Questions tagged [world-of-darkness]
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Which information is essential to new Vampire players?
After a long time, I ran a two-shot of Vampire in the last weeks. Vampire: The Masquerade has an insanely low threshold to get players to roleplay, especially since the upper half of the sheet is all ...
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What are the balance implications of allowing players to have more than two loresheets?
In Vampire The Masquerade 5e, players are limited to one bloodline and one loresheet or two loresheets though I have seen it annoy some players who thought that their concept required more than two ...
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Which vampiric power is being referenced in the following conversation?
In a series called Hunter: The Parenting, based on Hunter: The Reckoning 5e, there is a conversation between two hunters.
Junior Hunter:"Do vampires have laser vision?"
Senior Hunter:"...
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Which Vampire Films exist in the WoD?
Vampires hate publicity. But Toreadors love art. In Vampire Bloodlines, the neophyte at one point retrieves the script of "Humanity vs. The Vampire Lords", which must be a Blade Expy or ...
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Are there any books for or adventures written for a Werewolf and Mage cross-splat game?
I was looking at Blood Treachery which describes an adventure involving cross splat interaction between mages and vampires and that got me curious on whether there was a book involving werewolf and ...
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Are there rules for converting V20 characters to V5 characters?
I started the VtM with V20 and I have been running V20 as a result. However after a conversation with a friend I realized V5 fits what I run better.
I have a running V20 game and I was thinking of ...
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Heart of Darkness power: what if you find the heart?
Some Settite vampires can use the Heart of Darkness power (from their Serpentis discipline) to remove their hearts so that staking their chest has no effect - but if an enemy finds and destroys said ...
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An exhaustive list of Gifts working with Chi Sense?
Chi Sense in W20 was rewritten massively - no longer it is a strange "sense Yin-Yang", it became a plain bonus to rolling a specified group of gifts. In particular:
The player permanently ...
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Do any Tribes actively involve kinfolk in the fight for Gaia?
I usually only hear of human kinfolk being relevant/involved in the passive sense of attending matters of the home and being used as Garou breeding stock. A universal thing amongst tribes, the ...
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Does this Tremere "doom wave" actually work?
So, I saw a reference to a Vampire the Masquerade exploit involving the manipulation of subatomic particles in the comments of this Explain XKCD page that in turn links to this TVTropes page for ...
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What's the best way to describe the main lines of the WoD to a total newbie without smacking them with the book?
The World of Darkness is big and old and so full of lore, that it can get hard for an experienced player to explain the five big main splats (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Changeling, Wraith) in a short ...
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Are there any ways for mages to reduce the experience costs of Attributes?
I seem to recall that after using the better body rote you could pay half of the experience cost of the attribute in order to remove the permanent paradox. Are there anything similar to that offered ...
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Are the Statlines of the Kusarigama and Manriki-Gusari flipped?
Mage 20th anniversary edition offers some weapons. In fact, it offers the most extensive weapon toybox in all 20th anniversary edition books. Among them is the category of "whips and chains"....
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Can Laham mages learn Demon Lores?
On Page 80 of Book of Secrets, there is the Nephilim/Laham merit. It mentions providing several infernal investments if you opt to be a Laham. While it makes no mention of providing access to Demon ...
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Is there a drawback to using Heart's blood rote repeatedly?
In the Mage Revised edition there is a rote called Heart's blood a mage can use with Prime 1 sphere. It reads as such.
The Mage can sacrifice their health for Quintessence,
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Is there a way to restore the soul points of someone who made a soul pact?
In The Book Of Madness(Revised) the game offers mechanics for selling one's soul piecemeal at a time. Each mage has a (Willpower+Arete)*10 soul points which is the amount of their soul they can trade ...
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How does a low-accuracy, high-damage action work in World of Darkness's dice system?
I used to play D20 and D100-based games a lot. Recently I'm designing a game for modern audiences who were not familiar with the D20 dice stuff at all and was thinking of a modified version of World ...
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Does the lore say whether Glass Walkers and drones ever collaborate?
As the question sounds, of the tribes the Glass Walkers have an unconventional relationship with the Weaver - so I wondered if it is mentioned in the lore if they have the usual default attitude to ...
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Where are the W20 rules for creating, etc. Den-Realms?
I have searched these books in PDF form:
Werewolf - The Apocalypse (zero hits for "den-realm")
Changing Breeds (25 hits for "den-realm", none dealing with this topic;
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On the Nature of the Barrier between Russia and China
Hengeyokai, Shapeshifters of the East, page 43 contains this paragraph, right before the Tapestry:
A list of all the physical locations of interest in the Mirror
Lands would take several exhaustive ...
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How strong are elite mortal troops in Vampire: the Masquerade?
In Vampire: the Masquerade (5e), how strong would be a mortal NPC who specializes in combat? Think "spec ops" who are ready to fight vampires but without true faith or other mystical ...
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Can players create custom totems?
Is it possible to create a custom totem? Or should the pack just choose a existing totem from the books and then spend points in Totem Background to improve it?
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Why do we need to halve superficial damage? [closed]
Why was this rule created with dividing superficial damage in half? I mean it's very confusing, why couldn't the number of hit points be multiplied by 2? Do I have to ask players to remember to divide ...
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Where do I learn more about Jonas Albrecht?
W20 starts with a glorious little comic, in which a white-haired guy called Albrecht with a huge Klaive rescues a cub. Then in the Character Generation example, we learn Jonas Albrecht's setup for ...
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Are merits unique to the splat they are provided in?
I am aware that some merits are by their nature tied to their splats, examples of this would be merits such as 'Prestigious Sire' and 'Avatar companion' but merits such as 'Concentration' that reads ...
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