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@Ganymede said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

@Coin said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

Probably. Still just as equally illogical, IMO.

I disagree. Iron Masters go after humans. What better way to do it than through law enforcement? You've got the tools, apparent authority, and weapons to hunt down and isolate prey, and then take them down nice and quick. I can see an Irraka or Elodoth going down this road.

I'm not saying it doesn't make sense in that regard; I am saying that the risks make it pretty illogical. As a cop, you have to deal with a large amount of paperwork and legalities that would make it horribly difficult for werewolves to operate and achieve the things they want. As with most things, this varies on interpretation, though. Sure, you can have a pack of werewolves whose hunts operate "within the confines of mortal law", but lulz when one of them Kuruths.

I'm not even saying the concept can't be fun or can't work: Eldritch had an NPC pack of werewolves who were cops. But they were also highly manipulative of the police force and were almost exclusively SWAT (and had a monopoly on who could be and couldn't be SWAT)--they were called when violence was pretty much a given.

I'm not saying the concepts aren't possible, I was just disagreeing they are important or even particualrly fitting. Any concept can work if the players and storytellers are interested in making it work; some are just against theme and some are just very challenging (I think this is the latter).

Plus, there's the pack: if not the werewolves, then their pack could fit into a law enforcement unit well.

Different kettle of fish, though. The non-werewolf parts of the pack are supposed to blend into human society, have jobs, etc., that's their function in the Pack. In fact, most of Werewolf 2E with regards to the pack stresses that the wolf-blooded and human members are usually the ones with jobs and careers because it allows them to economically fund the werewolves's endeavors as Uratha.

@tragedyjones said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

Mostly adding this to piss off @Coin, but isn't the Lodge of the Shield redone in 2E as an Iron Master lodge?

Probably. Still just as equally illogical, IMO.

That, or it's a bunch of werewolves who go into law enforcement as a means to exact their violence on others "legitimately", which makes them absolutely horrible people.

But then, most werewolves are absolutely horrible people.

@Ganymede said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

@tragedyjones said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

How pissed off would people be if police PCs were disallowed? Because, frankly, the number of Police Departments in the LA Metro area is absurd and would mean your effective jurisdiction is fuckall.

I think you're injecting too much realism here.

Being a PC cop is not just a valid concept: it's an important one. Maybe not for Vampires, but certainly for Changelings and Werewolves.

I don't think you should disallow the concept, but you may want to put the warning out there that there's no staffer devoting their time 24/7 to running a true-to-life law enforcement game.

I disagree, re: werewolves.

In fact, while there is a Lodge in 1E of copwolves and whatnot, the entire splat seems entirely ill-suited towards lawkeeping the mortal world. Uncontrollable rages and the capacity to turn into a rampaging, unstoppable murderbeast seem like logical disqualifers.

I would argue it's possible to be a copwolf, but that it's far from an important thing for werewolves to be able to be cop PCs. unless you're trying to roleplay some analogy to the type of people who get into law enforcement so they can have an out to their own violent tendencies, but that should be the exception, not the rule.

@surreality said in What themes and subjects do you look for in a game?:

Polite request that yet another thread does not become a yet another WoD/CoD/etc. sales pitch?

Sorry!

@Arkandel said in What themes and subjects do you look for in a game?:

@Coin said in What themes and subjects do you look for in a game?:

One of the advantqages of CofD 2E is that you can say, "We only use the new edition's books" and have a clear, hard line where the split is.

"But this one book in 1E says this Legacy can--"
"Don't care."

Aren't there going to be more 2E supplementary books coming out though? I.e. isn't it just a matter of time before this one book in 2E says this Legacy can...?

At the pace at which the books are coming out (i.e. slow) there can be several 2E CofD games that come and go before this is a problem at the same levela s with 1E, which has dozens of books. At present, I can count off the top of my head all the books relevant to 2E:

CofD Corebook
Vampire 2E
Werewolf 2E
The Pack
Mage 2E
Beast
Demon
Demon ST Companion
Demon Players Companion
Demon Heirs to Hell (Demon-Blooded)
Dark Ages (in part only)

That's about it. Notice how the only ones who have more than one book per gameline are Werewolf (1) and Demon (3). Compare this with the truly staggering amount of Mage and Vampire books in 1E.

Sure, a decade down the line we might have the same problem. But we're not building games and taking advantage of things a decade from now; we're doing it today.

One of the advantqages of CofD 2E is that you can say, "We only use the new edition's books" and have a clear, hard line where the split is.

"But this one book in 1E says this Legacy can--"
"Don't care."

@silentsophia said in RL Anger:

Yup. And my laptop is having issues booting and running chkdisc.

Suck.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

Idiots on Facebook are idiots. I will be making like Elsa eventually, but man, people's inability to have civil debates really fucking galls me at times. Especially charming when their PARENTS chime in all "well done, son!" when they've done little more than act like a particularly surly teenager.

Yes, yes, I know I should not be surprised. And that it's probably my fault for engaging the schmuck in the first place.
</rant>

The first person I ever blocked on Facebook was someone's mother for exactly that kind of behavior. That woman was just vile.

On my 'RL Anger' front:
Really, really needing a 'me time' sort of day. Y'know, nice meal out. Possibly a fattening dessert. Getting muh hairs did.

...but being in desperate 'save money' mode and struggling to justify even buying a pack of cookies.

God damn do I know these feelz.

@tragedyjones said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

@icanbeyourmuse Originally, I forgot them. Then, I realized I don't remember if they are slated for a 2E.

They are not, as of yet.

People who hit "reply" instead of "reply all" in an e-mail and end up telling me something they need to be telling the person I am referring to them.

Like, is it that hard to read the metadata of the e-mail that is right there in front of you?

Fuck.

Could always route through my VHS collection and we could make a 90s game. >.>

@tragedyjones said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

Less flirting with @Coin more srs discuss.

I need someone who knows Beast and someone who knows Changeling and someone who knows Demon.

No one will know Changeling until it's out--not in the capacity you need. I know Demon well enough.

@surreality said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

@Coin Dude, weren't you heading out this way some time somewhen? Bring your leather mug and breeches, bitch. It's ON!

I am aiming for next March.

@surreality said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

This may or may not have anything to do with the fact that there's a ren faire local to both @tragedyjones and myself, which... may or may not have been entertainingly relevant to a faction on BITN. (That, and my husband keeps wanting to meet him, and our timing has been for shit for over a dang year on that front thus far. )

This is you guys being lazy and taking your proximity for granted!

@tragedyjones said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

@skew said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

@tragedyjones What about Possessed and Immortal?!

I will Fite u

Shit, I'll convert those if I have final say.

i am, as per usual, willing to help out.

@surreality said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

@Vorpal said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

Free will, though, is a thing, and people can believe whatever they want to as long as they don’t force others to believe it by law.

...which will never happen, because it's pretty impossible to force someone to believe in something by law. You can require lip service, and adherence to tenets of whatever faith it is as far as going through the motions is concerned, but you can't legislate that someone actually believe it.

I suppose you could legislate some kind of test of faith/belief, and brainwash people if they don't pass it, but that's more than a few steps beyond law.

I don't know; brainwashing seems well within the scope of "law" if "law" is taken to an far enough extreme--an extreme we aren't that far away from and that we constantly write sci-fi about.

@tragedyjones said in An open letter to Fallcoast:

Also I will eventually build a multisphere game,

This statement is directly contradicted by the conditional clause that followed:

when I have a strong volunteer base to handle administration. And who knows the games I dont.

@Kanye-Qwest said in An open letter to Fallcoast:

@Coin said in An open letter to Fallcoast:

@tragedyjones said in An open letter to Fallcoast:

I'm beginning to think @ThatOneDude doesn't like me.

Man, you could make jerky just by holding a slice of meat in his vicinity.

Is this because he's so DRY or so SALTY? This worked on levels, so you get an upvote.

I was going for the latter, but am not above taking credit for more.

@tragedyjones said in An open letter to Fallcoast:

@silentsophia said in An open letter to Fallcoast:

@tragedyjones It's because you're a flakey motherfucker.

I am. But I am just one flake in the blizzard of this community.

Ain't that the truth.

@Cupcake said in Good TV:

I really can't complain for any tv show that involves previous episode recaps sung by (and possibly written by as well?) Jonathon Coulton.

Is that actually Jonathan Coulton? I fucking knew it. I knew it.