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That Old Tree posted:M20's companion Book of Secrets is also loving terrible and I hate it. M20 is far and away the worst of the anniversary lines, though that poo poo from Changing Ways sure drags down W20's average. It still cant be worse than nWoD Mage corebook, which made the baffling decision to have gold text on silver pages so it is literally physically unreadable at any distance
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Someone talk me out of starting a nwod reqiuem LARP in Durham because i want to tell better stories
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I cannot imagine using fb for pbp, it might be the worst way to communicate on earth. I'm forced to use it for my LARP fpr downtimes and stuff and I hate it more than i hate the joyless players in it
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Once again, someone typed all those words when reqiuem completely obviates their necessity Also, open call for horrorscopes time!
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I need to fill inches in my Gazette for my LARP, and i wanna do a funny advice column. What are some questions for ann Landers but a vampire?
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Thanks everyone for your help. Issue 3 of Up Against the Wall is out. (there's two versions, with two different Ventrue horrorscopes as suggested) Enjoy!
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So they killed my Setite. Apparently whoever gave me the Assamite horrorscope, I just printed it as you typed it, I had no idea it was some sort of third rail for Assamite lore. They got to bitching to the other "elders" who then demanded I make amends to every other kindred I'd wronged. After talking with them, literally every Ancilla and Neonate was on board, and only the elders had any problems, but before I could offer boons and favors, a Nos who'd been following me all night ganked me in an alley after the Toreador Primogen said "you're worth a lot to me alive and nothing dead, so let's work this out" because the Nos and Tories are at each other's throats. It was glorious, though, because he staked me, hid my body, then convinced the Prince to Blood Hunt me and immediately turned in my staked body and killed me to gain Triumphant status for himself. When I heard his plan, I was absolutely giddy, it was the most Vampire thing that's ever happened at our game yet. ST's offered me an Assamite Elder concept as a temp for next game until I decide what to roll up for real. There's an XP floor in our org so I'd be at most 20 XP behind (80 xp starting vs 100 xp if I'd played every game with the same toon) so I'm currently taking concept ideas.
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Gerund posted:Getting ganked as part of a clan feud and being evidence of rank Prince corruption is pretty much as much of a win you can get for less than three months of game. The NPC character is just "hey we have an NPC we need someone to play and you don't currently have a character, here ya go." I don't think it's related to anything particular my character did. The Assamites are in the Cam as this is BNS based off the V20 lore.
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MoonKnight posted:Which org are you part of? I'm assuming MES, which uses the BNS lore (which isn't based off of V20's lore changes, despite people calling METVtM as METV20 mistakenly). Undergound Theater
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It seems impossible that Vegas isnt an independent state held by the Gios. There could be a Cam "Prince" who doesn't actually control anything; the story is the cam trying to change that, but "Gios run Vegas" is pretty ironclad in my mind
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Nessus posted:Up from the deeps Oh my god i love u
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Jonas Albrecht posted:It doesn't give any mechanical benefit, but it's rad.
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PC ghouls are also somewhat busted at very low XP totals, since they immediately get 5 discipline dots. My ghoul had Dominate 5 in the first game, when all other fresh licks were 2/1/1 at best
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Nessus posted:They were real loving stingy with Discipline dots. Not really? Under V20/BNS you get 2/1 as starting and only can get 5 more freebie xp from flaws. Might score an extra dot from a sorcery or add in clan merit, but thats it.
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Loomer posted:Was your Ghoul's domitor 4th Gen? Nope, Ghouls just start with 5 dots in any combination they want of Celerity/Potence/Fort and any of their Domitor's clan disciplines (other than Thaum and other spellcasting stuff). The tradeoff is, Ghouls can never have more than 5 total dots of disciplines, so if (like me) you start at Dominate 5, you're basically SOL for any other disciplines ever, while vampires can, yknow, spend XP to get more.
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Yeah man i fuckin loved Kolchak, the Night Stalker too
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So after playing a temp character for the STs, I'm reafy to play a PC in my LARP. The Tremere players (mostly strong RPers who id like to game with) pitched me on a bruiser Tremere enforcer. Path of Flame + pliable blood for in clan celerity= 5 attacks tjat deal flaming agg per round. Two things give me pause: 1) ive never played a combat character in LARP bc I think cWoD is terrible at mass combat (and all combat ends up as mass combat) and i think id hate standing arpund for ten minutes to throw a chop 2) I'm struggling to find a concept that would be interesting, as. "Mindless firefist guy" doesnt sound like it has a lot of depth, but without dots in thaum and mental stats I struggle with how else id be used.
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MoonKnight posted:How are you doing 5 attacks? Lure of flame ignites hands, then standard melee in every round. It's not a mental power.
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The origin I came up with was I was a US Army grunt good with explosives in WWII, blowing up an old Austrian castle because Nazis were supposed to be inside. When I was the first one through the breach, the Tremere who was suddenly in a Solarium instead of a Crypt dominated me to protect him, then was forced to ghoul me to help me recover from my wounds. Things progressed from there, and between the blood bond and being a natural follower/enjoyer of kicking rear end, I eventually got the bite on me and became a Tremere heavy. Again, this doesn't leave a lot of room for role-play; the character is a little one-note (obviously) but if you guys have a better idea I'm all ears. Someone was kind enough to send me a file that has some neat ideas in it, I'll report back if there's anything that catches my eye.
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Well, it's a function of who's in the Tremere - several players I like and enjoy rp'ing with. My main hangup is playing a brute. I've never done, nor even wanted, a physical, combat focused character in LARP. If I can find an angle more interesting than 'Ben Grimm among Reed, Strange and Tony' that would go a long way, but from what I've read about the pyramid there aren't great upward mobility options for a heavy
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I will say, as a LARPer first and tabletopper rarely, the experiences and playstyles of a single coterie reacting to a single dms world of npcs is WILDLY different than a global org and 30+ pcs and 3+ staff. In some ways, LARP is a lot closer to the vampire experience because it has so many pcs woth thsir owns plots vs a story crafted for 3-5 players
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MonsieurChoc posted:Coteries of New York is out. What happened to my pal Calebros? Please let me know if its any good, im an absolute slut for princess makers like Long Live the Queen and Vlad the Impaler
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Are there any major new (as in, not a re-release, not part of a series) well made high-crunch TTRPGs even being produced these days? All the major flagship standbys are coming up on almost 10 revisions apeice, and all I'm reading is that there's no clear idea as to how to shepherd the game into the kind of experience people want?
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aside: Shadowrun: Anarchy is the perfect Shadowrun game, because it throws out most of the cruft and only commits a few sins of hand-waving abstraction. I really like it as a pick-up-and-play RPG, there's about 50 pages of pregens that are actually cool and fun with story hooks instead of just the DM's home game PCs. I still think Fiasco! is the better "non-gamer but a creative type" RPG, but drat if Shadowrun:Anarchy doesn't hit every note you'd want a game to hit to convince people RPGs are cool
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One of the gags my character had once was that he needed a haircut every sunset because he was embraced with a horrible 70s Luke Skywalker blowout
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our local LARP is doing a chronicle reset (every 4 years to keep things fresh!) and I don't have any good character ideas so I asked the ST if there were any clans underrepresented or any ideas he had. He pointed out that there were no Banu Haqim sorcerers. I've never played a magic user in Vampire (gently caress Tremere) and never an Assamite, so curious what opinions and overarching goals that group might have. FWIW it's a Cam game, modern day using OWoD lore. Setting baseline is that a recent Sabbat attack left the Primogen council, Sherriff and Keeper dead, which is why there's an influx of licks eager to either finally move up as they were blocked by their previous domain's elders, or just opportunists looking to grab power that's for the taking.
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reading their kit now and it seems somewhat... disjointed? like they have quietus which is all about mixing it up and doing sick rear end vampire Ninja blade poo poo but then sorcery which is all mental tricks, but their specific sorcery is fire magic? in a clan that also has obfuscate? but my bloodline flaw is glowing unhideable auras? it's a confused mess and has a billion different skills it wants to get the most. I just want to play a guy that supports the clan by being the broker for our hits and collects/analyzes/synthesizes into weapons the blood we're collecting, like Q from James Bond meets Miracle Max from Princess Bride how are sorcerers supposed to play out?
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Fuzz posted:I dunno, but the V5 LARP rules are basically complete, not that your group sounds like they'd be the type to switch. I have no idea if V5 is even good as a LARP, every WoD LARP experience I've ever had has been rife with cringe and racism, it's why I don't LARP anymore. we're using the By Night Studios MET core from 2021, which is essentially this site https://vamp.bynightstudios.com/
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citybeatnik posted:Most sorcerers were locked up in the mountain before the Schism if I recall correctly. They also don't have Obfuscate pre-V5 but instead had Celerity, Thaum, and Quietus. the BNS MET rules we're using say I am a fire murderwizard quote:Sorcerers disciplines are Obfuscate, Quietus, and Thaumaturgy: Lure of Flames. Additionally, you may learn one other Thaumaturgy path of your choice.
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There's been a standing rule in every Vampire LARP I've ever been in that "Malkavian who thinks he's playing a Vampire TTRPG" is banned as a concept. The "Deadpool Rule" if you will
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