Forsaken Actual Play: Detroit Rock City

Hey everyone,

I'd like to take this opportunity to share my Werewolf: The Forsaken actual play "Detroit Rock City" with you all. It's been highly successful on RPG.net (over 30,000 views so far), and I think it's time that I showcase it to the greater White Wolf community. It's just too long for me to post all of it on this forum, so here's the link:

Werewolf: The Forsaken, "Detroit Rock City"

"Let me tell you about the murder capital of the United States. It's a dying city that's eating itself alive, filled with desperate people trying to claw out a decent living for themselves. The ones that live here are hard to kill - they're survivors.

Detroit is known for three things: It's the tombstone of the American auto industry, the city that sees the most murders in the country per year, and it's got a killer music scene. This place is dangerous and wild. It's the epitome of the concrete jungle...

...and you're about to meet some of its predators."

I know some of you have already seen it, but for those who haven't, I hope this entertains and inspires - enjoy!

Mr. Shopping

I've only read the first page but I'm hooked.
Thanks for linking this up :)

It certainly is a good story.

Thanks guys!

The prologue and Act I of this actual play are almost exclusively in novel format, but I'll be adding in more in-game mechanics to Act II when that starts up next week.

I anticipate this game going on for maybe 4 acts, so there's much more to come.

You know, I don't particularly care about that, myself. I can usually tell what's going on. The only bits where I cared were your elaborations on the custom stuff. (All of which I've liked so far.)

As a Michigan resident.. I gotta say.. I don't think Detroit is the murder capital of the US anymore.. other then that.. dead on..

MisterShifter:

As a Michigan resident.. I gotta say.. I don't think Detroit is the murder capital of the US anymore.. other then that.. dead on..

Hey Mister Shifter!

As a former resident myself (Michigan-born), I've been to Detroit a few times, all of them when I was just a kid. I think I always got the feeling from my parents that this was a serious big city, and it -was- dangerous. It always inspired a kind of quiet, wondrous dread in me when the family drove through the city and I saw all the derelicts and condemned buildings, and took a firm root in my imagination.

Enter my fascination with World of Darkness many years later.

Reports show that Detroit was still the Murder Capital in big US cities as of 2008, when the game takes place - although it has declined a lot in the downtown area since 2006. Obviously, this is World of Darkness Detroit, so my setting is quite a bit, well, darker.

Thanks for reading!

@ Mr. Shopping, you are the "DaveB" for werewolf.  Your game is an inspiration and capture the moods and themes of Forsaken.

Your group is simply amazing.

Keep up the good work.

I've really been digging your stuff. Awesome and inspirational story.

Thanks, guys!

Act II starts up this weekend, so plenty more game to come.

I'm officially excited.

I started reading "Ties that bind" and I'm hooked!
And the intro to "Scars of Russia" looks as good.
:)
So little spare time... so many stories