Warthur posted:

Minor correction to above: AIUI, it's a stretch to say Greg Stolze designed Demon: the Fallen. He has prominent credits in the supplement line (where arguably the work of redesigning the game into something playable actually happened), but in the core book he's credited as one of about nine contributing authors. The Designers (listed separately from authors) are listed as Andrew Bates, Ken Cliffe, Michael Lee, Rich Thomas, and Steve Wieck, and the overall line developer was apparently Michael Lee.

Small thing I know, but I think it's important to emphasise given that Stolze has a reputation for solid system design which Demon: the Fallen (especially from core), ahahahahaha, doesn't exactly measure up to, and you wouldn't want people to think that it's a Stolze-designed game because I bet that even within the constraints of 2002-vintage Storyteller Stolze could design a much better game by himself given full creative freedom than Demon turned out to be.

Top Hats Monthly posted:

I've started my V5 campaign where thinblood vampires are abducted and taken to a new wing of the South Pole research station, where governments do research on them away from the public eye (radiation exposure, freezing/heating etc). After an accident, the vampires get released from storage. Also, its happening during the night time. So imagine 30 days of night mixed with The Thing and a sprinkling of Fargo here and there. It is going to be great.

Bosushi! posted:

I think it was much more feasible in 1st edition CoD/NWoD. All of the 2nd ed games have way to much going on with variable touchstones and frenzy systems etc.

Bosushi! posted:

OWoD Werewolf, via the short lived Rage card game, is essentially the game that got me into the tabletop hobby and I will forever love the absolute batshit nature of it.

A lot of people give the Stargazers, and Kailindo, poo poo for “not making sense” or something, but to me it makes perfect sense for a Werewolf to find a way to optimize their shape shifting ability in the way that all Martial Arts seek to optimize the human body’s economy of motion. If anything Kailindo as “the werewolf martial art” is far too narrow, and every tribe would have incorporated shapeshifting into their own martial arts.

Stargazers are problematic in that they’re steeped in early 90’s Orientalism and act as a catch all for anything vaguely Asian, so they could definitely use a much more culturally sensitive rewrite.

Soonmot posted:

Fun fact: The person who runs it is the only good thing from Beast, Sleeping Beauty. She kind of grew organically from a throwaway NPC my players codesigned in the first scene and grew attached to. An eyepatch wearing rockabilly with a diner waitress motif and an immunity to supernatural mindcontrol after surviving her ordeal.

Kurieg posted:

Beast also gave us the merit that allows beasts to run a pirate radio/tv station out of the collective unconcious, should they so choose.

Which would be awesome in any other game.

Shrecknet posted:

Once again, someone typed all those words when reqiuem completely obviates their necessity

Also, open call for horrorscopes time!

Helical Nightmares posted:

Werewolf the Apocalypse is getting a video game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NziTWE3DcwQ

Mulva posted:

Let's be perfectly honest.

The bastards are probably the ones that got kicked back to Earth.

HerraS posted:

Anyone wanna help me come up with NPCs for a Masquerade game set in Vegas (using the Rev/V20 setting)? Ive read through what little there is about Vegas in Nights of Prophecy and Havens of the Damned, using the mage book for descriptions of the Strip and downtown Vegas (so the city is permalocked into some hazy 2008-2010 timeframe)

So far I have:

- Prince Benedic, who sits in his opulent mansion and doesnt care what you do as long as you follow the rules
- Montrose, the Nosferatu sheriff/seneschal whos been around before Vegas even existed
- Sands, a Toreador architect and one of the harpies
- Rothstein, the Giovanni mobster whos claimed the city as domain
- Dante, the other Giovanni, the one who runs the Venetian and thinks all sect conflicts are bullshit
- Margaret, she spends her time rubbing elbows with all the billionares, celebrities and casino owners. Not sure whether to make her Ventrue or Toreador
- Howard Hughes. Hes a Malkavian who faked his death and now lives on the Strip under different pseudonyms. He spends all his time sitting in his room watching television and movies, and sometimes the tv gives hims ~visions~
- Papillon, the Tremere regent. She's a former stage magician's assistant who never got a fair chance because of her gender, so she started dabbling in real magic to gain an edge. The Chantry is inside the Luxor, because what's a better place to do your wizardry than a giant black pyramid that shoots out a pillar of light every night?

I'd like to come up with a handful more vampires, especially Anarchs and possible undercover Sabbat infiltrators. Spitball some ideas if you like.

The Unlife Aquatic posted:

Expanding on this idea: his wounds aren't his Nosferatu tell - it's his breathing. His rattling breath continues, even in undeath, forever trapped in the last moments of terminal phosgene inhalation.

HerraS posted:

Thanks for the Vegas ideas so far. Definitely gonna write up an Anarch who uses Hacktivist Thaumaturgy to spy on the LVPD for information and runs an underground night radio that's a mix of Art Bell conspiracy stuff and Red Question -like rabblerousing where he hells people to rise up and smash the state, no princes no masters.

The gas mask wearing Nosferatu hitman is cool too, propably will try to work them in. And the Elvis impersonator.

My plan is to have the players be ancillae, not too young to be treated like disposable idiots and not old enough to have someone younger go out and get things done.

Feel free to throw out more ideas!

Octavo posted:

I think the only person who could coherently reboot Ascension while remaining true to its (messy, contradictory) themes would be Malcolm Sheppard.

The 1e dev, Stew Weick, passed away.
The revised dev, Jesse Heinig, is still pretty bitter over the fan backlash and now happily works over on Star Trek Online.
Howard Ingham has the right attitude toward the game, but very much doesn't do RPG writing anymore.
Ryan Macklin did an incredible job with the revised convention books, but that team has broken up, and he's expressed no desire to work for Onyx Path at such low rates again.
DaveB understands the problems with the Ascension setting and clearly knows how to fix games named Mage, but I'm pretty sure he's busy with writing a game he can own.
Malcolm Sheppard is the only Mage dev who still believes that the Traditions were right to fight against the technocratic fascists, and he's already played around with rebooting the setting by changing the Traditions membership (via his Mage: the Dirty Version posts eons ago.)

Come to think of it, there's one other person who might manage Mage, and that's Ian Watson, who is working on Mage: the Victorian Age. I'll be curious to see how that book turns out.

Loomer posted:

Today's Disturbing Implication post: The Smiling Lord has been replaced several times. This is a well known fact.

But he was last replaced in 1998 by a wraith less than a year old. There is thus no way he could have conspired with the Dark Kingdom of Jade to the extent he's supposed to have - or rather, the persona-mask of the Smiling Lord can but not the Lord himself. It's an incredibly good piece of commentary on the nature of war and violence when taken with Ends of Empire as it transforms the issue of 'why would he betray us?' into a critique of the very idea of unchecked violence in a civil society as inherently treacherous, disloyal, and incompatible with anything but totalitarianism. Why is every Smiling Lord a traitor who inevitably conspires against Charon and Stygia? Because every Smiling Lord personifies a fascist love of violence in-itself, and thus by assuming the mantle, must betray.

Dawgstar posted:

On the other hand, I feel like the Skeletal Lord has never been replaced and... well, yikes, you know? The same is probably true for the Beggar Lord who is arguably even more scary but is more subtle about it.

joylessdivision posted: