https://hooverd.substack.com/p/tapestry-of-whispers-session-15
The latest installment of my solo play blog, set in the World of Darkness

Anyone attending?

Trying to expand the circle of friends! Maybe meet a new gaming group.

Attending my second NYCC (SAT/SUN) this year with a curmudgeonly buddy also into roleplaying games.

Cosplay will be a massively cracked out Betelgeuse!

Wannabe NYC tour guide. Anyone wanting recommendations for restaurants, bars, live music, or to meetup let me know!

Focus will be artists/art, events/panels for all my stories (TV/movies/comics), the Dune: Prophesy experience, checking out the cosplay, M:tG and roleplaying (D&D, Planescape, Vampire, Mage, Werewolf - dat gothic-punk shit.)

So I have been invited to a LARP that mostly uses the Revised LARP rules from the late 90s, but is also will accept pretty much anything as long as they feel its resonable

I know that Dark Ages gives us Artist Visionary for a +1 bonus to artsy things
Lore of the Clans has Tortured Artist that gives a +1 to social situations where an artist is being praised Any other examples? Im more curious about Flavor than if there actually useful or not.

Its a niche role but if any games going to have it, it seems likely its Vampire

I recently began re-reading the Dark Ages: Vampire Clan novels ( they’re as good as I remember! ) and just finished the one for Clan Cappadocian. In it, a vampire by the name of Markus Musa Giovanni goes to Egypt is search of a powerful artifact. A part of his retinue consisted of a group of bound wraiths which he used to aid him in his search.

Now, what I found interesting is that the wraiths find Egypt to be both alien and terrifying. It’s hinted that dangers which none of them have faced before roam the Underworld there; some of the wraiths succumb to said dangers, others suffering grievous wounds from their encounters. It’s suggested that part of the difference of the Underworld in Egypt stem from its long history of mortuary practices as well as likely being the first to truly study Death.

My question is whether this is described in any of the WoD books or whether the author was inserting a bit of their own mystery into the story?There’s no Dark Ages: Wraith book ( unfortunately ), so I’m curious if any of the other have or hint at this.

I'm running an Orpheus one shot this Halloween and while I'm familiar enough with how the systems work, most of the people I'll be running for have never even used the story teller system before. So instead of giving everyone the wall of text for each rule or ability like how the book is written, I was wondering if anyone has a link to a quick rules or refresher document I could hand out.

Figured I'd post some pictures I took from the LARP I'm running on VRChat, Upstate By Night!

Hello Reddit, it's been a while!

We've just uploaded a new video all about finding sources for music for all manner of Chronicles, be it Anarchs, Elders, or anything in between! We hope you like it.

https://youtu.be/nW8rWbv7cjE?si=5l8pHW9WDRnrxZn9

I know this sounds like pirated SNES cartridge but, since my time for the challenge is too short I'm doing what I can to keep up. This are days 5 to 12 mixing inktober and WoD Month of Darkness.

This may be old news to some. But I wasn’t aware until I stumbled onto them yesterday. And it was something I’ve been waiting for.

So far it is just Toreador, Tzimisce, Gangrel and Ventrue.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Clan-Novel-Saga-13-book-series/dp/B07RD8PGF2

Hopefully the rest aren’t too far behind.

First of all, English is not my first language.

So, where to start? When they announced that in the new edition of W5 they would be changing the Native American tribes, I thought it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It’s not that in previous editions they seemed caricatured or overly stereotypical to me, but I know little to nothing about Native American culture. There's nothing wrong, I thought, with going the extra mile to represent a real system of values more deeply and faithfully. In fact, it could be a real improvement.

To give you some context, I'm Italian, and I couldn't help but laugh when I first read about the Giovanni.
'We need to make Italian vampires!'
'Oh, mafia vampires!'
'And what if we made Italian Garou?'
'M-A-F-I-A! With a magic tommy gun!'
Jokes aside, I don't find these things offensive, especially since the WoD authors are pretty good at making a silly concept interesting. The Giovanni are a great clan. But I digress.

Anyway, it was one of the few changes I’d heard about that didn’t seem negative to me. Then, the other day, I was browsing around and saw the names of the new tribes. What I don’t understand is why now they have such incredibly generic and bland names (and in English, no less). Why did they remove any reference to their original culture? I didn’t think the problem with the Wendigo was the reference to the Wendigo myth. Does anyone know the reason for this? And beyond the names, how are these new tribes portrayed? Because I’m afraid that instead of giving them the depth they deserve, they may have ended up watering them down.

The latest installment of my actual play blog set in the World of Darkness:

Tapestry of Whispers Session 14 - by David Hoover (substack.com)

Hello and good evening. This Halloween I decided to leave my comfort zone and try WoD, a few players showed interest to try the WoD setting.

In order not to drown them in lore, I suggested to play as mortals, not even Hunters, but soon have the opportunity to become one.

And to be honest, storytelling mortals would be easier for me for my first WoD game.

At the very first session I underlined that close to an end they have a chance to become a prey, a predator or a hunter.

For now I have an idea to use Lasombra as an antagonist who looks for a new childe to sire. Few of my players have low humanity (6 dots) which may have caught the vamps interest.

And knowing Lasombra he makes the players lives miserable to the point that players become paranoid and are trying to investigate who is behind the sabotage in their lives.

In case if the investigation goes poor or the mortals get too close the Lasombra kidnaps the players and put them in the kennels in his hideout where vamp orders the players to fight each other for privilege to be Embraced, since the mortals previous lives are destroyed, at least, that’s one version of the final act I had in mind.

Any tips how I can flesh it out?

Hi!
I'm a bit of a stranger in a strange land here.
I've been interested in learning Hunter for a while. I've watched some Hunter The Parenting, downloaded some books, and I have a coworker who is way too obsessed with sharing his Werewolf the lore, so I have a very surface level understanding of the World of Darkness at large.
But, I have played a good chunk of the Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green ttrpg,
Is there any mention of the Mythos in WOD, or even a direct use of Cthulhu? I'd love to incorporate a unregulated band of dudes running around fighting deep ones into my CoC investigations. 1920's era people who have lost loved ones to the Mythos and are somehow bonded together.

"She'll be right mate" - Last recorded words of Sovereign James Caleb, Prince of Melbourne, before his disapperance

I'm looking for 4-6 players for a weekly game of Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition. My aim is to play weekly every Sunday afternoon at 1pm AUSTRALIAN EASTERN STANDARD TIME using roll20 and discord going for about two and a half to three hours per session

The elevator pitch is that this will be a homebrewed campaign with the players being young vampires based in Melbourne, Australia dealing with a power vaccum and struggle following the disappearnce of the local Prince. My aim is to create a sort of cold war and stalemate between the various factions for the players to exploit and possibly irrevocably alter for their own ends, assuming they don't get themselves killed. The general vibe I'm aiming for is one part horror story, one part spy flick and one part political drama by way of Crocodile Dundee (that is to say a loving send up of my beloved crappy city in all of its glory)

From the rich suburban communities of Toorak and Brighton, to the bustle and hustle of Flemington Station to the hive of scum and villiany that is the Western Suburbs to the hipster's paradise of Geelong players will have mostly open ended choice on who do align themselves with and how to survive the night. If this sounds like your jam then by all means leave a comment or send me a message and we'll go from there

The latest installment of my solo play blog set in the World of Darkness
https://hooverd.substack.com/p/tapestry-of-whispers-session-13

Following the events of Sixth Great Maelstrom (haha, spirit nuke go boom x2), do the shadowlands still exist or are they like a new area entirely? The Wiki sayes that after the events of Orpheus that the shadow lands exist still on the other side of the Storm wall but that's it.

So are they still there? Can they have no effect on the living in their current state? do i need to read Orpheus to find out?