u/Tracula707

A lot of people dog on British food, but I refuse to believe that it’s as bad as the internet makes it out to be. I’m an American (Midwest specifically. We eat a lot of dairy.) but I think British pub food sounds heavenly. I saw a video a while back showcasing the oldest fast food restaurant in London’s east end (I just checked, it was F Cooke Pie & Mash) and it looked so good. I’d even try the jellied eels, if not just for the novelty of it.

I know there’s more to British food than just chips and pies and stuff though, and I know that there’s more than just exclusively British food to choose from. I’d love to know your favorite dish!

My prospective group only consists of two other players (they’re all I got, still love em though shrug), and neither of them (or myself, for that matter) have ever played a World of Darkness game. One is considerably more knowledgeable on the setting’s lore and apt at learning the ins and outs of a game’s rules, and the other is a bit of a dummy but also a bit more creative and theatrical minded. I’m thinking of sticking an NPC (or a revolving set of NPCs) into their group.

I’ve played D&D with them and learned what not to do when playing a character while being the GM. Honestly the first mistake is seeing it as playing a character, they’re only there to help guide the players along if they ever need it, pick up the rear in combat or any other scene that the small group might not be able to cover, and just generally be a bridge between me and the players. They shouldn’t take focus away from the players.

I think something like Vampire the Masquerade might be easier to run in a small group than D&D would be, since I’d have considerably lighter things to juggle. I’m not sure how other splats would stack up though.

For the longest time, I thought it was just a weird game with no lore and diet versions of all the different splats, plus a few more, and I was salty that the Frankenstein game was trapped in Chronicles because I love Frankenstein.

Obviously this is a stupid misunderstanding, but I’m still pretty new to these games, and now that I’ve actually looked into some of the Chronicles splats, I see that they take the same concepts that the original splats had, but take them in a totally new direction. Changeling the Lost is about fairies, but is also a game about surviving trauma and rebuilding your identity. Demon the Descent is about rebelling against God, but it also seems to be about Eldritch “demon” automatons with wildfire sentience, instead of traditional demons.

I’d love to hear about your favorite CofD splats, especially about how they differ from the WoD counterparts (if they exist).

In the wake of The Amazing Digital Circus, I think the Smiling Friends fanbase was way too harsh on itself. People drawing porn or making dumb theories or looking too deeply into the show is absolutely nothing compared to whatever unholy internet plague TADC accidentally unleashed. Seriously, I’ve seen more unfettered insanity over a purple rabbit character than I ever could’ve imagined.

I didn’t buy the argument that Zach and Michael chose to end Smiling Friends because of its fanbase before, but I absolutely don’t now, because now I’ve seen what a terrible fanbase looks like. And this isn’t a dig against that show, I’ve only seen a couple episodes but I liked it fine.

…the Halovars and slitting the throat? It seems to me as an oddly specific method of killing, and I doubt that it’s by complete accident.

I think the first time we heard this mentioned was when Wick came home and told the Photarch the truth of why he ran away and what he did, and she said she had a list of things that she secretly knew and that if he contradicted anybody she would’ve slit his throat right then and there.

And then Wick was made to “prove he was Yanessa’s true heir” when he visited Primus by slitting the throat of a random innocent woman.

I think it just illustrates how insidious the Halovars are. They’ll look you in the eyes and give you the warmest of smiles as they kill you. They’re every bit as monstrous as the Tachonises, only less brash.

How long do you guys think it’ll be until we see Travis come back with a new character? This is my first CR campaign, so I don’t really know how long it took for the other campaigns, when a character would die and be replaced by someone else.

I saw the stereotypical Tzimisce that’s this fleshcrafted abomination that lives in a castle and creates bizarre and disgusting living “artwork,” and tried to turn that on its head. The character I made is instead a grubby street rat that more resembles a Brujah or Gangrel than one of the Dragons. There is absolutely nothing regal about her, she’s just a gangly tart with a pixie cut and way too much cheap makeup perfume that befriends flea-riddled rats and helps ease other fledglings into the Night Life of Chicago, and everyone calls her Bitsy.

I’ve recently really been getting into Werewolf the Apocalypse, and I started reading the Glass Walkers Tribebook. I have yet to turn this into an actual character, but I realized I could basically have a Rex from Fallout New Vegas style Crinosborn character. I’m thinking that they suffer from severe mental disabilities, bad enough that there really wouldn’t be much any of the other tribes could do for them. They’re a Glass Walker, however, and so I’m thinking their brain is more or less rebuilt with grotesque cybernetics, so that they could keep up with their packmates. I know the CyberDogs were mostly exterminated, but you can’t expect me to not want to give the tech wolves cool cybernetic upgrades. Plus, a Metis that’s at constant possible risk because their brain is more or less relying on the good will of a Weaver spirit sounds like good drama to me.

Most of my other characters more or less follow the conventions of whatever they belong to. There’s a death metal vocalist Brujah, a snotty Ventrue, a paranoid crackhead-turned Malkavian, and so on. I have yet to really get into any of the other splats though.