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Are they any widely popular house rules for nMummy? Ones that skew simpler, not more complex. I keep coming back to the game, but it is just so full of fiddly bullshit.
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Rand Brittain posted:I abandoned this battle in despair after M20 announced that you know what, maybe the Traditions do hate light bulbs after all. I haven't read it, yet, but now I can't wait.
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Jun 23, 2015 13:07
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I've more and more come around to favor the idea that whatever your Magic Points are, they're more fun if you don't spend them all the time. Dicking with tracking them all the time is boring, and in the event they do run out, you're typically cut off from the part of the game that in large part gets people to the table. It's better if the bulk of your cool powers have more interesting costs, or no cost at all.
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Jul 3, 2015 04:38
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Kurieg posted:I didn't see any vitriol directed at her, though, just Zak. I'm sure even if everyone on the anti-harassment end has remained eminently reasonable, from her ill-informed perspective it still looks like a bunch of bullshit coming in her direction. Also, there seems to be a lot of unrelated "SJW politics!?  " types throwing poo poo more directly at her, particularly on Steam.
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Feb 21, 2017 19:14
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I'm finally coming around to Awakening, and I'll be finished with the core book soon. What is a good book to read next? The society for mages is much more concrete and expansive than I expected. Do they walk back or nuance-up the weird "many of these organizations have been around continuously for 2000 years straight"? Another thing that strikes me so far is that I could use more talk about the practical application of Mysteries in a game. The mechanics so far seem kind of boring, though again I'm not done with the core so maybe it will satisfy me after all.
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Feb 22, 2017 05:43
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While a sparse paragraph, in Chronicles PC vs PC or NPC vs PC social rules are supposed to be a bargain. It could use a little more fleshing out*, but it's explicitly not the agency-stealing mind control scenario. * In general, the weakest parts of the new rules are where they took lessons from "story games" but didn't lean hard enough into it.
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Mar 16, 2017 23:42
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Sure, that's not a great example. You don't have to like it or play it that way, but acting like there's only "what the character's player personally allows" or "terrifying mind control" is as much bullshit as saying you should play a way you don't like.
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Mar 17, 2017 00:00
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Ferrinus posted:If I had a mind to put more defined and resource-intensive social mechanics into WoD I'd be very likely to add a "Limit" track or some other psychic resource for social rolls to work on that isn't just Willpower, just because it can be stifling to have your primary "get stuff done resource" also be your health bar or at least your plasma shields. However, putting a lot of Willpower into a social situation and, later, having less to spend in a fight or something is like... the point? That's the benefit of having multipurpose resources like that, it makes different situations in the game indirectly affect each other. Doors sort of already work like this. It probably wouldn't take a hell of a lot of work to flesh it out better.
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Mar 17, 2017 04:07
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I saw a suggestion earlier in the thread about making Wisdom more like Harmony, where each end is really just a different extreme of an overarching character aspect, instead of a scale of "bad" to "good", with an attendant modification to some key mechanic. I find this idea appearling. Are there more fleshed out house rules to this effect somewhere, or suggestions along those lines, for Wisdom and other "morality" tracks, that I could look at?
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Mar 31, 2017 07:56
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Considering how separate they are, I'd be surprised if any White Wolf: Son of the Return of White Wolf products were listed in Onyx Path's release schedules. And certainly not mixed in to the list of their own products unremarked.
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Apr 5, 2017 00:22
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Xinder posted:oh  Beast is so bad at its own elevator pitch that for the most part you don't get to be an actual scary monster in physical form. You feel like a dragon. (A dragon that perpetuates abusive relationships to "teach lessons" but is also supposed to be the good guy.)It absolutely is an unintentional parody of the worst Tumblr otherkin bullshit. It's like someone read nothing but watchful-entity and then said "Yes, this would both be fun to pretend to be and would be complimentary to the subject." Otherkin and Tumblr deserve better.
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Apr 25, 2017 03:44
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Goa Tse-tung posted:those also aren't the people actually designing the game, or at least they don't appear in the team description It doesn't list any particular authors for the system book, though. How could that possibly be important to anyone!!!??  It'd be pretty great for them to have Stolze and Sheppard and not get them to do system stuff for them.
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Apr 28, 2017 10:23
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Kurieg posted:So apparently the Vampire Documentary doesn't mention OPP at all, has V20 just appear out of nowhere, and talks about WWP like they're the second coming. Is there a trip report? Or is it available to stream somewhere?
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May 12, 2017 05:20
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I already didn't have any hope for this, but, if true, that Islam poo poo…woo boy. Also lol 40 books in development gently caress off
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May 12, 2017 17:36
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Rate each book on the back cover for number of severed rear end-smears. A traditional scale of 1-5 smears.
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May 13, 2017 03:44
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Here is a report on Berlin that's a little less blatantly alarming. I still have full faith the "call of the East" will manage to be pretty racist.quote:Over 13K responses to the WW survey. 56% say they play a physical game — board, RPG, card — at least once a week.
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May 13, 2017 06:18
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Yeah, that Hunger mechanic sounds neat. That combined with all the other changes to setting and mechanics makes it seem like they don't actually care about preserving a direct lineage with the previous editions (which isn't necessarily bad), but then why the gently caress stuff ATTENTION: NOT CANON sidebars and other changes into a related but very different gameline.
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May 15, 2017 18:20
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I don't remember or have access to the specifics, but isn't there an Embed that allows demons to reproduce the magic of other supernatural creatures? Could that be used to understand and speak High Speech?
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Jun 8, 2017 21:16
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Kavak posted:So apparently Cyanide Studio's Apocalypse game was at E3, but I can't find anything but blurry screenshots from their twitter, not even a trailer hosted somewhere. It's possible they don't have anything besides that, but then why even show it? Why even bother announcing a video game if you don't even have a bullshot trailer or something ready? Did Swedracula go yelling about it before they were ready and now they have to keep up with him? I love that it doesn't even really have a title, it's just "Werewolf: The Apocalypse: The Video Game."
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Jun 15, 2017 09:05
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ZearothK posted:You know, oWOD would work wonderfully in a crossover with LISA. The current White Wolf would probably end up crossing over with Lisa instead.
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Jun 16, 2017 18:59
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Nessus posted:What does determine a Ventrue's feeding limit anyway? I mean, like, in-universe. The same vaguely Biblical magic curse that determines most of the other ones, if there's anything at all to explain it. Not that there's any compelling alternatives I can recall ever being presented.
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Jun 29, 2017 07:57
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Nessus posted:Inklesspen does those updates manually and is well behind. I thought it was all caught up as of a week or so ago.
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Jul 1, 2017 11:38
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Kurieg posted:MRH put up a Kickstarter for a not world of darkness game set during the American revolution using his playing card character sheet system. Just at this point.
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Jul 5, 2017 02:55
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^^^ Yes, please. Islamic Golden Age seems like it would be perfect for rival ideological factions, viz. Mage, so this is even more disappointing than it would be just because of Beast.
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Jul 7, 2017 04:14
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Every era from this and the previous books should be Mage + Vampire + wildcard.
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Jul 7, 2017 05:29
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Mors Rattus posted:Dark Eras 2 has funded, taking 20 hours or so to raise that last 200 dollars. I will make the books claim that they can get $5k more in 22 days. Rand Brittain posted:Isn't that kind of unprecedented for an Onyx Path kickstarter? Usually they hit their opening goal within the first day. I think so. I didn't pay attention to the first Dark Eras campaign. Did it do relatively poorly? Maybe core books are where it's at?
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Jul 13, 2017 20:46
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Kurieg posted:So is, "Building a Legend" something I need to hate-read now, or is it like the Dark eras thing where it's merely non-offensive but not fantastic. It promises some cooperative world-building stuff applicable to more than just Beast. That might possibly be legitimately okay. It's also only 60 pages.
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Jul 17, 2017 06:10
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occamsnailfile posted:Isn't there a lot of argument among factions in VtR about the truth of their history as well? Doing a Gilgamesh thing could be interesting but it also treads into answering those questions. Some fans really want answers to their mysteries but I'm always wary at this point, as the buildup is so often better than the payoff. I think they did a phenomenal (lol) job with the Mage and Werewolf stone age stuff in the first Dark Eras. Ideally, they'd do something similar where modern factions and histories are basically meaningless, because they're so far removed. Come up with an entirely new set of Clans so bizarre, any vampire historian with the unlikely knowledge of them can claim they're where all the night children came from, but no one in the modern era is going to believe them. Hell, you could put a huge wink at fans arguing over this poo poo by having it be a big inter-Covenant argument over whether they're the first of their kind or not. Basic Chunnel posted:smdh @ nerds choosing dime-a-dozen Arthurian Europe over the fuckin Jazz Age This, but also Gilgamesh would be cool, too. I really just cannot get excited for yet another take on Arthur.
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Jul 26, 2017 08:17
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Loomer posted:Once, this would have been a dream. Even with the bad terms, the rip-off clauses, the unfair sharing of proceeds, I'd have been all over this. Histories of bloodlines and adventures exploring lost histories! Yeah, all of these programs so far have banked hard on "finally, I can be a real, big-boy game writer, and in my favorite setting, too!" The only reason anyone should be participating is if they seriously don't give a poo poo and the bulk of the work is something they'd do regardless. So why not get a drive-thru cheeseburger meal out of it? I guess it's nice that homebrewers will have easier and readier access to good art assets if they want them.
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Aug 12, 2017 06:10
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Oh my loving crap, these template downloads are a mess. RARs within ZIPs, and obvious duplicated copy-paste names with contents swapped around. I can't wait to find out why the V20 template ZIP is 233MB, or why the revised clanbook templates are loving nearly 700MB. I'm guessing the servers are getting slammed, it's hell trying to pull these down. EDIT: Okay so the bulk of it for the V20 template is it has one enormous fuckoff file that no one participating in this program would need at that resolution, and then it sort-of duplicates it in a smaller but still enormous high-fidelity file. This is dumb. That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Aug 12, 2017 |
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Aug 12, 2017 08:54
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Kavak posted:What's the file? The marble texture background for the book cover.
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Aug 12, 2017 16:39
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I guess you can make these things PoD? I thought you couldn't, but I don't see anything explicit. That would merit 300dpi images. I wonder why I've never seen someone make some insane, terrible PoD book available in these community content programs? They still really need to clean up their poo poo. Duplicating an 80MB file and filling ZIP files with RARs full of other duplicates is amateur hour. I wonder if anyone has successfully downloaded the ~700MB files?
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Aug 12, 2017 17:47
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SunAndSpring posted:I'm interested in Mage 2e. It's pretty loving wordy but I probably have no room to complain considering I play Exalted. Anyway, how did you guys find the rules? Pretty good. It's fiddly enough that you need invested players to approach having fun with it, as opposed to Ascension's looser guidelines which could allow someone to coast on a very bare understanding of the rules. Creating cool, long-term magical stuff costs permanent Willpower, which I dislike, but I've made my peace with that being in every WoD game ever.
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Mors Rattus posted:If it makes you feel better you can think of it as a 1-XP permanence tax, that being the cost now to replace that Willpower dot. Yeah, as others have expanded on, that's not something I'm all that excited about. I feel like this is a problem that was begging to be resolved with Conditions. I also really like Ferrinus' mitigation idea upthread. That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Aug 16, 2017 |
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Aug 16, 2017 19:39
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Xinder posted:That description of Mummy sounds...worrisome. I like the bits of lore stuff I've picked up skimming the ww wiki, so I'm hoping it's not actually that bad. Mummy has a great premise with some janky and unnecessarily complex rules that are organized badly, and it's all buried under thirteen mountains of stereotypical, hyper-obtuse WoD in-character jargon. I like the game a lot, but it really needs player investment, and it can be a struggle to get some people to absorb all the rules for an Apocalypse World game. Imagine foisting upon them 50 pages brimming with ten-dollar words in a fictionalized foreign language.
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Aug 17, 2017 03:38
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Actually I think MRH's delayed games have been released, unless there was more than two of them, but they're not very good. Either lackluster "innovations" like card-based character generation in his no-they're-zombies-not-vampires game, or ridiculously on-the-nose political commentary disguised as a game. Then there's one where you're basically playing a "serious" version of Bedlam Hall (which released PDFs recently), except with his card-based characters and he's not directly involved in creation so maybe it will release on time?
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Aug 19, 2017 22:27
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KirbyJ posted:I'm reading the M20 Book of Secrets and Jesus Christ I don't miss oWoD. 16 pages of secondary skills. The writeup for Newspeak made me think that not only was getting this a mistake, everything I've ever done with this hobby was a mistake, and I've been living a ie. I laughed when I saw the Abilities section. Have any of the other 20 lines crapped out a pile of extra skills like that? I can't recall that they had. The V20 Companion is like loving 90% about Kindred society and how it works. Why couldn't they make a book like that?
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Aug 20, 2017 06:52
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Okay so I finally successfully downloaded the 3rd Edition Clanbook templates from Storytellers Vault. It's 650MB. 280MB of that are 14 duplicated files. Almost half this enormous file is literally no more than an organizational gently caress-up. 
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Aug 22, 2017 05:13
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There's honestly a lot less  stuff than I thought there'd be on the Vault. A lot less content in general, really. And some of it looks legitimately fairly interesting, like the better-written setting guides by people who actually live in the place in question.
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Yeah, they released the super future sci-fi game first, then the"five minutes in the future" superhero game, then the early 20th century pulp game. That last one, Adventure!, is legit still good, for a WoD-like system. The new Storypath system they're using for the second editions (and Scion 2e) looks like a good step forward from what little I've seen.
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