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Old Doggy Bastard posted:I知 trying to figure out how one would mechanically stat out a hook-on-a-chain weapon for a V20 game I知 a player in, and was wondering if anyone would have some suggestions or ideas. I was thinking of a sort of meat hook or grappling hook style end with a mid-length chain, so that it could be held up at the hook normally. Sounds like a kusarigama, which probably exists in one of the WoD books somewhere. You could even throw in a little ironic fluff about the choice of weapon, since in the real world the kusarigama was apparently a great weapon to use against swords during their heyday, and everybody knows vampires and vampire hunters are obsessed with katanas. Roadie fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Jul 31, 2021 |
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Old Doggy Bastard posted:I知 trying to figure out how one would mechanically stat out a hook-on-a-chain weapon for a V20 game I知 a player in, and was wondering if anyone would have some suggestions or ideas. I was thinking of a sort of meat hook or grappling hook style end with a mid-length chain, so that it could be held up at the hook normally. I've seen a couple of fan versions that had it at like STR+2 damage plus being able to grapple, concealable in a jacket.
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Jul 31, 2021 04:18
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Roadie posted:Sounds like a kusarigama, which probably exists in one of the WoD books somewhere. Although the exception is the vampire hunters obsessed with chain weapons...
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Jul 31, 2021 05:52
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Derek Fcking Carr posted:What would you think of playing in this sort of game? Hell yeah. It looks like you've thought it through and got where you need to be - is there a specific concern you have? For my two cents as long as the person running the game is upfront with the whys and wherefores about these kind of changes they usually work out. I'd certainly wouldn't blink at rolling up a character for it.
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Jul 31, 2021 05:52
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Since I might go with the Musketeers Dark Era, I知 wondering: did they ever do anything in either WoDs with the Man in the Iron Mask?
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Jul 31, 2021 07:18
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MonsieurChoc posted:Since I might go with the Musketeers Dark Era, I知 wondering: did they ever do anything in either WoDs with the Man in the Iron Mask? I think the WoD Dark ages logo for the Nosferatu had an iron mask/helmet in it, but beyond that, no.
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Jul 31, 2021 13:09
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Must have been convenient being able to claim you were just a leper or plague victim back then.
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Aug 1, 2021 04:16
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Crasical posted:Must have been convenient being able to claim you were just a leper or plague victim back then.
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Aug 1, 2021 04:38
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Do any vampires just cover up a ton and go out in the day or does the daylight not give a gently caress about covering and just wreck any vamps regardless
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FirstAidKite posted:Do any vampires just cover up a ton and go out in the day or does the daylight not give a gently caress about covering and just wreck any vamps regardless My understanding is that A) it's actually really hard for a vampire to get up during the day at all and B) sunlight fucks your poo poo up pretty much no matter what.
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Aug 1, 2021 05:46
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FirstAidKite posted:Do any vampires just cover up a ton and go out in the day or does the daylight not give a gently caress about covering and just wreck any vamps regardless By canon, there's very little that can be done since even sunlight at dusk and dawn is deadly. So I went off the deep end and started digging into illuminance values to measure things and go from there and the stuff I came up with is not favorable at all. I could give you my full table of crazy if you'd like though.
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Aug 1, 2021 06:25
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FirstAidKite posted:Do any vampires just cover up a ton and go out in the day or does the daylight not give a gently caress about covering and just wreck any vamps regardless By Requiem 2e rules, at Blood Potency 1 and and Humanity 7 or higher, a vampire can cover every inch of skin and go out in the daytime, provided they can expend the great mental effort to stay awake at all, and they'll still feel real lovely the whole time. But any but most freshly-embraced kindred is gonna start smoking no matter how many layers they're wearing.
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Aug 1, 2021 07:39
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Crasical posted:Must have been convenient being able to claim you were just a leper or plague victim back then. One of the coolest bits of Dark Age Vampire stuff is exactly this - the Nosferatu emerge as simultaneous protectors and exploiters of lepers and merge in with the Leper Knights and similar monastic orders, creating a ton of ghouls. Their blood doesn't cure leprosy but it does mean that they don't suffer the same loss of extremities due to infections. Living in a Nosferatu leper colony is probably the single best bit of medical care you could hope for unless you could afford your own physick.
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Aug 1, 2021 08:52
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So our LA game spanning the late 40s, mid 60s, and now the 80s is ramping up to its conclusion. Last session had my Malkavian using a Technocratic tower to attempt a countermeasure to the Syndicate's plan to use the 1984 movie to spread comformity. Said countermeasure involved my Malk, who has slowly evolved from a cowardly neonate to a still cowardly ancillae driven by the desire to spread The Flood (he was one of the first "infected" by Dementation), using the Network to summon all the Anarch malkavians in the city to give him the juice necessary to transmit the Madness Network. This plan worked so well that it sucked up all the Malkavians present save him to the Network where they're all pretty happy. Meanwhile my guy is basically Moses not allowed to enter the Promised Land because his Work isn't done. The end result? He kickstarted the Satanic Panic and laid the groundwork for the 90s Swing resurgence, the latter of which he identified as a necessary step for the destruction of the Vienna chantry decades down the line. So it's basically Local Cainite Ruins Everything. The upside is that he learned that the mysterious pirate radio DJ that alternates between giving on the nose hints of what is going on and reading recipies like Conway Tweety's Burgers is actually him.
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Aug 1, 2021 17:47
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ZiegeDame posted:By Requiem 2e rules, at Blood Potency 1 and and Humanity 7 or higher, a vampire can cover every inch of skin and go out in the daytime, provided they can expend the great mental effort to stay awake at all, and they'll still feel real lovely the whole time. But any but most freshly-embraced kindred is gonna start smoking no matter how many layers they're wearing. Pretty sure Ordo Dracul can also buy some special whatever-they池e-calleds to make daytime existence easier. But even then you池e just sprinting across a courtyard taking lethal damage at best instead of being instantly obliterated.
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Aug 1, 2021 18:04
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So I kind of zone out and don't pay attention to my kickstarter backer emails, I probably should pay closer attention to them but whatever, mea culpa. but I noticed in the update for the Changeling 2e kickstarter they mention the PDFS for Oak, Ash, and Thorn shipped. Anyone know what's in that book?
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Crasical posted:So I kind of zone out and don't pay attention to my kickstarter backer emails, I probably should pay closer attention to them but whatever, mea culpa. Systems for building Tokens, Entitlements, alternate Mantles, and Freeholds.
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Aug 2, 2021 00:48
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citybeatnik posted:So our LA game spanning the late 40s, mid 60s, and now the 80s is ramping up to its conclusion. Last session had my Malkavian using a Technocratic tower to attempt a countermeasure to the Syndicate's plan to use the 1984 movie to spread comformity. This Malk rules lol.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:37
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Attorney at Funk posted:Systems for building Tokens, Entitlements, alternate Mantles, and Freeholds. Hmm! That's all cool stuff. I was kinda hoping pie-in-the-sky for some reworked hedgespinning and oneiromancy and pledgecrafting rules, but those are all interesting.
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Aug 2, 2021 05:06
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Crasical posted:Hmm! That's all cool stuff. There's a Hedge book working its way through the OPP pipeline right now, but you know how that goes.
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Aug 2, 2021 05:38
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Which version of mage is the best one? If that isnt specific enough, which is the easiest to teach to a group of players that have only ever played dnd?
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Mage: the Awakening is the best. 2e is probably harder to teach than 1e but not by much, and generally superior.
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All the 2e books get way, way easier for a new group to use if you have reference cards for all the Tilts and Conditions from the back of the book, since there are just too many of both.
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Rubix Squid posted:By canon, there's very little that can be done since even sunlight at dusk and dawn is deadly. So I went off the deep end and started digging into illuminance values to measure things and go from there and the stuff I came up with is not favorable at all. I could give you my full table of crazy if you'd like though.
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Aug 2, 2021 12:09
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It's been a long rear end while since I've thought about oWoD, but yes I'm pretty sure that Fortitude 3 was sufficient to tank twilight or heavy cloud cover.
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Mage is never really going to be easy but Awakening 2e is going to do you a lot of favors. Mostly I'm posting to reiterate that you want to have tilts and conditions on a very quick reference set up, whether that's cards or a second copy of the pdf or a spreadsheet, it feels very bad to flip the book constantly.
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I have been thinking about running a Control style Technocracy thing during October as a kind of Halloween thing and boy I had forgotten what Ascension was like. Pretty sure it is going to have to be pre-gens because even I get worried when I look at the page count on M20. Not that you need to read all of it by any means but still.
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Awakening is the one 2E game I prefer to it's 1E version, with the caveat that I'm still gonna sue the poo poo-ton of books I bought.
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Rubix Squid posted:By canon, there's very little that can be done since even sunlight at dusk and dawn is deadly. So I went off the deep end and started digging into illuminance values to measure things and go from there and the stuff I came up with is not favorable at all. I could give you my full table of crazy if you'd like though. I want to say Thin-Bloods in VTM or V5 also get slightly downgraded damage from the sun, but I am not 100% sure.
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Pakxos posted:I want to say Thin-Bloods in VTM or V5 also get slightly downgraded damage from the sun, but I am not 100% sure. 15th Gen in VtM take lethal instead of Agg but since they have to spend 2 bp to either raise a stat by 1 or heal it it's still expensive in the long run. Thinbloods in v5 can have a merit that halves their health and keeps them from using disciplines with no other impact.
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Nessus posted:Isn't there a point around Fortitude 3 or 4 where you start being able to, if not 'tank' sunlight, reliably resist incidental minor sunlight problems? I wouldn't say so. Even if you've got Fortitude 5 and are in the lowest possible amount of sunlight that can still damage you (that is, 1 aggravated wound per round), you are still rolling those five dice every three seconds. It's probably pretty safe to, like, dash from one doorway to another but you can't just stay out there.
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Derek Fcking Carr posted:I would like a feedback about an idea: This is Cool and Good and I would like to play this game.
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I got it! I got my chronicle idea for Saber, lily and thorn. The Man In The Iron Mask is a True Fae that got captured by mortals/hunters. The iron is a binding. Some Changelings learn this somehow and that starts the ball rolling between those that want to use it, kill it or free it.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I got it! I got my chronicle idea for Saber, lily and thorn. ...this self-evidently rules. Like, how was that not already a suggested plot hook? It was RIGHT THERE. Throw in some inter-Arcadian politics or eldritch pact bullshit his death would violate to gave your PCs a reason to not just merk him when they figure it out and you're golden.
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The way I got it figured out so far is that there are four main factions: - The Autumn Court, who want to kidnap Iron Maks and experiment on him to find out more about the True Fae. - The Summer Court, who want to just merk him. - Loyalists and Privateers, who want to free him. - The Malleus Maleficarum, who are the ones who imprisoned him in the first place. I think they exist at this time? The leader of the Autumn Court will be a Richelieu pastiche, even using the title of Cardinal instead of King. The initial leak would be to him, by a Jesuit spy who infiltrated the Malleus (the Jesuits don't trust this fringe organization) who might be Aramis or just inspired by Aramis, I haven't decided if I'm gonna use the actual Musketeers characters yet. Digital Osmosis posted:...this self-evidently rules. Like, how was that not already a suggested plot hook? It was RIGHT THERE. Throw in some inter-Arcadian politics or eldritch pact bullshit his death would violate to gave your PCs a reason to not just merk him when they figure it out and you're golden. Not a bad idea, I was counting on the faction fighting being enough but a complication like that would help.
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Rubix Squid posted:By canon, there's very little that can be done since even sunlight at dusk and dawn is deadly. Speaking of which, is there a canon statement on which dawn and dusk we're talking about when it comes to when a vampire rises? Do they have to wait for the last rays of sunlight to fade, or is the Sun dipping below the horizon enough? Though even with the most generous interpretations only being awake for nighttime sounds like a pain in the rear end if you're the busy sort.
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YaketySass posted:Speaking of which, is there a canon statement on which dawn and dusk we're talking about when it comes to when a vampire rises? Do they have to wait for the last rays of sunlight to fade, or is the Sun dipping below the horizon enough? If you can see the sun, the sun can see you. If the sun can see you, you're on fire.
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TheCenturion posted:If you can see the sun, the sun can see you. If the sun can see you, you're on fire. 
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MonsieurChoc posted:I got it! I got my chronicle idea for Saber, lily and thorn. This. This is the kind of poo poo that makes me love the nWoD. Thank you.
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YaketySass posted:Speaking of which, is there a canon statement on which dawn and dusk we're talking about when it comes to when a vampire rises? Do they have to wait for the last rays of sunlight to fade, or is the Sun dipping below the horizon enough? I'm don't think it's every clearly spelled out but it seems to imply that vampires wake at around astronomical to nautical dusk and get pushed toward daysleep the second astronomical dawn hits.
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