White Wolf's World of Darkness
I feel Deviant is a little less trenchcoat-katana by default than this implies because of just how inevitable Scars are to Deviants, and how easy it is for Scars to make your character's life extremely difficult. To say nothing about how the default state for Deviants is "adrift with no safety net, probably no home, and minimal resources."
The tone is very action-y and violent but it's not really trenchcoats and katanas, which I think implies that weaknesses are largely cosmetic or plot points that add flavor, rather than core parts of the character which can't be cured and your character needs to plan their life around. It's very much Soon I Will Be Invincible's crack about how there's a very narrow line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.
The Earthblood reveal trailor dropped, and it seems to be very 90s;
Main antagonist appears to be a Garou with a massive infestation of parasitic worm-spirits, protagonist appears to be generic biker-looking white guy.
It doesn't look graphic, but is insisting that it's for mature audiences only, so I don't know if it has something fucked up in it that I missed.
Main antagonist appears to be a Garou with a massive infestation of parasitic worm-spirits, protagonist appears to be generic biker-looking white guy.
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I feel confident in this game.
Paradox has plenty of experience making eugenics simulators, genocide simulators, and war crimes simulators, so I think they will be able to handle Werewolf well, as Werewolf is a setting where the main characters engage in tons of eugenics, genocide, and war crimes.
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- secret base
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- She/Her
Should we expect a wave of Werewolf-based quests on this forum, then?
mothematics
How wide is the concept of "you"?
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- the bottom of a coffee cup
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- She/Her
If it's good, then maybe.
@Suzu was making a joke about the Crusader Kings 2-based quests which use simplified CK2 mechanics actually.
mothematics
How wide is the concept of "you"?
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- the bottom of a coffee cup
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- She/Her
sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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- Pittsburgh, PA
I could see it working if you cross them over in a "ships in the night" sort of way? In a Promethean chronicle, a Mummy plays a central role in a single story arc as this mysterious, eldritch thing which shows there's strangeness in the world beyond that birthed by Divine Fire; the way Mummies tend to pop up out of nowhere, slowly burn out, and then disappear again, carrying all this bizarre history and knowledge with them, seems excellent as a hook - and there's also the element of them being former humans who became this deathless thing by choice, opening a door for certain PCs to hit a milestone or two.
From the Mummy side of things, the Created are this alien OCP they have to try and process through the lens of the insane Lovecraft shit that Irem was involved with - are the Prometheans the result of someone fucking with stars (again)? Are any of the creepy Great Old Ones they have to deal with (either directly or, more likely, via one of the Deceived) taking an interest in these almost-humans? Is there any sort of connection to be drawn between Irem and the cycle of demiurge-to-Promethean-to-Promethean creation - or is there a Lineage whose genesis involved a Relic, either one of the OG five or an entirely new one introduced for the sake of the chronicle?
What would one of the Mesen-Nebu Guildsmen think of how the precepts of alchemy were applied (or misapplied) to capture sparks of Divine Fire and cage them within dead flesh?
Beast is useful as a source of creative grist for the mill.
I could totally see a Hunter campaign involving people who fed their souls to eldritch spirits of fear and madness, gaining terrible power in exchange for having to sate the spirit's hunger with a steady stream of victims.
I could see a fucked up cult whose senior members can invoke the Labyrinth their dark god hides at the center of, swallowing up enemies into a shifting maze which actively seeks their end while the occultist fueling it hides away in its depths. The only way out is to either kill the person who called it forth, or use sacred geometries and other paranormal means to find a path out through the Labyrinth's ever-changing passages (but if you do, what else might escape that dark place by following in your wake?)
I could see a coven of witches who learn of the Sons of Cain, those twisted kin of humanity who inspired legends like Goliath and Grendel - dead to the last centuries ago, but still wandering the world as ghosts, for neither Heaven nor Hell will accept them. They seek to bind one of these restless shades to a mortal vessel, gaining a minion who partakes of these lost giants' unbelievable strength and vitality.
Hell, you could even go for a take on The Keep, with the Beast being a sort of semi-MacGuffin sealed away in some lonely corner of the world, uncovered by the Loyalists of Thule or somesuch and now oh shit, those guys we sent to investigate that ruin all went crazy and killed each other, better send in a fresh batch to investigate that! Cue everyone getting spookifered in an antediluvian monster-jail whose occupant is trying to convince them to let it out.
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Doesn't change an exact quote is "your enemies are generally objectively worse people than Deviants."
The theme is tragic revenge, not unjustified revenge; think the Punisher or Max Payne, Renegades are often miserable, perhaps usually, but the people they hate are the kind of people for whom the world does not mourn the loss of. That makes the horror even worse (one of Max's most powerful lines is him freaking out a little when he realizes how justified his revenge is, I think - on some level, he doesn't want to be, because revenge is an ugly emotion and realizing the world needs that ugliness isn't pleasant), but it's also freaking cathartic. Scars suck, but the game wants you to revel in the power of Variations; this is the same supernatural type where you don't need to spend Experience to upgrade your powers (for those of you who didn't back; when you heal Instability so that you lose a temporary Scar, you can instead chose to make it permanent to add a dot to your Variations, no cost or training time needed).
Still dark, but heroic dark.
I'llNameThisL8r
Bad at names
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- Here
- Pronouns
- He/Him
So, I hope I'm not late to the party and telling everyone things they already know here, but I think I found where Awakening's atlantian script is from.
I found a collection of symbols that included the ones used for the arcanum in the Dictionary Of Occult Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils by Fred Getting:
And then I tracked down the book being refrenced in his bibliography at the end of the book and found Histoire de la Magie du monde surnaturel et de la fatalite a travers les temps et les peuples by P. Christian and found basicaly just one for one copies of the sigils in MtA:
I don't actualy know if there's a moral to this story because, 1) I don't speak french and can't tell you what is being said about this script that would actualy useful for homebrew or expanding the universe of the game, and 2) I'm not entirely sure that anyone cares.
I found a collection of symbols that included the ones used for the arcanum in the Dictionary Of Occult Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils by Fred Getting:
And then I tracked down the book being refrenced in his bibliography at the end of the book and found Histoire de la Magie du monde surnaturel et de la fatalite a travers les temps et les peuples by P. Christian and found basicaly just one for one copies of the sigils in MtA:
I don't actualy know if there's a moral to this story because, 1) I don't speak french and can't tell you what is being said about this script that would actualy useful for homebrew or expanding the universe of the game, and 2) I'm not entirely sure that anyone cares.
....Do people really care about the fera? I always feel they were....kinda...just...there.
Yeah it would seem pretty hard to work in all that stuff, especially when most of them don't join up with the werewolves after being team killed so many times. Plus you need new models.
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- They/Them
I know there were guidelines for CoD/nWoD in terms of teenage characters and how their character sheets might differ from adults, but I can't find it. I know it came up at least once in the past 650 pages, but that doesn't really help.
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
I think it might be in Innocents, rhough that book focused on children more than teens.
It had rules for characters of various ages, ranging from IIRC 6-16.
Krazyfan1
Worrying for the future.
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- Australia
From what i've heard people seem to like them...
They do, is just they are more of the misterious side chararter than the protagonist like the Gaoru, in fact the nwod dosnet have other werecreatures.
I think nWOD does, its just everyone hated their splat book because it was written by a crazy oMage/oChangeling writer.
NWoD is still technically supposed to be toolbox-style, so theoretically any specific game may or may not have non-wolf shifters.
There were like three books on the subject, all mostly uninvolved with each other.
Krazyfan1
Worrying for the future.
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- Australia
And that's why I made them disposeable livng props in my theroctal Slayer splat book.
Quite. The one that sucked was Changing Breeds, War Against The Pure had a non-wolf therianthrope system in its last chapter (as the "strange enemy" type, but Onyx Path has always been self-aware about how strange people = bad is the kind of thing the Pure do, so they made those rules with an eye towards playability and sympathy), and Skinchangers was a blue book that focused on mortal-facing shifters, focusing on skinthieves, shamans who learned how to take the forms of animals by imbuing varying amounts of vital essence into talismans, a la wolfskin belt; they were updated to 2E in the Aztecs section of Dark Eras at the request of Kickstarter backers (and fixing the rather stupid decision in 1E to make it so that lower Morality caps Intelligence; besides unwanted character sheet fuckery, apparently no editor realized that animal instinct =! dumb. Or scary, for that matter).