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kipshasz
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posted February 22, 2009 06:41 PM |
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Yeah, i was wondering the same thing as Geny(I too think that clanless vampires are a cool idea) Either way i'd pick Caitliff(or whatever they're called)
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Lith-Maethor
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posted February 22, 2009 09:13 PM |
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*cracks knuckles and tries to slip back into oWoD mentality*
first of all, a bit on the Clans...
Clanless are not exactly numerous in the Dark Ages, but they still exist... both Caitiff (Camarilla Clanless) and Pander (Sabbat Clanless, named thus much later than the DA) can range from cannon fodder to powerful princes (naturally those are rare) and the vast majority of them is of high Generation (which is a bad thing) ...most don't like them much and this leads some of the elders to speak about the Time of Thin Blood (which eventually builds up to Gehenna)
Lasombra... a cynic might say they are simply Ventrue with shadow powers... and if we were talking about new WoD, that would be true... but in old WoD, Lasombra are what few Ventrue dare to be, usually with a religious twist
now, regarding mythology and customs...
Gehenna has been prophecised to happen when the Antediluvians wake up and practically eat everyone else, but as Baklava said its a modern nights thing (and its actually one of the events that DID happen when the old WoD came to an end)
most Sabbat members (especially those recruited from Camarilla) have to dig themselves out of fresh graves... after being tossed there unconscious (which is why in modern times new Sabbat recruits are referred to as "shovelheads" ...you can fill in the blanks)
and a bit on mechanics...
Fortitude (damage reslience) means they have less chances of getting hurt, pain tolerance is, i suspect, much like with normal people... some feel pain easier, others can handle more... but a vamp with Fortitude can survive for a second or two in the sun (and hurting like hell) while one without will be like Twilight vamps and go sparkly... just before they burst into flames
Protean (the shapechanging discipline) comes with two default forms, wolf (fight) and bat (flight) ...my oWoD-fu is a bit rusty, but i think even then you could learn new forms
as for my Fiend?
zhupan Alexander Ithilion, on the Path of Metamorphosis
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Lith-Maethor
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posted February 22, 2009 11:07 PM |
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heh Father
oWoD comes with a pretty... complex overarching story, the dreaded Metaplot... most setting stuff is dictated by it
which reminds me of a saying among us WoD vets
"owod reads a lot better than it plays, nwod plays a lot better than it reads"
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baklava
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posted February 23, 2009 10:09 AM |
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Well you can choose your own disciplines if you play with Caitiff, yes. But they will most probably be rather limited, and you will have a severe social stigma from other vampires - they usually tend to either kick the Caitiff for fun or, at best, pity them.
And yes, Dark Crystal, damage resistance means that they receive less damage, like Lith said. Vampires can feel pain like everyone else. Whether they got used to it is another thing.
Though I think they feel less pain from things like batons and bullets, and more from, for example, fire (all vampires also have Rotschreck - the fear of fire and sunlight).
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Geny
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What if Elvin was female?
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posted February 23, 2009 11:06 AM |
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Edited by Geny at 11:07, 23 Feb 2009.
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Ok, how about this then:
A vampire outcast (I still have to think of a name... as usual) who was embraced by a Tremere vampire. However, something went wrong in the embrace and his sire chose to abandon him because he had no use for the abomination he created. Left alone the poor outcast soon discovered he maintained his sire affinity to some of the Tremere disciplines. Off course he could not learn the clan's blood magic on his own but in his long travels he encountered another Caitiff who taught him the ways of a special Caitiff discipline - Kinetisicm.
Now he wonders the world in his pursuit to gain enough knowledge and power to become an important part of society despite his thin blood.
Disciplines:
Auspex, Dominate, Kinetisicm.
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kipshasz
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posted February 23, 2009 03:49 PM |
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Damn it, i can't join another RP... Got a -beep-load of work. I might join later when i got more free time...
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baklava
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posted February 24, 2009 11:24 AM |
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Sounds great, Gen-man. I'll count you in then.
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Geny
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posted February 24, 2009 08:11 PM |
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Yeah, you do that, but before that... how about helping me coming up with a name? I'm really bad at those sort of things.
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baklava
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posted February 24, 2009 08:52 PM |
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Well, start from determining where you wanna be from. Develop your character well in your mind, and the name will find itself.
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Geny
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posted February 24, 2009 09:09 PM |
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That's nice and all, but after it finds itself... will it tell me about it?
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baklava
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posted February 24, 2009 10:36 PM |
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I see where this is going...
I'll tell you the name if you stop spamming my thread xD
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Geny
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posted February 25, 2009 08:27 PM |
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Edited by Geny at 11:31, 26 Feb 2009.
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Deal!
Edit: Joseph Steinman it is. Pleasure doing business with you.
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Mytical
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posted February 28, 2009 07:54 AM |
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So..when is this gonna start?
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baklava
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posted March 02, 2009 04:48 PM |
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Well my hands are kinda full, but you feel free to start anytime you like
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Lith-Maethor
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posted March 02, 2009 05:16 PM |
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pssst
you're the ST dude, you need to provide us with the setting... location, political status, etc
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baklava
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posted March 02, 2009 05:21 PM |
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Edited by baklava at 17:22, 02 Mar 2009.
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Well I was thinking that you could start wherever you like and make up your main quest by yourself, at least in the beginning. It's not like you can't travel around. You can get the storyline going anyway, and meet around during your chases, travels etcetera (I recon that in these sorts of RPs the players make the plots themselves, and that all those plots will almost certainly turn into a single global main plot after a few pages).
@Father
There's always Lith around as the co-boss of the RP
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Lith-Maethor
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posted March 02, 2009 05:56 PM |
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le purr le meow le sigh...
fine fine... but you still get first post
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baklava
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posted March 06, 2009 05:04 PM |
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Alrighty then, I finally found some free time to start
Hope you like the first post. It's of course only the prologue, none of the persons mentioned would be my character. Though I might write about them from time to time.
As well as my charming sidekick Lith.
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Geny
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posted March 07, 2009 08:46 AM |
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The way I see it, you don't need to respond to that. Just write your own story, we'll find a way to meet you up with the others later.
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baklava
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posted March 07, 2009 10:18 AM |
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Edited by baklava at 10:19, 07 Mar 2009.
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Exactly. You don't need to get involved with the main storyline yet, write about some smaller adventures until the big stuff happens. And until you get the "feeling" for roleplaying There's really nothing to it, you just write about stuff that happen to your character. Like a diary or short story or something. This first post can be regarded as an introduction cinematic or something.
You don't have to know the lore any more past what I wrote in the first post of this thread. And even not all of that. Remember, we're not making some canonical novel here, we're primarily having fun. There's no reason to be afraid or to think we're better equipped to roleplay than you.
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