Angry Lobster posted:

Hey people, some Vampire: the Masquerade news:

New Vampire: the Masquerade comic preview.



Set in the V5 lore, looks decent enough, I guess?

Angry Lobster posted:

Tias posted:

How much are V:TES cards going for these days? A good friend is in dire straits and has a bunch of unopened Berlin con 'Anthology' reprint bundles, are they worth real money?

Angry Lobster posted:

It depends on a lot of different factors, but yeah, if he has sealed Berlin Anthologies they are bound to be worth something, as they were special limited editions to be sold only to the attendants of the Berlin European Championship, they were worth 20€ initially. Although it's true that all those cards have been reprinted in recent years and are available on retail, the Berling Anthology cards have different art, so that's worth more for collectionists. It also helps a ton if you live in the US, for some reason the market there is much more willing to pay more for fancy cardboard than us Europeans.

Tias posted:

We live in Denmark, does that mean there's no legal option to sell them in the US? Or?

Tias posted:

Friend asks: Would it make sense to hold onto the decks, then? They're sealed and don't take up a lot of space, after all.

Soonmot posted:

Has anyone played the new edition of Scion yet? On a whim, be I volunteered to run a pbp for one of my meme shitposting groups and scion won the poll. Should I start then off work origins or jump straight to hero? Hero is where they're children of the gods, origin is what, gifted mortals?

That Old Tree posted:

Scion 2e is pretty good once you get a handle on it, but the core rules are edited and arranged a little poorly, especially the combat mechanics. You'll want to get it figured out well ahead of time at least for yourself so you can explain/adjudicate for your players.

Nessus posted:

I'm in a Scion game right now. I will not dare to claim that they are "good" rules, but they do not get in the way of the stories Scion is trying to tell, and can often open up cool alternative ideas if you think laterally.

I think it depends on what you want to do honestly. In terms of power level, Origin is like "mortal-plus," Hero (even at fairly low levels) becomes a completely different beast, if in my opinion a very cool one. You can easily segue from Origin to Hero. Scion 2E provides you with a few options for "why you are touched by godpower," which are, based on my memory, "Literal child/descendant," "adopted/imbued with power," "directly created by the god in question," and "you're the reincarnation of that god, who either died somehow or is doing some kind of life cycle thing, roll with it."

Dawgstar posted:

Have they done away with the 'if you want to succeed in combat, I hope for the love of Bast/Ares/Freya/etc. you went all in on Dexterity?"

Mors Rattus posted:

Yes.

Dawgstar posted:

I had to ask, only because I played a character whose deal was they were strong but not fast and that led to a lot of awkward shuffling on the ST's part as they had to recalculate several things, often on the fly.

Soonmot posted:

from looking over the die pool rules, you can basically roll any attribute+combat skill if your character can justify it.

citybeatnik posted:

Well drat i'll have to look in to that then, if only to try and play a hummingbird loving latino aiming to become a Demidad.

Nessus posted:

This is actually kind of close to one of the signature characters. (I found the signature characters to be a weak link in the game's presentation, but you know what: That's pretty small potatoes, when the sig characters are the thing you remember not being great.)

That Old Tree posted:

Scion 2e is pretty good once you get a handle on it, but the core rules are edited and arranged a little poorly, especially the combat mechanics. You'll want to get it figured out well ahead of time at least for yourself so you can explain/adjudicate for your players.

Soonmot posted:

drat, I joked, but you were right.

So let's see if I have this right

1) I declare who I'm going to attack
2)they roll their defense attribute to generate successes for stunts, one of these stunts just straight up makes it harder to hit you and this lasts the whole turn. This is reflexive.
3) I roll my combat pool and have to generate more successes than their default defense of 1, unless they've put successes into the defend stunt, in which case it's 1+stunt
4)If I beat that I inflict 1 health box and spend the rest of the successes on stunts, a critical stunt that costs 4 successes allows me to inflict 2 total health boxes.

So what happens to their defense when multiple attackers are involved? I know it says they only roll it once, which is fine, because the stunts last all turn, but if they've used the defend stunt to boost their defense to 5, does every attack against them that round need to beat 5 successes, or does that decrease by 1 like in WoD?

Soonmot posted:

Great, thank you! The line in the book at first attack and defense threw me for a loop. I totally forgot about enhancements. Those are successes added AFTER you've rolled at least 1 and not extra dice added to the roll?

Rockpapershotgun posted:

“Until recently, I was the Narrative Lead on a videogame called Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 for Hardsuit Labs, Inc being published by Paradox Interactive (which owns 30% of Hardsuit Labs). After almost five years involvement with the studio, I was suddenly terminated on 7/16/20.

That this came as a shock to me is underselling it. I’ve worked on Bloodlines 2 for almost five years. The story and main cast was initially conceived in my living room. I helped develop the pitch for Hardsuit Labs and helped pitch the project to Paradox in Las Vegas. I’ve been in charge of the narrative since the beginning, working long days and sometimes weekends to deliver a successor to Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, and I’ve never been led to believe that I hadn’t succeeded. Very obviously, I have also been involved in the PR and marketing side of things, even though it was one of the most difficult parts for me. I’m a pretty private person – press and crowds tend to heavily trigger my social anxiety (which, if you’ve ever wondered about the gloves, they are “armor” that make me feel less exposed in situations that trigger my anxiety).

Bloodlines and the fandom of the game mean the world to me. So I lent my legacy with the franchise, my name, and my participation in marketing efforts for the game, even when it was intensely difficult and took a mental and physical toll. This is all because I wanted to do what was best for the game and the team.

The pride in the work, the fan expectations, and the support from co-workers who started out as fans kept me going through this long five years. And I’m incredibly disappointed and frustrated to say that this is where it ends for me on the project.

I was not part of the conversations that led to the decision to delay production, and to my knowledge, there were no delays caused by the Bloodlines 2 narrative development. I am confident and proud of the work that I and my team put forward. When that work will be seen and what form it will take is unknown to me.

It was a pleasure to work on this game and with many people at Hardsuit Labs and Paradox and I’m sorry I won’t be able to see it to the end. I spent years on some of the best characters and dialogue that I ever wrote. It’s meant a lot to hear from the Bloodlines community and I do hope that what’s finally delivered is as satisfying as I intended it to be. Thanks to all of you who supported me throughout the project.”

Basic Chunnel posted:

Remember how it couldn't get worse than this?

quote:

“Not once could he answer any question about moment-to-moment gameplay or areas of focus,” says one source. “Instead, he preferred to deliver buzzword-laden rambles… It was not uncommon for him to communicate in onomatopoeia.

"I once saw him looking over the shoulder of a programmer at some bit of User Interface the poor guy had hacked together. He straightened up, put fingers to lips and said, ‘No, this isn't it at all. Make it more... psssshhhh’ He hissed on his loving fingertips, like the air coming out of a bicycle tire, and then just walked away.”

I Am Just a Box posted:

It's bad, but it still doesn't sound as bad as