/CofD/ &/wodg/ Chronicles of Darkness and World of Darkness General

Like the OP did? This thread is already off to a good start...

>Has your character ever been possessed?
No, but a character of mine did get diablerized and then, quite a few sessions later, when yet another of my characters got diablerized by the same vamp, the first one took over their brain.

Whats the best Shadow name if I want to specialize in plants/animals and nature spirits?

Stat me, I'm a mage.

>VtM

Yes, what about it? I enjoy Masquerade and Dark Ages more over Requiem in terms of fluff. Rules can be changed easily. I don't begrudge anyone playing or preferring Requiem, it's just not my thing.

The Hippie Druid

Ok Im curious about this, A archmage vs a old planeswalker, who would win? lets assume they are each using different magic systems .

>Greenpeace Artemis
>Greenpeace Demeter
>Greenpeace Dionysus

Can you stop that you fucking idiot

since old planeswalkers always had the power of plot and could do anything the plot demanded from them, the archmage, since he rewrites the plot to suit his whims and extinguishes their Spark

Druid Minimus Maximus

So as far as one shot antagonists go in nwod lore how does a self made gangrel by way of a rogue Hunter kidnapping and torturing a bunch of vampires and performing a blood transfusion on himself sound for weird shit to throw at hunter players

Sure. Though I think an actual Clan is unnecessary. Just have him be someone who made himself into a vampire.

I made this specially for you, faggot

Cult of Ecstasy, specialising in Matter.

>saved

You might have to pop on a train and head west for a little shopping, my slavic friend.

Damn. I was hoping I might find something in Slovenia or Hungary or even Croatia, so I wouldn't have to go too far.

Depends... Do you tend to them? Hunt them? Weaponize them?

Does anyone know of a good source for Kiasyd portraits? All that I've found are bad dievantart photoshops

Me again guys, with another question.

Please don't misunderstand this as a hostile question or anything of the sort. I'm genuinely curious.

What exactly are the plots in Vampire the Requiem campaigns you play? I'm not asking for all the details, just... what drives your characters to play? What exactly hooks you to play on?

I get that some folks got tired of the "THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH!" from Masquerade, as it can get a bit tiresome what with it looming in the background, but without the Jyhad, without the Elders, the Camarilla, the Sabbat and the Antediluvians, what usually looms in the background of your campaigns?

Check out Reap the Whirlwind.
drivethrurpg.com/product/201127/Reap-the-Whirlwind-Revised-VtR-2e
There's also the really early version that was a 2e spoiler. Looks like they took it down, but here's a link a.pomf.cat/trdkcq.pdf

Why do you need something looming? You're already dead

Haha, I wasn't looking for plothooks for myself, just in general wonder about what people from here played in the past, what kind of campaigns they participated in and so on.

You know what I mean. A bigger picture, some form of overreaching plot.

I recall spirit magic being able to awaken the spirits of equipment back in 1e giving bonus or penalties to the appropriate roll. Is this still a thing in 2e?

And on a related note is the 'coaxing the spirit' spell as amazing of a utility spell as I'm thinking? (e.g. coax a lock to open, a fire to spread, a journey to speed up?)

>hout the Jyhad, without the Elders, the Camarilla, the Sabbat and the Antediluvians, what usually looms in the background of your campaigns?

"So you are inmortal, now what?" thats pretty much how i run plots.

Hello everyone. New friend here.

I want to get into this world of Darkness setting. My only familiarity with it of course being the videogame. What books and or necessary materials do I need to get into it?

(My only table top experience is DnD 5e.) Thank you!

VtM 20 edition and a shitload of D10 dices should be enough for a first game.

>What exactly are the plots in Vampire the Requiem campaigns you play?

There is no plot, that's why it's the worst

So I'm sure this question is asked to death, but do crossover games work?

So games with Hunters, Changelings, Geists and Demons in, for example? (just picked a random selection, could be anything) I know the rules are more modular for CoD than oWoD, but I don't know if thematically and mechanically they work.

Or, alternatively, games that turn into something else? Starting as humans from the base book/children from Innocents and then having the characters turn into Geists/Hunters/Slashers/Changelings/Vampires/etc?

Or does that just not work?

Thank you very much user.

I won't lie, I'm not really a big fan of modern settings, just the clans. What is this "Dark ages" I hear mentioned sometimes? It's just the medieval version correct? Is that good to get as well or no?

It's basically masquerade but in the middle ages, yes. There's also a 20th anniversary version of it, but I don't know if it's good or not, just massive. Haven't checked it yet.

The second option sounds interesting.

Masquerade 20th Anniversary edition has terrible, terrible art inside it.

How the fuck did they think that shit was appropriate?

So, I've been out of the loop for about a year. Have there been any new nWoD (or CofD) books released since Mage 2E?

Crossover games can work, but it can be tricky getting everything to play nice. It's not just a matter of balancing power between lower and higher power splats, but also finding overlap between the themes of the games and in-character reasons for cooperation. Take extra time with your group and go over everyone's expectations, and you should be ok.

Anyone here ever been to a LARP game of WoD?

>look up the 20th Anniversary Dark Ages on ebay
>$275 is the lowest it gets and it's from the US

Jesus fucking Christ.

Only Promethean 2e, Secrets of the Covenants and Hurt Locker. There may have been a couple of fiction books as well.

We have a tripfag based around this

Meant to quote

There's the PC's personal plots. Which can be anything. Usually in my groups it amounts to playing vampire Mob boss.

Yeah, that's what I was asking about.

What propels the story? What makes the players actually want to play the damn thing?

Carrot and stick. Talk to your players about what their ideal plans are for their characters (even if it's only at the base level of spending XP). Have the story be about them getting to that point, and at every twist and turn of their paths give them a thorough beating.

I did the Innocents game where they had they could get fukt by the mystery they were investigating and become changelings or not get screwed and become hunters looking for their missing friends. The hunters got some extra sessions involving the fetches (which the changeling players played while their characters were getting mindfucked by the fae) and the extra xp was used to bring up to somewhat equal playing level with the changelings. The hunters ended up more like magical girls after all those contracts though, including two hunters who traded their masculinity (which worked retroactively) for the ability to tell whos supernatural with a glance, including the ability to contest anything that hides the true form.
It was an interesting dynamic though. Three players that were abused, mindfucked, depressed, and powerful, and three players that were forcing the first three to get over themselves or risk losing the last 'normal' thing in their lives.

theonyxpath.com/the-long-solo-vampire-the-requiem/

Here's a preview of A Thousand Years of Night.

If anyone is interested I'm also the person running the vampire slayers thing a few threads back. After a dramatic session involving a failed confrontation of the vampires, all the slayers were mindfucked by dominate and can't actually do shit to the vampires directly, while the already mindfucked were ghouled. The vampires have started using them as cheap labor to expand the cult's underground haven and now things are like a game of dungeon keeper. Lots of OOC betrayal happened. I'd actually recommend this kind of play if you want to really invest people in a location though.

Any one of you fuckboys fellating that dipshit autist know of the Livian Heresy is still canon?

Have you seen the Exalted book? Onyx Path has given up on art in general. Nothing but traces and poser art from now on.

If you want it to be, sure.

How come the 20th Dark Ages had decent art inside it then?

Literally the only bad thing was the art, the rest is more or less just a more complete revised 3rd edition. Why would he have a thousand books when he can have one?

Because most of it is reused. While the rest is poser art shit.

Is the Hurt Locker in the mega? I can't find it. Does anyone have a link if it isn't?

I don't think this art was in the old version of Dark Ages.

It's one of the links in OP. Lrn2Read

I am the main narrator in an awakening LARP in my city and I also have characters in many of the other larps, requiem, ascencion, changeling lost and dreaming.

"You have called me the Sacrificial King, and I guess I just have to live with
that. It’s not actually a bad thing for someone who died male to submit sometimes."

Real fucking smooth Onyx Path.

Oh boy, whats this from? The new mummy book?

Secrets of the Covenants.

And now its about killing whites and worshiping the god "Shitfuck".

Authors: Rose Bailey, Benjamin Baugh, Joshua Alan
Doetsch, Liz Grushcow, David A Hill Jr, Steffie de Vaan, Eddy
Webb, Filamena Young

Real fucking quality job guys, really. One page its the repeated castration and murder of a male feminist whom is perfectly happy with this the next its both white genocide and Acolytes using Atheism+ tactics.

Real fucking tasteful and thought out book that really did need the extra years to be put together with less then 2 pages of actual new mechanics or rules added. Worth its weight in gold.

> And now its about killing whites and worshiping the god "Shitfuck".

Weren't the Acolytes always a wet dream for feminists and similar retarded scum? Even Belial's Brood has more appeal

>Weren't the Acolytes always a wet dream for feminists and similar retarded scum?

Its honestly the difference between sane feminists and tumblr feminists. 1e Crones were cool as fuck and had minimal nonsense since the books focused more on the fact that they are pagan vampire wizards instead of championing radical social politics in tableto rulebooks.

This book is pure shit, anything useful I could find like 2 years ago from the sneak peek. The Invictus, Lancea and Ordo (jesus christ I still suffer from the core 2e book butchering their style) had better be good or I'm asking for a refund.

Fucking SECRETS AND SORCERIES AND MERITS book with barely anything added and copy pasted template merits...

Good. I love male tears and hope Onyx Path continues this trend.

How does a larp for CTL even work?

Then you must weep a lot.

>How do larps even work?

Fixed it for you. They don't. Nothing but emos, edgy kids and fatties pretending to be daeva harpies/princes with majesty and presence 5, strinking looks, etc.

Are you seriously complaining that the open development is what's in the book? It wasn't a sneak peak, it was "here's the mechanics, feel free to playtest them and talk about them".

The book is exactly what we were told it would be.

>1e Crones were cool as fuck and had minimal nonsense since the books focused more on the fact that they are pagan vampire wizards instead of championing radical social politics in tableto rulebooks.
Crones were radical feminist witches since day one, and the Circle splatbook brought us magical menstruation female empowerment.

I'm pretty happy, user. I get to drink your cishet tears every time OPP cucks you with feminism.

>I love male tears

We really don't need to hear about you gulping down semen.

So it's tabletop games without the table, is what you're saying?

Even more clique-ish though, requires a shit ton more people and is prone to biased preference at worst from the gm

>Crones were radical feminist witches since day one, and the Circle splatbook brought us magical menstruation female empowerment.

itt things that never happened. Magic menstruation has been around since the eighties anyway, and there is nothing actually wrong with it. The Crúac book had guidelines for making all kinds of cults, and had both male and female archtypes to follow by varying status, and cultural environment.

The covenant books of 1e each alone have more content and better written content then this book that is the only thing you'll get for VtR 2e, most likely forever, has alone for all covenants.

Only when the book has the quality of a homebrew written by someone mentally ill.

>Are you seriously complaining that the open development is what's in the book? It wasn't a sneak peak, it was "here's the mechanics, feel free to playtest them and talk about them".

No, but I expect more from a gaming company then having fans design half the shit they include in the books, then expect them to playtest it, while including mechanics that requires players and STs to make functional like both Crúac and Thebean Sorcery, while taking years to pad books with fluff written by hack freelancers straight out of their tumblr groups, which they forget to pay most of the time, while seemingly focusing almost entirely on cashing in on merchandise based on oWoD lines.

Onyx Path has made exactly three books across all lines and splats and game systems that are worth not refunding. Though I admit I haven't looked at Pugmire yet.

CTL LARPs always take place in the gala when the next seasonal king is crowned, there are four every year, there's an ongoing story usually dealing with problems in the city and the hedge, rumors about true fae and stuff like that, most of the time you deal with internal feuds and seasonal politics. you can send actions between sessions to deal with problems and do some missions.

Why would you need a Kiasyd portrait? They can look like pretty much anything. Plus they're pretty DeviantArt anyway.

The major difference is that in the Dark Ages, the Camarilla and Sabbat haven't been formed yet, so there's no formal Masquerade. That means that each clan is more independent than in the Modern Nights. On the flip side, it's more likely that a vampire from another clan will decide to screw you over because the long-ranging political consequences, if any, will likely be negligible unless you're someone especially important.

Kiasyd are lanky fuckers with pure white skin and black eyes

That new Mummy novel that I still need to finish came out today for Non-KS backers, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

In V20 DA, it says "There is no stereotypical Kiasyd, but every single one carries a physical mark that exposes the fae in her. This may be something subtle, like heterochromatic eyes or a sixth finger on each hand, or very obvious, such as being seven feet tall and having blue skin." Though if you want to go for that look, you can just look for pictures of the Kor from MtG and colour the eyes black.

Dark Ages is the superior version of WoD.

I'm not playing Darkages, I'm playing Modern

gay

I can’t remember the last time I had a real, legit, hard-on. It didn’t make me feel powerful though.
I remember a time it would have been like a weapon in my hand, ready to go, you know? Now it makes me all
needy and aching like I’m totally incomplete.

Yes that is totally what having a penis feels like.

There's a rule in Modern Nights that Kiasyds all have the same look? Weird. The Kiasyd art in the DA book all looks like that, so idk.

I'll take your words of wisdom to heart user.

Now to find a game group that'll play in RL.

Did you actually pay for this, user?

Appearance: The Kiasyd aren’t called “Weirdlings” just because of their behavior. Most of them are well over six feet tall (two meters or more), willowy, and thin. Their skin isn’t just pale, as with most vampires, but glows faintly in moonlight. Their eyes are almondshaped and have no visible pupils. They are often violet
or jet black in color. Their ears are slightly pointed.
The Kiasyd cover this with a hat or headband when going out amongst mortals, but even so, their height and skin tone make them stand out

I meant specifically that the Circle of the Crone corebook gives the merit that lets you magically menstruate. And I also have no actual problem with Undead Menses, though most anons do.
It's very childish to argue that the Circle of the Crone was never feminist. Their entire schtick is that they're a paganist Goddess cult in the vein of neopagan movements like Wicca, which in the real world is a very feminist cult. Their whole schtick is worshiping a Goddess and embracing many of the traditionally feminine traits, like creation, as well as a rejection of patriarchal norms.

This book is exactly what we were told it would be. While it's true that there are a lot of aspects of the Covenants that don't really get brought up anymore, and a lot of them I miss, quit acting like all those neckbeards whenever some cartoon they liked is rebooted and "rapes" their childhood. For fucks sake, ritual castration isn't even anything new to the Circle of the Crone. Their best Bloodline practices it. Hell, here's a bit about it in the Circle of the Crone 1e corebook.

>The covenant books of 1e each alone have more content and better written content then this book that is the only thing you'll get for VtR 2e, most likely forever, has alone for all covenants.
You mean having 226 pages dedicated to one thing means that one thing is more detailed than having to share barely over 200 pages with four other things? Wow!

>No, but I expect more from a gaming company
First off, open development is probably one of the best things that OPP has been doing. Second, the book hasn't taken years due to padding, it took years due to the people writing it having lives outside of the book. All the people you listed in your little whine are also veteran writers from the White Wolf era.
>Onyx Path has made exactly three books across all lines and splats and game systems that are worth not refunding.
I doubt you bought them anyway.

Vampire problems :

Can you make your Free Council Teche your dedicated Magical tool?
Allowing you to effectively used your dedicated tool twice, for a -4 to Paradox rolls, if you surround yourself with people jamming, or dancing or something?

I mean, even given that their merit seems like utter garbage compared to most other Order's benefits.

Well shit. Again though you could probably make a suitable portrait by taking a picture of a Kor from Magic: the Gathering and colouring the eyes. They have the whole "pure white skin" thing going on and a lot of them don't have visible pupils. The clothing won't be modern, but you can just use the face.