Post by jeanette on Jan 12, 2023 12:50:57 GMT
So as I have told you we are using an adhoc of the systems using the best elements of Third edition vampire, The World of Darkness, and Chronicles of darkness. Hopefully this will help you navigate better the murky waters of what this is. I will list the Changes. While we do not have a wiki their are several gaming wiki's and PDF's of books available. However in the intrest of keeping things as free as I can I will work to provide what tools I can.
1.We are using Chronicles Morality System. But, we will not hand out conditions we will hand out Derangements. While Enjoying the Upgrades to the Morality system I did not like the penalties and prefer madness. Remember depending on your code of ethics certain things will not trigger a morality roll or may trigger it once and you fail gaining the ability to deal with it. When you fail Morality you roll your new humanity rating. If that roll fails you've not only gotten cold hearted but, the realities of life are too much for you and gain a derangement. Charts in Chronicles determine what bonus's you get but, an ST can reward or penalize the roll according to the scene. Remember when you fail a roll your not horrified...Your heart goes cold.
2. We Use the Powers in Third edition Vampire with some Upgrades. We have upgraded to a base difficulty of 8 like Chronicles and replace old Terms with the relevant ones. Charisma is now your presence rating, Performance would be Expression. We upgrade the terms to the relevant stat. I did this to give people an old school feel of the system and for their powers to work as they did in the past but, Also Easily convert Old NPC's from the books I own for use as Antagonists. There is a minor modification to Celerity in that it provides a defence rating against Fire arms equal to the rating. Their will be amendments as we carry on. The Kinks are still being worked out. Appearence is Covered under the striking looks merit. Remember Perception does not exist that's covered by Wits. Here I'll simplify.Alertness doesn't exist (The roll to detect an ambush is covered in Chronicles) Ettiquette is covered in the Socialize skill. So if a Power requires an outdated attribute or skill you just go to the relevant skill that dictates that now. (This allows us to convert old school to the format we are using)
3.We like equipment bonus's and Chronicles combat system. Remember Weapons do not give you bonus dice to hit with. They provide automatic amounts of dmg when they hit according to the weapon rating. Example A Revolver with a 2 Dmg rating will do two dmg Plus my successes to an opponet. (Makes Fortitude all the more tasty to have doesn't it) Equipment bonus's such as Perfume+1, A Nice Dress +2, Suggestive Physical contact +3. You can Stack equipment bonus's remember that for the purpose of a roll in this case it's the Bonus dice your adding to seduction. It up's the amount of dice you have.
4.Vampire Backgrounds and Merits - So We are keeping the Vampire esque Backgrounds from Third Edition. You guys use the Generation chart to Dictate your Blood pool and Points per turn. You can buy Generation starting at Story teller discretion. (I am handing out a number of Diffrent Gen's) You will gain Flaws and Benefit from your sires blood line as will your Ghouls.They will get a benefit from YOUR blood line and flaw if they drink your blood. The Blood that is dominant provides the flaws only. Other blood however can still give the Clan Flaw if drank enough. We mostly use the Merits from the Codex of Darkness. Other Merits will have to be talked over and approved in a one on one basis with the Story teller. Certain things from the ages we might not want here but, may be willing to accomodate you in some other fashion. But, we are allowing for Generation, Herd, Malkavian time. Everyone currently is playing Fresh faced Neonates. No doubt I will start unlocking some of the Old school merits as soon as I can look them over. There's alot of work to get done I'm on it. So as of right now OLD school Merits need to be discussed before taken. Keep in mind Contacts is one rating now each dot representing a new area of contacts for you. We do not Use Influence but, we do allow Allies and Status in Organizations. Allies Representing your Clout with a specific Group.
5. The Base Generation I allow someone to start with is 12th(Which means Generation 5 allows you to play 7th) ( I'm not letting people decide their Generation. Instead i'm offering each person here who comes into the game a diffrent gen based on the local sire they take or randomly determined. This is not based on Favortism but, a desire to keep diffrent gens running around the enviorment rather then 7th gen elders running around everywhere.With one char I might assign 11th but, another 9th.
6. You guys are the First members of the Chan. Some of you already have the advantage having been here the longest but, to allow for a degree of Flexibility. I'm going to allow Starting players 25 xp to build with.
7.Xp is handed out monthly and will be between 5 and 8 xp. Holiday xp and birthday xp are diffrent times though. I may give a group bonus xp for going through quest lines that are particularly dangerous. On your Birthday you will gain 5 xp automatically. Holiday xp will be variable. Flaws that inconvienence you also grant xp at Storyteller determination.
8 Alot of info can be obtained by PDF's but, The Cheap way to do it is dead Wiki's. Alot of Games also contain comprehensive wiki's that did not make it back in the day. That said your ST will always have a roll waiting for you. So you don't have to look much.
9.We do not have a blood bot for keeping track of spends. Feeding and Will power is handled as such. Ghouls. You will Burn through one BP a month automatically. Your mistress/Master will let you know how much they Feed you in a month. Kindred -Any time your on a quest your assumed 1 BP down for that evening unless you have the Herd merit or want to do abit of hunting. Disciplines like Auspex and Presence help with this. Depending on how you hunt will decide the roll.
Will power is restored at the Rate of 1 Per Day unless you fullfill your vice or Virtue. These are based on the seven deadly sins...Devil made you do it right?
10.If you want to become tight with NPC's that requires Role playing as does raising your allies and certain things you use on your sheet. You need to be able to explain and justify your spends.
11.We are one of the few channels that will actively make you a charecter. If you throw us a concept we will build you a sheet. So Confusing you just want to play? Not a problem but, Maintenance of that sheet will be yours.
12.I hope that some of this Rambling will help you to better understand. The materials we have access to are very basic and not everyone here owns books. I will do my best to accomodate any player based on their timing and ability to spend time creating something.
13. There is No player Killing currently allowed but, their are schemes and plots you can do against someone's power? All Such things will be explored with Both players and the ST in that case. Player killing caused a great deal of issues back in the Old Wod chans of the day. I may be willing to let two charecters duke it out if BOTH players agreed to it. We may revisit this issue in the future but, for the moment it fits the mood of our game. This is to give new players time to aclimate and to allow those forced to play on schedules to not instantly been outgunned. The Game rewards effort and the more you put in the greater your rp experience will be and the greater justification you will have for sheet spends.
14.If you desire to help and want to. That's great. I can award some xp for your time. (Up to a certain amount...You should WANT to help not just get a cash out LOL)
15.Currently the Main ST is Myself and TR is providing some assistence. If you'd desire to Storytell in a limited or more full time capacity I will be taking people into consideration. (For instance you might want to run a story but, Don't want to be a full time ST) That is also an option if you tell me what the quest is and hazards and reward involved.
16.I welcome players to post useful things on my board and help me with the suggestions to improve it. Please let me know!
1.We are using Chronicles Morality System. But, we will not hand out conditions we will hand out Derangements. While Enjoying the Upgrades to the Morality system I did not like the penalties and prefer madness. Remember depending on your code of ethics certain things will not trigger a morality roll or may trigger it once and you fail gaining the ability to deal with it. When you fail Morality you roll your new humanity rating. If that roll fails you've not only gotten cold hearted but, the realities of life are too much for you and gain a derangement. Charts in Chronicles determine what bonus's you get but, an ST can reward or penalize the roll according to the scene. Remember when you fail a roll your not horrified...Your heart goes cold.
2. We Use the Powers in Third edition Vampire with some Upgrades. We have upgraded to a base difficulty of 8 like Chronicles and replace old Terms with the relevant ones. Charisma is now your presence rating, Performance would be Expression. We upgrade the terms to the relevant stat. I did this to give people an old school feel of the system and for their powers to work as they did in the past but, Also Easily convert Old NPC's from the books I own for use as Antagonists. There is a minor modification to Celerity in that it provides a defence rating against Fire arms equal to the rating. Their will be amendments as we carry on. The Kinks are still being worked out. Appearence is Covered under the striking looks merit. Remember Perception does not exist that's covered by Wits. Here I'll simplify.Alertness doesn't exist (The roll to detect an ambush is covered in Chronicles) Ettiquette is covered in the Socialize skill. So if a Power requires an outdated attribute or skill you just go to the relevant skill that dictates that now. (This allows us to convert old school to the format we are using)
3.We like equipment bonus's and Chronicles combat system. Remember Weapons do not give you bonus dice to hit with. They provide automatic amounts of dmg when they hit according to the weapon rating. Example A Revolver with a 2 Dmg rating will do two dmg Plus my successes to an opponet. (Makes Fortitude all the more tasty to have doesn't it) Equipment bonus's such as Perfume+1, A Nice Dress +2, Suggestive Physical contact +3. You can Stack equipment bonus's remember that for the purpose of a roll in this case it's the Bonus dice your adding to seduction. It up's the amount of dice you have.
4.Vampire Backgrounds and Merits - So We are keeping the Vampire esque Backgrounds from Third Edition. You guys use the Generation chart to Dictate your Blood pool and Points per turn. You can buy Generation starting at Story teller discretion. (I am handing out a number of Diffrent Gen's) You will gain Flaws and Benefit from your sires blood line as will your Ghouls.They will get a benefit from YOUR blood line and flaw if they drink your blood. The Blood that is dominant provides the flaws only. Other blood however can still give the Clan Flaw if drank enough. We mostly use the Merits from the Codex of Darkness. Other Merits will have to be talked over and approved in a one on one basis with the Story teller. Certain things from the ages we might not want here but, may be willing to accomodate you in some other fashion. But, we are allowing for Generation, Herd, Malkavian time. Everyone currently is playing Fresh faced Neonates. No doubt I will start unlocking some of the Old school merits as soon as I can look them over. There's alot of work to get done I'm on it. So as of right now OLD school Merits need to be discussed before taken. Keep in mind Contacts is one rating now each dot representing a new area of contacts for you. We do not Use Influence but, we do allow Allies and Status in Organizations. Allies Representing your Clout with a specific Group.
5. The Base Generation I allow someone to start with is 12th(Which means Generation 5 allows you to play 7th) ( I'm not letting people decide their Generation. Instead i'm offering each person here who comes into the game a diffrent gen based on the local sire they take or randomly determined. This is not based on Favortism but, a desire to keep diffrent gens running around the enviorment rather then 7th gen elders running around everywhere.With one char I might assign 11th but, another 9th.
6. You guys are the First members of the Chan. Some of you already have the advantage having been here the longest but, to allow for a degree of Flexibility. I'm going to allow Starting players 25 xp to build with.
7.Xp is handed out monthly and will be between 5 and 8 xp. Holiday xp and birthday xp are diffrent times though. I may give a group bonus xp for going through quest lines that are particularly dangerous. On your Birthday you will gain 5 xp automatically. Holiday xp will be variable. Flaws that inconvienence you also grant xp at Storyteller determination.
8 Alot of info can be obtained by PDF's but, The Cheap way to do it is dead Wiki's. Alot of Games also contain comprehensive wiki's that did not make it back in the day. That said your ST will always have a roll waiting for you. So you don't have to look much.
9.We do not have a blood bot for keeping track of spends. Feeding and Will power is handled as such. Ghouls. You will Burn through one BP a month automatically. Your mistress/Master will let you know how much they Feed you in a month. Kindred -Any time your on a quest your assumed 1 BP down for that evening unless you have the Herd merit or want to do abit of hunting. Disciplines like Auspex and Presence help with this. Depending on how you hunt will decide the roll.
Will power is restored at the Rate of 1 Per Day unless you fullfill your vice or Virtue. These are based on the seven deadly sins...Devil made you do it right?
10.If you want to become tight with NPC's that requires Role playing as does raising your allies and certain things you use on your sheet. You need to be able to explain and justify your spends.
11.We are one of the few channels that will actively make you a charecter. If you throw us a concept we will build you a sheet. So Confusing you just want to play? Not a problem but, Maintenance of that sheet will be yours.
12.I hope that some of this Rambling will help you to better understand. The materials we have access to are very basic and not everyone here owns books. I will do my best to accomodate any player based on their timing and ability to spend time creating something.
13. There is No player Killing currently allowed but, their are schemes and plots you can do against someone's power? All Such things will be explored with Both players and the ST in that case. Player killing caused a great deal of issues back in the Old Wod chans of the day. I may be willing to let two charecters duke it out if BOTH players agreed to it. We may revisit this issue in the future but, for the moment it fits the mood of our game. This is to give new players time to aclimate and to allow those forced to play on schedules to not instantly been outgunned. The Game rewards effort and the more you put in the greater your rp experience will be and the greater justification you will have for sheet spends.
14.If you desire to help and want to. That's great. I can award some xp for your time. (Up to a certain amount...You should WANT to help not just get a cash out LOL)
15.Currently the Main ST is Myself and TR is providing some assistence. If you'd desire to Storytell in a limited or more full time capacity I will be taking people into consideration. (For instance you might want to run a story but, Don't want to be a full time ST) That is also an option if you tell me what the quest is and hazards and reward involved.
16.I welcome players to post useful things on my board and help me with the suggestions to improve it. Please let me know!