Which was the best Vampire Clan?

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Nathilus: Apr 4, 2002; I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

ded posted:

I hear that clan Tzimisce knows how to party!
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camarilla is for suckers anyway.

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Nathilus: Apr 4, 2002; I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

Tectonis posted:

8th gen Caitiff for greatest min/maxing. Bonus points for convincing the GM that you should totally be able to have clan-specific abilities because of this flaw I made up and will never roleplay.

I once convinced all my buds in a rotating gm shadowrun game that I needed the extra point to be a physical adept and get combat focus grenades free at the start. The proviso was that whenever I used them I had to call them "shteel hand granat/s" with that cheesy german accent. I was hella op but joke was on me, so was everyone else. When my first turn at gming came around we blew through the carefully thought-out defenses of a burbclave corp lab in about fifteen minutes. Not even moderately severe gmcheating could save the run difficulty. Welp.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 19:30

Nathilus: Apr 4, 2002; I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

Frankenstyle posted:

Late-ish 90's I believe.

But lol if you bother with free pdfs even. Back in high school I played a little D&D for a year or so. I started buying the books, but quickly realized they're 90% unnecessary. I'd DM games and pretend to be consulting the charts and stuff for die rolls, but mostly I was just trying to tell an entertaining story while letting the players think that an element of random chance was effecting the game. RPG's work best as some kind of improv dinner theater where the participants think they have more control than they actually do.

*As long as the DM is a good story teller that can think on their feet and understand building tension and poo poo.

This is the correct way to gm imo. As a good gm you should always be willing to diverge from what you had planned out if players try a novel solution, but you should be cheating outrageously regardless and/or just making up rules and poo poo to keep the tension where you need it.

There is no way to tell how badly I'm cheating you behind that gm screen and that is natural and appropriate. :colbert:

# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 11:30

Nathilus: Apr 4, 2002; I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

QUEEN CAUCUS posted:

yeah yeah wooooo I'm a spooky ghost wooooo

oh no I'm bound to an ashtray for eternity oh noooooooo

Dont forget the ~*~ghosts of nuclear weapons~*~

# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 11:41

Nathilus: Apr 4, 2002; I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

12gaugelobotomy posted:

You mean santa monica isn't in LA? I should probably pay more attention it took me forever to figure out shadowrun was set in seattle for the most part.

Correct. Santa Monica is a township or whatever that is seperate from LA (though surrounded on it by the three sides that aren't ocean).

# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 14:38

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 14:50

Nathilus: Apr 4, 2002; I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

wyntyr posted:

Y'all fuckin nerds are making me read wikis about vampires, I hate you.

I vaguely remember two things about the Vampire guidebooks or whatever they're called: there's a section that's titled "Fighting Caine" that just reads "you lose", and some description of what happens when you suck the blood of various mythological creatures. Mummies don't have any blood lol

In the gehenna book they get into antedeluvian "11 pip" powers and they are all hilarious.

Caine himself doesn't belong in a vampire game imo except that taxi cab driver cameo sort of deal. The clan progenitors are fair game in a gehenna scenario though, and their powers make them significantly stronger than most all forces of nature.

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