Questions tagged [world-of-darkness]
For questions about games branded “World of Darkness”, including the original “old WoD” or “classic WoD” and the “WoD” reboot by WW/Paradox Interactive/Modiphius. Not for nWoD/CoD questions. See full description for details.
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Which information is essential to new Vampire players?
After a long time, I ran a two-shot of Vampire in the last weeks. Vampire: The Masquerade has an insanely low threshold to get players to roleplay, especially since the upper half of the sheet is all ...
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Does pseudo-vitae revenants produce replenish vitae in Kindred?
Revenants generate a pseudo-vitae that can be used to power disciplines at a rate of one pseudo-vitae per night (according to Ghouls & Revenants). If a kindred were to drink blood from a revenant, ...
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What are the balance implications of allowing players to have more than two loresheets?
In Vampire The Masquerade 5e, players are limited to one bloodline and one loresheet or two loresheets though I have seen it annoy some players who thought that their concept required more than two ...
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At which point was Ars Magica turned to its own thing as opposed to being how magick worked in the past?
Based on my knowledge of White Wolf products, at a certain point, Ars Magica had a role similar to that of current Dark Ages books for Mage The Ascension. However, right now, Mage has its own Dark ...
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Which vampiric power is being referenced in the following conversation?
In a series called Hunter: The Parenting, based on Hunter: The Reckoning 5e, there is a conversation between two hunters.
Junior Hunter:"Do vampires have laser vision?"
Senior Hunter:"...
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Is "Ghost Speech" a hyper situational gift?
Kitsune of Rank 3 get the option to learn the gift of "Ghost Speech":
Ghost Speech (Level Three) — This Gift allows
Kitsune to speak with inhabitants of the Yin Realm — the
Dark Umbra. It ...
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Which Vampire Films exist in the WoD?
Vampires hate publicity. But Toreadors love art. In Vampire Bloodlines, the neophyte at one point retrieves the script of "Humanity vs. The Vampire Lords", which must be a Blade Expy or ...
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Which Revisions of WoD explode dice, which double them?
Specialties in the classic World of Darkness trigger on 10s. If you have a fitting speciality on a roll, any 10 does add to the roll more than any other. But, there has been two versions since 1st ...
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Are there any books for or adventures written for a Werewolf and Mage cross-splat game?
I was looking at Blood Treachery which describes an adventure involving cross splat interaction between mages and vampires and that got me curious on whether there was a book involving werewolf and ...
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Can convictions reduce the stains received to zero?
As a quick example. Let us assume Harry who used to be a soldier has the conviction "Follow your leader's commands."
The leader of his coterie tells Harry to ghoul one of their military ...
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Are there rules for converting V20 characters to V5 characters?
I started the VtM with V20 and I have been running V20 as a result. However after a conversation with a friend I realized V5 fits what I run better.
I have a running V20 game and I was thinking of ...
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Need help trying to differentiate botches from failures
System: To explain world of darkness has a dice system where you roll a pool of D10s to determine your success by every number that meets or beats the difficulty stated by your ST/DM. If you have a ...
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Heart of Darkness power: what if you find the heart?
Some Settite vampires can use the Heart of Darkness power (from their Serpentis discipline) to remove their hearts so that staking their chest has no effect - but if an enemy finds and destroys said ...
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Can bloodbond be used to help a kindred resist frenzy?
Assuming a kindred is fully bloodbonded to another, can the domitor stop kindreds frenzy by ordering them to stop?
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An exhaustive list of Gifts working with Chi Sense?
Chi Sense in W20 was rewritten massively - no longer it is a strange "sense Yin-Yang", it became a plain bonus to rolling a specified group of gifts. In particular:
The player permanently ...
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