Banishers get it.
White Wolf's World of Darkness
Banishers get it.
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You mean in the book I haven't read that everybody says is hilariously unbalanced?
Just checking.
/Might be some of the reason I don't know all that much beyond the basics/thematics of Banishers.
vicky_molokh
Posthuman spidery thingy.
- Location
- Kyïv, Ukraine
You said mixed-groupness could be a problem, right? That still implies that there is something more wrong when the events of a campaign involve players of Sex B instead of Sex A; the interpretation of 'adding males to a group creates problems' seemed less likely, but it still seems discriminatory.
Harassment is still harassment no matter who is the target; likewise, non-harassing interactions are still non-harassment whether the group is mixed or not.
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- Denmark
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- She/Her
Only the character generation, the rest should be fine if I remember correctly.
Well, some of the rotes also have problems. In that they read like they were written by someone who only knew the oMage magic system.
In fact, as I recall, basically every rote written for the Translators group was trash, and had things like "Use Spirit 3 to teleport someone into space" and "Some kind of Mind rote that locked someone in their own mind and asked for rolls that didn't make sense in the nWoD system".
Imrix
Periodically Malevolent QM
Yyyeah, but my point was that Changelings don't have nearly as many passive protections as other supernaturals. If I shoot a Vampire, they can just soak the bullet with their dead flesh. If I threaten to shoot a Werewolf, they can flip out into Crinos, fast-heal the damage and rend me limb from limb. If I threaten to shoot a Mage, well, either they can rapidly raise their mystic armour or, if they're played like MJ12 Commando, they've already got a slew of probability alterations and other protection.
If I threaten to shoot an average Changeling, they can... Well they're not helpless. Contracts like Fickle Fate or Creeping Dread might let you weight the odds of me missing my shot so you can get away, but it's chancy. Changelings have superpowers, but relatively few of them are applicable to making them combat monsters unless that Changeling is willing to commit to a whole bunch of esoteric high-rating powers and weird Catches to become a Court Warrior or something. There's a reason Changeling's have no inherent bane like silver for werewolves or Paradox for mages; they don't need it. They're already fragile enough in a straightforward confrontation.
That said, what you're basically talking about is thinning out the Mask with more exceptions and ways of seeing through it, and yeah, I'm in favour of that.
Why not? It seems all of a piece to me. Changeling's aren't fairies, so for this story to work, it almost has to downplay the fairy elements and play up the more general "look at this twisted freak!" aspect, which an iron weakness doesn't really help with.
Again: I am fine with thinning the Mask with more things like your conception of Huntsmen. I am against, very specifically, giving Changelings a blanket weakness to iron to make them more Fae.
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Oh right I forgot those.
Vito Scaletta
Immoralist
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- The City of Empire Bay
I've proposed this idea many times before but never got around to doing it. I figured I'd ask the WoD fans here as well as the people in Grand Strategy Roleplaying.
Would any of you guys like the idea of a Vampire: The Masquerade Grand Strategy RP where players play as vampire princes and elders, and try to expand their realms of influence. I can do Medieval settings (like in Dark Ages: Vampire), as well as Renaissance (right after the Camarilla and Sabbat have just formed), Victorian, or even Modern settings as well.
Would any of you guys like the idea of a Vampire: The Masquerade Grand Strategy RP where players play as vampire princes and elders, and try to expand their realms of influence. I can do Medieval settings (like in Dark Ages: Vampire), as well as Renaissance (right after the Camarilla and Sabbat have just formed), Victorian, or even Modern settings as well.
Legend of Ruina
Growing eyes on the inside
I also recall being disgruntled with it for having a "detect Banisher" spell in Prime which can only be used by Banishers (which is stupid for so many reasons), and a merit that gave bonuses to improvised casting equal to the number of dots you had in it (because balance is for suckers).
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- Quezon City, Philippines
Sorry, didn't notice. Just woke up at the time and was semi-coherent with my brain skipping things.
Quantumboost
Now with 50% more dots in Dimensional Science
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- Ensemble Space
Summoning Data Beasts as minion is just "being a Virtual Adept of any sort who picked up Spirit, then cutting a deal with the program-spirit". Or being a Dreamspeaker or Hermetic spirit-binder or something who really likes the Digital Web. Or picking up Familiar and saying they're a Data Beast. Basically, it's trivially easy to decide "I'm going to play a Digimon Adventure character" and then just do that.
Just remember, Pokemon Go is now a super good focus/disguise for Spirit 1 as a Technomage.
"Yes. I am holding up my phone to see if there are any spi... Pokemon nearby. There's one. Hold still. I just need to capture it."
Deadly Snark
Tryhard As Fuck
Sounds more like Tamers.
Wouldn't it also be a very good focus for Mind? Tell people that there is a rare pokemon nearby and watch as a mob spontaneously stampede in.
Yes, but then you get the troll-casting Technocrats who go "you do know that people playing Pokemon Go tend to get run over by cars right" and use that as a focus for a direct Forces attack on you involving a car screaming down the road and running you over.
notthepenguins
Neither Spherical Nor Frictionless
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The only difference is that Adventure is mostly in the Digital Web.
Sometimes if they're a super-cheap NWO bastard, they'll skip the middle man and not actually use sphere magic.
Damn cheating NWO, allowing their rotes to be used by the Masses like that.
I'd basically rather start of Prince of Poughkeepsie or something, where the Primogens are the Primogens by virtue of being the only vampires of their clans in the city, and you're the Prince because you won the coin flip. But, the title still gives you rights within the Camarilla, since you're technically high ranked, and can parlay that into something bigger and better.
notthepenguins
Neither Spherical Nor Frictionless
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The NWO publicizing their "hit people with cars" rote led to 1.25 million deaths yearly! Bring the Technocracy to justice!
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- London, England
Personally, I'd be all over that one. Hell, I've made characters for similar games about three times now, just off the top of my head, but none of the games ever actually went anywhere because the GM up and vanished.
But yeah, if you were looking for someone to play in a proper political maneuvering game, I'd be more than happy to take a shot at it. If it's Masquerade, probably as a Malkavian, because I rather enjoy them as a character archetype. It's quite fun working out how to balance someone who has different priorities and perspectives to most people without veering straight off into 'lol random'.
(One of my previous characters was called Jonathan Graves, and the description another PC gave when we were planning things was 'he has about fifty different split personalities, and every last one of them is a new and interesting flavour of bastard.)
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Just to explain the funny rating, I'm rating this funny because I chuckled because I have a (very different) character I've written up with the same name.
So it amused me.
Generalissimo
Generalissimo of SufficientVelocity
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- Tropico, Tropico
One book is absolutely essential for a proper Elders vampire game.
Elysium: The Elder Wars (1995)
I must be only person on internet owning a copy.
Outside retailers I can't seem to find any information.
Fluff about having global influence dots perfectly captures feeling of being a one-man-conspiracy.
Better still detailing how ancient beings of incredible power might possibly get along with each other!
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Vito Scaletta
Immoralist
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- The City of Empire Bay
I used to own that book on PDF, it is indeed awesome!
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Actually, that's a question. In the nWoD as it is set up, what's the highest a supernatural whosit is likely to rise? Like, could you imagine a Changeling elected mayor of a small town? State Senator? Are there Governors of states out there that might have been a little bit...Magical?
Like, clearly this isn't oWoD in which supernatural forces actually run the entire world and all five of the normal humans in it with an iron fist.
Like, clearly this isn't oWoD in which supernatural forces actually run the entire world and all five of the normal humans in it with an iron fist.
...aren't the Seers to the Throne sitting around as major power brokers? If not state governors or the like , then there are a few that are very influential public servants or the like. Or are we not counting Mages in this?
And, if only short term, couldn't a Demon take over a elected official /monarch's life as 'cover'? Sure such a position would probably draw attention from the God Machine but...
And, if only short term, couldn't a Demon take over a elected official /monarch's life as 'cover'? Sure such a position would probably draw attention from the God Machine but...