Flavivirus posted:

Or at least was

Night10194 posted:

What was their goal, anyway? I played Bloodlines and all and they always just sound like they're a pack of psychos who don't get why the vampires need to hide.

Crion posted:

Because the entire narrative engine that 1E ran off of was the exceedingly terrifying personal relationship between the Changeling and their Keeper. They were, very intentionally, not 1% capitalist overlord/business executive stand-ins who don't get their hands dirty. This is like the weird reverse of ruminating on why the Exarchs in Mage don't pop down from the Realms Supernal to deal with troublesome Pentacle cabals themselves. The True Fae aren't Exarchs, and making them knockoff Exarchs served by knockoff Seers with a slight aesthetic change would do both lines a disservice.

WereJace posted:

Does anyone have any 'absolute must-have' supplements for Changeling: the Lost? I'm prepping to run a WW2 era cloak and dagger sort of thing, if that helps.

ErichZahn posted:

I just realized why Pentex is still sending checks to the Technocracy.

Ouch.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

I see the spirit of White Wolf lives on.

Mind, I see how the traditional Masquerade attitude could lead to that weird LARP metaplot - basically, that the game should be laser-focused on the Camarilla power games, and anything else is a troublemaking aberration, so burn it down.

Mendrian posted:

Eh other methods weren't better.

Requiem MET used a simple card draw+skill resolution system. It's faster, but that's not the part that grinds mass combat to a close. It's 10+ nerds trying to figure out the most significant thing they can do with their 3 second turn before whatever they're fighting gets erased on round 2.

Ferrinus posted:

I'm disappointed to see that the consequences to your spellpower for releasing vs. containing a paradox are still thematically backwards in mage 2E, as indicated by preview material. For some reason, taking the full consequences of a poorly-conceived spell onto yourself rather than loosing them on the world is the best way to ensure that your spell is cast at full power and achieves its intended effects.

It should be the case that containing a paradox imposes a penalty to the casting pool and has the chance of making it hit the wrong target or fail outright (in addition to damaging or cursing you or whatever), while releasing a paradox guarantees that your spell-as-imagined goes off without a hitch but in fact does too much, having additional effects on its target or environs that you didn't consciously intend but perhaps wanted deep down or couldn't help but subconsciously imagine.

Dave Brookshaw posted:

Brainiac Five posted:

Another checkmark against 2e.


But they aren't described as such anywhere, they're described as something unique to Hunters, and Hunters already don't paper over the supernatural like normal human beings do in the World of Darkness. Furthermore, all Hunters are expressly capable of becoming an explicitly supernatural being. The Hunter origin myth provided implies a supernatural origin, and while you could argue that being able to pass the screening for VASCU is a retroactive thing like a character joining the Lucifuge from being a tier-1 Hunter, if it isn't, then it's a Hunter thing that all of them are uniquely prone to becoming a Slasher.

I mean, to an extent this is splitting hairs about whether someone is merely abnormal in a normal way or abnormal in a supernatural way, but poo poo, all the other lines use supernaturalism as a metaphor.


The Union's thing is that they don't give a drat about what's happening outside of their defended neighborhood, yeah. But their supernatural power is the ability to cover up their murders of supernaturals.

Yawgmoth posted:

I remember that movie.

Dave Brookshaw posted:

The Tamers of Blood wish to make it clear that they don't deal with vampires. They're interested in the well-known symbolic relationship between blood and sympathy, and the resulting "gently caress with vampires" powers are an entirely innocent byproduct.