Best posts made by The Tree of Woe

@Thenomain Legit. And maybe not suitable for a MUX.

Honestly, the only thing I really hated about werewolf was the blowjobbing the Pure got, when they are objectively awful. Absolute dickbags, and almost worthless from a narrative point of view.

That's how they operate. One day they'll get theirs, but it might take a generation or two before something comes along to bust their business policy of "it's a department store! But as shitty a one as possible!" right in the teeth.

Okay. Werewolves have touchstones, just like Vampires do -- and that's FANTASTIC.

It's hard to sneer about the human sheep when you have to call mom every day -- she worries...

I'm not really into the full straight razor as a casual thing - honestly I'd just slit my own throat - but I do recommend switching from plastic razors to a metal safety razor. The learning curve's not high, and the shave is both much faster and amazing.

The Reach and City of Hope still get upwards of 100+ logins every night. Right now, CoH has 97 characters logged in (none of them talking to each other or leaving their private rooms, haw haw). Shangrila, WELL past its prime, still has over 300 logins at any given time.

There are still people doing this -- but this is not a hobby that people casually FIND. I found it because as a callow youth I was looking up stuff about Amber and found AmberMUSH. If locating MUXes wasn't an accident, would more people play? ...Pretty sure the answer would be yes.

Edit to add: Right now Shangrila has just over 600 toons logged in. I'll be conservative and estimate that fifty of them are five players each with ten dick-girl alts.

@BetterJudgment Scott Walker was predicted 30 years ago in Robocop, down to the state.

It's almost eerie.

Thenomain's bitching about the Order of Hermes aside (if you want to know if something's good, check out the things he doesn't like), my problem with Awakening was that it specifically threw out something you really had to do to play Ascension -- pick up a book that wasn't a fucking game book and read it, whether that's The Emerald Tablet or the Qur'an or The Selfish Gene.

That's why I don't like Awakening - it's Mage for lazy intellects.

Nimoy was Jewish. I don't know HOW Jewish, but Jewish enough that he did photobooks about the culture.

There's a part of me that would love to see a Rabbi lure them into a hate crime trap. A small part.

@bobotron I have issues with the Circle of the Crone as a covenant because the basic Mother's Army really is just "Wicca, but Evil" and as much as people like to rag on Wicca, it's pretty much benevolent and that is some lazy shit, along with the 1e depiction of the Lancea et Sanctum being some pretty heavy reflexive lashing-out against Judeo-Christian religion. The NWoD/Chronicles of Darkness writers tried to learn from their mistakes but carried a lot of them with them just the same, which is evident in their presentation of stuff like the Vodoun blood magic & etc.

Jeremie. I learned a lot at HM, and made more than my share of mistakes. I'm actually more disappointed than proud of my time there.

And I made you burn down your fucking house, using a level two Cruac ritual.

@Bristled Thistle said:

Bloodsucking Viking/Lobster Boat Captain with a penchant for seduction, blood magic, foul-mouthed honesty, kindred-on-kindred violence, and building up the city's main docks into something to be proud of.

Wanna thank the people here who came and took a look. Gave me a ton of hope for the future of this project when I was worried there wouldn't be any interest.

To paraphrase the late, great Leslie Nielsen, absurdism is only entertaining if the people experiencing the absurd completely buy the experience as genuine, whether that involves a deliberate suspension of disbelief or the absurd simply being your reality.

The reason it was entertaining when Joss Whedon did it is because he knew when to stop hanging lampshades and cracking jokes.

The reason everyone who's tried to imitate him, ever, in any media, is not? They don't know to do that.

What you have to do is convince a bunch of well-meaning female players that you have a deep emotional connection with them, possibly by faking being autistic or some such, farm up your XP, and then be a complete asshole to anyone who dares to show up in your genre sporting a penis, so they know who the Alpha Male is, rrrr.

I actually once wrote up a Nosferatu member of the Cockscomb Society who was, no shit, a straight-up pastiche of J.R. Ewing.

He was awesome.

Also, Coin, I say this with all due respect. Fuck the humans.

What I am hoping to do as a player, and I am hoping Coin will back me, is present the Ordo Dracul as a legitimate secret society -- the sort of group that conspiracy theorists see manipulating everything. The sort of organization that a certain type of powerful person is (literally) dying to join.

Of course, you could present the Invictus the same way. I really like the rebranding of it, with obscene wealth and disgusting power as the dividends of aggressively working to maintain the Masquerade.

Werewolf had Lodges in it, you have to add Bloodlines in, IMMEDIATELY.

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Hey, I remember you. ...I was absolutely terrible in the MXT days. Carry on.

This ties into the current fan-rage about Vampire 5th edition (a lot of which is I DETEST CHANGE AND FEAR THE NEW when you whip away the curtain... people are cowards) -- people are howling about edgelordy stuff in the new book and wearing rose-colored glasses about the stuff in the OLD books. Here's what I can remember, off the top of my head, without cracking a book:

• Flying cockhugger fomori who attack men in the middle of the night for their sperm so they can make Ferectoi
• Chad Fomori whose power is to rape you to death with their giant agg-dealing dicks.
• A transgender SS scientist Tzimisce who practices a nazi variant of the Path of Caine, wants to kill all the Jews and runs around in a bra with swastikas on it. Nobody remembers Totentanz and she used to be ALL OVER WHITE WOLF'S SABBAT STUFF.
• Each Setite clanbook having a pedophile example PC
• A Confederate Revivalist example PC in the Revised Brujah book

And that's just what I can remember without doing any research.

Getting rid of secondary skills is one of the best things the 20th anniversary line did in terms of making CWoD playable again. Yes, you CAN be an ass-butt and use them, but... then you'd be an ass-butt.