TheGreatDarkness

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4e Pack Lord: Whenever heroes kill one of its allies it can force one of them to hit themselves, it can move multiple allies forwards, grant them extra attacks

5e Pack Lord: Just regular Gnoll but can recharge one ally's Rampage.

 

A Vampire, a Werewolf, a Mage, a Mummy and a Hunter walk into a bar...

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 3 points 15 hours ago

Typical Malkavian

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you told me you play "games similair to d&d" I'd assume you mean Pathfinder or OSR and that would make me likely disinterested, as I'm head deep in WoD and Warhammer Fantasy right now

I didn't get it until I actually learned who Hassan even is. It's a good joke OP, dunno why you're getting downvoted.

 

So this is inspired by chuds getting their panties in a twist over a piece of art posted on D&D official twitter account for trans charity. As I sit deeply in World of Darkness currently, I thought how much more based V:tM fandom was even when they get mad - like that time one of V:tM books said very real genocide of gay people in Chechnya is a lie to cover Vampire operations, and V:tM fans got so mad at such blatant homophobia, the company publishing WoD, White Wolf, got dissolved and absorbed by its parent company, Paradox Interactive, only being restored this year with new people incharge. THAT'S how you do fan outrage.

Congrats on the wedding

Always glad to see your new comic, lvoe your series.

I heard Tolkien regretted making Orcs inherently evil and was thinking of replacing that with something else, but I cannot find which letter was that in.

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish it was true that this is only "people who only play D&D" problem but I have also seen those argument with people who participate in rpg online communities or forums where they know and play other games. I've seen videos whining about orcs come from same channel with something like a 100 reviews of various different rpgs. Sadly I do not think this is only people who only play D&D who are the problem here.

 

I really think people blow this crying about Orcs out of proportion, there was NEVER an actually interesting villain in this game whose reasons of being a villain boil down only to "I'm an Orc, Goblin, Drow or other evil race". And saying a whole species is inherently evil effectively diminishes all evil they do because you are saying they never could choose not to do it, which reduces them to children who don't know better. People should move on and stop flooding my yt feed with identical videos repeating the same points.

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

not many modules for Mage, we did session of character awakenings and early interactions.

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe one day, let's see how well Mage chronicle goes.

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 months ago

Blades in the Dark and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying

 
[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 months ago

My first Vampire character was a Malkavian inspired by Harry DuBois from Disco Elysium. He once horriffied entire Elysium, Prince included, by just picking up a cigarette and a lighter and taking a smoke to calm down

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 months ago

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On both social media I still use, I followed bunch of indie ttrpg devs. I had to unfollow the ones on tumblr because they don't talk about anything but how much they hate D&D, up to including writing weird headcanons about people who help popularize it (I actually seen someone on tumblr claim Brenann Lee Mulligan must HATE D&D because only dumb people could like it and is only pretending to like it for clout) or bich about how D&D fans only want to play D&D and get mad when you tell them they're complaining about a small minority.

meanwhile indie ttrpg devs on Bluesky constantly promote their work and inform of sales of their products. I found many cool games through bluesky, meanwhile nove through tumblr.

 
 

Inspired by frustrating conversation I had. For those curious, that was the statblock of Caine, father of the vampires.

 

Granted, Entropy 4 can just give someone a disease, so Jesse is overcomplicating the matter and I really don't think this oculd be anything but Vulgar Magic, but....

 

Simple Explanation:

In Old World of Darkness we have variety of supernatural-related beings hiding from humans, often living in secret from each other. Mages are capable of bending reality to their will. Vampires are selx-explanatory. Hunters are those who hunt the supernatural to protect humanity.

Mages have been in a brutal war since XIII Century, between those who use magic and Technocracy, who wants to replace magic with science (which is just magic operating on different rules). Technocracy is winning and has run Pogroms (actual I-kid-you-not in-universe name) of "Reality Deviants" - Mages, Fae, Werewolves, Wraiths etc. Except in London, where both sides are relatively chill and local Technocracy believes polite debate is far more effective than gunning down Mages in the street, like barbarians. Most drastic events of the Mage metaplot had minimal effect on Mage society in London.

In 2012 Coallition of Hunters called Second Inquisitions condone a takeover operation of London, slaughtering most of Vampires in the city. London's Prince, ruler of Vampires in a given city, effectively rules from exile, afraid to show up in London unless absolutely necessary. And for the record, that guy is one of Metuzalahs, vampires so old and powerful they're credited with creation of myths of creatures like Minotaur, Baba Yaga or even gods like Odin and Apollo. Hunters use, ever-present in London, cameras to pick Vampire activities, track them down and kill them like dogs. London is refered to, by Vampire players, as "vampire ground zero" or "final death trap". Playing Vampire in London is described as playing a postapocalyptic game surrounded by mortals unaware the nukes hit.

These two exist in the same city at the same time.

 
 
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