|
OK, I got sick of waiting for an ST's time in the V:tM LARP I'm playing in, so I signed up to be an AST (I've HST and AST'd VtR and Demon before). This is using BNS VtM rules. They have me running a test plot, a one-night murder-mystery story, but I'm having trouble designing something that isn't completely exploded by the first application of Auspex ··· (Spirit's Touch). Currently I'm envisioning a Native tribe leader who gets dragged to death while standing up (as if a Wendigo - the myth not the werewolf clan - dragged him to death) but it was actually normal white-nationalist bozos, working under the direction of a shady member of the state gaming commission who wanted the tribal leader out of the picture so he could expand casino operations to his benefit. Obviously if this goes well, there's a knock-on plot that the actual Wendigo spirit is angered that someone 'framed' him, and rumbles to life and makes things difficult. Related: I can't really google-fu up any forms that are related to managing interwoven plot webs. Lots of character sheets, not so much on GM sheets. Any thoughts on making my life easier? Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Apr 26, 2019 |
#
¿
Apr 26, 2019 14:26
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 05:06 |
|
|
Easy Diff posted:Related: I can't really google-fu up any forms that are related to managing interwoven plot webs. Lots of character sheets, not so much on GM sheets. Any thoughts on making my life easier? quote:As I was not satisfied with the tools I had to run my campaign (Trello + google docs + spreadsheets), I decided that I would build my own
|
|
#
¿
Apr 26, 2019 20:14
|
|
|
OK. I play in a BNS V20 Vampire LARP. I just got gakked last game so now I need a new character. It's an approximately 40 person game, and I am taking suggestions based on the following information:
|
|
#
¿
Jul 19, 2019 02:48
|
|
|
RocknRollaAyatollah posted:it's implied they're behind all the bad things that have happened to the Kennedys. Would Gios embrace from any orgcrime? Could i play tony Montana or like whitey bulger?
|
|
#
¿
Jul 19, 2019 15:32
|
|
|
Question about Setites: conceptually, being the power broker/make-your-dreams-come-true-for-a-cost guy sounds fun, but I'd be the only Setite in a 40+ person game, with further Setites literally not allowed to enter game unless one of the 2 Gio's quits/switches (we have a cap of 3 Independent vamps), so I'd be the only person in my clan AND completely shut out from playing at court positions. How much of my game would be based on "make your own fun" and trying to convince other (cam) players I am trustworthy to deal with? oh god I'm now thinking about a Perez Hilton style TMZ Setite gunning for Harpy as a sort of "the only neutral arbiter is an outsider" medium-long term goal trying to muckrake on vamps while making life better or worse for people who do/don't pay me, respectively.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 19, 2019 17:05
|
|
|
Tollymain posted:how feasible is it to be rawed by 14 werewolves behind arbys atm https://twitter.com/chuckgrassley/status/529356795924725760
|
|
#
¿
Jul 19, 2019 18:52
|
|
|
Ok I'm a setite now. Whats the best way to start ripping out hearts to rule the city? edit: in what order should i be ripping out hearts?
|
|
#
¿
Jul 20, 2019 20:11
|
|
|
PHIZ KALIFA posted:Serpentis 5 is a ritual that removes a subject's heart and leaves it in a canoptic jar. depending on the edition it either teleports into a desert in Egypt or you just, like, have it. sitting on a shelf. The edition I'm playing is "you just get it on a shelf" variety so I'm gonna wrap them suckers in M-80s and get a remote detonator. The Chronicle will never forget the night the Setite Belevedere'd himself and half the court exploded.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 21, 2019 06:03
|
|
|
I am so loving mad after reading the Followers of Set clanbook (revised). It's just absolute peak bullshit White Wolf. 30 pages of endless, useless backstory about the origins and weaving a tale that intertwines an actual goddamn real-world faith into vampiric genesis, including tons of stuff about, like, 'the Setite's role in 1500s Spain' that is 100% useless for anyone actually wanting to play a Setite. The second section fares a little better, approaching usefulness after it gets over stroking itself off about a bunch of paths no PC is ever going to realistically be on that are divergent to the main Setite line, already a rare clan. Oh, and the sample PCs including a ripoff of the merchant from the beginning of Aladdin and a chomo. Great job  Finally we get an omnibus of famous Setite PCs the writers/White Wolf staff cooked up to come in and be cooler and more awesome than the PCs will ever be. I don't know why I ever expect better, WW in the 90s were just infested with failed "Urban Fantasy" authors who didn't care about how their books would actually be used by a player to inform running a game that includes, or playing as, the clan on the cover. There's just so little info that matters to a character set in the modern nights. gently caress White Wolf as staff, a record label and as a motherfucking crew. And if you're down with White Wolf, gently caress you too.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 22, 2019 04:41
|
|
|
Effortpost incoming: So after getting got, I rolled up an Independent Setite for my LARP. I have no experience playing as (or even with, really) other Setites in 10 years of Camarilla-based LARPing, so I was going in blind. My concept was approved and lauded by the STs as a Matt-Taibbi-style muckraker, the idea being how better to corrupt and get the Cam to tear itself apart than to sell its secrets back to the other members. My Setite (Frank Lyon Wall. F. Lyon Wall, get it?  ) is bouncing around, being suitably accommodating to Cam members while making sure they know I'm happy to talk with them off-the-record for my kindred-only newsletter, Up Against the Wall.So that's all well and good, but I'm looking out at the future, after having consumed what useful bits there are in the Clanbook about actually playing a Setite (instead of masturbatory lore about the Dark Ages). But I'm foreseeing a problem. Most of the Setite lore points to getting folks to indulge while whispering the sweet nothings of (essentially) LaVey Satanism but that only works when you have NPCs to flex against. Setite powers are subtle, but not when you stop play and specifically instruct a PC to throw a chop and then retcon their own opinions. And while I'm a strong enough player to realize "hey, the fall of Greg Gangrel as he submits to the influence of a Setite and sells out his clan" is a cool story to play, there are certainly members of the LARP who view "survive and be strong enough to never be killed" as interesting-enough motivation to put on blue jeans and a Deadpool T-Shirt and come to game playing an Elder (yes this is real) So my question is, how do I go about probing the other players and/or STs to make sure my whole clan's concept isn't strangled in the crib since there are almost no NPCs in the game that aren't punching bags for the deranged players who want to do mass combat in a White Wolf game that absolutely cannot handle that. How do I (or do I?) approach other players explaining my plans for their characters that, from a certain viewpoint, are "me winning, them losing" instead of "telling a cool story that makes their character the centerpiece of larger plots"? Did I shoot myself in the foot by going IA? by going Setite? by LARPing at all?
|
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2019 20:04
|
|
|
Pope Guilty posted:The big problem you're going to run into, especially if you're playing in the MES as I suspect, is that most of the people you're playing with won't have written any hooks for you to grab them by. UT, using BNS/V20 rules. National org, but we had an org-wide chronicle reset 6 months ago so nobody's got those ultra elders yet
|
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2019 21:40
|
|
|
PHIZ KALIFA posted:Setite LARP dude- echoing the suggestion to talk to STs about using your hoodoo on the NPCs of other characters. Touchstones, contacts, anytime you see someone calling on an imaginary mortal, target that person for conversion. the players will have no idea how to respond because no one ever does that. i larped for like 5 years with Haunted and it never came up. Thanks, I emailed the STs and asked them how we can make sure that I'm not an irrelevant island in the game, I'll let ya'll know how it goes. I also ordered some snake-eye costume contacts, because I'm a corny-rear end motherfucker.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 29, 2019 21:47
|
|
|
Oberst posted:Its better than V20 and requiem for sure Requiem is really really good and I don't think they've ever come that close to enforcing the idea that RPGs should be about the players and their actions before or since gently caress metaplot
|
|
#
¿
Jul 31, 2019 02:17
|
|
|
Ferrinus is absolutely right. If two players can arrive at the same character sheet but one can do it in 5-15 fewer xp, the system is not sound.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 1, 2019 14:38
|
|
|
moths posted:it's an indicator that other corners were cut, mistakes were made, and that the designers didn't really know what they were doing.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 1, 2019 15:14
|
|
|
Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Hi everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV0edD_Gsw8
|
|
#
¿
Aug 2, 2019 15:07
|
|
|
more of a general question, but isn't there some tool to draw lines, section out and shade google maps so you can make feeding territories & stuff for vampire games? It might even be native to google maps
|
|
#
¿
Aug 2, 2019 17:28
|
|
|
moths posted:Tangentially related, the Nightmare on Elm Street remake almost did a wonderful thing where Fred Kreuger was a kind man, wrongfully killed by a mob, and then vengefully returned as the monster they imagined him to be but amped up to 11. It was a slight change; he's a chomo in the remake and a straight-up murderer in the original
|
|
#
¿
Aug 5, 2019 03:37
|
|
|
Take Dominate as an extra in clan and skin ride a mortal so your character is never outside their haven at the bottom of a water-filled quarry
|
|
#
¿
Aug 6, 2019 02:54
|
|
|
Just want to point out that easily a hundred thousand words in this thread have been spilled over Beast, a reprehensible game no one has or will or should play, and absolutely no one is talking about Mummy, a game no one played but is fun and funny and interesting
|
|
#
¿
Aug 7, 2019 19:16
|
|
|
Rand Brittain posted:Well, it's moderately unplayable. Are you referring to mummy or beast?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 7, 2019 19:31
|
|
|
Badactura posted:I didn't know there were slam poets anymore. PHIZ KALIFA posted:The organizing body, National Poetry Slam Inc, collapsed 2-3 years ago due to financial mismanagement. Aside from Button Poetry and a few regional slams, yeah. It's a real grim scene.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 8, 2019 18:31
|
|
|
Omnicrom posted:The best part is that they actually do go around acting like Vampires and telling everyone they're vampires, and because they're so drat obvious about it nobody believes them so they maintain the masquerade.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 8, 2019 18:40
|
|
|
ZearothK posted:Hey, there's a character in my game who's the lead for a band and her public persona is a vampire. It's the 80's, that flies. Also she's a Changeling. Hell yeah, man, Stuart Townsend was a great Lestat and Queen of the Damned owns
|
|
#
¿
Aug 8, 2019 18:54
|
|
|
The idea of "take your character to any game and have it recognized as legit" is cool as gently caress, but national orgs ruin every LARP because now its abput surviving and becoming the coolest also natl org people are hilariously corrupt and petty
|
|
#
¿
Aug 9, 2019 02:14
|
|
|
Soonmot posted:It's not WoD, but I'm pumped for Trenchcoats and Katanas to finally come out. Is that one of the one-page RPGs like Lasers & Feelings?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 11, 2019 18:45
|
|
|
car wizards?
Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Aug 12, 2019 |
|
#
¿
Aug 12, 2019 02:22
|
|
|
I know I made a joke about it, but I actually do want to know whiskey tango actual about the car-wizards.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 12, 2019 15:28
|
|
|
Soonmot posted:This is from the pre-edit text for backers. soooo Mad Max then. 
|
|
#
¿
Aug 12, 2019 18:12
|
|
|
So my Setite TMZ gadfly character Frank Lyon Wall ( F Lyon Wall, get it) in my 40 person LARP is going to his second game, and im bringing a kindred only newsletter written like a zine (Up Against The Wall) and of course im starved for content. y'all got some jokey horoscopes I can include for the clans, like Baali: You will soon have some old friends over for dinner 
|
|
#
¿
Aug 15, 2019 15:43
|
|
|
issue 1 of Up Against the Wall is in galleys now. Taking any sort of feedback. I wanted to use a script font to increase that 'zine look but keep readability high. It's a mix of news from the national/local boards and the horoscopes you guys threw out there, lmk what you think. I have until oh, 3pm tomorrow to make any edits before running to office store to make copies to hand out at game.
Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Aug 16, 2019 |
|
#
¿
Aug 16, 2019 15:02
|
|
|
OK so LARP update. The Newsletter was a flop due to joyless fucks grilling me all night about the Tzimisce Horoscope ("Why would you include them?" "It's a joke." "But who is this being seen by? Are you distributing to the Sabbat?" " ") and other people saying "you can't write this down! it's a breach of the Masquerade!" like I was dropping a stack of them at the coffee shop.I also got vetoed on an IRL in-character twitter even though that would be fun and on-brand as gently caress. However, I did get to have some fun being an rear end in a top hat. The Tremere recently (like hours before game, so it was after I "went to press") had one of their number in the city deemed an Infernalist and executed, so I picked up a schmaltzy sympathy card from the dollar general and had as many characters as possible sign it. The Assamite Primogen simply wrote "HA HA - Clan Assamite" so that was pretty great. Anyway, LARPing is fun as gently caress when you're doing it right (ie for maximum antagonism and fun, instead of to become a cool vampire god) and sucks a bunch when joyless assholes don't seem to get that there's a certain amount of handwaving that needs to happen or else the reality of "no one would ever gather as vampires because other vampires are too dangerous" would set in, and that's no fun for anyone.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 18, 2019 05:37
|
|
|
2nd Update: I hurt babby Camawilla's fee-fees (this is my ST)
|
|
#
¿
Aug 18, 2019 06:45
|
|
|
Attacking journalists and shutting down the presses: Noted tactic of cool and good leaders that always works democracy dies in darkness
|
|
#
¿
Aug 18, 2019 07:23
|
|
|
And yet VtM is very clear to mention that the Holocaust happened because all the elders were sleeping that decade and powerless to stop it, and it was absolutely not any lick's fault.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 19, 2019 05:15
|
|
|
so we have an IC facebook group...
|
|
#
¿
Aug 23, 2019 17:16
|
|
|
Someday I'll play in the coterie of my dreams, 3-4 neonate ventrues all with Prestigious Sire, all with high status Boat shoes, popped collars and "My dads the Prince of Atlanta" Frat Fangs
|
|
#
¿
Aug 24, 2019 21:37
|
|
|
MonsieurChoc posted:Hmm, is there a Bloodline of vampires going Lovecraftian/Bloodborne-esque? It seems like an obvious take thinking about it now. *frantically gestures at the tsimizce*
|
|
#
¿
Aug 29, 2019 18:35
|
|
|
Just an fyi i am definitely still interested in your oWoD vampire clan horoscopes f or my zine for next months game
|
|
#
¿
Aug 30, 2019 02:44
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 05:06 |
|
|
Inzombiac posted:
|
|
#
¿
Aug 31, 2019 05:13
|
|