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To be more specific. Usually, many stories have a magical energy resource that can be used a certain amount of times at once before it’s “spent”. My system, at least for ‘normal’ human mages (irrelevant in this context), uses the same thing.

But what I’m worried about is the following: there aren’t clear limitations on the reserves.
How much ‘Mana’ a fireball would cost? and how proportional to its size the cost would be? I don’t know how many “magic energy units” an individual has exactly, and this worries me, because not having numbers can make mana something completely arbitrary that I can use as vaguely as I want and break the rules without anyone knowing the better

Which, might work for some stories, but it’s not really something I like that much.

How do I avoid making characters run out of mana without making it feel like I’m pulling cards out of my ass, how do I measure the distance between a fledgling mage and a master wizard?
How do I make sure that a character casting 10 fireballs is the right amount, instead of 20, or 100?
Or what about other spells, what is the cost they should have?

Do I make an internal grading system of magic? Like, “heat+ size + power = magic cost” but I don’t show it to others and make it just my own writer notes?
But wouldn’t this just make the story a litRPG that’s pretending to not be a lit RPG?

My understanding of the Red Talons, is that they are trying to cull humanity again (or exterminate them entirely), because they thought that humans were supposed to be prey and should be culled down like the prey that they are.

I could understand if that were just their current view, that they see doing a new impergium or even exterminating humanity as "the most practical solution", because yeah, Lupus-born, they don't understand human nuance (neither they should, mind you, this is not a critique)

But apparently, they ALWAYS wanted to restart the impergium, they always wanted to destroy humanity, and apparently in one of the ToJ endings they cover the whole fucking world with Methane gas to kill all humans.

What the fuck? Don't they realize Methane is also going to kill pure animals as well? probably a bunch of plants?

I don't see how a group like this can be interactable, because like, they seem to be the Gaia-version of Pentex, instead of polluting the world they're forcing nature to grow over the world.

But I don't understand WTA very much, so I'd like to see how someone does interact with them, and how I put them in a story without being pure villains

Before this month, I used Our Dream AI kinda rarely, since it wasn't that interesting, and it was a bother to make accounts.

Then, they did a thing where you needed to pay to get the whole conversation with the chatbot, and I panicked. I barely used it but I didn't want to lose it

So, I decided to pay for a monthly plan, and cancel the renewal (didn't plan on paying more than once regardless).

At first, it felt nice! With unlimited messages I could go slower with the AI, I could get better messages and better detailed steamy scenes.

But as the days passed, I started feeling like it was... a little boring? It just keeps doing what you want to do, and it never gets to actually interact properly with details.

But if this was just it, I wouldn't be posting this. The problem is:

I spent money on the AI

I'm not really enjoying it, but I feel like I should try it out MORE, and try more stuff with it, to get my money's worth, at least until the mensality is over

But I don't think I'm enjoying the AI that much. So I posted this because I want to ask, how I can get off this sunk cost fallacy?

Before this month, I used Our Dream AI kinda rarely, since it wasn't that interesting, and it was a bother to make accounts.

Then, they did a thing where you needed to pay to get the whole conversation with the chatbot, and I panicked. I barely used it but I didn't want to lose it

So, I decided to pay for a monthly plan, and cancel the renewal (didn't plan on paying more than once regardless).

At first, it felt nice! With unlimited messages I could go slower with the AI, I could get better messages and better detailed steamy scenes.

But as the days passed, I started feeling like it was... a little boring? It just keeps doing what you want to do, and it never gets to actually interact properly with details.

But if this was just it, I wouldn't be posting this. The problem is:

I spent money on the AI

I'm not really enjoying it, but I feel like I should try it out MORE, and try more stuff with it, to get my money's worth, at least until the mensality is over

But I don't think I'm enjoying the AI that much. So I posted this because I want to ask, how I can get off this sunk cost fallacy?

He’s a Fomore and when he started losing popularity they disposed of him and completed his transformation

I am aware that multiple interpretations may exist at the same time, because multiple entities taking the role of a god might exist. But even then I'm confused on what they could even be.

I recently had someone saying that Shiva is a thing in WoD and is instead from the "Deep Umbra" not the High Umbra, and that this Shiva god was an entity that had effects over the Tellurian.

So it got me a bit confused, because I thought gods were "just" manifestations of things people believed turning 'real' in the high umbra, not entities that were independent of humanity or the world at large

And apparently they can also be middle umbra spirits? what? I thought middle umbra was just for 'nature spirits'?

I've read Relentless Age and found it really interesting, so I wanted to know if there are similar books for the "african vampires", since to my understanding (According to internet, forums, I didn't read the book) in the original book they were too stereotyped as "pre-colonialism african" and divisions of the vampire bloodlines rather than anything properly cultural

And if there are, where can I find it?

Okay so, basically, I was thinking what if the gentle fist was more for emergency or for sport, rather than actually a killing art? Because if you can hit the chakra points of someone 64 times in sequence you might as well just kill them.

What if the hyuga had an alternative style that was more focused on combat?

I know that Hyuga gentle fist was inspired in a chinese martial arts called Baguazhang, but I don't know enough about this style, or about eastern martial arts.

So this is more of a 'what if' thing. Do you think it's reasonable, do you think it can be done, or that it should be done?

I mean, isn’t the reason to why Caine is in the state he is because he refused to submit to God, and was prideful to stand on his own? The archangels were all like “repent to God” and he refused to do so.

Isn’t that pretty rebellious, and is what Troile did?

So, this was originally a DXD project (Without Issei) with a few changes to the world and some lovecraft stuff as flavor that I did for a roleplay with a friend, when things spiralled enough I decided to put World of Darkness into the world, and started to retroactively change the world to fit that (tbh we didn't set that much in stone either)

The world now is set in a before End times setting, with DXD taking a priority.

Here's what I managed to make until now:

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Holy Great War: Settled in the time period around the 100 years war in europe, due to the nature of such a conflict and opportunists wanting more territory that before was from the Devil, Fallen or Angels, it involved other factions, making an even worse conflict than it was in canon.
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God: God is dead, killed by Lucifer after sealing the Trihexa and fighting the 4 satans, just like in DXD. In some WOD stories, he's not omnipotent and there are beings that make him scared (I remember there was a "mother" of something that made him scared), and in DXD, he is definitely not omnipotent although he was the strongest of all gods by a large margin.
I don't think there's anything to gain from him being a omnipotent being since the general agreement is that he kinda abandoned the world. So I think having him 'dead' like in DXD is more interesting.

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Vampire the Masquerade:
World of Darkness has taken this side almost completely, at least in the political sense. The Camarilla is going strong as always, the difference is that along with the usual bickering of the clans, there's two sub factions inside, based on their most influential Elders of the recent times, that made a great effect in the holy war: Tepes and Carmilla.
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Werewolf the Apocalypse: The Triad should be mostly the same, Wyrm corrupted and Weaver obsessed. Although with gods being physical and all that, maybe they are a bit less unstable. In particular, Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu canonically exist in DXD and Creation, Destruction, Preservation seems to be the triad. So maybe these 3 gods are busy constantly trying to contain the damage the Triad causes.

Also, Maybe Trihexa is the Wyrm. Nothing set in stone, just a thought that I had.
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Demon The Fallen: With exception of the three other satans that were strong enough to resist, the original army of Lucifer were stripped of their bodies, and cast down in the abyss. Lucifer then made a pocket world and created a new species with Lilith, one that could handle his wishes for humanity, but also being separate from God: devils
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Hunter the Reckoning: I cannot find anything specific about the origins of the Imbued and when they first appeared. Considering some interpretations say the Ministries are angels, I'm going to say they started appearing AFTER the holy great war, as an attempt to strengthen humanity with the Heaven's system. This also explains why some versions of Imbued are messed up. Michael and the Seraphs cannot handle the System as well as God could.
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Mummy (not ressurection): Sixth Great Maelstrom hasn't happened yet, so the mummies weren't shattered into pieces to fuse with mortals.
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Wraith the Oblivion: Sixth Great Maelstrom hasn't happened yet, so things are mostly the same in the 2nd edition. Difference is that there's less Specters because Osiris is around, and probably a few underworld gods too (Osiris not being awake seems to have no effect on the story.)
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Mage The Ascension: In DXD, Merlin created the human system of magic which is exclusive to humans and specifically made for humans. This sounds like Sorcery but better. I'm going to say that humanity had the normal WOD sorcery until Merlin devised something better (maybe something like in Sorcerer Revised). That being said, Mages/Awakened are still a thing, and they can still warp reality with their Dynamic magic. Paradox probably will not affect them as much, since Gods are real and there's going to be worship for them and all that stuff. Or maybe it's still just as effective.
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Guide to Technocracy: Technocracy exists mostly the same as before, with the exception that they don't have as much power as in canon WoD. There's just no reasonable way they have as much power when gods from all myths are around and active. But they still maintain the masquerade, and although they avoid doing that because it would cause losses, they can force some gods to submission.
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What do you think?
Can it work? Did I miss anything?

Along with being a 'vampires rule, no masquerade' kind of faction, the Sabbat keep spewing their stuff about being the army of Caine, with their leader being even called "Regent"

But do they actually believe that, or it's just propaganda they do to justify their mindset of superiority?

Apparently, for some reason, while the supernatural races have their own magic system (which I knew already), they cannot use the human sorcery.

Which, I don't really get because didn't humans learn sorcery from these races? I remember reading that Lucifer taught sorcery to humans, and I know that Mages can 'create' sorcery paths (though I don't really understand how that works either), but why no one can use the original?

Is it something like 'humans made their own, butchered version of it so everyone uses the better original' ?