The State of the Chronicles of Darkness
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We won't have made it big until there's a WoD/Minions crossover. Dark chocolate covered twinkies for all!
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What the ever-loving HELL, ParadoxWolf?
Well, there's also the larp they're running in a couple of weeks in Helsinki, End of the Line.
From the ticket seller site:
END OF THE LINE
You know you have made it if you are on the guest list for the 'The Line'. Elusive. Illegal. The club is the place to be in the Helsinki nightlife. These are the parties you only hear rumours about. The rich and the poor mix with the criminal and the insane. Here are more drugs, weirder sex, cooler dance moves and better music than most can handle.
The club moves from location to location to elude the police. This time it will be held at a closed insane asylum in the centre of the city.
The Line has two simple rules:
If you want to do something, do it!
If you hold back, you will not be invited again!
So you better make sure you give everything this night.
You know The Line is a dangerous place. It looks like a squat. All guests might not leave the party alive. But that does not matter. The only thing that matters is that you are on the list!
You cannot wait. This will be the most exciting night of your life.
EXPERIENCE THE FIRST LARP FROM WHITE WOLF PUBLISHING
End of the Line is a vampire larp designed from the ground up to utilize the best elements from Nordic Larp, to give you an intense personal experience. You will be cast as either one of the Kindred or a mortal and step into a World of Darkness that just might be the world we already live in.
Life is not easy in a world filled with undead monsters, and when every risk brings a sweet reward, you might think that survival is overrated. One thing is certain: You will hunt or be hunted. The question is, how do you know?
End of the Line will be quite physical. You, of course, set your own boundaries and always have the option to opt out of a scene. However, it's possible you might witness actions such as kissing, nudity or face slapping.
This larp is an experimental exploration of White Wolf's new direction for vampire larp. Together, we will try out new mechanics and methods to simulate classic vampire things blood drinking, sex and supernatural abilities. No previous knowledge of Vampire: The Masquerade is needed.
It's a part of A Week in Finland, a pre-conference thing for the larp conference Solmukohta. The game was sold out in about an hour. Here's the public Facebook page. -
@Bobotron So... orgy?
Finns are weird.
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@skew
It just... really is weird, 'rules for sex' and such things. I knew they were going full Nordic LARP with what they're doing for 'official' stuff and taking cues from things like College of Wizardry (which didn't seem to have concrete rules outside of 'arrange the effects with the other party'). It just seems a weird 'first push,' but Martin does love his Nordic LARP methodology. -
Nordic LARP Methodology sounds like it is simultaneously the best and the worst band name ever.
I'm a rodeo clown.
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@tragedyjones said:
Nordic LARP Methodology sounds like it is simultaneously the best and the worst band name ever.
It also sounds like the process which leads to Scandinavian heavy metal bands getting lost in forests and whatnot during photoshoots.
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@skew
Nordic LARP methodology.What's that exactly?
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@Olsson said:
@skew
Nordic LARP methodology.What's that exactly?
It means LARP with little to no formal rules and a focus on cooperative storytelling.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
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@skew said:
You tell us, man.
Don't you guys go to the spa, get all hot and oiled up, then like wrestle or something...? Or is that just Finns?
The tradition is to go into a wood-powered sauna next to the sea and whenever you feel you're getting too hot, you dive into the freezing water before going back into the sauna.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
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Or flop in the powder snow then back into the jacuzzi/sauna for ski lodges. Least here in California.
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@Groth said:
@skew said:
You tell us, man.
Don't you guys go to the spa, get all hot and oiled up, then like wrestle or something...? Or is that just Finns?
The tradition is to go into a wood-powered sauna next to the sea and whenever you feel you're getting too hot, you dive into the freezing water before going back into the sauna.
It's not nearly as fun when you make it sound all normal and logical. SIGH!
(And yes, I've done that, just replace sea with icy mountain creek. Colorado-style.)
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@Groth said:
@Olsson said:
@skew
Nordic LARP methodology.What's that exactly?
It means LARP with little to no formal rules and a focus on cooperative storytelling.
So ... improv, with fucking?
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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@Thenomain
This is one of their inspirations, College of Wizardry. -
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"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@Coin said:
Do we have anything close to a consensus about Beast?
I've read the preview .doc that came out a while ago (well... read is too strong a word, I browsed it), and I also read a few forums where people generally bitched - as one does on a forum - about how Beast intrudes on sphere sovereignty by demanding everyone loves/respect them, which might offset certain games.
Opinions: Is that the concern of people who like to bitch or a legitimate issue? Is it a cool sphere to have around? How smoothly in general would it be to add it to a nWoD game without fucking everything else up?
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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I haven't read it yet, but since the very first comment on DTRPG is all 'wow, moar stuff for the fans of crossover games', I'm guessing that those concerns might not be entirely unfounded.
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Read the blurb.
So it's Vampire: the Beastening. You're this monster that feeds on humans and have to balance between too much or too little.
Mage, Demon, Changeling even Werewolf all had their own 'thing'. This sounds like it could be a Nosferatu bloodline, perhaps minus the politics.
Edited to add: That doesn't make it a bad game. But as someone who hasn't paid the least bit of attention to Beast since it was first announced, that's the impression I get from reading it.
