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Unless you create an Essence-like stat with blood as a volumetrically independent carrier, you need make like two teaspoons equal to a blood point. In Chinese alchemy, one drop of semen is equal to ten drops of blood. Amateur internet research says that the average volume of emission is about 3/4 o...

Semen-drinking Communist vampires now have to be a thing. Probably a Chinese bloodline?

In Chinese alchemy, one drop of semen is equal to ten drops of blood. I don't deal in funny British measurements or know much about male workings, how many cocks would you have to suck to get a tenth of a pint and thus enough for one Blood Trait? I believe this is one for our resident medical exper...

Mord wrote:

OgreBattle wrote:Would it help to do a AoFD on After Sundown itself? You can then flagellate yourself in the quest for perfection.

Frank finally meets a worthy adversary...

I, for one, would love to read that. Even more than my request of WtA vs. WtF.

I asked my culinary professor the fermenting blood thing once (spurred by a shitty Halloween bottle label), and he said the protein would just rot/decompose. So you can't really make blood wine, because there's too much protein to, as Frank says, too little sugar. So how much sugar would you have t...

Suppose you needed to get 2000 calories from human flesh. How many humans' worth of flesh is this exactly? Or, perhaps more precisely, what weight of human flesh would deliver 2000 calories if eaten? On a related note - for a typical, healthy adult human, what percentage of their blood would be suga...

Mechalich wrote:Of course WW took as their principle inspiration a trilogy of esoteric horror fantasy novels by Tanith Lee ...

Which trilogy is this?

Scrivener wrote:Isn't this the basic outline of true blood?

Basically this. Also Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (except in a different way).

Starmaker wrote:Max Lao from Technobabylon.

Source on Max being trans? I don't recall the game itself ever pointing it out.

Where is the Cancerverse picture from?

In a similar spirit to the 'oMage vs. newMage' thread, I would adore a WtA vs. WtF OSSR. Mostly because I would love to see a review with the definitive Frank anti-dogfucking rant.

Longes wrote:Happy new year, everyone!

Happy New Year to you too! Mine came almost ten hours ago, though.

that the Republic as being a reference to the absurdities of the US legal system and police brutality and untouchability that seems relevant these days or something. For something topical you can have Ronald Rump as the Eternal President of the Republic. I prefer to have references be a bit less bl...

Something I probably didn't stress in fluff is that the Republic does *not* have a raging boner for illiteracy and ignorance. Their xenophobia isn't utterly unreasonable but their dictatorship is more like North Korea than Nazi Germany. Batshit crazy leader and plenty of propaganda. Thank Buddha fo...

So, I've been doing some fluff expansion on the world of Nexus. One of the changes that my take on it will have is that I want the United Republic to be less 'RIFTS Coalition-like Nazis' and more 'MegaCity One'. You can blame my Judge Dredd binge lately, but that's what I'm going for in my take. I h...

Like the blank on Spells and Psy for Combat Borg and the like? It means nothing of this kind. At one point I had dashes on there, but I went through and made it blank where there's none to start with since it is possible to purchase them later. Ah, ok. Thanks for clarifying that. Something omitted ...

Do the gaps in the various Archetype descriptions mean 'nothing of this kind' or 'erik hasn't filled them in yet'?

Thanks erik!

How are you planning to license this, Erik? Will it be a Frank-style 'Do whatever you want with this' or something else? I ask because I might wanna build on this, but would like to release it under CC-BY-SA.

By 'Fate Core', I mean this. I need the Den's style of merciless, laser-precision criticism, please - what are the system's failure points? What is it bad at? What (if anything) is it good at? Would you recommend its use?

It mentions needing specific feats to extract poison from vermin, but I'm not sure what the process is to extract poison from say a viper or a dead wyvern, or a living wyern. I didn't see that anywhere there. To quote: According to Drow of the Underdark, it's a DC 15 Handle Animal check to get a ve...

I had one player who would always 'dust farm' as we called it - he would add 'I kick up dust' to every action description to qualify for 'environment use'. Basically, I consider the 'use of environment' requirement for extra dice to be quite easily trivialized and not really worth it.

So in all seriousness, based on our resident Russians' opinions, the whole setting's opposition could be fitted into the CR <= 10 range. Would I be far wrong?

JigokuBosatsu wrote:

Longes wrote:That's the Sea Tzar. He lives in the sea

are you shitting me

I always thought he lived in a desert. I have now been enlightened.

This is in particular addressed to our resident Russians (you know who you are), but if you want to offer advice, I would greatly welcome it! I want to know roughly (in DnD 3.5 CR/level terms) how powerful the opposition in Russian myths and legends is. We're talking both named individuals (like Kos...