crime fighting hog posted:

Thread title works perfectly in a God Machine sense

DeathSandwich posted:

Is it strange with all the weird things you could potentially play inside of nWoD, I really just want to play Hunter so bad? Whenever I bring it up to the guys I play with on occasion they just shrug it off and say "Nah, I'd rather just play Vampire and have cool powers and not die if I get shot".

Something about the thought of being a mostly normal person in a desperately hosed up situation kind of appeals to me. Vampires stalk the night feasting on the unsuspecting. Mages hide among us and ply their dark powers in secret. Werewolves walk the countryside leaving a wake of destruction in their path. Demons strike bargains and destroy people's souls to give themselves cover from the poo poo that hunts them. You have to band together with your fellows to fell the things that would use us as playtoys, and you do it with a shotgun and pure force of will alone. The PTSD and paranoia just come along for the ride.

What I'm trying to say is I kind of wish there was an active Hunter PBP going or something.

Dave Brookshaw posted:

Chiminage has been dropped in Forsaken second ed.

Gerund posted:

Ward, and its follows-you-as-you-move cousin Repel, using your Matter 3 to block all* physical matter. Do Scrying as well as you can. You're a human being that can walk in the sun and isn't afraid of a lit match. Alter physical matter from a safe distance.


*depending on your Matter arcana level

Attorney at Funk posted:

Ascension is better than Awakening, because if you Ascend you have waaaaay higher stats.

pkfan2004 posted:

Force 2/Matter 2/Screaming 2/Hair 4.

Ferrinus posted:

The problem is that a courtroom isn't an actual battleground by the Order's own standards. It's a symbolic battleground in some ways, so it might serve as good practice or a handy rote laboratory or something, but if the cliffs notes version of the character begins and ends with how good he is at throwing people into prison something has gone wrong.

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

Effectronica posted:

Each tier has a fairly distinct style. T1 is about people encountering things they don't understand or have any obvious way to understand, T2 offers a framework for dealing with the monster, T3 an understanding of what the monsters are, etc.

So for T1 going to T2, a good non-episodic narrative would be to have monsters lead into other monsters, or if your players are willing to play out a bunch of ordinary people talking in a VFW hall or a Denny's, non-monstrous supernatural phenomena to begin with.

Say, for example, they encounter a draugr or revenant, which leads them to a vampire, and from there to a mage, and then to a werewoof, (the mage being a Thyrsus), and then they discover that the monsters are everywhere just as they enter T2. In other words, a fundamentally mystic narrative where each encounter initiates them further in supernatural mystery until the capstone revelation, the point where, to quote Springsteen, they look into the eyes of the sun.

Or just one set of associated monsters. Note that monsters absolutely shouldn't all be hostile. They should be abnormal, for sure, but not all hostile.

If you want to make an apocalyptic narrative out of this, then the revelations should involve prophetic flashes too. Probably would be a good idea to disassociate it from particular monsters, too.

Also, don't be afraid to include T3 hunters as monsters.

Magnusth posted:

Make taking them out cause collateral damage.

Gilok posted:

I'm enjoying this argument because it isn't about Mage