r/WhiteWolfRPG

Hihi, I'm wanting to get into the WoD as a whole, and have already bought a few books. I was wondering if you all had a preferred way or seller to get physical copies of the book? I know DriveThruRPG can make prints of the 20th anniversary stuff, but was wondering if there's a more niche site or retailer somewhere to get either the 20th anniversary editions, or other editions of the books. I've already got a couple of 5th edition books from an LGS, but the older books definitely have a bit more difficulty in procuring them. tyty

I like WoD, though I get a bit miffed how most of the newer edition books focus on the western hemisphere and not the other places as much. Sure places like africa and Asia get mentioned in 5e but not as much. Back in the older editions there were books about non western hemisphere places and what was going on there. Sure they were products of there time but I think they were interesting despite being rough around the edges.

I do acknowledge the homebrew on st vault that does talk about non western locales like Asia which I think are cool (looking at you relentless age and in the realm of gods and dreams by hsien fan). It just saddens me it’s called world of Darkenss yet it’s more like “western hemisphere world of darkness”.

I hope when WoD 6e comes out they will focus a bit more on places like Asia and Africa if only a bit.

They apparently use it as a example of a high level verse and power scale characters like the Weaver and Caine.

Which is weird because WOD never strikes me as that high level of a verse. Or it does but the power is mostly distributed to background entities NPCs that don’t directly come up expect in a few high level games.

Most of the PC power level is pretty mid by fantasy settings.

So this is more of a discussion question rather than being about some specific splat such as vampire or werewolf. From what I have seen the number of supernaturals given by white wolf are often seen to be on the low side(Which I agree with. Like there are a total of 690 vampires in the entirety of France. There are ten thousand intact castles there and you are telling me that only six percent of them are inhabited by a vampire? Don't get me started with Mage with there being only 58 mages in England meaning most cities either don't have a mage or have a single mage.) though the topic of this has been discussed to death.

What I wanted to ask was how do other ST's handle the numbers of supernaturals in their cities? Is it just as the plot demands or do you have a a thing like multiplying given number by 10 or do you make it so that every important city has enough of a population to represent every faction(Like every city has at least three of every clan or every tradition)?

hello, im asking this question because i want to run a short world of darkness chronicle so i figure if i run a oneshot for them, it might interest my group into playing a full chronicle.

so i want an idea for a onehsot that is a well round view into the world of vampire the masquerade. i want to run a oneshot thats mostly roleplay with some fighting in it.

i will seriously consider any idea would be interesting to run and will give my players a nice view into vampire society

thank you and goodbye.

(for the record, i am using vampire 5th)

Except for the summary in the core rulebook, of course.

One of my favorite things in Cyberpunk is when the PCs cross that line and really piss off a megacorp, and now they've got a full-bore death squad coming after them. Obviously in the World of Darkness, you can do something similar with mortal and supernatural politics.

How do you track and implement these reactions? For vampires, I imagine the vampiric "Heat" meter is going to be shorter than the mortal one - that's the whole point of the Traditions. If it looks like you're going to draw a mortal reaction, the Kindred would rather stake you and leave to burn than risk another Inquisition.

But werewolves? Hell, I could see the Garou's antics getting the National Guard called out in reaction to a "rabid socialist movement that has weaponized bears." And magi are hard to pin down, but given that the Technocracy has all kinds of ways to bring force and violence to bear, I'm not sure it matters. If you piss off the MiB's, they're going to come for you.

So for your games, do you just sort of wing it? Do you mechanize it? Do you put it in the player's hands to determine when they've crossed the line? How do you handle it?

Thanks!

I`ve been needing some inpiration, so I would like to know the coolest ways you guys made your mages cast spells.

I'm curious if there are any organizations that play Chronicles of Darkness LARPs like OWBN to WoD. It doesn't have to be as big or international but anything similar.

For V20 and prior.

I recall hearing a long time ago that it was possible to learn Koldunic paths as thaumaturgy but I don't know which book it came from. Iirc each level would be considered one level higher when it came to XP costs. So a level 2 Koldunic paths would have the cost of a 3rd level thaumaturgy path level.

What book does this come from, and does this also include necromancy?

Fandom is horrible and just seems to be getting worse. Are there any alternative wiki projects for World of Darkness? New or unfinished ones are also ok

One thing I really like about chronicles is that the splats work in a variety of settings- vampires aren’t locked to cities, werewolves aren’t locked to rural areas, etc. They’re not even locked to setting genre, with things like space opera and cyberpunk vampires being officially supported. On that note…. Which of the splats do small town horror? I know it doesn’t really work for some- Promethean’s can’t really get to know the territory before they have to move on, but it works for a lot!

I've been reading the book and it feels unclear on what you're supposed to do to make specters

My Pardoner has recommended that I come out from under my rock of Wraith every few years. But the outside is scary, so I will be pretending to look outside instead.

I tend to have post Ends of Empire continue on with Stygia rebuilding as a republic, since that's where the story was headed as per the future fates in the end of the book.

But Demon has the assumption the 6th Great Maelstrom wiped out Stygia totally.

So! Here is my question to all of you! The Fallen, Halaku most notably, come out of the Abyss and they see Stygia. What do they think about it, and what do they do about it if anything?

EDIT: To clarify the post a bit, in the Revised Era only Demon, Mummy, and Orpheus assumes Stygia is gone. Mage has things mentioning an ongoing reconstruction. My question is about Demons seeing a reconstructionist Stygia.