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@Aria ...

@Aria Send this to the new parents and tell them GOOD LUCK!

Now that I think about it, I really hope Drakkonis Nagash ends up like this:

My teacher asked for me to give a presentation on modern day effects of historic events
...so I filmed burning her classroom down with everyone inside and told her I'd give it to her tomorrow after the evening news.
#SLAYER
#BRUTAL
#\M/
#FxCKMyChemicalRomanceSucks

@Aria True story: I knew a couple that were really into black metal (Dark Funeral, Cradle of Filth, Death, Mayhem) and so when they had a kid they named him:

DRAKKONIS NAGASH

@Chet Nah I've never played sociopath before. Far too likely that people will assume that I am representing myself through the character. People get judgy like that and sociopathic heel-type characters tend to end up just being avoided outright.

I gotta admit, I really do want to make a character that is severely likable, but horrible in bed to the point of justified murder mercy killing.

THINGS YOU NEED TO DO IN GAME BEFORE YOU QUIT/RAGEFLEE THE HOBBY

I'll start.

@Lithium said in RL Anger:

Why the fuck do people go to a movie, pick a seat next to someone else when the whole theatre is open practically, and then /talk/ through the whole fucking movie.

One time, I was alone in a theater and this guy came in with popcorn and soda. He had the entire run of seats and could choose any seat in the house except mine...

...and he sat down right next to me.

Not with a seat in between like No, bro, we are sitting together but not on a date, but sharing cup holder next to me.

After a few minutes of him sitting there in silence, eating his popcorn, saying nothing to me...I waited until more people entered the theater then promptly moved to the next row behind him.

No way in hell was I gonna let this dude behind me.

So I can only theorize 3 reasons why this happened, since he didnt appear to be mentally handicapped.

1. He thought I was attractive
2. He wanted that seat and was pulling some dick move where I was sitting where he wanted to, so he made it awkward but like Hell would he not sit where he wanted, seat taken or not
3. Creeper

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

Am I an unreasonable bitch? In this situation, I mean. (Shut up, @Coin, @Ghost.)

Dude, I was over here minding my biz and practicing my bomb-ass magic spells and you called me to this post. Course I'm gonna comment.

THE COMMENT: Spectrum or not I always kinda get doucherage when you're talking about one topic (in your case, good TV) and someone uses it as a chance to derail into a topic about how big their brain is...

So, nah, I don't think you're being a bitch. You were talking about good TV and got one-upped by means of highbrow intellectualism, it seems.

Edit/Afterthought: It's worth asking a clarification, but if the person is on the spectrum, the intent might not have been to be a douche. So tread gently, but it seems like you two may be having two separate conversations at the same time.

@ThatOneDude That's precisely what I was referencing, thank you. I didn't have it on hand.

When I run WoD for my tabletop groups I like to think of how Underworld has been shot near entirely over a blue lens filter, or the sequences in Blade when Traci Lords was driving to the Blood Bath with that douchebag, how the camera would cut to an alley where someone was having their throat ripped out.

All in all, I don't think (my personal opinion, here) WoD works entirely well under the filter of our own reality. I think the social/political enemies, while topical, aren't good enough to put the setting into the right mindset.

In my head, the World of Darkness is one where it's just not safe enough to go into town after dark, where it rains all of the time, like just around the corner Eric Draven is killing TomTom and Funboy, and another block down, graves are being dug for fresh Sabbat bodies, and while no one knows entirely what is out there, the only safe time is during the day...is never.

That in stepping over from being mortal to whichever monster-splat you're playing, you gain a modicum of ability to survive the blue-filtered nighttime, only to find that there are still darker and scarier things than what you've become...

...which I feel is the basis for why so many of the WoD creature types all have some stat to try to hold onto who they are. Because before it all began was a more innocent, more pure time that you can never go back to, but if you lose yourself to this new life, you'll become that which used to prey upon you.

Very poetic, IMO.

@dontpanda Then pass on Sinister and The Purge, even if Ethan Hawke is in it.

@Ganymede God I love/hated Sinister.

Like...that epic scene in Nic Cage's 8mm where they don't show what's happening on the snuff film, but they tell the story through watching Nic Cage's reactions...

...Sinister made me do that 3-4 times. It also doesn't help that I have this weird mancrush for Ethan Hawke and his movies.

As far as horror went, it was some pretty good storytelling, though I didnt see Sinister 2. Was that garbage? Its been hanging around in y HBO Go queue and I haven't decided yet whether or not I want to see horrible things happen to Shannon Sossamyn, yet.

@Ganymede said in What locations do you want to RP in?:

No more businesses for individual PCs.

If you're going to make a location, make it significant. A tur; an Elysium; a sanctum.

And then, make it something cheery or mundane as a veneer. Like an Olive Garden Elysium. Or a Chuck-E-Cheese Tur.

And then have people die in it.

My TableTop group used to have an inside joke that the OWoD (2pt) Nightclub Merit was actually a (2pt) Guaranteed Firebombing Flaw

@Misadventure said in What locations do you want to RP in?:

That idea of everything is actually messed up always goes against the grain for me. I've been in places where bloody revolution was about to happen, where you don't walk on the side of the road because (not mines) there are bodies in shallow graves, places where corruption is the norm, and still people are people. They try to live normal lives.

Counterpoint: WoD isn't based on our world. Many of the forwards paint the World of Darkness as a place of dimly lit alleyways and all-night diners where something is just a little bit off. The setting is described in many of the splat-books this way to help support the atmosphere of horror where the PCs may be able to find safe geound, but it would be constantly dimmed by the fact that it would be surrounded by a world filled with actual monsters in the shadows.

So, constructively, I feel like WoD games that assume our own real world are missing a very key element to this setting. Ive been in far too many coffee house/bar/birthday party scenes, or scenes where the PCs didnt seem to be at all bothered by the setting.

Were I in charge of these games, I'd find the places where these PCs were getting far too comfprtable and remind that there are monsters who hunt monsters in the setting.

So, on topic? I suggest less playing supernatural house bedrock and far more organized crime fronts.

One suggestion is that if you're going for full World of Darkness to never allow relaxed, ambiguously friendly settings.

No family friendly restaurants and the only Chuck-E-Cheese is an old, half burned down husk of a family fun place.

Then again, my own personal interpretation of the WoD is kind of Frank Miller's Sin City meets Dark City where there are no truly safe places, and every place you visit has a film on it.

Personally I'd like to see more of that.

@Admiral

@Thenomain said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

So while this is something I did learn a very, very long time ago, it's still something I should have learned sooner than I did:

People will derail online conversational threads.
People who complain about a thread being derailed will still do it in other threads.

Not complaining, here, just sayin'.

I 100% disagree that this happens

And it's BULLSHIT that Sense8 got cancelled.

@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Tinuviel said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Auspice True, I don't deal with kindergarteners.

Not since the restraining orders, no.

Damn, the last time I saw such a sick burn it was...

+1 for Tron, Farscape, and Matrix

@Thenomain said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

@DarkDeleria

7th Sea.

Also, 7th Sea.

Did I mention 7th Sea?

Hah. I saw John Wick at a gaming con a few weeks ago, bur couldnt get a ticket to play in a 7th Sea game run by him. Him and I have plenty of shared friends, and I've considered picking his brain once or twice.

Oh my god you have no idea how many 7thSea/HotB/L5R fans there are here in my town simply due to how often people I know have played his settings by his GM hand.