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No linear chargen / quadratic XP shit As far as I know, all White Wolf games had this problem. It's easy to houserule away (just make the XP multiplier into a flat cost per dot) but for some games/subsystems the non-linear cost thing is actually necessary for balance. Like in any version of Mage ha...

Can I have a source for this? Here maybe?: https://www.polygon.com/2018/11/13/18089574/vampire-the-masquerade-white-wolf-lgbtq-chechnya-apology https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-11-19-paradox-taking-control-of-white-wolf-after-vampire-the-masquerade-lgbtq-controversy https://thefandomenta...

It's gibberish.

My objection is less of a lack of consistency and more the tendency for there to be a stubborn refusal to find solutions within the game engine and instead make up bullshit artifacts. Pathfinder has spells that create Demiplanes and spells that allow people to magically spy on others. Why not have ...

Now for Crazy Hawt Fey Queen herself. She’s hiding in a pocket dimension courtesy of an artifact, because of course she has an artifact. Paizo doesn’t know enough about their own fucking game to design villains without making up artifacts that let them do whatever they want. To be fair, magic in Dn...

Mine:

OSSR: World of Darkness: Mirrors

I'm actually of the opinion that "TTRPGs are modular" is both inherently true and something developers are best served by largely ignoring , at least when it comes to metaplot. The fact that many players can and will do much of the work for you isn't a great reason to fail to provide your...

Do you want to act in a more brutal way (that's usually more effective, but can have messy results), or be restrained? On second thought, the new botch and crit mechanics are terrible, especially when you consider how many actions it makes no sense for. How do I “brutally” pick a lock? Or do resear...

ColorBlindNinja61 wrote: Apparently, what happened was the damn game got canceled because the GM is an immature asshole.

What a shame.

Well, you do make it sound okay. I haven't seriously looked at V5 since 2018, and that was mostly about the neo-Nazi stuff with Chechnya. No more Blood Pool. You have a 0-5 Hunger trait, and you roll to see if you get hungrier rather than tracking a meta-currency. Did they ever fix that weird exploi...

Final Thoughts https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/532790/capsule_616x353.jpg?t=1598515595 I am 90% certain that this game will be crap. Remember, you heard it from me first! I first started getting interested in tabletop roleplaying around 2008 or 2009 when nwod was starting to really colla...

Before I forget, are there any must have skills or traits in DH 2e? Fuck, it's been so long I've almost completely forgotten. I remember "Jaded" being a good talent (you no longer have to make sanity checks for "normal " violence), but that's about it. In general anything that p...

ColorBlindNinja61 wrote: Thanks for answering my questions.

You're welcome.

I've only played 1e Dark Heresy, so take it with a grain of salt: a) Yes, but try and be good at at least one other thing as well. The utility of normal healing is very situationally dependent. b) You will want to buy Intelligence and Willpower. Basically every single DH character needs high willpow...

Appendix The appendix is the last chapter of this book. We get ten essays each individually written by the ten different White Wolf writers who worked on this book (including Matthew MacFarland, but fuck that guy). Most of the essays dispense with the usual White Wolf shovelware prose and just get ...

Bleeding Edge This is the section on making a cyberpunk version of The World of Darkness. Timely, too, as Cyberpunk 2077 was released today. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Deus_Ex_Human_Revolution_cover.jpg I asked for this! People have been asking for some version of this for 30 ye...

Okay. I thought you maybe meant to type "or another republic." (As in they're a completely independent country separate from the regular US).

I've never played the videogame or read the adventure path, so I'm just wondering how the hell are the pcs given their own kingdom? I know in DnD-land there's a tradition of hiring random travelers to do extremely important tasks for you, but this seems ridiculous even by those standards.

The introductory parts of the Shatter are supposed to be run by “The Occult Republic of America”, a secret branch of the US government The "republic" is a secret part of the government of another republic? ....Not even sure what you're trying to ask. Hope this clears it up though: For gen...

So for example, one of the apocalyptic scenarios is “alien invasion.” We get a list of fiction for inspiration, a brief discussion of alien invasions, some practical considerations (Maybe the aliens start terraforming the earth? Maybe they’ve been here for thousands of years and are only emerging n...

Shards This is the chapter for mixing up the extremely formulaic nwod setting. Once again, there are three sections: 1. The World of Darkness Revealed (the masqureade fails) 2. The World of Darkness Destroyed (post-apocalyptic scenarios) 3. The World of Dark Fantasy (completely alternate settings/g...

Thank you for doing this review! I think it covers things is just about the right level of depth, and I found it interesting. You're welcome. I've been meaning to get a lot of this stuff off my chest for a while now. In a multiplayer game, you can definitely make one player worse off by giving them...

Health As previously mentioned, I really don’t like health boxes in the storyteller system, and this goes beyond unbalanced combat. The world of darkness games pitch themselves as gritty gothic-punk horror, but no one is allowed to really get hurt: If you aren’t killed outright, you will be fully h...

You're kind of talking past each other here. What Anon_issue said was "You cannot make a rational actor worse off by expanding their choice set." Obviously, you can make someone worse off by giving their opponent more options. Giving a player a defection option is going to make things eas...

It’s things like being the global expert on some topic or being able to take apart an opponent’s gun in the middle of combat Erm...would that not lead to you taking the opponents gun apart every combat? Cause you'd want to use your skills, but if that's all that skill does, it'd get repetitive. Lik...