Posts made by Olsson

Guess that's what sells now then.

Although I wonder how that is a good marketing name. I guess because of the recent wave of pride in being overweight?

Werewolves could use Rage (Glory) Berserker's Might which is spend 1 Essence and either ignore upto their Glory Renown in damage, works on agg. Or heal one tilt, both reflexively.

The goverment totally sucks
You motherfucker
The goverment totally sucks

Ben Franklin was a rebel indeed, he liked to get naked while he smoked on the weed.
He was a genious but, if he were here today.
The goverment would fuck him in his righteous AAAAAAAA!

On the subject of literature, I currently have the pleasure of reading The Prince by Machiavelli for my History course.

Joys.

I play Antonio if someone wants to do something. Necromancer/Mobster/Cleaner of Murderscenes.

To be fair, Vampires together with Possessed are one of the few gamelines who have evil as their default.

Black-hat Vampires?

Not everyone decides what they want to play on the criteria of who is the most powerful.

@Arkandel said:

2. Specialization (if it comes with mechanical effects). Things like Bloodlines/Lodges etc which let splats do what they normally can't.

Now I might have missed that part of the book, but just to adress lodges. In Werewolf 2E they seem to be purely social constructs, there are no mechanics bound to them, infact it doesn't seem to mention being bound to a second spirit totem either from what I've seen. It seems to more be a gang of people with similar goals, no bonuses or such.

One intresting part for the healing of Werewolves is, it is no longer 1 Essence for 1 Lethal, it's one Essence to upgrade your natural healing to heal lethal instead of Bashing. So at Primal Urge 4, you heal 2 Lethal per Essence, at PU 10, you heal 6 Lethal per Essence spent.

As it looks I am gonna play a Demon Guardian who sees herself as the patron saint of the forgotten and downtrotten, aka the homeless.

Werewolves will generally beat Vampires in physical combat now by my estimation especially some combos. A Rahu Blood Talon in Kuruth with moderate amounts of Renown and sensible Gifts means you should run and/or hide.

Some things just get funny, like you can make your bite be a +20 Damage weapon.

So this might be seen as a bit cheap, buuuut. My standards are pretty low, so.

Does anyone have/know of grids from by now probably dead games that might be allowed to be repurposed? Preference being for a larger city, but really beyond that I am not picky on the subject.

Just finished my first read through (with skipping parts that seemed identical) I like it, are a few things I didn't see coming. Werewolf Feeding Restrictions based on Primal Urge was a new one. Generally nothing I see as bad, I am still sceptical to the Prey focus on each Tribe, but I'll let that go eventually.

@RDC said:

That actually might not be a bad idea, @Glitch. Just reskin Visitors as, well. A sort of pseudo-Claimed. Maybe give them a choice to trade a Numina for a dot of Influences. Werewolves might want to murderface them, but I could do an IC workaround.

I'll just mention Predetors has an actual system for making Claimed. So might want to use that if it's what you want.

I just patched up Planetside 2 again and suspect I'll try and start playing it again. So if anyone wants to play that, I'm all game. It's a Free To Play FPS with huge numbers involved.

Good fun.

I honestly have no idea what I am vaccinated for and what I am not, should probably look into that. Although I suspect at 20 I am still young enough for the shots in grade school still work.

@Miss-Demeanor said:

What I miss of owod Werewolf and Vampire is Pentex and Sabbat. God do I miss those. In nwod, God help you if you want to play a 'bad' vampire. You will be staked. Then burned on a bigger one.

Sounds more like a MU* issue than a game one. Requiem is filled with 'bad' vampires (Also, all Vampires are fucking horrible parasites), it's just with the exception of the Brood and VII it doesn't come with a big WE'RE THE BAD GUYS sticker. It's more about individuals. I rather like that.

@Thenomain said:

Let me, now, contrast Changeling: The Lost. In Changeling, you are playing someone who was kidnapped and escaped. They agree to hang out with other survivors and they have one of four basic philosophies on what to do as a survivor. There is also no substantial penalty on not choosing a philosophy. As Courtless, a character has fewer super-powers to choose from. It doesn't have any roles besides that. The game is about being a survivor, and that makes Joe Blow, Sudden Scarecrow, a lot more open.
: Whups, you're a vampire! You are Joe Blow, Sudden Malkav-- oh, I see where I'm going. Malkavian. There's your role. Are you going to play it?

Now maybe I am missing something here, but to me those roles are just as prelevant in Changeling The Lost as in any other gameline, instead of Clan, Auspice or Path you have Seeming. A Fairest is inclined to be a spesific way, there's sections of books dedicated to describing how Fairests are, just like there are for the others mentioned above. It's the attributes/qualities that are inherent to the thing you were turned into.

Then we have the society organisations in form of Orders, Tribes, Covenants and Courts. And just like you can ignore those and be Courtless, you can be a Ghost Wolf, Apostate etc. And just as well as there are expecations on a Blood Talon to be a spesific way (I do not think it is, since 'warrior' culture is a very broad theme.) a Winter is expected to be a certain way, and you'll certainly have people who say you're doing it wrong.

Am I overlooking something major? I very well might be.

I can agree that Changeling as a game is open-ended with what you want to do with it, Werewolf has their -duty- which their gameline is about, but in that regard Werewolf is the exception, not the rule. No other gameline has that sort of thing that I can think of right now.

Just, University stuff.

Been pushed back another year before I can apply for studying abro0ad due to a bitch being pedantic.

Welp.