Posts made by Templari

@Derp It's your game, and your right to do such. However. I'm confused as to why you're doing the MU* version of bringing a stinking festered skunk into the middle of your living room. Is it that you need to suffer the effects for yourself before you realize it's a bad idea? The moment you crossed your doorstep with it was when you stepped from 'bad idea' to 'intentional self-harm'.

Head. In. Sand. Pages and pages of how it happened on every game, yet you'd rather wait until it is too late to act. Not making a decision is a big decision. @Miss-Demeanor is correct, it's going to be too late.

You're losing people coming into the door, that alone should be enough.

@Ghost said in CofD and Professional Training:

I have zero doubt that Gordon Ramsay could cook me up a super-nice, rote-grade version of macaroni and cheese with his eyes closed, but where PT is concerned, Gordon Ramsay (crafts5 w 8/9/rote) could approach the following as if they were as difficult as making macaroni and cheese:

• Making a katana
• Cooking a Michelin Star grade meal for the Queen of England
• a birthday cake made out of human skin
• Recreating the Mona Lisa with matching brush strokes
• Making a samurai grade suit of lamellar armor to go along with a Hanzo sword of his own design.

This is where I think PT is broken. IMO the benefits should all be restricted to uses WITHIN SAID PROFESSION and the rote usage should be restricted to dice rolls that are not considered extended dice rolls.

Be it NWoD or CofD, I've seen too many people apply benefits of PT to other used outside of their professional training. Staff should make this distinction and keep an eye on it.

In short: Being an expert pastry chef with 8/9/rote on crafts rolls should never be applied to forging Hattori Hanzo katana

Edit/Afterthought: It is my belief that the draw for PT isn't to have 8/9/rote in <skillname> rolls pertaining to profession, but to have 8/9/rote in all uses of that skill, which is overpowered and, IMO, gamebreaking.

I don't disagree with this point here. However, wasn't oWoD all based on skills and subskills, points in cooking etc etc? Seems a general skill roll is what was being aimed for.

Needs more kittens.

@Lithium Tech isn't bad, but I find it hard to get away from that remnant drone Peebee makes you.

@Thenomain I just went to my Plus character, and you're right. Pull & Throw is a blast. I like playing Kett Bowling, or simply tossing them off high places.

I do not see the need to debate the merit. It was never intended for supernaturals to have. Specifically this was a hunter merit to level the playing field slightly. For the most part supernaturals still have the bigger upper hand. After all they are supernatural, go figure.

However I don't mind it being opened up as a Mortal-Only type merit. Again, level the playing field slightly. Sure remove the multi-attack support etc from the rote ability, let's be honest. They are still mortal. Still squishy.

This may have been asked already. Will there be singing crabs? It makes them easier to catch and them steam for my pirate mateys.

@ThugHeaven Need wire. Need so much wire!!!

@Faceless Alas, PS4 for me for this one. But I really enjoyed the beta, it really was hours of play with all the mission types available in the end. Sure some things can get repetitive, but name me a game that doesn't have elements like that?

The storyline, and finding the little bits of evidence for the case file is a lot of information and I enjoyed following it. Also, there's a pre-qual Movie on Amazon for this game that was good.

@Faceless You do see patrols, especially later on. Early on they are more sparse. Later on the faction patrols including Unidad increase. Also rebel patrols increase as you finish missions in the area. They will also start fighting each other randomly near you.

At one point the cartel and unidad started duking it out over shooting at me, then rebels showed up and unidad and the cartel teamed back up. It was pandemonium!

@Faceless I liked it. Reminded me a lot of the Mercenaries games. Also, they have definitely improved the AI. used to be they wouldn't do a damn thing without an order.

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" ... "Yessir, the check is in the mail.

Sweet, I may aim to misbehave.

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

Cops and criminals in a nWoD should just be treated thematically. No, you can't really try to play the big by-the-book cop who arrests everyone for smoking pot

Smokin' the reefer? That's a paddlin'

So in regards to banning cop-pc's it;s a bad idea.

Treating law enforcement like it is not it's own sphere is equally a bad idea. It's the one area solidly in WoD that will end up interacting with every single other sphere on one level or another, and on a consistent basis. It's a large encompassing area.

That said. LA does have a lot of alphabet soup letters in it's bowl. Simplify it, the county departments still have a lot of power, so that's one thought. Be all LACSD. Sheriff Agencies are huge in California.

Another idea mentioned is people are part of some sort of task force. You could really run with a few task forces set up per flavor, got your vice, your robbery homicide, your anti-cartel/drugs... I'd shy away from the anti-terrorism parts, though it could make a good cover for dealing with all things WoD.

Masq back in the day promoted the fact there were no patrol PC's, all were detectives. Why? Well 90% of the work involved in WoD policing, is actual investigations. So make PC's where the work is at.

Disallowing pc criminal vs pc cops doesn't work for me either. It always leads to asshats going "haha cant touch me even though I just murdered this baby" It's fucking idiotic, and also leads to these plots of MASSIVELY ATTENTION GRABBING ACTIONS... going on at will with zero consequences. (Yes. If you steal from cops you deserve to get your appropriate appendages slapped.)

At what point did we forget gaming has consequences for PC's for bad actions, or even bad luck on dice rolls?

The best RP I had in my life was chasing down a cop-killer, or trying to anyways. Mostly it wasn't any deus-ex that kept saving her, it was the dice. Occasionally some mutual agreement here and there. But in the end, my PC managed to win and there were consequences. But it all started with criminal pc was stupid and earned the pc cops attention, and it steamrolled from there. One could call it cross-sphere RP since said criminal was a vampire, and the cop was pure mortal.

Going after NPC's all the time gets boring after all while, in the end they are all some form of cookie cutter archetype. Other people tend to be less predictable on some level, and again. The dice are the ultimate equalizer, they don't always cooperate. Nothing like watching someone who normally beats people down get their ass whooped because their dice failed them so terribly.

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

Just a little nugget to (hopefully) drum up some interest:

NKR: the New Kindred Republic

Sounds like a terrible cover band name!

@dontpanda said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

Sure enough, another phone call due to a changed schedule and I was terminated "with cause" because I missed too many shifts. I made an appointment to speak to Management and the GM said it was just easier if I left, and they "wouldn't make it worse" than to have that as the reason on my employment record.

Yeah this makes me angry. It's not legal. not in a single solitary state. An old employer I had decided they'd use that method to rid themselves of an employee they could have justifiably fired for other reasons. Added him to the schedule on his day off termed him for no call no show. State made them pay him from the moment he was termed to the moment they saw the case.

On the flip side, I've had employees play the "I didn't know I was scheduled to work that day." or "I didn't agree to that!" Really? Because at no point during the face to face conversation, the emails about the schedule, or when it was posted 2 weeks in advance did you once say a word!

@Cobaltasaurus This is why I specifically do not discuss scheduling hell with my employees standing up. It isn't fair to them. However, I've also learned how to subtly convey extreme irritation from a seated leaning back position. Mind you I only break out the irritation with one particular employee who seems to think everyone else has to pick up the slack and he's entitled to do bare minimum. The last few times of folks refusing to help him out with shift trades finally sunk in.

I'll give it some thought, goes hand in hand with my current degree requirements, but starts the same time as my term.

@Arkandel Noooooo. That's not true! That's impossible!!