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Lord_Hambrose posted:Sometimes I idly think about the Kith and Kin book for Changeling 2nd edition.
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Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:You and Onyx Path appear to give it about the same amount of thought I swear I just got an update about that?
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Soonmot posted:I swear I just got an update about that?
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Soonmot posted:I swear I just got an update about that? Yeah. I think it's finally progressed to editing.
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Speaking of OPP focusing on their own games, looks like the Demigod PDF just dropped for backers.
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GimpInBlack posted:Speaking of OPP focusing on their own games, looks like the Demigod PDF just dropped for backers. hell yes
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We got a good amount of books for nuTrinity, which I really liked so far. Edit: Kind of which they'd brought back Andrew Bates but like a lot of the old writers he's moved on.
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Occasionally I look at how much has been released for Awakening 2E versus how much has been released for M20 over the same period of time, and I cry a few angry tears. I just want Tome of the Pentacle / Fallen Worlds, is that too much to ask?
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cptn_dr posted:Occasionally I look at how much has been released for Awakening 2E versus how much has been released for M20 over the same period of time, and I cry a few angry tears. I hate the demiurge! I hate the demiurge!
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I’m not sure how “they’re focusing on their own games” explains how they keep doing kickstarters for the worst Mage game but I’m also a notable idiot so it’s entirely possible I’m missing something.
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Berkshire Hunts posted:I’m not sure how “they’re focusing on their own games” explains how they keep doing kickstarters for the worst Mage game but I’m also a notable idiot so it’s entirely possible I’m missing something. They know what their books actually sell, especially post kickstarter. I really am curious how their own IP stacks up against old White Wolf properties if you exclude what they do during kickstarters.
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Yeah they clearly are just not going to do Chronicles stuff once the existing stuff is out. I always thought Rich was embattled but okay but man, confront him with 'Hey there's no Chronicles, looks like it's dead,' and he responds to you calm and peaceful, 'What are you talking about?" 'Well you don't got nothing planned for it, 'We don't announce everything planned.' 'And you stopped mentioning it at all in your Monday Meeting posts," 'Sometimes there's nothing to say.' Like he took a loving NDA that says, 'Don't say anything about Chronicles. EVER! But if someone mentions it's dead, talk to them." It's like ambivalence destroyed what could have been a good game. loving sucks.
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Yeah, may as well just admit that they’re only going to release the rest of the books sometime in the next 5-7 years. At least then new players won’t buy any books thinking the rest of the set will be coming out. Can’t sell copies when you’re not publishing any. And the longer they wait to release them the fewer supplements you’ll sell. It’s not dead, but it did get sent to a retirement community and no one is coming to visit anymore.
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I played coteries of new york and was really into it until the end where nothing you did mattered, hahaha, dance puppet dance! Like that's the worst type of loving story to tell, plus the SI were loving chumps until the story needed them not to be. Not enough opportunities to use my disciplines when they made sense to use. Are you even able to die before the end? I was brujah and really wanted to use my presence to talk down the SI during the gangrel raid on the castle, but the NPCS were like, "no, we're not doing that." It also had some hosed up choice tracking because I straight up told Mia that I was here to arrange a meeting with my patron and Tourqe, but when I told Torque that, she blew up claiming I lied. Lady, I was straight with you from the beginning! IDK, I played the whole thing in one sitting, but only because it came with my order of swansong, and it didn't do anything to convince me that interactive novels are the direction I want vampire games to take.
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Oh Yeah Coteries were not great. Shadows are much better because you do at least get some choices and your character is not a complete wallpaper so if you can get that cheap it might be worth it.
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Night Road is still the best recent game offering. (Get Night Road).
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Fuzz posted:Night Road is still the best recent game offering. (Get Night Road). Night Road rocks. Shadows of New York is the stronger of the two "Of New York" games, but I liked that Coteries makes it clear that being a fledgling loving sucks. Also the music in Shadows is loving fantastic.
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Soonmot posted:Are you even able to die before the end? Yeah everyone should do a run where you refuse to work with the Sheriff at all.
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ritorix posted:Yeah everyone should do a run where you refuse to work with the Sheriff at all. But he's so charming 
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Guess who just scored 3 boxes of old RPGs at a local game store for 200 CDN, including a full run of Orpheus and if not the entire run of Hunter: The Reckoning, drat close. This is why I keep a database of my collection on my phone. TheCenturion fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Apr 30, 2022 |
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Nice!
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Whelp, one of the devs just confirmed that one of the best parts of oWoD is still canon! https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Revenant:_The_Ravishing
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Fuzz posted:Whelp, one of the devs just confirmed that one of the best parts of oWoD is still canon! I, for one, am immensely excited to see how Black Dog Game Factory fared since their buyout by Not-CCP.
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Fuzz posted:(Get Night Road).
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Free Cog posted:I, for one, am immensely excited to see how Black Dog Game Factory fared since their buyout by Not-CCP. Stack underflow- "Norsferatu" has turned Black Dog into a transmedia titan with a very well paid and respected workforce that consciously avoids sensitive ongoing world events in its books.
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Kavak posted:"Norsferatu" I thought we had a :chefkiss: emoji, but i can't find it so  will have to do
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Fuzz posted:Whelp, one of the devs just confirmed that one of the best parts of oWoD is still canon!  The player in my V5 game "works" (it's her cover) at a Black Dog office in SF because I thought it would be very funny.
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Kavak posted:Stack underflow- "Norsferatu" has turned Black Dog into a transmedia titan with a very well paid and respected workforce that consciously avoids sensitive ongoing world events in its books. Holy poo poo this needs to become canon. Someone start tweeting at Achilli.
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Fuzz posted:Night Road is still the best recent game offering. (Get Night Road). You're not kidding. I've had it in on my list forever now. I finally got to it and, whoa. I expected it to be pretty good, but drat it's really good.
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If a Giovanni wanted to use Cloud Memory, would they use the command "Fuggedaboutit"?
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Plotac 75 posted:If a Giovanni wanted to use Cloud Memory, would they use the command "Fuggedaboutit"? Do the Giovanni have gabaghouls?
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I'm planning to run a CoD Hunter game set in the 1970s where the players are FBI agents, where in the chaos of Hoover's death someone manages to sneak them into an X-Files division, partially because I have no creativity, partially because the world needs more Darren McGavin. My thinking is it'll be just-above-blue-book in terms of conspiracy size - they'll have resources available to them as government agents, but no supernatural resources to start. Anyone have tips on running a two-player game? Lowest I've ever run is four-player, but I've finally found two players in my friend circle that reliably show up to games and I'd rather run a smaller group than cancel two games a month. I'd rather not play a character or mega-involved NPC if I can avoid it. I imagine this is more about managing power levels and encounters. Is there a quick-and-dirty guide on designing encounters based on characters' power levels? Something like "total dice pool per encounter" could be useful, but my math skills don't extend to that level of probability management. Well Played Mauer fucked around with this message at 19:53 on May 9, 2022 |
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Two players is completely possible. Just be mindful that having a numerical advantage is a really big one. Don’t send in a dozen monsters unless they can get mowed down with a machine gun, and listen to what they’re guessing about and tailor things a little to make it fit a bit to what they’re imagining. You can make it really connected to the individual characters and really ratchet up the stakes like they did with Mulder and Scully when they got buried in the conspiracy.
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I mean since they are playing mortals random mook with a gun is dangerous so keep in mind that the moment someone busts out a weapon pcs can be in danger.
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Well Played Mauer posted:I'm planning to run a CoD Hunter game set in the 1970s where the players are FBI agents, where in the chaos of Hoover's death someone manages to sneak them into an X-Files division, partially because I have no creativity, partially because the world needs more Darren McGavin. My thinking is it'll be just-above-blue-book in terms of conspiracy size - they'll have resources available to them as government agents, but no supernatural resources to start. You can always have the players look into meatshields/helpers through the Retainer merit to balance out combat
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Honestly, you’d be designing the stories around “not combat.”
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I’ve had a tendency to run detective stories more than “hit it with a wrench” stories just by my nature, which is probably why I tend to like the lower end of the power curve for most of my CoD games, I guess. Upside is the source material has plenty of stories where the resolution is “run the hell away,” so players will know what they’re in for. In terms of conflict, I’m actually less concerned about running up against a monster, since the power dynamic in that would probably lead them to be cautious or be ok with running. In my head I have them going up against cultists,l or other supporters of whatever Big Bad they’re dealing with and I don’t want to accidentally merk them by making things too hard by accident. I was thinking there might be some rule of thumb for mook-style NPCs to deal with since I last ran CoD (before second ed dropped), but if not I’m sure we’ll wing it.
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Well Played Mauer posted:I’ve had a tendency to run detective stories more than “hit it with a wrench” stories just by my nature, which is probably why I tend to like the lower end of the power curve for most of my CoD games, I guess. Upside is the source material has plenty of stories where the resolution is “run the hell away,” so players will know what they’re in for. Use the rules for Down and Dirty for the random squishy NPCs. It’s over quickly and they drop like flies. There’s rules in the blue book for it somewhere I think, but it’s definitely in Awakening 2e. Then when they run into a bigger bad guy, they’ll know right away after the first round when it doesn’t fall down.
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https://forums.demiplane.com/t/world-of-darkness-vampire-nexus-update/670 WoD Nexus update. Edit: Way more underwhelming than what I was hoping for. We'll see if it's any good/people actually use it. Fuzz fucked around with this message at 14:47 on May 11, 2022 |
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So I need some help. I've got the next three sessions of my V5 game roughly outlined, with a sort of "Bottle episode" session to take place after the next session we play (Chapter 6) and before the big "Oh gently caress the Sabbat are here" session (chapter 8). The problem is, the bottle episode session is supposed to be the PC and her intern/love interest NPC going on their first date, and I'm having the player come up with the plan for the date and I'll write my notes from that. I'm trying to decide if this should be a straight forward "Normal" night for her, a quiet evening with her new love interest that just advances that bit of plot, or if I should try to work some kindred horseshit shenanigans into things. Her NPC love interest has no idea the PC is a vampire, nor is she even aware that vampires exist. On the one hand, just letting the focus be on the relationship building aspect of the session with the NPC would be good, as this character has had very little time actually appearing in game other than her introduction as a one off NPC the first session and then her becoming a part of the story by session 3 because the player had expressed and interest in them. On the other, it could be fun to throw a small combat encounter at her and her squishy mortal NPC pal to force her into revealing the truth. She's already murdered two hunters protecting her Malkavian friend, I'm certain she'd do the same if I tossed a mugger or even a low level shovelhead at her. Having the love interest know what's up and still be cool with it might be an interesting angle as well, and would give me an excuse to get her more integrated into the story.
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