WOD General Discussion

Combat Marksmanship + Gunslinger

MaskOfWinters — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:50:43 GMT

What do you think? How many attacks can be made with the Rapid Fire/Gunslinger combo?

Given a character with two guns, both merits (with ambidexterity) and Composure 4, would he make four or six attacks? The question is... does Rapid fire applies to both hands separately or not?

Wait Armory said animals are immune to Pepper spray and tear gas what?

Eldagusto — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:54:15 GMT

Armory said animals are immune to Pepper spray and Tear gas? I mean I could see if they said vampires are, but Werewolves?

Help with some Psychic powers (probably broken)

deathmatchfm — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:03:50 GMT

My group is taking a short break from Exalted, but two of my players want to play some WoD while we're out. I played a few years ago, but that was just with Vampire for the most part.

They want to play mortals during WWII on the front lines. However, I intend them to become Sin-Eaters (I haven't finished the book yet) by killing them along the way.

But until then, I want to have them be physics, as per Second Sight. I remember it mentioning ealy in GtS that those who get the Bargain usually have some access to death.

There are only two players. Anyways, I decided they should both have the see/communicate with ghosts physic power (from Second Sight, don't remember exactly what it's called) and some other unique powers.

One of them is for the medic, and he has the power to grab ghosts and rip apart their corpus, and then fuse that corpus onto a human body missing the same part. So he could take apart a ghost's arm and fuse it to a man who lost his arm. In effect, this would cost him one willpower and allow him to make a Dexterity + Medicine/Occult roll to rip material from a ghost and heal someone with it, recovering anything from bashing to aggravated health levels. Probably a bit powerful, but I do want this to be somewhat of a "super healing" as compared to how supernatural healing usually goes.

The second has the power to enter a grapple with someone, and on his turn spend one willpower to instantly kill them, by ripping their soul out which immediate becomes a ghost. Said ghost fades away after a few minutes if it doesn't have sufficent reason to get an ancor. Any supernatural being that doesn't have a soul (Vampires, Werewolves, Prometheans) would be completely uneffected. Again, I want it to be a very simple "instant kill" if he can get his hands on you (keep in mind this is during WWII, so it isn't useful from 100 yards away).

But I'd like some advice on how to work some of this stuff.

Also, I would GREATLY appreciate some ideas for stories to run. It's going to start in a battlefield, but I haven't thought much besides that yet. Still reading books as it is.

The Book of...? Cursed Item?

Mr Gone — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:41:19 GMT

[Note: This is cross-posted from the General Forum]

Hey all, in the ST musing Thread, Viradu mentioned a story he ran about an indestructible book, and it got my gears turning just abit. I'd love to cook up some ideas to use for a one-shot(or one-night) game to save for future use, but I thought it couldn't hurt to discuss it now.

So, I thought I'd mine for the forum for ideas, see what people could think up.

The basic premise is, the player(s) would come into possession of a Book. The book is essentially a cursed item that drives the "owner" insane until they are either locked up, or dead, and then passes to another "owner". It can't be destroyed.

So, whats the back story for this book? Is there a back story? Who created it? Why can't it be destroyed? Can someone get rid of it without going insane?

These are questions I thought I'd pose here, to see what people could come up with. Am I asking you to plan my story? In some ways. But, I just thought it'd be fun to see what kind of crazy stuff could be cooked up for a one-shot type of story...

Stats for Fictional Characters

Innerlight — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:59:15 GMT

Let's start it out from day one... incidentally I've saved mine and the one's I actually liked. I'll put up the old one's when I care about it.

Fox Mulder

Str2 (never saw he do anything particularly strong

Dex3

Stam3(he's always chasing people)

Int3 (Mulders above average intelligence, but Scully flat out remembers more thing than he does when it comes to non occult stuff)

Wits5(this is where he shines, in a life or death situation he's quick to think of something off the wall to save himself or others

Resolve5(Come on, name one time Mulder gave up)

Pres2(nothing overtly spetacular)
Man2 (nothing all that dramatic about his skills here)

Comp3 (Mulder is prone to getting extremely angry, not much, but I've seen him blow up... when someone is hiding the truth

Acamedics3 Medicine1 Politics3 Science1 Computer1

Occult5 (unexplained phemonon)(supernatural behavior)(extraterrial occurances) ((Mulder has never ever not known what something may have possibly been, he always has an idea in mind)

Investigate5(super natural behavior) (Come on what case has he not solved in the first 20 minutes. The entire show is about him proving his theories correct from the evidence he found in the beginning)

Drive1 Firearms3 Larceny1

Stealth3(He does sneak into places when all that FBI sh** don't work)

Athletics3 (I always see Mulder chasing something done, usually getting his ass kicked after he catches up)

Brawl2 (he can fight, but he very rarely wins against even normal people with minimal skills

Intimidate1 Persuasion2 Socialize3

Empathy4 (he can tell what you're feeling well)

Subterfuge4 (I can probably count on my hands the episodes in which someone outright lied to Mulder and got away with it)

Allies Conspiracy theorist2

Allies Shadow Goverment3(he's had a lot of times when some outside force that he had no idea existed just bails his ass out of the fire

Quick draw (maybe?)

Virtue faith (Everything in Mulders world is based on a belief that an outside force is doing something to effect his life)

Vice Gluttony (He is relentless, he will not stop no matter how insane, or outmatched his situation is. And it usually almost get him and other people killed searching for the truth)

I may have missed some things but that's what I'm thinking

Scully

Str2
Dex3
Stam2 (she never runs, not like Mulder does)

Int4 ( She is a wealth of wierd facts, and is super smart, just not genius level smart)

Wits3(she can't keep up with Mulder on improvising)

Res4
Pre2
Man2
Comp4 (Scully is a rock, she only broke down a few times on the show, and it was extreme)

Acamedics4 Medicine4 Occult1 Investigate3(forenzic investigation) politics3 Science4 (biology)(forenics) Computer1

Athletics2 Drive2 Stealth1

Brawl3( I don't know why but she seems to win her fights more than Mulder does)

Firearms4(she seems a better shot to, but I don't have a clear reason for thinking it)

Persuasion1 Empathy1 Subterfuge3 Socialize2
Streetwise1

Intimidate2 (Scully seems scarier to me than Mulder, she seems like she'd smoke your ass before Mulder would)

Common Sense

Virtue Fortitude (Scully sticks to her guns, if their is even a shred of evidence that leans away from a supernatural explaination she'll stick to it hands down)

Vice Wrath (I don't know why but Scully seems to hate morons, and she actually gets really pissed when she has to hang around stupid people)

Would like to create an open world NWoD game..details inside

Dameon94 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:04:19 GMT

Like the title says, i would like to create an open world NWoD chronicle.

what is needed-
1.) Story tellers besides myself to choose a city and run the game
2.) players to play
3.) forums from which to post character sheets and messages
4.) msn or yahoo IM
5.)good RP

theme- all settings and templates are available, wich is used per city is up to the ST in charge of that city or group of cities, players will be able to travel any where in the world( if they have the means), if they travel into another STs realm, that ST takes them over , one character per player per city, 2 characters max

that's it, if your interested and want to help me build a camirilla type community,with more frequent play, and no fee, need as little as 1 other st and 3-5 players and its a go, but we can open it to as many as are acceptable to current members.

email me at dameon94@hotmail.com

What is your World of Darkness?

DavidT — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:02:42 GMT

I am just asking since I think it is interesting question to ask. What if you can take control of the editing table of white wolf and get to design the world of darkness under your vision. What will you do? How would the supernaturals go about in your visions? Would the world be more fantastic in its darkness, or more gritty and down to earth? What is your world of darkness?

rules and dice light

Griezel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:45:57 GMT

I enjoy WoD due to its light and simple rules. As a matter of fact, I ven ignore moste of those rules as well and we role dice about once or twice every game.

I was wondering, how rules- and diceroleheavy you play? And why?

Complete List of WoD Indexes

Kyouka — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:09:29 GMT

Since apparently many people do not realize that these following indexes existed for your gaming convenience, and since I have been asked nicely to share them with everyone...I give unto you the complete list of WoD indexes!

World of Darkness
Hunter: The Vigil
Mage: The Awakening
Werewolf: The Forsaken
Vampire: The Requiem
Promethean: The Created
Changeling: The Lost
Geist: The Sin-Eaters

Important to note however that while they are not exactly 100% up to date anymore since books obviously came out after they were written, the vast majority of all WoD content, including which book and which page numbers they may be found at are included. In addition, these were not written by me and all credit should be given to the original authors who may be found at the bottom of each link. Please enjoy.

Best Antagonists?

Hand-of-Omega — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:49:01 GMT

I'm going through all the core books again, but this time I'm paying special attention to the games' antagonists...The Pure are actually a little more interesting to me than the first time I read them, and somehow, I'd missed the Bale Hounds altogether! Is there a book that fleshes them out?

I'd also like to know more about the Hobgoblins in Changeling. The Demons from Hunter were a nice taste, but I suppose I'd have to get Inferno for the main course. Are the demons in that book fairly consistent with Hunter?

But so far, it seems that Mage has the most diverse Rogue's Gallery: There are more variety's of mages-as-their-own-worst-enemies than the other supernaturals, they also get the full range of spirits and ghosts, as well as Abyssal Entities, which I suppose are their major "original" enemy. Hm, Ghost Mages...are these elaborated on anywhere? Does Geist deal with them at all? Given how the NWoD reacts against mixing templates, I'm surprised this one got through...

I really like the Pandorans and Centimani from Promethean, however; at the moment I think they're my favorite antagonist. Cruel and monstrous, but for a good reason, and very customizable. I can easily see them crossing over into other gamelines with little problem...

Who are your favorite NWoD antagonists?

Dex

Adamantine Arrows vs...Everyone!

Hand-of-Omega — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:32:25 GMT

I was looking through the AA book again, and it really dawned on me just how unbelievably lethal a large, well-trained Cabal, featuring at least one Mage of every Path, and headed up by an authentic Adamant Sage, should really be. Is there any similar sort of Supernatural that can reasonably survive an encounter with them?

About the only thing I can think of that would have any chance would be an equally large Pack of Blood Talons, led by at least one Rank 5 Rahu. Any others?

And what are some good tactics each side could use against the other?

Dex

Exorcism and Aging

AlsoAnima — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:13:46 GMT

As per Inferno it's stated that the Possessed age normally after exorcism.

Does that mean that their years as Possessed catch up with them? Or do they merely begin to age as a normal human as if their period of Possession was a simple lapse in time?

World of Darkness: Mirrors

Olethros — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:00:43 GMT

So, the next thing for the world of darkness is a book called "Mirror".
The awesome cover was portraited in the last page of the Immortals book.
Today, one of the freelancers just declared the finalization of his part on the book:
http://innocent-man.livejournal.com/399983.html

By the way, the freelancer is Matt Mcfarland, my favorite WoD writer, i hope he will continue to write many books for white wolf..

Back in the topic, does anyone know anything about this book?

Dragon: The Embers

CJC — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:28:10 GMT

UPDATE: Mr Gone is hosting our Character Sheet! Check it out.

EDIT:
If you are part of a mechanic discussion that has not yet been implemented, you'll have to read the posts relevant to that discussion. If you'd like to suggest a new feature for Dragon: The Embers, just make a new post and that will start a new discussion. Features that have been implemented concretely can all be found on the Wiki, so if you are looking for verification you can find it at the link in this post, there is no need to read the entire thread.

Discussions that are currently open can be found in the second post of this thread, here

Welcome to round two!

By popular demand (And a little late, I'm sorry), Shock and I have rounded up all (or most) of the content from the original thread for repost (To streamline content production without hours of reading or confusion).

Dragon the Embers on the White Wolf Wiki

My personal goal with this project is a PDF book on par with Evo Shandor's "Demon" book (Besides page texture, passable as a White Wolf product)

For skeptics, here's a few facts about the Dragon template:
Dragons are locomotives. They advance to True Form at a rate equal to 'Furnace' aspects per turn. Likewise, their supernatural talents (Philosophies) take at least 5 turns to reach full potency. In this sense, they are much slower than the other templates available for players, but they make up for it in punch.

A Dragon does not assume Aspects type by type, it is a dot-by-dot basis. For example, a Dragon with Furnace 5 and 15 dots of Aspects (Natural Weaponry 5, Scales 2, Inferno 3, Wings 2, and Fire Skin 3) might only assume 2 dots of Natural Weaponry in one turn, despite the fact that she possesses 5 dots in that Aspect. Perhaps she wants to assume one point of Inferno and two points of scales, or maybe she intends to put Fire Skin on full this turn. She doesn't jump to full power instantly. In fact, it usually takes quite a while.

Dragons are haunted by the dual nature of their practical immortality. On one side, their bodies can die and die again, and will recover over the course of months/years/decades. But on the other, their Heart (The core of their being) is completely vulnerable to attack, and its death is the last death for the Dragon.

Credits

If I've missed somebody, I'm terribly sorry. Please let me know and I'll edit you in.

Concept

Shock
Gepetto887

Code

Shock
Veritomancer2

Flavor

Gepetto887
Shock
Looney Tunes
Xenoheart
Veritomancer2

Subtitle

Khalvin8
SunlessNick
Bruce Leenomorph

Antagonists

Gepetto887
Shock
Looney Tunes
Xenoheart
DeadlyMoose (Hydra)
Veritomancer2 (Devourers)

Aspects

Gepetto887
Shock
Looney Tunes
Xenoheart
Veritomancer2
CJC
D_S
Lostkith
Zombiewulf2

Method Mechanics

Gepetto887

Philosophy Mechanics

Gepetto887
Shock
Veritomancer2
CJC

Sects

Shock

Red Diamond Mechanics

Xenoheart
Gepetto887

Merits

Veritomancer2
CJC

Death and Resurrection Mechanics

Lostkith
Shock
CJC

Dragon Society

Shock

Wiki

Shock
CJC

Character Sheet
CJC
Mr Gone

Highest dice pool you can imagine?

Kruhnk — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:11:08 GMT

BP 10 vampire with ten Vigor, ten Strength and ten Brawl spending 15 blood to add another 30 dice. 60 right there. Claws of the Wild for 61. Point of willpower for 64.

Am I right?

Most Ironic WoD Moment

Kyouka — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:29:02 GMT

Since I have yet to see any topic dealing with this, I decided to go ahead and make one. This thread is dedicated to all archetypes of WoD and the most ironic thing that has happened in your chronicle.

For me, my character and his cell had a lead on a cult that supposedly was hanging around Catholic University in Washington D.C. Upon arriving at the scene, we were immediately ambushed by two demons and an unknown assailant who used abilities to mentally incapacitate his targets. Things were going well at first and we managed to vanquish one of the demons. However, two of us were then rendered unconscious while the final one was still recovering from a mental assault. Since she was the only one awake, she was about to be tortured for information when in desperation she yelled out a statement pretty similar to "just what do you want?!"

The demon looked confused for a minute before asking if she was attempting a negotiation. Perhaps sensing a turn of luck or perhaps just trying to stay alive as long as possible she responded "yes" and immediately struck a bargain with the demon for all our lives to be saved. Since there were 3 of us, the demon demanded that 3 other people must die. This lead her to go on a killing spree across 3 states before she was finally killed by my character who thought she was drawing too much attention to us by becoming known as a rampant serial killer. To make matters worse, she had allowed herself to been murdering someone in broad daylight in the middle of a crowded street so the police had some really great sketches of her that appeared all over the television.

Of course the irony was that my character didn't find out she killed those people to save his life until after he turned her into a puddle of meat through a combination of aggressive striking 4 and Berserking 2.

Ryan Dancey on the White Wolf & World of Darkness

Drumheller — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:51:38 GMT

CCP Chief Marketing Officer Ryan Dancey did an interview on Gamasutra, talking mostly about Eve Online. He had this bit to say about White Wolf and the World of Darkness.

Can you fill me in on the status of White Wolf, the physical game company CCP acquired in Atlanta?

It's just an imprint... White Wolf used to have a fairly large staff. It doesn't anymore. It's focusing primarily on the World of Darkness RPG products. It's not doing some of the things it used to do; board games and other card games and things. The focus of the company [CCP] is on making MMOs and our legacy table top business is a legacy business.

Check out the entire article here...

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25704

Playing via Google Wave

WyrdHamster — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:59:21 GMT

Hello!

Today I got finally my Google Wave preview Account and I wait in anticipation to look for playing on it. What do you think of this service? Ars Technica say it's is desinged for RPG, and that was my first response when I heared on it.

Maybe someone looks for players? ;] I would love to play on GW, but I know that my English is to bad to run it as ST....

help for plot lines please

Forik H. Smythe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:40:03 GMT

i have a game that is running a little low on some ideas as to get my players to enjoy discovering their characters more. essentially i ran the ruins of ur sas, but had the characters working for a huge multinational company. as such they discovered a jar that had to be returned to their superiors. this contained the remnents of some god (whose name is made up on the spot) and was used to create a weapon. yes, its zombies. the problem is that it doesn't run that well after a few nights. its become a shooting gallery and i wish for it to become something in which my players understand their characters better.

any ideas would be helpful, but allow me to give you an example;

a rich and socially powerful man enlisted the characters to save his daughter from his wife whom divorced him. as such she is already dead and so is the mother. how do they tell this to the father? if they tell him straight are they going to be in danger of being killed? do they instead bring the zombie back? questions, question, question.

Faith Virtue

Johnny Awesome — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:07:30 GMT

This virtue seems difficult to play.

Can any of you experienced players out there help me out with this one? Can you give me examples of "forging meaning from tragedy" that might come up in a story?

narcissism???

Kurt Wulfgang — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:22:52 GMT

Hello

Im a new Storyteller and i got a small problem whit narcissism(mild) does it make a man brag when he does some good and gives him -3 to worke in a team and -1 to all Social rolls as he is such a self-obsessed bore?

Plz help

Kurt

Darker Days Podcast (WOD Podcast)

Alucardd — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:11:25 GMT

The podcast is up.

Darker Days Podcast

Hosted by Vince and Mark

Bi-Weekly podcast (for now)

Subjects: OWOD/NWOD, Strange news, and MMORPG News for WOD

link http://darkerdays.podbean.com/
Check it out!
(Note: intro show up)

Unseen Sense, how do you use it?

Mr Nay — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:32:56 GMT

What a cool ability. If I recall correctly, a blue book mentions the possibility of having this merit attuned to Death.
What unusual phenomena have you seen Unseen Sense focused on?

Archery

cdowdy180 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:43:37 GMT

In which book is Archery covered in? I was curious as how that works.

Purified doubts ( WoD Immortals)

Mainardi — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:02 GMT

Hello people. Im new here. I have some doubts. Can a werewolf undergo through the purified ritual and become one of them? I mean, if a mage can and its a matter of connection of soul and mind wouldnt it be possible even losing the werewolf traits?