dawgstar posted:

Those are some fun characters. I especially like the idea of a Malkavian neurologist.

This seems about as likely to end as well as a pyromaniac becoming a firefighter. So yeah. Fun times I guess.

Shrecknet posted:

I cannot imagine using fb for pbp, it might be the worst way to communicate on earth. I'm forced to use it for my LARP fpr downtimes and stuff and I hate it more than i hate the joyless players in it

This makes me wonder what people decades from now are gonna think when they see a bunch of pretentious vampires posting on archived Facebook pages without the benefit of knowing what VtM is.

"Guys, guys, I think i've cracked the code! This guy called Raven Nyte is talking to his friends and I think they're actually all secretly vampires!"

Archonex fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Oct 4, 2019

Xinder
Apr 27, 2013

i want to be a prince
The new Deviant preview was sent out and this is my first exposure to the conspiracy stats.

They’re amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited to run a game as i am about Deviant.

Chernobyl Peace Prize
May 7, 2007

Or later, later's fine.
But now would be good.

Xinder posted:

The new Deviant preview was sent out and this is my first exposure to the conspiracy stats.

They’re amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited to run a game as i am about Deviant.

quote:

Harmonious Community Interaction Algorithm: Members of the Moderation Team offer specialized management training to all members of the conspiracy, teaching them how to direct the collective behavior of the common people.
Deviant confirms: No mods, no masters.

Lord_Hambrose
Nov 21, 2008

*a foul hooting fills the air*



Archonex posted:

This seems about as likely to end as well as a pyromaniac becoming a firefighter. So yeah. Fun times I guess.

The best part is getting to decide who has mental problems because of biology/trauma and who was just cursed by God.

thespaceinvader
Mar 30, 2011

The slightest touch from a Gol-Shogeg will result in Instant Death!
The early sessions of the campaign are a little bit of a blur, unfortunately, as I only really started making coherent notes after London (more on that story later...)

Here's a more detailed recap of session 0, and a brief rundown of session 1:

Session 0, and backstory. I will note that a lot of this backstory I suspect isn't perfectly aligned with the TTRPG universe, as our ST learned a lot of lore from Bloodlines.

The Tremere are a big part of the campaign, so obviously the raid on Vienna in 2008 played a huge part in the backstory, as all the intricate web of bloodbonding that HAD been keeping central Oxford warded and all the Cam firmly under the thumb of the Prince, Lo Ren, collapsed in a massive night of chaos and violence which was masqueraded as a worse-than-usual May Day celebration. During that time, Struthers' Sire was torpored, Andy was Embraced, and IIRC Sledge took a good run at the centre along with most of the Anarchs before being repulsed shortly before dawn. The wards were re-raised the following night.

Andy had, as noted, been living a crushingly difficult life in the belief that he is just a spectacularly messed-up human, and on one of his trips into East Oxford, succumbed to his beast's urging and attacked someone outside Sledge's club. This event brought the coterie together, Sledge was brought into the Cam and granted something like domain over his club and East Oxford more generally (to the chagrin of the Baron, Paul Rudkin), and the coterie was formed, in order to take Andy under their wing, keep him out of the way, and see if they could work out what the gently caress, exactly. Kitty was brought in as a test for her ascension from a novice to the main ranks of the Tremere, Struthers just... to get him out of the way, most likely, and Esther as a young Malkavian who needed some education.

Session 1 saw the group meeting up at Sledge's club on the night of the beginning of freshers' week tasked with tracking down a set of Thinblood alchemist drug dealers, who had made some fun Vampire drugs, a study drug called Cram, a hallucinogen called Violet, and a party drug whose name I forget without checking my notes. But who, much mor worryingly, had been immplicated in some major and fairly unsubtle human trafficking for the purposes of making those drugs in a very masquerade-breachy sort of way. We tracked down their house, and raided it a bit whilst they were out, with the sneaky amongst us going in the back, and the less sneaky waiting at the front to be let in. Along the way, Andy was stricken by complicated visions - our ST has some amazing visions written, some of which seem to just be triggered by the mention of certain words, others of which are more session specific I think - which seemed to related to the fall of empires, if Struthers' Latin was correct.

Esther went upstairs with Sledge, and got her hands on a computer. Her very, very nerdy hands which have 7 or 8 dice base at Technology rolls. And thus began the tradition of our ST just stright up handing over a page of the book when we find out stuff. Because we find out lots of stuff. Nerd Squad yeah. Plus, Sledge raided a safe, securing a whole mess of very valuable drugs and cash.

Andy and Kitty went to the basement, finding a couple of local teenagers babysitting some fairly obviously kidnapped kids. Andy revealed that he thought this was some sort of Neighbourhood Watch dealy, to everyone's amusement, and Kitty was able to use her wiles and her Awe to corral everyone into leaving, btu not before one of the kids rang their contact in the dealers to check up. The kids were being hustled out just as the dealers arrived, to find things not as they were left. Struthers had waited upstairs (nicking a few bits of the dealers' gear including an ID printing machine, because one of his convictionsfelt like it demanded it, they were counterfeiting University library cards, the cheek), and heard them coming, making his way to the door and blocking it with a foot as they tried to open it, before swiftly repeating as it was clear that were charging it, which was funny. They charged into the room to meet Sledge's fist coming the other way, to unsurprising effect. Struthers stayed behind to finish off the cheeky sod (and ended up drinking him dry when he was full of Cram, which was a little unfortunate), and was bombarded with acid (something like corrosive vitae, but that doesn't normally affect vampires, weird - yes, it turns out, we needed to read the rules a little more closely as a group) and throwing knives as the rest arrived, before using Soaring Leap to get out of the house, allowing Kitty to seal the door with her own vitae, and us all to hustle the kids away and hand them over to a contact in the police who could deal with them in a masquerade-friendly manner. We also leaned a bit on the Baron at the same time to help out.

The group discovered various things about the thinbloods and their organisation from the stolen computer data, as well as the nature of one of their contacts within the Cam (who we still haven't followed up on 6 or so sessions later), and Struthers whilst on Cram (which adds 2 to your mental stats :O) was basically able to work out exactly how Thinblood Alchemy works, allowing the whole group to take it more cheaply if we want, though I think nobody has yet), which blinking in and out of cloak of shadows involuntarily.

It was a mostly fairly standard first session, we were all feeling out our characters and the rules a great deal, and getting an idea of just how much backstory there was in this game.

Also, the beginnings of the game being genuinely funny, a lot of the time. Even in this sessions there were some prime moments of comedy, and it only gets better/worse later on. We keep having to stop, re-centre, and remind ourselves that this is a Serious Game For Serious People.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

Entrapta fucking loves robots




Grimey Drawer

joylessdivision posted:

You've kinda described my Malkavian SPC I came up with the other day. Hosts a podcast (I might go AM radio, haven't decided) about the paranormal, mixing legit WoD poo poo with fake stuff to keep the listening audience on its toes.

Strange minds think alike.

My WtF game has a conspiracy theory website that releases trashy updates. Only those in the supernatural community know that some of the stories are actually updates on the state of the city, and use it as a resource.

Chernobyl Peace Prize
May 7, 2007

Or later, later's fine.
But now would be good.

Soonmot posted:

My WtF game has a conspiracy theory website that releases trashy updates. Only those in the supernatural community know that some of the stories are actually updates on the state of the city, and use it as a resource.
The difference between a Hunter in Darkness and King of the Hill's Dale Gribble is that an HiD is more likely to be able to climb a fence. And that's it.

TwoWordName
Jan 3, 2013


Xinder posted:

The new Deviant preview was sent out and this is my first exposure to the conspiracy stats.

They’re amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited to run a game as i am about Deviant.

The conspiracy system was my last OPP project so I'm pretty happy people seem excited about it.

Tuxedo Catfish
Mar 17, 2007

You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.
I had no interest in Deviant based on the premise and how closely it followed the Contagion Chronicle, but the positive word of mouth here is encouraging.

joylessdivision
Jun 15, 2013



Soonmot posted:

My WtF game has a conspiracy theory website that releases trashy updates. Only those in the supernatural community know that some of the stories are actually updates on the state of the city, and use it as a resource.

That's basically how I'm planning to use her, throw out plot hooks to see what the players chase after.

Like those strange reports of large wolves in Golden Gate Park.....

I Am Just a Box
Jul 20, 2011
I belong here. I contain only inanimate objects. Nothing is amiss.

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

I had no interest in Deviant based on the premise and how closely it followed the Contagion Chronicle, but the positive word of mouth here is encouraging.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the Contagion Chronicle, except in the sense that the CC book itself brings up Deviant like it brings up everything else. The Deviant book doesn't bring up the Contagion.

Even from a design or style standpoint, the Deviant book doesn't read anything like the Contagion book. It's tightly designed, clear on what it's talking about, and lacks the Contagion Chronicle's tendency to go all over the place with superficial connections.

I Am Just a Box fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Oct 4, 2019

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

Entrapta fucking loves robots




Grimey Drawer

Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:

The difference between a Hunter in Darkness and King of the Hill's Dale Gribble is that an HiD is more likely to be able to climb a fence. And that's it.

Fun fact: The person who runs it is the only good thing from Beast, Sleeping Beauty. She kind of grew organically from a throwaway NPC my players codesigned in the first scene and grew attached to. An eyepatch wearing rockabilly with a diner waitress motif and an immunity to supernatural mindcontrol after surviving her ordeal.

Tuxedo Catfish
Mar 17, 2007

You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.

I Am Just a Box posted:

It has absolutely nothing to do with the Contagion Chronicle, except in the sense that the CC book itself brings up Deviant like it brings up everything else. The Deviant book doesn't bring up the Contagion.

Even from a design or style standpoint, the Deviant book doesn't read anything like the Contagion book. It's tightly designed, clear on what it's talking about, and lacks the Contagion Chronicle's tendency to go all over the place with superficial connections.

Yeah, it wasn't a fair association on my part.

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


I Am Just a Box posted:

It has absolutely nothing to do with the Contagion Chronicle, except in the sense that the CC book itself brings up Deviant like it brings up everything else. The Deviant book doesn't bring up the Contagion.

Even from a design or style standpoint, the Deviant book doesn't read anything like the Contagion book. It's tightly designed, clear on what it's talking about, and lacks the Contagion Chronicle's tendency to go all over the place with superficial connections.

This probably isn't the right place but would you mind talking about writing for OPP?

I do TTRPG design work in my free time and would like to transition to paid work of at all possible.

I Am Just a Box
Jul 20, 2011
I belong here. I contain only inanimate objects. Nothing is amiss.

Inzombiac posted:

This probably isn't the right place but would you mind talking about writing for OPP?

I do TTRPG design work in my free time and would like to transition to paid work of at all possible.

I don't write for OPP. I just keep track of what they're doing and like interjecting answers.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Soonmot posted:

Fun fact: The person who runs it is the only good thing from Beast, Sleeping Beauty. She kind of grew organically from a throwaway NPC my players codesigned in the first scene and grew attached to. An eyepatch wearing rockabilly with a diner waitress motif and an immunity to supernatural mindcontrol after surviving her ordeal.

Beast also gave us the Dream Warriors compact in Hunter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noLPhZvcBpw

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


I Am Just a Box posted:

I don't write for OPP. I just keep track of what they're doing and like interjecting answers.

Whoops, I got you mixed up with TwoWordName, I think.

Imma just got take a nap.

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Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

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Inzombiac posted:

This probably isn't the right place but would you mind talking about writing for OPP?

I do TTRPG design work in my free time and would like to transition to paid work of at all possible.

I write for OPP, albeit only on Scion right now.

The process that got me in was sending in an email using the rules on their all-call blogpost, and then bugging the Scion dev to remind him to read it on time because Neall is stupid busy. Then I waited a while and after a bit I got asked if I wanted to do some writing for Demigod.

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