General World of Darkness Discussion Thread QQ Edition

[shadowdice]

My VtM Dark Ages players are convinced the Baali Broodmother they are hunting is a chick.

Like, no thought about it. Just 'Brood mother must mean woman.'

They are also convinced because the Broodmother is 12 gen that there must be fucking loads of Baali in Toledo. I have made notes.

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Players can be insistent that they are right

There actually aren't any Baali in my LA

There are however Thin bloods who found the books of Baali killed in the 2000s who then worked their demonic magic into their alchemy and made a deal with Judge Holden Demon. A D'habi revenant pretending to be a Tremere is hunting them and goes around being a stereotypical goth who the players met while the Anarchs were going around asking if there were any other blood mages

My players have also determined that a bunch of movies are Anarch propaganda in this universe such as Highlander (the quickening via decapitation is diablerie) featuring a stand in for Baron MacNeil

Also they broke into an influencer farm with their cartel goons dressed up as swat, grabbed everyone they thought might be thin bloods, tortured them and got into a fight with one of the thin bloods who had a spell to flash sunlight in their faces, and proceeded to sell the human influencers mixed in with the thin bloods to the Anarchs after keeping them in a basement for a week to help heal from 4 to 6 Aggravate damage each (the Gangrel got set on fire and entered a wrestling match while a guy hit him with a pan of acid)

 

[Skitzyfrenic]

Players can be insistent that they are right

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I set up this spot. Literally just a camping spot that the Baali they were chasing came upon someone and fed. That was the totality of the situation.

They spent like forty five minutes investigating it for hidden structures and trying to talk to the ghosts.

Even after I said multiple times it was a common camping spot along the road.

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Thinbloods being pseudo baali is an interesting angle tbh. Just stumbling into it.

 

[shadowdice]

Thinbloods being pseudo baali is an interesting angle tbh. Just stumbling into it.

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it was a concept I had come up with for a few reasons. Thin bloods often have incomplete understandings of the supernatural and may latch onto what they do find out or their preconceptions. If they do find actual Thaumaturgy books they are going to use a lot of it even if they may be skeptical. A supernatural force that does meet them and find a use for them will have plenty of levers to use as well.

Additionally Thinblood alchemy (one of the few parts of V5 I like) have a bunch of extremist cults such as a pseudo diablerist cult that kills other vampire and uses the ashes as reagents to temporarily get disciplines without rising in generation, and another that wants to sacrifice the 13th gen and below to create philosopher's stones to have World Immortality (without thinking about what that world might look like) so one which becomes influenced by a demon whether they know it or not fits

Wizards thinking they know better than the people before them and think either they know better than the "superstitious" that think it is actual demons (when it is a real demon) or that they can outsmart what they are dealing with are staples

 

[NoFunposter]

My Gangrel player talked to him a lot and learned that a bunch of WW1 and 2 pilots that got shot down on both sides are vampires now due to kindred stalking around the battlefields with ghouls to get interesting people in the daytime

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And knowing that the most interesting people during those wars are often the craziest, those Sky Vamps must wish for a world where they can be the Ace Combat protagonists they were always meant to be.

Bet they get together and play volleyball, if only for the sheer meme of it.

They hear the words "Coffin with wings" and get as excited as Abridged!Alucard is for the SR-71 Blackbird.