Posts made by The Tree of Woe

Also, man, fucking R-o with an umlaut-tgrafen?

I'm so sick of that bloodline. Bitch bitch bitch. D:<

Technocrats have the same problem Tremere do, writ large.

You're the "fun police."

"Fun detected. Activating plasma gun in three, two..."

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.

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.

I want to like it but it always feels so empty. I'm thinking maybe that's because I play it by myself.

I gave all of my NWoD 1st edition books to a friend, except for Changeling and Nosferatu, because Jess Hartley had autographed both for me.

@Ganymede Compare the Vinculum to BSDs and Nephandi, who all but literally have a tentacle up their asses directing their actions.

It is a binding factor, yes -- but it's loyalty allowing for a wide latitude of decision making -- you'll die for someone you have a high vinculum rating to, but you won't die at their command.

There is a world of difference, there.

Anybody here play Mount & Blade?

@Huzuruth Rites of the Dragon was amazing. Remember, that book was also meant to be a LARP prop, the same way the Book of Nod/Canticle of Lilith was.

Honestly, I get annoyed when games allow BSD/Nephandi/Pure/etc. Not only do I AUTOMATICALLY mistrust the motivations of anyone playing one, invariably they seem to wind up getting more staff support, where everyone else is left to founder.

Fuck. That.

The only "antagonist" genre in CWoD I like playing are Sabbat -- they're the only ones that have free will, excluding Technocrats. And Technocrat players are diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicks.

Note that in Requiem 2nd edition, one of the perks of the Carthian movement is that you can more easily claim dual membership in any other covenant, including the Invictus. It's represented by a merit.

I know that in every Requiem genre I've ever played in, even when initially set up as an alliance, relations between the Sanctified and the Invictus always wound up going completely to shit.

@silentsophia She's an engineer... who doesn't think she'd benefit from learning at least passable German?

Yeah.

I always felt like part of the point of humanities was critical thinking -- past a certain point you have to examine what you instructors are telling you and reach your own conclusions, that your professors are people, and perspectives matter.

For instance, I learned a lot about writing -- and I learned that if your teacher is an upper-class white suburbanite they're not going to understand the kid who loves viking metal and the kid who loves punk music (neither of which were me).

I also learned that the flamboyantly gay professor will give you a lot more respect if you're the only man in the class with the don't-give-a-shit to sit next to him. I didn't even realize it until my buddy (who also didn't give a damn) pointed out that all the other guys in class were always on the other side of the ring-o-desks.

@Luna Not really offended, no.

I have seen mathematical types sit down at the old gaming table and strip away narrative and drama in favor of putting together the biggest number combo, and it does annoy me. But it isn't fair to paint everyone with the same brush.

That was nasty of me, and I do apologize.

And I find the STEM-focused types to be artless, soulless choads who have to break everything down into a numbers game, and in so doing ruin everything.

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.

My creative writing teachers (at a school known for it, at least regionally) were all about domestic fiction. We had one visiting writer in who talked about how she wanted to show the "positive side" of alcoholism.

I say this completely unironically: fucking white people.

The lit was somewhat better, there at least we got a ton of variety, and I learned that magical realism is weird, yo.

And I still say it may be the weakest offering of the era running from IV-IX, but compared to X on it's positively brilliant.

Maaaaaaaan, I'm in Buffalo. Shit here got so bad when we went out for beer we had to watch out for Wampas.

As far as CoH goes, what the shit is up with all the hip, urbane, charming Wyrm PCs who just want to hang out and... I don't know, beat their girlfriends with tentacle-dicks or something. Cripes.