I was invited to play Vampire once. So I approached it like I did any other game. Which was apparently the wrong thing to do.
So I made my character doing my usual unconscious min-maxing. I don't mean to it, I swear. It just happens. And it's not so much min-maxing as it is maxing without the min. I try to imitate my way cool Dungeons and Dragons Rogue. Chaotic Good, anti-authority, and talented as all get out in almost everything. You know the saying 'Why be a god at one thing when you can be a demi-god at everything'? That was me.
So I have my character sheet in hand. And then I make a faux pas apparently. I insult someone, which is totally in character for my character. So I get in a fight. And apparently the person I am fighting was an idiot manipulator type. I think they were a Lasombra vampire.
So I pull out my dice and make my attack roll. And this is bad because we aren't supposed to fight. And I was whaaaaa? What kind of Vampire RPG is this? Vampires kick butt and take names and have run out of paper to write the names down on.
So I pull out my dice and make my attack roll. And this is bad because we aren't supposed to fight. And I was whaaaaa? What kind of Vampire RPG is this? Vampires kick butt and take names and have run out of paper to write the names down on.
Heh, I think that really depends more on the group than the game. My first DnD group we went through the first couple sessions with no fights. Skill checks were rare, maybe once every 15 minutes or so.
I know some people don't think of themselves as playing unless they're rolling the dice. Some people never touch them and just roleplay the whole time. I tend to sit in the middle ground with equal time devoted to each. I'd be annoyed in either extreme. I think of the combat in tabletops to be there to hold the group's focus on the story and maintain realism.
So I pull out my dice and make my attack roll. And this is bad because we aren't supposed to fight. And I was whaaaaa? What kind of Vampire RPG is this? Vampires kick butt and take names and have run out of paper to write the names down on.
So I leave.
It most definitely depends on the group, back in the day there were just as many combat-centered and dice-heavy gaming sessions as there were frou-frou dice-less roleplays... both have their merits.
I think in general though, old school World of Darkness was always a bit more character-centered than other RPGs due to its very nature. Vampire society functions much like a royal court and breaking the rules in someone else's domain is bound to ruffle a few feathers..
Yes, it's all very stuffy and pretentious... but that's what people play it for.. lol
She's been my wallpaper for... three years now. Same with my sig. I've been using it everywhere for a long while now, because it's Jeannette!
Never was one for PnP stuff, but I played the heck out of Bloodlines when it came out and then again a few years ago when all of a sudden it became popular again. Bloodline is one of my favourite games of all time. Rushed and incomplete, it's still better than most stuff that comes out.
I was with a goth girl for nine years. While I myself never really got into it, it doesn't bother me. Aside from the Twilight fans, those... those bother me. As for roleplay, I really never got into that either. I am who I am, and despite being in drama and acting clubs while back in school I really can only act when it's a play or something like that. Just don't feel comfortable in other settings.
Side note, anyone else bummed that we never saw a followup season to the Blade TV series on Spike? It was awesome for what it was and it ended with a cliffhanger.
I play in a World of Darkness campaign about once every two weeks... Or when the DM isn't too lazy to run a game. My character is a former Target manager/paranormal investigator-turned-seeker of enlightenment with an odd, unhealthy love of bacon and waffles and a sweet custom shotgun.
I also run a Supernatural campaign once every two weeks or so. The setting's similar to WoD.
I play in a World of Darkness campaign about once every two weeks... Or when the DM isn't too lazy to run a game. My character is a former Target manager/paranormal investigator-turned-seeker of enlightenment with an odd, unhealthy love of bacon and waffles and a sweet custom shotgun.
I also run a Supernatural campaign once every two weeks or so. The setting's similar to WoD.
I was always more a fan of the Werewolf series. Only got a mild introduction into Vampire. Collected a bit of the source material way back, but again, more focused on the Werewolf side of things. I suppose that's why I was most interested in the Brujah, something a bit reckless. Definitely a White Wolf fan in general though!
His name's Tommy Thompsonberg, and he has a loyal follower (who may or may not be dead) by the name of Tobias Tobyson. I suck at coming up with names. Seriously though, when you consider the rest of the group, Tommy actually comes across as the sane one! We also have a formerly mute librarian vampire by the name of Eleanor Rigby and an Indy guy who runs a coffee shop called B-Cup. The shop was destroyed, rebuilt and renamed D-Cup recently, though.
I played many years ago in AOL chatrooms of all places. I had an Eloise, who managed to get a healthy dose of celerity from some Brujah.
Nobody fought me and lived.
Burning a blood point for Outside the Hourglass, then burning another for Celerity would give me ~35 physical actions in a row that the target would be defenseless against.
Nothing like slicing someone in to ribbons in a split second.
Then I retired him because even I acknowledged that I just went too far.
Heh, I think that really depends more on the group than the game. My first DnD group we went through the first couple sessions with no fights. Skill checks were rare, maybe once every 15 minutes or so.
I know some people don't think of themselves as playing unless they're rolling the dice. Some people never touch them and just roleplay the whole time. I tend to sit in the middle ground with equal time devoted to each. I'd be annoyed in either extreme. I think of the combat in tabletops to be there to hold the group's focus on the story and maintain realism.
Roleplaying is fine. But these guys were like doing "Twilight: The Emoing". Basically they all dressed up in black and pretended nobody liked them because they were vampires instead of nobody liking them because they were antisocial, depressing, spoiled, or had unpleasant personalities.
I am a roleplayer who's roleplayed table top and LARP (when someone finally decided on a way to do it effectively) for the past 37 years. When the original World of Darkness came out in the early 90's, the roleplaying group I belong to was one of the groups in our area that got in on the playtesting.
To make a long answer rather short, yes I am a card carrying member of the Deadhead Squad, as well as the other games in World of Darkness. *Chuckles* I have been and will continue to be for a long time to come. Its a lot of fun, with the right people playing.
I had some good fun with Mage: The Ascension.
Some of the rotes I came up with were Dance Fever (makes the target start dancing), Shatner Speak (makes the target, well, you guess). I had a group version of Dance Fever but I forgot what it was called. Mind sphere stuff was awesome.
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edit: Fitting avatar pic for this thread, btw. Nice ankh!
heheh yep, i need to goth it up more often, i'm kinda hot when I look like a corpse..
Yes, I know skin doesn't need oxygen.
but i kinda wish i was right about now for some reason.
So I made my character doing my usual unconscious min-maxing. I don't mean to it, I swear. It just happens. And it's not so much min-maxing as it is maxing without the min. I try to imitate my way cool Dungeons and Dragons Rogue. Chaotic Good, anti-authority, and talented as all get out in almost everything. You know the saying 'Why be a god at one thing when you can be a demi-god at everything'? That was me.
So I have my character sheet in hand. And then I make a faux pas apparently. I insult someone, which is totally in character for my character. So I get in a fight. And apparently the person I am fighting was an idiot manipulator type. I think they were a Lasombra vampire.
So I pull out my dice and make my attack roll. And this is bad because we aren't supposed to fight. And I was whaaaaa? What kind of Vampire RPG is this? Vampires kick butt and take names and have run out of paper to write the names down on.
So I leave.
Heh, I think that really depends more on the group than the game. My first DnD group we went through the first couple sessions with no fights. Skill checks were rare, maybe once every 15 minutes or so.
I know some people don't think of themselves as playing unless they're rolling the dice. Some people never touch them and just roleplay the whole time. I tend to sit in the middle ground with equal time devoted to each. I'd be annoyed in either extreme. I think of the combat in tabletops to be there to hold the group's focus on the story and maintain realism.
It most definitely depends on the group, back in the day there were just as many combat-centered and dice-heavy gaming sessions as there were frou-frou dice-less roleplays... both have their merits.
I think in general though, old school World of Darkness was always a bit more character-centered than other RPGs due to its very nature. Vampire society functions much like a royal court and breaking the rules in someone else's domain is bound to ruffle a few feathers..
Yes, it's all very stuffy and pretentious... but that's what people play it for.. lol
There are other games to be a faceless grunt in..
She's been my wallpaper for... three years now. Same with my sig. I've been using it everywhere for a long while now, because it's Jeannette!
Never was one for PnP stuff, but I played the heck out of Bloodlines when it came out and then again a few years ago when all of a sudden it became popular again. Bloodline is one of my favourite games of all time. Rushed and incomplete, it's still better than most stuff that comes out.
Side note, anyone else bummed that we never saw a followup season to the Blade TV series on Spike? It was awesome for what it was and it ended with a cliffhanger.
Alasdair Fairholm, Sarcastic Scottish Werewolf. Who's also a writer.
I also run a Supernatural campaign once every two weeks or so. The setting's similar to WoD.
Wait, wait wait.... Dib?
You drank the last soda, Dib. YOU WILL PAY!!!!
Hahah, I based him a bit on Dib.
His name's Tommy Thompsonberg, and he has a loyal follower (who may or may not be dead) by the name of Tobias Tobyson. I suck at coming up with names. Seriously though, when you consider the rest of the group, Tommy actually comes across as the sane one! We also have a formerly mute librarian vampire by the name of Eleanor Rigby and an Indy guy who runs a coffee shop called B-Cup. The shop was destroyed, rebuilt and renamed D-Cup recently, though.
Nobody fought me and lived.
Burning a blood point for Outside the Hourglass, then burning another for Celerity would give me ~35 physical actions in a row that the target would be defenseless against.
Nothing like slicing someone in to ribbons in a split second.
Then I retired him because even I acknowledged that I just went too far.
Roleplaying is fine. But these guys were like doing "Twilight: The Emoing". Basically they all dressed up in black and pretended nobody liked them because they were vampires instead of nobody liking them because they were antisocial, depressing, spoiled, or had unpleasant personalities.
To make a long answer rather short, yes I am a card carrying member of the Deadhead Squad, as well as the other games in World of Darkness. *Chuckles* I have been and will continue to be for a long time to come. Its a lot of fun, with the right people playing.
Sounds like a bad group to me... but what were you doing hanging out with a bunch of teenage girls anyways?
Are you trying to take Hort's job?
Hort only bothers one goth girl.
No not TRIBBLE people, ***s.
right up there with zombies and werewolves. epic ***gotery.
At that point in time I was a teenage girl.
Some of the rotes I came up with were Dance Fever (makes the target start dancing), Shatner Speak (makes the target, well, you guess). I had a group version of Dance Fever but I forgot what it was called. Mind sphere stuff was awesome.