Posts made by The Tree of Woe

No, but they do factor in being able to engage in risk without the automatic assumption that they're going to lose.

But in all seriousness, and I'd like a serious answer --

Why bother playing vampire, or including it at all, if as this discussion indicates, they can't cut the mustard outside of their own game?

It begins...

Soon Mage will come out, and Vampire and Werewolf alike will feel the pooping-on.

Haunted Memories: My time playing Changeling and Mage was so limited as to not even merit a mention. As in, the day I got approved as a Mage, my first RP was with Juerg, and I didn't bother logging the toon in again. Werewolf, I played Wilhelm -- and in the game's infancy, I played an Iron Master Rahu whose name I no longer recall. Vampire, I was Jeremie.

The Reach: Not even going to bring it up. My entire time there was suffering the "attentions" of players even crazier than me on my worst day, when it wasn't staffers sitting dark on private channels because they were stalking players. Fuck the Reach.

City of Hope: Cristobal. Looking forward to having a place with a large body of players so I can finally quit BSD Mux I mean City of Hope.

By Right of Blood: Andy. I love Sabbat, but nobody else seems to. Sigh.

There are others, but damn if I can remember them.

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...

What's the drawback of having a high Primal Urge? I'm looking at the book now, but I haven't gotten that far.

Seems legit. Lethal's still not aggravated damage, in any event.

True, and werewolves are supposed to be killing machines, I suppose, while a vampire's more of an all-around "don't pick a fight with it" sort of dealie.

@tragedyjones Man, if this is an accurate cross-section, everyone's going to be playing Werewolf.

...Huzzah?

Is it their claws and teeth that do lethal to vampires, or just their claws?

Also, aggravated damage is now really just an additional way to injure things, not something you should rely on, as I understand it.

But it's nice to know that the problem they tried to fix with Requiem 2nd Edition is now well underway to begin again. Sigh.

Would be easy enough to do on a MUX, I suppose. All +beats collected by members of a pack go into a pool and every week or so it's split evenly amongst all the members who're active?

How do the Uratha 2.0 measure up against vampires? Are we risking Power Creep again?

Actually, you can get smithing up to 100 just by tooling around Whiterun. They have almost everything you need to forge everything, and Smithing is the skill where the more perks you buy, the easier it becomes to farm the skill, since as you start forging better kit it both gives you more options to make shit, and the stuff you make pays for your supplies.

I don't find Enchanting hard, except I only like using Grand or Black soul gems, especially for kit I plan to use.

Alchemy, though? Fuuuuuck that. That's a minigame I have not been able to get into.

So Skyrim just did something a video game hasn't done in a long time--it startled the shit out of me.

I left the house I'm sort of in the process of finishing, set my controller aside and picked up my computer, only to hear the sound of heavy mouth-breathing and something stamping around.

I almost threw my computer aside to grab my controller and pause the game.

(For those who've never played Skyrim, that means a Giant has spawned outside the house, as they sometimes do, and you're about four seconds away from becoming paste.)

I'm going to be playing a Ventrue member of the Ordo Dracul, possibly an Architect of the Monolith if they don't SUCK after Coin gets through rewriting their perks.

I've played Nosferatu a ton, but am looking to get away from the mold of someone mostly motivated by loneliness and try someone mostly motivated both by desire for knowledge and the power that comes with it, because power rocks.

After watching Kingsman, I really want to play up the OD as a sort of "elegant if sinister" secret society. And see what insane gadgets and tricks Coin will let me get away with.

Just to get a start on the hate spiraling and bitter feuding a little bit early, does anybody have any idea what they're planning on playing?

Regarding the Invictus stuff, I actually like everything in here. The big failing of the Invictus in Requiem 1e, was that it had no teeth -- the covenant could not enforce its own internal structure, let alone its authority. Now not only does the Invictus have the tools to take and keep power, there are a ton of benefits for non-Invictus for allowing them to do so.

I will note that in my experience regardless of alliances on paper (I might've said this earlier or elsewhere), relations between the Sanctified and the Invictus on MU*s deteriorate almost instantly, in either edition of the game -- maybe it's just the way some people play Sanctified, IDK.

Hold your nose, open your mouth, drink a big glass of water, and brush your teeth after.

Right?

I loathe Hemingway, personally -- the best way I can describe his style is "flatulent."

In all honesty, that's fair. I suppose I'll have enough crud to buy without worrying about another discipline.

HOWEVER -- In all seriousness, I'd like to talk shop at you about your BL list sometime, when you've got time. Not because of what I want to play, you've already seen my toon -- but some of the others.

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

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