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Different source of power dude
White Wolf's World of Darkness
Different source of power dude
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Well, technically anything that isn't a mage is a hedge mage.
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ManusDomine nailed it.
Imbued are technically Hedge Mages in denial.
Different source of power?
Not actually guaranteed.
Sorcerer whose philosophy is backed via Ebon Dragon has different source of power from Imbued how?
I just see dual cousin Hedge Mages.
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No that wasn't what I meant.
What I meant was that due to the way consensual reality works, anything that doesn't work by sphere magic rules can be comfortably sidelined as "hedge magic" just like nMages can comfortably sideline anything they don't get as "Lower Depths".
Hedge magic isn't an actual thing, it's more like a nebulous category of stuff that doesn't feel like sphere magic.
What I meant was that due to the way consensual reality works, anything that doesn't work by sphere magic rules can be comfortably sidelined as "hedge magic" just like nMages can comfortably sideline anything they don't get as "Lower Depths".
Hedge magic isn't an actual thing, it's more like a nebulous category of stuff that doesn't feel like sphere magic.
Generalissimo
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Ah, so just Mages being arrogant like Mages?
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Ah, so just Mages being arrogant like Mages?
See! Now you get it!
No. Because that would be incredibly silly. BESM is not a great system and also doesn't cover any of the themes of oWoD or nWoD well enough that a conversion is justified unless you're playing some kind of incredibly cringeworthy campaign set in oWoD Asia, and if you are, I still don't think your anime inspirations are going to be the ones which BESM tries to emulate.
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i won't let you crush my dreams
Oh really?
Edit: And yes, this is something by White Wolf and not fan-work or third-party stuff.
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Even then, BESM is a terrible system for emulating anime. 3rd edition was this bizarre badly designed version of GURPS/HERO which completely fails to emulate any sort of anime I can think of up to and including the ones where characters are explicitly game character with game stats and the editions before that were just sort of handwavey bullshit that confused rules lite with thematically broad.
Using BESM to run an anime campaign is like using GURPS to run a game of Nobilis. Technically feasible but the game will be fighting you ever step of the way.
But what about the offical White Wolf Street Fighter RPG?
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But what if you like BESM and hate WoD's themes of personal horror (but otherwise like a lot of elements of the WoD setting)? What do you do then?
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Use a better system than BESM.
Like FATAL.
trust me im a professional
Like FATAL.
trust me im a professional
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I actually like BESM's mechanics though
I've played BBSW, which is based on BESM and is very similar. Both use the Tri-Stat system.
I could convert OVampire to BBSW, it might even work, but I don't think the setting is well suited to Tri-stat , nor is Tri-stat well suited to the setting.
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White Wolf's official Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game is wonderful!
Unless that Anime is maybe Street Fighter - so yeah
Totally White Wolf
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Heh, from what I've heard of it Burn Legend is basically just a port of SF:TSG.White Wolf's official Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game is wonderful!
Unless that Anime is maybe Street Fighter - so yeah
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Ish?
It works slightly differently, but the lines of ancestry are very clear.
(It's also one of the best Shards in that book. @EarthScorpion favors Heaven's Reach while I favor Burn Legend.)
Street Fighter has the best combat rules of any White Wolf game, hands down, mainly because it was designed to emulate the arcade game it was based on, and hews closely to it. The end result is a combat system that is substantially more dynamic than anything else White Wolf has ever put out.
As a general rule, you should just port the Street Fighter rules if you ever have a desire to allow Martial Arts merits.
Also, World of Darkness vs Capcom is a totally playable crossover.
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Dude. Dino Crisis, Resident Evil, and Darkstalkers fit the World of Darkness perfectly.
Though, how would Werewolf interact with Resident Evil?
By turning into giant mutant zombie werewolves, obviously.
By raging out and fucking some wild animals afterwards. Same as with everything else.
I've pulled out my old copy of WW SF; going to get more acquainted with it so I can actually use it.
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Play BESM, I guess. Though I would suggest you check out some other games first. It's not really going to work for WoD but if you have a few friends who like it too, more power to you.
Though if nobody wants to play your BESM game that steals aesthetics and nothing else fromm WoD... you might start questioning why that is.
They literally branded the Darkstalkers arcade cabinet with the World of Darkness logo.
Umbrella and Pentex are basically the same company, anyway. Just replaces "viruses" with "banes" and everything works the same (and even makes more sense, seriously, have you seen what the T-Virus can do...)
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