Clanbook: Gangrel posted:

CJ: (in a pseudo street-rap staccato)
They call me CJ, and it was 50 years back
a bitch named Mikki took my blood and gave it back
I thought I was sick, I felt so queasy and green,
I felt myself hooked on something I never seen

Kavak posted:

I just remembered this less than serious but still appropriate take on Awakening:

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

Kibner posted:

Maybe ask about the place you play at. Is the schedule good?

Are there any small but essential tasks that you do/don't like?

What is the most appealing characteristic of this LARP?

Which event was the most memorable?

Is there something that you would want this LARP to add or focus on more?

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

World of Darkness Online had nothing to actually do with the World of Darkness other than vampires and some clan names. It was pretty much the WoD version of Shadowrun for the XBox 360.

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

When it wrapped, they had an early alpha client and had active testing for employees and family.

The leaks mentioned before didn't happen until after the project was canned. The project was canned because they pumped money and resources into that thing for 5 years and didn't get poo poo back, not because of the leaks.

neaden posted:

Lucious Soulban is still the greatest WoD author name of all time.

SunAndSpring posted:

You don't seem to understand.

Attorney at Funk posted:

A shame. You seemed an honest man.

Daeren posted:

That explains the two Night Horrors books, three Bloodline books, and two Ancients books

Mimir posted:

A children's magazine commonly found in waiting rooms at dentists' offices.

Mors Rattus posted:

You don't, because it's a silly word. I suggest things like 'sacrifice' or 'bargain' instead. Chiminage is an obsolete Franco-English word for a toll paid on a forest road.

Mors Rattus posted:

Chiminage is like two steps above Vitae, Celerity and Auspex, by rights of having extra syllables, sounding super goofy even in comparison and being equally well-served by the term 'sacrifice' which is really quite a nice little word.

(Metis is about on par with Chiminage though, perhaps worse. Don't use Metis.)

Kavak posted:

How did that happen?

Tezzor posted:

Remove non-resource merits from the game imo

MonsieurChoc posted:

I guess the White Wolf writers really like that scene with the maggots in Lost Boys.

Luminous Obscurity posted:

I asked in the comments, but just so everyone here is fully aware.

Using Forces to Shield someone from gravity means just that.

You can turn off gravity at two dots.

Little_wh0re posted:

I actually like darklings and do like that write up. But "I'm willing to make the hard choices others won't" sounds like an arrow/batman kinda line

Little_wh0re posted:

In my experience of gaming the hard choice tends to be being more moral, not less.

quote:

Domain census and recruiting new members: Several new players are interested in Werewolf, and intend to form a pack. A few are possibly interested in Vampire but are put off by the competitive atmosphere.

Hipster Occultist posted:

Maybe introduce some NPC's that start loving them over?

I mean I dunno, this is such a weird problem to have with a vampire game.

Covok posted:

Loomer posted:

Man, the official forums have a lot of people who think the Setites and Baali are completely redundant.

paradoxGentleman posted:

I'd like to say that it's a well made, more thoughtful book would outsell what the CtD fans are willing to pay for the anniversary version, but the truth is that I am not sure how many of them there are out there, nor how much are they willing to pay for this game.

On an unrelated note, what does AUG stand for?

Covok posted:

I know I am no expert on the subject, but it doesn't really make sense to do so. I mean, what's the point of doing a C:tD 20th Anniversary Edition if it's actually just C:tL especially considering C:tL 2nd Edition is on its way?

Edit: Anyone know the best place to look for WoD games? Like, SA doesn't seem to have a lot so what's the best community to find games, if anyone knows?

Kurieg posted:

You do realize that Brucato is basically the patron saint of "Magic and Faeries are Real" in the Old World of Darkness and any rule that makes mages less powerful probably didn't come from him, right?

Kurieg posted:

Werewolf's anti-science stuff is also something of a relic of 1st edition, mostly because 1st edition Werewolf put forth the idea that any level of human development beyond hunter/gatherer society is inherently evil. While at the same time having all the werewolf tribes pull off ridiculously out of character schemes and backstabbing machinations that would make a Ventrue blush.

Kurieg posted:

That was back before they had really worked out that the Weaver could, itself, be an enemy without actually meaning the Wyrm wasn't an enemy anymore. I think the idea of having two enemy factions might have popped poor MR*H's brain.

I think the thing with the sabbat is more that almost everything the Sabbat does empowers the Wyrm, so they're aligned with the Wyrm whether they are aware of it or not. It's still better than the few 1st ed werewolf books that have the Sabbat and the Garou chumming around and sharing information like it ain't no thing.

MonsieurChoc posted:

The thing with the Technocracy vs Traditions is that people bring in all kinds of assumptions from outside the game and then argue really passionately about what they think is true instead of what the books say. This gets worse as the line goes on and fan misunderstanding and retcons and genuine improvements all mix together to make a giant mess.

Here's how things go: In the beginning, people didn't really know poo poo about magic. They all had their own theories and cultural teachings and applied them to magic and lived the life of stereotypical mages of their culture. That was simply how things were. If you're a Medicine Man, you do Medicine. No one was in control, no one knew that they were shaping reality through their belief. The time where the Traditions where in command that a lot of Mage fans like to argue about never occurred. The Mythic Ages of the early books were revealed to be complete bullshit by Sorcerer's Crusade and Dark Ages.

The Order of Reason changed everything. They were the first to really grasp what they were really doing and decide to use their cosmic powers to make the world a better place. They also immediately hosed it up by attacking the guys who held different beliefs rather than demons and vampires. It makes sense: it's a very human reaction. You don't like the guys from the rival company, but you loving loathe marketing. But when people say the Order of Reason started good, they're kinda wrong: from the beginning it was a really flawed organization, who wanted to impose their religion (One God For Everyone is right there in their philosophy) and then proceeded to help the Western world conquer and exploit the poo poo out of everything else. They then became the Technocracy as they slowly purged the good elements from their group (the Craft-Masons, etc.) and became the embodiment of western hegemony and Capitalism. So it's normal that a lot of people identify with the Technocracy: they're a dark mirror of us.

The other misconception about the Technocracy is that they don't do science. Science as we know it doesn't really exist in the WoD. It's all belief and manipulation of reality. The whole "fighting against the evils of drinking water" is a completely nonsensical argument within the framework of Ascension. The Etherites do science: they have a peer-reviewed magazine, they study the science of reality manipulation, they try to figure out how all the cosmology work and repeat experiments. The Hermetics kind of also do that in their own mystical way. The Technocracy doesn't do that: it decides what it wants to be true, and then murders or brainwash their way to that outcome.

Edit: Beaten because I took too long to write.