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world of Darkness
« on: November 20, 2008, 11:24:25 PM »
Is anyone here willing to run a World of Darkness game? If not can you tell me where i can play?

(before you start bashing WoD, I've never played before and just want to know if Josh's arguments are valid.)
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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2008, 05:54:19 PM »
Good timing. Just finished watching the entirety of the Hellsing anime and I'm getting an itch to play a vampire.

I've played two games of Vampire: The Masquerade, and what I can tell you is that there are several clans of vampires, each with unique abilities(called Disciplines). Characters are built off character points, and there is a lot of skill use in the game. I've never gotten into a combat with it, but my impression is it's a game that benefits from the player's wit more than D&D, and combat is more of a plot device than the objective.

Die rolling is rolling a number of d8s vs. a target number. The rolled dies each go against the target number seperately: it's not a collective sum. So if the target number is 5 and your skill level is 4, you roll 4d8 and count up the number of dice that are 5 or higher and those are the number of successes. The number of successes determines not only if you can do a task, but -how well- you can do it. Rolling a "1" cancels a success, because there is always the element of (bad) luck. And rolling more 1s than would-be successes counts as a "botch" where something goes very bad.

'course I'm not the GM you're looking for, but I would love to play again and can answer simple questions about it.
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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2008, 05:59:24 PM »
I have the books, I'm just looking for a group.
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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2008, 08:10:40 PM »
If someone starts a Vampire the Masquerade or Dark ages game, drop me a pm ;-)
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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2008, 08:18:48 PM »
If anybody starts a nWoD game (not Changeling) let me know.
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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2008, 10:55:19 PM »
Ah, what the hell.  I'ma give it a try... but it's not what you expect.

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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2008, 03:53:02 PM »
If it's oldschool Masqurade, I'm expressing intrest.
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Yeah, that's pretty much every Masqurade and a fair bunch of Requiem games I've ever played. :nonono :notam
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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2008, 06:12:59 PM »
I'm looking for nWoD vampire game. I have a nosferatu with a humanity of 2 that I am dying to try out.
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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2008, 07:44:20 PM »
I'm looking for nWoD vampire game. I have a nosferatu with a humanity of 2 that I am dying to try out.

...Yeah, the game I want to run is not the game you're looking for.  You would be owned.
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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2008, 07:49:33 PM »
How so?
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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2008, 07:57:52 PM »
The ad's up; if you read the rules, you'll see why.
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Re: world of Darkness
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2008, 10:02:25 PM »
Sicarius will have a disadvantage, but he sticks to kindred courts.
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