General World of Darkness Discussion Thread QQ Edition

[Skitzyfrenic]

Let me guess, if she wasn't a Baali this would have been higher, if not 5 five stars.

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Yes.

So you saying it's Baali propaganda? Time to destroy every copy of it and leave the author to "greet the sun" to atone for their sins.

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It's a vile Masquerade breach that makes the Baali look good. Thus it must be destroyed and the author unmade.

 

[Bommel]

A potential fun idea for a story is someone getting The Gamer powers in a World of Darkness setting (can be an OC native from the setting, or some Insert character), which is especially fun if it follows the canon of The Gamer where the powers are bestowed by Gaia, who is a pretty big background figure in the WoD setting (mostly in Werewolf).

All of the WoD Changing Breeds were each created to aid Gaia with some specific a specific purpose, including all of the Werewolves in the setting, who are Gaia's warriors.

A possible thematic explenation is that the Gamer powers represent evolution, as The Gamer power is an adaptive ability, so powers grow, improve and adapt to whatever challenge the user faces as long as they survive.
Anything that worked against them once will not be as effective the second time around, especially when with The gamer gaining Resitances against any and all possible damage types, and improves both physically and mentally more and more over time.

The magic they use could be a lot more similar to the magic used in the WoD setting, but that would still include summoning a whole bunch of stuff or making pacts with spirits or elementals, just like in The Gamer webcomic (the spirits especially are closely tied to the Werewolves of the setting, so a lot can be done with them).
What kind of magic they learn also depends on from who they can learn and what they encounter, so unless they encounter some actual Awakened Mages, they're not going to be overpowered spellcasters early on, but that might be interesting to learn, ally, or fight them later on (and Mages or the Technocrasy can individually be any one of those).

Something that could be an interesting addicion is removing the actual dungeon creatons where hey train and grind their levels, so they actually have to fight against actual monsters such as vampires to grow in power, which adds a lot more risk.

Some other supernatural groups that it might be interesting for them to interact or fight with are:

• The Vampires (mostly just to fight)
• The Fae and Changelings (they're very interesting and often require a lot more intelligence and creative thinking than just directly fighting them because they're so crazy powerful)
• The Princesses from Princess: The Hopeful (one of the very few factions who's trying to improve the WoD world and prevent it from becoming so too bleak to care about anymore)
• Mummies (they're the other faction that's pretty much fully good, though working together with them is really difficult as they can only be awake for a very limited amount of time and only to accomplish missions for the Judge they serve)
• And of course, the Hunters (possibly as a faction they first ally with against other supernatural predators to get to know the ropes before moving on to stronger monsers, and the possibliity to interact with the cast of Hunter: The Parenting is also fantastic).

 

[shadowdice]

One of my favourite World of Darkness stories has just ended. Ocean City Nights, you will forever have a place in my heart. But now I'm craving for more. So now the question is, does anyone here have any recommendations for more World of Darkness stories, especially novels?

I've tried to get into the Clan Book series, starting with Clan Toreador, and it was just a slog to get through that I gave up half way.

I've had my eye on the Dark Ages novels for a while now, and also the Victorian Age trilogy, but I don't want to waste money if they end up crap like last time. Has anyone here read them before, and if so would you recommend them? Thoughts?

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I read the first book of the victorian age trilogy and found it interesting, you get to see Mithras's height of power and vampiric plots through human eyes for a lot of chapters

 

[heralding_bubble]

Figured might as well post the ExWoD/ExCofD stuff here as well since it's half WoD/CofD

Exalted vs World of Darkness, original release
Exalted vs World of Darkness Companion supplement
Exalted vs World of Darkness Revised 1.1c combining original and companion with revisions
Character Sheets
Black Vault WIP collage (July 2023)

Exalted x Chronicles of Darkness, old, unfinished, probably a dead project

 

[vighzs]

A potential fun idea for a story is someone getting The Gamer powers in a World of Darkness setting (can be an OC native from the setting, or some Insert character), which is especially fun if it follows the canon of The Gamer where the powers are bestowed by Gaia, who is a pretty big background figure in the WoD setting (mostly in Werewolf).

Something that could be an interesting addicion is removing the actual dungeon creatons where hey train and grind their levels, so they actually have to fight against actual monsters such as vampires to grow in power, which adds a lot more risk.

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Yeah that is an interesting premise, the only "Gamer" WoD fic I know if is Sera's "Vampire The Masquerade Vicky" chapters in "Seras's dumpster of random snippets." on Space Battles, where the protagonist can access hwe Vampire Stat sheet from WoD.

And yeah, WoD doesn't really need gamer dungeons considering all the bullshit available for growth. Including all the pocket dimensions, shit in the Umbra and places where the laws of reality became suggestions for one reason or another.

One of my favourite World of Darkness stories has just ended. Ocean City Nights, you will forever have a place in my heart. But now I'm craving for more. So now the question is, does anyone here have any recommendations for more World of Darkness stories, especially novels?

I've tried to get into the Clan Book series, starting with Clan Toreador, and it was just a slog to get through that I gave up half way.

I've had my eye on the Dark Ages novels for a while now, and also the Victorian Age trilogy, but I don't want to waste money if they end up crap like last time. Has anyone here read them before, and if so would you recommend them? Thoughts?

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Yeah, sad it ended but I am content as it ended on a great note and did not drag things out.

Did not read it yet, but I did not hear negatives things about it if that helps.

On the topic of requesting recommendations, is there a book/supplement be it fan or official that focuses on WoD during WW1/WW2?

 

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Yeah that is an interesting premise, the only "Gamer" WoD fic I know if is Sera's "Vampire The Masquerade Vicky" chapters in "Seras's dumpster of random snippets." on Space Battles, where the protagonist can access hwe Vampire Stat sheet from WoD.

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There's also Title: The Placeholder, directly inspired by Seras' fic.

 

[SGB]

Yeah that is an interesting premise, the only "Gamer" WoD fic I know if is Sera's "Vampire The Masquerade Vicky" chapters in "Seras's dumpster of random snippets." on Space Battles, where the protagonist can access hwe Vampire Stat sheet from WoD.

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The discipline seras made was pretty neat. Blood/shadow stuff. Pseudo-obtenebration via using vitae to literally ghoul your own shadow by imbuing it with your blood the way you can turn humans into ghouls.

 

[Gereh]

A potential fun idea for a story is someone getting The Gamer powers in a World of Darkness setting (can be an OC native from the setting, or some Insert character)

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Now for the real question if you become "The Gamer" would the sudden realization and understanding of how the world works cause you to awaken as a Mage?

Now that I think about it an Awakening can shape how you see the reality so it is not impossible that you awake as a Mage and your new reality becomes that of a game. Like you can see all your stats and when you train or study an exp bar goes up until you hit the next threshold and you skill "levels up". You could make a story about that and leave in ambivalent if the Mc is a "real" gamer or if he is a Mage with a weird Awakening.

 

[Bommel]

Now for the real question if you become "The Gamer" would the sudden realization and understanding of how the world works cause you to awaken as a Mage?

Now that I think about it an Awakening can shape how you see the reality so it is not impossible that you awake as a Mage and your new reality becomes that of a game. Like you can see all your stats and when you train or study an exp bar goes up until you hit the next threshold and you skill "levels up". You could make a story about that and leave in ambivalent if the Mc is a "real" gamer or if he is a Mage with a weird Awakening.

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Personally I would see this version of the Gamer powerset more like a blessing/bestowed power from Gaia, which could be the first steps to an Awakening.
Awakenings are an event it's true, but there are often some steps that build towards it (pretty much completely without the person realizing that it's happening themselves), with the final big push causing them to Awaken.
Then there's the whole thing where when they first Awaken, they become almost godlike for a few moments, and then become driven to achieve those hights of power again.
Anyway, getting a blessing that makes the protagonist's personal reality a game is a few steps away from realizing that all of reality is just a table top role play game.

Then there's also the complication that an Awakening is different for every single mage, which is why they can be incredibly subbern, because they're all convinced that the glimps at true reality they saw was the absolute truth, even if all of them can be a little true or fully true at the same time.