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How do all the World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness RPGs connect?
I just got my kick-starter copy of Changeling the Lost 2nd Ed and I am starting to dip my toe back into the World of Darkness after a long absent.
And I found out that it is confusing as hell trying ...
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Storyteller vs Storytelling system comparison
In some answers I saw in the last year that were focussing on the Storyteller system of WoD, someone answered with the Storytelling system of the CoD in mind, usually noticeable by referencing to the ...
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Is Count Dracula's fighting style too powerful?
Found in the future White Wolf PDF for Count F****** Dracula is the following fighting style:
Legacy Fighting Style: Dirty Fighting (• to ••••• )
Prerequisites: Strength (•••), Brawl (•••)
Low Blow (•...
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Buying Automatic Successes In World of Darkness
Shadowrun 5e allows players to, with GM approval, buy Hits by trading dice on a 4:1 basis.
I was wondering if there were any published guidelines, or robust, well-thought-out house rules for doing ...
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Are Old and New World of Darkness the same or different worlds?
My question is that I know that there is an old and a new WoD. Old WoD ended with the apocalypse. And there is the new WoD, which as far as I known does not contain references to an apocalypse.
Does ...
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How can I incorporate Koldunic Sorcery in Vampire: The Requiem?
I'm looking for a method to use the Masquerade blood magic, Koldunic Sorcery, in my Requiem game. I've taken a look on the Translation Guide, but there's no mention of it there, so I'm stumped.
In ...
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How can you convey that the majority of the world isn't supernatural?
In games that exist within a supernatural/urban fantasy/modern horror setting, usually only a very small percentage of the population is actually supernatural.
Using World of Darkness as an example, ...
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Using nWoD dice system in V20
I am an old cWod player who just bought Vampire V20. I was surprised to see that V20 kept the old dice system instead of using the new one.
As a reminder :
In oWoD, the Storyteller sets the ...
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Differences between Hunter: the Reckoning and Hunter: the Vigil?
I don't understand the differences between the oWoD Hunter and nWoD Hunter. Most of the games I could see a fairly clear difference in mechanics and theme between them.
I have not been able to find ...
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What version of WoD is this?
I've found recently a few official freebie starter kits to various old World of Darkness settings available here for example. While the general settings are the same to the one I know from (which i ...
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What breaks using nWoD rules with classic WoD cosmology?
What major problems will I run into if I ran an nWoD game with the classic WoD cosmology being the "true" cosmology? At this point, my major (only) concerns are the big three (Werewolf, Mage and ...
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Are there dragon stats in any published OWOD or NWOD books?
I play in a World of Darkness game, and I have seen two different powers that allow someone turn into mythic creatures, such as dragons. I have never found stats on a dragon though in any WOD books. ...
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Official self-references in the World of Darkness setting?
Are there official self-references in either World of Darkness setting (that is, "in-game")? Does White Wolf exist within their own universe? Are people playing Vampire: The Masquerade (or The Requiem)...
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Do I have an intuitive knowledge of Auras?
In both OWoD and NWoD there are supernatural powers which allow you to see peoples' 'auras', represented as patterns of 'colour'. Is the knowledge of what each colour means innate, or is it something ...
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Fleshcrafting in nWoD
I have had some people express interest in recreating the Tzimisce in my VtR game. I have far more experience with nWoD then old, and I have found no rules that attempt to tackle fleshcrafting, ...
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