Time travel back to the late 90s.
I loooove me some wod but that was their heydey.
If interested in an online game and Time zones work out etc I plan on running a vampire the masquerade v5 game online (set in Santa Cruz) once my dnd campaign wraps up.
Never played or ran v5 but ran vtm and werewolf a bunch in the past Years.
Full disclosure I have zero idea when that would be.... Sometime this year but likely 6 months away or so. Not rushing through my current campaign.
I'm from Santa Cruz. It's a weird place. In the mid 200s at least, there was a big White Wolf community and a lot of people played Feng Shui of all games.
Feng Shui is great btw.
It's based on the old Hong Kong action movies. I've played exactly 1 game of it, easily almost 20 years ago, so the one thing I remember about it is that shotguns have a damage bonus if you cycle the action before you fire. IIRC, if you make the sound, the damage bonus is higher.
I want to play Mage: the Ascension with Mage: the Awakening rules. The 2e mechanics are tighter, but the lore is vague and forgettable. The Technocracy and Marauders are far more interesting than... what was it? Something about a Silver Ladder?
Mage: The Awakening was the main game that I ran to get my friends and I into Dice & Paper games at all. Such a great system, that eschews Rules Lawyers in favor of What Seems Cool.
I set up a whole campaign where our world basically went through a Convergence, and the PC's had to go around the world freeing landmarks from iconic monsters. Fantastic time, so sad that it's hard to find M:TAw books in the wild anymore.
You think Workd of Darkness is niche? You know niche if you have you tried finding a group for a Chuubo's marvelous wish granting engine or breakfast cult campaign ;_;
Modern day, you play as supernatural creatures under the Masquerade hiding your existence from humans.
You can be a Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Mummy, Changeling, and a few others. Typically you pick one type and everyone in the party is a subtype but it's possible to have a Vamp, a Were, and a Mage interact and have it mechanically work.
It is a dark reflection of the real world. Vampires, werewolves, demons, fey, and magic are all real, but most humans are unaware of this for various lore reasons (not the least of which is that seeing a werewolf, for example, drives you temporarily insane if you are not supernatural in some way. Hunter: The Reckoning characters can *resist* this but are never immune without some special circumstance; plus they already know the supernatural world exists). In Vampire: The Masquerade you play as a vampire, Werewolf: The Apocalypse you play as a werewolf, etc. Kine and Garou (Vamps and Werewolves) interact and are generally enemies, and Hunters are a thing as well. Characters from Mage and Changeling aren't going to commonly interact with any of these groups but it is possible. Mages can be especially OP. For comparison, using the oldschool rules (which are what I know) a vampire with the Potence discipline or most werewolves can easily rip a horse in half. A Mage can mimic these effects temporarily, teleport, create pocket dimensions, turn you to dust, cause literal thermonuclear explosions, move continents, etc. These things come at a cost and the more abnormal of an event it is, the more likely they'll be shunted into and trapped in an alternate universe as a result of causing a Paradox, but they are still quite easily capable of things you could never do in D&D outside of some very specific circumstances involving older editions and loads of sourcebooks + some homebrew (I'm not going to get into it, d20 is great but some of the things you can do with magic are busted as hell. I love it). The game is *VERY* narrative and roleplay focused; during the time when the game was getting its first revision and the Dark Ages rules were being released, some players complained that the combat rules *were too light*. White Wolf ended up releasing a book with extra and more complex combat rules that were still compatible with the core combat rules. Vampire: The Masquerade (not their first game but their first popular release) was so popular that it became the second most popular RPG at the time, right behind AD&D, and created a shift towards narrative games. d10/d10, would reccommend.
I heard of it and I wouldn't mind playing changeling.
I wouldn't play the vampire varient because I have run 2 chronicles VTM as ST. But changeling does lure me.
Our group primarily plays pathfinder and nWoD (we have a homebrew variant of having super powers that we'll usually use). I'm waiting for one of my friends to finish their grade school hell so we can get a promethean campaign going
In oWoD, I've played VTM, WTA, WTO, CTD, and MTA.
In NWoD, VTR, WTF, and MTA. Once, they switched to CoD, the steam had run out for everyone but me, so I focused on other games.
ah well...
I feel this. I started my rpg hobby with VtM back in like, 2004, and played tons of White Wolf games all through high school and college. But it’s been *years* since I’ve gotten to run anything longer than a one-shot in any system that isn’t D&D. It’s all I can convince anyone to play, because it’s the only system they’ve heard of.
Go to some ttrpg cons. You'll find dozens of folk for this.
I find folk for WoD or whatever all over the place, but since im just not into it, im trying to avoid them a little. Im glad they're happy, though.
so like... is this an "I talk about these games all the time and no one knows what they are at first so I have to tell them" kind of no one has heard of them, or an "I never bring up these games, but no one else does either even when we're talking about other games" kind of no one has head of them?
I have to ask because I've had more personal encounters with people that believed no one around them was into a particular thing (which they never mentioned) than I have with people that were correct in claims like "nobody around here plays \[game\]".
OP, you should have been into RPGs back in the '90s. Couldn't swing a cat at a gathering of nerds without hitting a Vampire/Werewolf/Mage player or group. Don't feel too bad, even with the recent OGL kerfuffle, the locals to me left D&D for Pathfinder (otherwise known as D&D-lite) and no one wanted to do anything else. Come on, folks, got Fast! Furious! Fun! with Savage Worlds ready to go. You'll like it, I swear! No one? {sigh}
Here are my two experiences with the World of Darkness:
My sister's friend was supposed to run a Hunter: The Reckoning campaign for us, but didn't initially show up.
So, with the only book on hand, I ran a Vampire: The Masquerade session. I was the Storyteller, and I don't remember what everyone else played. We ended up making this campaign regular, and I may have had a climatic final battle with a 10-year old bodied Malcavian that was 8th generation, and had used other vampires to morph his body into an armored, flying literal Demon. The closest thing to a Barbarian had also been altered, and there was extra stuff that I did off the fly, like a gun that shot mechanical blue turtle shells(marokart), and hadouken blasts. It was a wild time, and while I don't remember all the details, the campaign led into a 3.5e game that was also super fun.
The second week in, my sister's friend returned, with her brother, and ended up co-running our game of Hunter the reckoning. I don't remember what everyone was, I was a hacker of some sorts, who called himself Fenix. My brother-in-law stabbed himself in the chest with magical spikes, and we all had a bad time. We never had another Hunter the Reckoning session.
Dude, Changeling the lost 1e player here. We have a chronicle based out of Detroit currently. I just started a vanilla NWOD game that we play once a month as well, it is a serial murder mystery.
Time travel back to the late 90s. I loooove me some wod but that was their heydey. If interested in an online game and Time zones work out etc I plan on running a vampire the masquerade v5 game online (set in Santa Cruz) once my dnd campaign wraps up. Never played or ran v5 but ran vtm and werewolf a bunch in the past Years. Full disclosure I have zero idea when that would be.... Sometime this year but likely 6 months away or so. Not rushing through my current campaign.
I'm from Santa Cruz. It's a weird place. In the mid 200s at least, there was a big White Wolf community and a lot of people played Feng Shui of all games. Feng Shui is great btw.
What is Feng shui? Besides an odd decorating tip? Lol
It's based on the old Hong Kong action movies. I've played exactly 1 game of it, easily almost 20 years ago, so the one thing I remember about it is that shotguns have a damage bonus if you cycle the action before you fire. IIRC, if you make the sound, the damage bonus is higher.
there's dozens of us!
I want to play Mage: the Ascension with Mage: the Awakening rules. The 2e mechanics are tighter, but the lore is vague and forgettable. The Technocracy and Marauders are far more interesting than... what was it? Something about a Silver Ladder?
It’s all about the Nephandi, existence itself is a cosmic mistake. All hail Nyarlathothep.
Mage: The Awakening was the main game that I ran to get my friends and I into Dice & Paper games at all. Such a great system, that eschews Rules Lawyers in favor of What Seems Cool. I set up a whole campaign where our world basically went through a Convergence, and the PC's had to go around the world freeing landmarks from iconic monsters. Fantastic time, so sad that it's hard to find M:TAw books in the wild anymore.
They just pulled out the summoning horn
You think Workd of Darkness is niche? You know niche if you have you tried finding a group for a Chuubo's marvelous wish granting engine or breakfast cult campaign ;_;
Never heard of it. What's it about?
Modern day, you play as supernatural creatures under the Masquerade hiding your existence from humans. You can be a Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Mummy, Changeling, and a few others. Typically you pick one type and everyone in the party is a subtype but it's possible to have a Vamp, a Were, and a Mage interact and have it mechanically work.
It is a dark reflection of the real world. Vampires, werewolves, demons, fey, and magic are all real, but most humans are unaware of this for various lore reasons (not the least of which is that seeing a werewolf, for example, drives you temporarily insane if you are not supernatural in some way. Hunter: The Reckoning characters can *resist* this but are never immune without some special circumstance; plus they already know the supernatural world exists). In Vampire: The Masquerade you play as a vampire, Werewolf: The Apocalypse you play as a werewolf, etc. Kine and Garou (Vamps and Werewolves) interact and are generally enemies, and Hunters are a thing as well. Characters from Mage and Changeling aren't going to commonly interact with any of these groups but it is possible. Mages can be especially OP. For comparison, using the oldschool rules (which are what I know) a vampire with the Potence discipline or most werewolves can easily rip a horse in half. A Mage can mimic these effects temporarily, teleport, create pocket dimensions, turn you to dust, cause literal thermonuclear explosions, move continents, etc. These things come at a cost and the more abnormal of an event it is, the more likely they'll be shunted into and trapped in an alternate universe as a result of causing a Paradox, but they are still quite easily capable of things you could never do in D&D outside of some very specific circumstances involving older editions and loads of sourcebooks + some homebrew (I'm not going to get into it, d20 is great but some of the things you can do with magic are busted as hell. I love it). The game is *VERY* narrative and roleplay focused; during the time when the game was getting its first revision and the Dark Ages rules were being released, some players complained that the combat rules *were too light*. White Wolf ended up releasing a book with extra and more complex combat rules that were still compatible with the core combat rules. Vampire: The Masquerade (not their first game but their first popular release) was so popular that it became the second most popular RPG at the time, right behind AD&D, and created a shift towards narrative games. d10/d10, would reccommend.
I heard of it and I wouldn't mind playing changeling. I wouldn't play the vampire varient because I have run 2 chronicles VTM as ST. But changeling does lure me.
My MtA group is on hiatus, but we still play the old games!
Our group primarily plays pathfinder and nWoD (we have a homebrew variant of having super powers that we'll usually use). I'm waiting for one of my friends to finish their grade school hell so we can get a promethean campaign going
In oWoD, I've played VTM, WTA, WTO, CTD, and MTA. In NWoD, VTR, WTF, and MTA. Once, they switched to CoD, the steam had run out for everyone but me, so I focused on other games. ah well...
Yall have ttrpg groups?
I feel this. I started my rpg hobby with VtM back in like, 2004, and played tons of White Wolf games all through high school and college. But it’s been *years* since I’ve gotten to run anything longer than a one-shot in any system that isn’t D&D. It’s all I can convince anyone to play, because it’s the only system they’ve heard of.
Go to some ttrpg cons. You'll find dozens of folk for this. I find folk for WoD or whatever all over the place, but since im just not into it, im trying to avoid them a little. Im glad they're happy, though.
How it feels to be an enjoyer of Burning Wheel.
Just started an in-personNWoD campaign. Good luck to you in your search.
I have been wanting to learn WOD for a while now
I'm the same with Genesys and GURPS. Feels like nobody knows either, especially not Genesys.
so like... is this an "I talk about these games all the time and no one knows what they are at first so I have to tell them" kind of no one has heard of them, or an "I never bring up these games, but no one else does either even when we're talking about other games" kind of no one has head of them? I have to ask because I've had more personal encounters with people that believed no one around them was into a particular thing (which they never mentioned) than I have with people that were correct in claims like "nobody around here plays \[game\]".
Column A, Column B. I bring them up but nobody seems to know or care about what I'm talking about so I just don't bring it up.
OP, you should have been into RPGs back in the '90s. Couldn't swing a cat at a gathering of nerds without hitting a Vampire/Werewolf/Mage player or group. Don't feel too bad, even with the recent OGL kerfuffle, the locals to me left D&D for Pathfinder (otherwise known as D&D-lite) and no one wanted to do anything else. Come on, folks, got Fast! Furious! Fun! with Savage Worlds ready to go. You'll like it, I swear! No one? {sigh}
Played a ton of WoD. I enjoyed Dark Ages WoD. Even went with the Bastet, and some of those rules were very broken.
I know this feeling. Same feeling I get when I mention jackals or mouse guard.
Here are my two experiences with the World of Darkness: My sister's friend was supposed to run a Hunter: The Reckoning campaign for us, but didn't initially show up. So, with the only book on hand, I ran a Vampire: The Masquerade session. I was the Storyteller, and I don't remember what everyone else played. We ended up making this campaign regular, and I may have had a climatic final battle with a 10-year old bodied Malcavian that was 8th generation, and had used other vampires to morph his body into an armored, flying literal Demon. The closest thing to a Barbarian had also been altered, and there was extra stuff that I did off the fly, like a gun that shot mechanical blue turtle shells(marokart), and hadouken blasts. It was a wild time, and while I don't remember all the details, the campaign led into a 3.5e game that was also super fun. The second week in, my sister's friend returned, with her brother, and ended up co-running our game of Hunter the reckoning. I don't remember what everyone was, I was a hacker of some sorts, who called himself Fenix. My brother-in-law stabbed himself in the chest with magical spikes, and we all had a bad time. We never had another Hunter the Reckoning session.
I wanted to play hunter But noooo. Always vampire
Dude, Changeling the lost 1e player here. We have a chronicle based out of Detroit currently. I just started a vanilla NWOD game that we play once a month as well, it is a serial murder mystery.
Been wishing to try playing Mage for ages
It's hard enough finding a Vampire, Werewolf, or Mage group. God forbid you go for Demon, Mummy, or Deviant.
I don’t understand your funny words magic man