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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Are backgrounds important after character creation?
I'm currently running a W:TA game using the 1st edition rulebook. Several of my characters have backgrounds. As we play, do those backgrounds increase, or do they only determine what the character has ...
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Is there a cost to learning new rites?
My character currently has 5 dots in the Rites background. This gives them 5 levels of rites, which they have already selected. Now they want to learn a new rite. What does it cost?
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How do I calculate damage?
In W:TA how do I calculate the damage from an attack?
As an example, consider Lina. Her stats in homid form are: Strength (1), Dexterity (2), Melee (3). She uses a pool cue (using the stats from a ...
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Where do I find charms for Wyrm elementals?
The wyrm elementals in Book of the Wyrm for Werewolf: The Apocalypse have charms that I can't find descriptions for.
For example, the Toxin elemental (pg. 100) has the charms Visceral Agony and Body ...
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How can we make a young lower generation vampire?
Is there anyway of making a young lower generation vampire?
What I understood from the rulebook is that the childe of a kindred would have one higher number generation. On the other hand, the ...
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Minimum Difficulty for Mother's Touch?
Mother's touch has a sliding difficulty, which uses the current rage, as shown here:
The player spends one Gnosis point and rolls
Intelligence + Empathy (difficulty is the target’s current
Rage, or 5 ...
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What's the difficulty to detect Were-beings with Shintao/Kenning?
The Wording for Shentao and Kenning is a little ambiguous and I need a little help here:
Shentao
Much like Kenning, which it replaces, Shentao represents
the innate magical sense common to the Shinma....
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How can I read the Old World of Darkness metaplot?
World of Darkness has an extensive, long running over-arching narrative. This metaplot isn't encapsulated in chronicle books or easily digestible summaries. I imagine players would have been exposed ...
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Are there any spirits dealing with oaths in world of darkness
I want the spirit to function as a kolyarut to enforce a contract since I don't have entropy 5 there is always homebrew but I want to know if one already exists
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Can a hybrid Metis be born of parents of different Changing Breeds? If so, what happens?
I'm the secondary storyteller for a Werewolf: The Apocalypse game.
Our group is made out of mostly urban figures – specially Glass Walkers and Bone Gnawers – playing out a very finance-oriented pack ...
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On Werewolves and Plastic Surgery
A peculiar situation arose on a Werewolf: The Apocalypse game I'm taking part as secondary storyteller.
During a session conducted by our main storyteller, one of our players brought up the idea of ...
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How does a Hold or Clinch maneuver interact with the blind fighting rules in Vampire: The Masquerade v20?
Say two kindred are clinching one another, or one performs a Hold maneuver on another, in blind fighting conditions (in pitch darkness for example).
Let's say one of them is Gangrel with Eyes of the ...
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Can World of Darkness vampires drink water?
Vampires in "Vampire: the Masquerade" can't eat normal food. Not only do they not get any nourishment out of it, it tastes foul to them and if they swallow it they'll immediately vomit (...
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How can a mage gain quintessence besides gathering at a node?
In M20 there doesn't appear to be many given methods for recharging quintessence beyond finding a wellspring or finding some tass. (Unless you are at prime 5 in which case you can just make nodes ...
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Detecting Magick use by using the Prime Sphere
I have a Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition game running and one of the players played a game of Mage the Ascension Second Edition before that with a different Storyteller.
In that ...
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In Werewolf W20, how does dice splitting work with no-roll Gift activation?
If I have a Gift that says, "spend a point of Gnosis: stuff happens", can I use this Gift while performing a normal action in the same turn ? If so, how would dice splitting work in this ...
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At which point does growing plants require quintessence?
In Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition, you need quintessence to create things from nothing.
With the life sphere 3 dots (+ prime 2 dots), you can create simple life (including plants) with a ...
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How do you pronounce "chasse"?
My group just started a new chronicle and we're trying to figure out how to say "chasse" out loud.
Chasse
This Trait describes how well stocked,
vulnerable, and rich the
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What happens when a Changeling dies in the Dreaming?
In Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary, I find two seemingly contradictory texts. On page 291, speaking of chimerical death:
Those who suffer a chimerical death while in the Dreaming ...
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Is there a full-text version of the Litany?
The quick and dirty "precepts" are readily available in many different sources; but I've looked everywhere I can think of, all the way back to 1st edition material, and cannot find the full ...
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What if a mortal is embraced with heart's blood?
Are there any canonical examples of a mortal being embraced with a vampire's heart's blood, containing their sire's soul?
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Someone has a vampire's heart's blood magically preserved, perhaps in ...
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Calculating Modified V5 Dice Probabilities with AnyDice
My game uses 5th edition rules with a house rule where 1s subtract successes and 10s count as two successes. 2s through 5s count as no successes and 6s through 9s count as single successes as normal.
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What happens if a character's declared action becomes impossible?
What happens if a character’s declared action becomes impossible before they can attempt it in the attack phase? Do the core rules support the idea that they get to pick a different action, or perform ...
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How to count the number of successes in a very large dice pool more easily?
What is a good way to roll a large number of dice and count how many of them "succeed" (i.e. meet or exceed a set target number)?
I'm playing a game called Aberrant that uses the Storyteller ...
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Does increasing the dice pool make messy criticals more likely?
I just read the mechanics for dice rolling in Vampire: the Masquerade 5th edition and something is bothering me. It seems to me that the larger your dicepool is, the more likely it is to get a messy ...
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Generation vs Blood Potency question
My players and I were wondering about an aspect of Generation vs. Blood Potency.
It states on page 149 that character with a Generation of 10 gets a blood potency of 2. We were wondering if the +1 ...
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How can fallen interact with vampires?
I will be running a Demon The Fallen game where the players will be facing off against an earthbound with infernalist vampire servants. So I am semi expecting my players to seek out local vampires to ...
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How to calculate Vampire the Masquerade 5 odds on anydice?
VtM5 has many quirks that make their calculation of probabilities really hard. But ignoring hunger dice, how can I calculate the distribution of success of a given pool considering that each pair of ...
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Can you get a Blood Bond by feeding off another Kindred's ghoul?
A ghoul is a human that feeds on Kindred Blood, and can have Kindred blood in their system. So it follows that another Kindred feeding from a ghoul could risk becoming blood bonded to the ghoul's ...
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How should players purchase supernatural backgrounds when using a Prelude?
Hunter: The Reckoning has a concept of of a "prelude". A prelude is essentially a one-shot or one-session adventure which tells the story of how a normal, mundane human became called to the ...
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