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Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT
In Fempure-a: zee Mesqooerede-a, zee pleyers essoome-a zee rule-a ooff fempures, immurtel beeengs coorsed veet un unqooencheble-a thurst fur bluud und foolnerebeelity tu soonleeght - creetoores furefer buoond tu zeeur inner Beest. It is a geme-a ooff persunel hurrur, es zee cherecters ere-a cunteenooelly furced tu velk a murel teeghtrupe-a betveee zeeur need tu soorfeefe-a und zee hurreeffic meuns by vheech zeey insoore-a it. Bork Bork Bork!

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Millions of Crows
Mar 31, 2010

take a look overhead
Malkavians are the most fun.

What kind of powers does their clan progenitor have though? Super schizofrenia? I'm trying to imagine what godlike power a being defined by insanity would have. Just making other people crazy seems too simple.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Flesh Forge posted:

That's pretty observant and I think it might have made for a good game background rather than White Wolf style cringe and angst.

I miss our Umbramobile campaign. It was a literal road trip through the spirit world and was the most fun I'd ever had in an rpg.

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

Millions of Crows posted:

Malkavians are the most fun.

What kind of powers does their clan progenitor have though? Super schizofrenia? I'm trying to imagine what godlike power a being defined by insanity would have. Just making other people crazy seems too simple.

well a bunch of them but mostly super perception and telepathic stuff, which his use to see higher truths is (maybe) what drove him insane in the first place

so his powers aren't necessarily themed around being an incarnation of insanity, though what difference that makes when you're confronting a godlike telepath/predictionist whose thought processes are extremely different from your own is an open question

also it's possible his descendants only really appear insane because Malkav attempted/succeeded in ascending to a higher state of being where he exists as a purely mental being who uses his progeny as something like a nervous system (and possibly directs their actions)

Millions of Crows
Mar 31, 2010

take a look overhead
^
Further confirmation Malkavians are the best.

Ventrue are the worst, pretentious posers.

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Madness_Network

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

Where can I read more about this?

I'm asking for a friend.

http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/The_God-Machine_Chronicle

yo mamma a Horus
Apr 7, 2008

Nap Ghost
i like the vendor guy that was fat and sold you guns and said "baby girl, i got what you neeeeeeeeeeeeeeed"

he could be a vampire if he wanted to

12gaugelobotomy
Apr 25, 2012

Munsun posted:

i like the vendor guy that was fat and sold you guns and said "baby girl, i got what you neeeeeeeeeeeeeeed"

he could be a vampire if he wanted to

With a F-A-T cuz i know i got a weight problem i just don't give a gently caress

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

12gaugelobotomy posted:

With a F-A-T cuz i know i got a weight problem i just don't give a gently caress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYovbdepJ68

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Millions of Crows posted:

^
Further confirmation Malkavians are the best.

Ventrue are the worst, pretentious posers.

Whatever else you say about them, Ventrue got poo poo done usually by bossing everyone else around, but whatevs

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


Filthy Hans posted:

Whatever else you say about them, Ventrue got poo poo done usually by bossing everyone else around, but whatevs

Tremere reign supreme because they don't need to boss people around when they can just make people their blood puppet.

Diesel Fucker
Aug 14, 2003

I spent my rent money on tentacle porn.
The Cenobite Clan. Tzimisce.

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Inzombiac posted:

Tremere reign supreme because they don't need to boss people around when they can just make people their blood puppet.

They're weak to being punched in the face, though. Such is the fate of all wizmen.

Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfT7Bj0Zk7w

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

QUEEN CAUCUS posted:

also :lol: at when White Wolf ever tried to do anything with Eastern, Western, Pagan, Christian, Archaic, Modern, Postmodern philosophy

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

Millions of Crows posted:

Malkavians are the most fun.

What kind of powers does their clan progenitor have though? Super schizofrenia? I'm trying to imagine what godlike power a being defined by insanity would have. Just making other people crazy seems too simple.

Malkav, IIRC, is omniscient, and so are his kids. However, they (the kids, at any rate) have no filters for this power so they argue with stop signs. Constant exposure to everyone's thoughts, combined with super-hearing and ghost sensitivity isn't really a fun superpower to
have, which is why they're like the mental version of Nosferatu.

LGD posted:

well a bunch of them but mostly super perception and telepathic stuff, which his use to see higher truths is (maybe) what drove him insane in the first place

so his powers aren't necessarily themed around being an incarnation of insanity, though what difference that makes when you're confronting a godlike telepath/predictionist whose thought processes are extremely different from your own is an open question

also it's possible his descendants only really appear insane because Malkav attempted/succeeded in ascending to a higher state of being where he exists as a purely mental being who uses his progeny as something like a nervous system (and possibly directs their actions)

And this too.


Thanks!

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
I love bloodlines and compare it to deus ex 1 and thief as classics that define the genre, janky code and all

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

I love bloodlines and compare it to deus ex 1 and thief as classics that define the genre, janky code and all

There's a patch for that.

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
Yeah I know

dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot
i made up my own vampire clan that's descended more closely to cain, it was cool you had to dress in all black even if u were getting married as a virgen and you had to have knives and 2 identical pistols all the time for dual wielding

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

I love bloodlines and compare it to deus ex 1 and thief as classics that define the genre, janky code and all

I liked bloodlines despite it's laundry list of problems.

Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003

etalian posted:

I liked bloodlines despite it's laundry list of problems.

That haunted house level was genuinely spooky.

dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot

Bert Roberge posted:

That haunted house level was genuinely spooky.

that was where the game broke for me

Cordon bleu
Sep 11, 2016

by Smythe
not a vampire clan but definitely vampire music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktnyx4xv76I

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Cordon bleu posted:

not a vampire clan but definitely vampire music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktnyx4xv76I

If you're a vampire, everything is vampire music.

Superman by Goldfinger? Vampire as gently caress.

dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot
I had my players read The Prince by Machiavelli to get them ready for my vampire game. The only person who did said he had no idea why I gave it as homework and the party proceeded to wipe on the first obvious double cross

Vakal
May 11, 2008

Bert Roberge posted:

That haunted house level was genuinely spooky.

The raptor around the corner in the museum level was scarier.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Bert Roberge posted:

That haunted house level was genuinely spooky.

It amazes me how old games with primitive engines can be spookier than modern horror games without good atmosphere.

I had turn on the lights when I got to the bloody walls in the bedroom! :ohdear:

Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT
here's a lovely blast from the past my dudes :getin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vympzV240mM

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


it was spooky the first time around but no, it's really not spooky anymore.

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009

Vakal posted:

The raptor around the corner in the museum level was scarier.

gently caress you I shot at that

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009

Volcott posted:

If you're a vampire, everything is vampire music.

Superman by Goldfinger? Vampire as gently caress.

Happy by Pharrell? Vampire as gently caress.

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
it's ravnos

all these bitches with, like, being super strong and fast. meanwhile, you can literally alter reality with illusions that you have full control over.

Cordon bleu
Sep 11, 2016

by Smythe
Real recording of real vampire clan dialogue VERY RARE FOOTAGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi2w4Al555g

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Volcott posted:

If you're a vampire, everything is vampire music.

Superman by Goldfinger? Vampire as gently caress.

This is true. When I was really into vampires as a teen I could tie basically everything on the weekly top 20 to being about vampires. Did I mention it was the 80s?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_ZQXH3Dqg
I just died in your arms tonight, must have been some kind of kiss? Definitely about vampires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrZZfaDp02o
One of my Kind. Heck yeah, vampire kind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iypXh0_mo0
Moonlight desires? Obvious vampire is obvious.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE
In a wood full of Princes freedom is a Kiss. Duh, this one could be in V:tM rulebook.





https://vimeo.com/89770018
Okay, I admit this one is a bit of a stretch. (Yes, that is Gandalf playing the vampire)

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

DustyNuts posted:

Followers of Set.

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord
lasombra you dumbasses gently caress i hate that i posted in this thread

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

Followers of Set could turn in to cobras. I wish I could turn in to a cobra.

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CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

dookifex_maximus posted:

i made up my own vampire clan that's descended more closely to cain, it was cool you had to dress in all black even if u were getting married as a virgen and you had to have knives and 2 identical pistols all the time for dual wielding

That is scrub tier vampiring, bro. What you need, see, is to dual wield sniper rifles with katana bayonets and be an honoraburu assassin necromancer with a tortured past and optimal stats.

...

Also, Malkavians are still the best. I can't believe some of you guys are so caught up in the monkeycheese aspect of them and are totally ignoring the Hot Topic atheistic dark dual wielding necromancer assassin aspects of your dumb Laser-bras and Timmy-Zs or whatever's.

Tremeres are cool though.

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