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I don't know the other splats well enough.

Is there anything stronger/can kill an antediluvian?

Can grandmother (grand maw) kill an antediluvian?

I started reading the Clan Novels, I am on the first one Toreador, but it feels like it's a "you should already know stuff" type book. It is giving insights to the clans lore, but not the world lore. I am almost done with it, but I would like to learn more about the world before I learn about the individual clans. With that being said, where should I start? Do the Clan Novels go over the broader world lore as I read?

So...my question is.

After 20+years when did come out and published. Years passed .....Why they just end it? Anniversary edition maybe?

Or White wolf....then Onyx Path and Paradox just dont touch that?

...why?

So as the title says, what's the thematic and tone differences between Curseborne and World/Chronicles of Darkness?

To summarise my experience with WoD and CoD; I'm not super invested in them but I know a lot of people who are and I have flicked through the Tvtropes pafe to try and better understand it, I've also played in a Werewolf the Forsaken campaign that had several different splat (mummy, vampire, changling and a mage(as a treat)). I know roughly what each splat's deal is and the general theme differences between WoD and CoD (WoD is darker and more focused on meta-plot, CoD is (relatively) lighter and less world defining meta plots). As a general rule I'm more of an Exalted fan than WoD/CoD.

The main thing I'm aware of in Curseborne is there is a lot more inter-splat interaction but that's most of my knowledge on the game.

So in the book" Houses of the Fallen". There was the grand experiement in the times of Babel.

10 Elohim was selected to teach humanity.

I got a theory, 10 Elohim....10 tribes of Atlantis.

Also they created the Nephilim.....but they are killed....or vanished

What do you think?

Choose a splat, a power tier, and an identity, hit generate, and you've got a coherent NPC with attributes, abilities, powers, backgrounds, merits, flaws and a fitting name, all weighted to make sense together. No external calls, No LLMs, all local data.

Splats

• Kindred: 13 clans plus Caitiff, sect and generation, disciplines, blood pool, Humanity or a Path, sire and embrace year

https://preview.redd.it/5t4dmdgymhah1.png?width=1897&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7d3c2e86267ec46ec4087001188a070d881bfaf

• Ghouls and Mortals
• Garou: breed, auspice, tribe, Rage, Gnosis, Renown and Gifts
• Mages: tradition, Arete, the nine Spheres, Quintessence and Paradox
• The Imbued: creed, Conviction, the Hunter virtues and Edges

https://preview.redd.it/4krs89ovmhah1.png?width=1905&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b2a2d110218cdf50c5692ce64f601a6ef36a212

What it does

• Tiered power: Fledgling through Methuselah, each splat with its own ladder, scaling everything from trait budgets to generation bands
• Splat-aware everything: backgrounds, merits and flaws are drawn from the right pools, so a Garou never rolls Herd and a Mage gets Avatar and Node
• Backgrounds that matter: the Generation background lowers Kindred down the generation ladder, Avatar raises a Mage's Arete, and the 14th-generation flaw does exactly what you'd expect
• Chronicle-aware ages: set your current year and embrace dates and ages fall in line; a 1901 game won't hand you a vampire turned in 1986
• Name-matched pronouns: every name is gender-tagged and gets guideline pronouns. No She/Her 'Davids'.
• Weapon Forge integration: generate an NPC with Firearms training and they'll be carrying a pistol; add Resources, Armory, or a specialty and that pistol becomes a shotgun or an assault rifle
• Three ways out: whisper the statblock to chat, drop it into a journal entry, or build a real actor sheet with disciplines, gifts, edges, backgrounds and weapons all populated as proper items
• Seeded and deterministic: the same seed always builds the same NPC, so a loadout you liked is reproducible. The NPCs aren't generated by LLM/AI so no need for an API key.
• A stylish UI: sharing the dark look of the rest of my WoD line of modules, with vampiric, lupine and arcane skins per splat

Built for Foundry V13 and the WoD20 system, but it should work for V14 as there is no incompatibilities as far as I can see. Unzip, drop the folder into your modules directory, and enable it in your world. Open it from the Actors tab, the scene controls, or Ctrl+Shift+F.

The only thing the module doesn't include are the rules text for what each power, merit or flaw actually does, cause copyright, so you'll still want the book or a wiki open for some details. What the Forge handles is the tedious part: assembling a legal, believable character so you can get back to the table.

Still early access but already works a charm. Available on the release tier for WoD modules. Hope you guys enjoy it!

Link: Patreon

Hello everyone. My friends and I (four of us total) are looking for Storyteller. Time-zone-wise, half of our group is in EST and the other half is in CST. We are relatively new to VTM 5e, but we all have long histories of playing other TTRPG's, so there should be no big issues there. Our first Chronicle didn't work out, but we all really like the characters we made and want to see them develop. We are happy to make changes to them so that they best suit another Storyteller's game so long as there cores can remain. If anybody is interested, or just wants to hear more details, feel free to comment or send a DM!

The Game: HavenMUD (havenmud.net port 2000) is a 1200s Dark Ages World of Darkness game featuring a custom d10 system, heavy vampire theme, and active GitHub development.

The Goal: Our current site is a bare "we exist" placeholder. We need a complete overhaul to transform it into a gothic landing page and a comprehensive documentation hub for our mechanics, systems, and lore.

The Role: We are seeking a web designer/developer to build this platform. There is also an opportunity to join the team as part of the regular in-game staff if desired.

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How to Reach Out:

• Discord:https://discord.gg/s9W2RjB
• Email: Admin@Havenmud.net
• Drop a comment/PM, or log in directly at havenmud.net port 2000.

For the longest time I have been fascinated by the medieval. Looking back, I think the first "gateway drug" for this obsession was the Redwall cartoon, when I was a little kid. Of course, Lord of The Rings followed not too far behind, various video games such as Mount and Blade, Assassin's Creed and of course Oblivion and Skyrim. In 2016, when I first started playing D&D, incidentally also the year I started to watch Game of Thrones (it is such a shame it got canceled after the 6th season), the general quasi-medieval setting of the game was quite a big plus in my books. I continued to play D&D, eventually venturing towards other systems and about 4 years ago I also got to play Vampire: The Masquerade for the first time.

Thus I was introduced to the franchise, or rather I realized it was a franchised, I was somewhat aware of the videogames, I knew some of the clans and I saw some pics and memes with Smiling Jack and Jeanette, but until I started playing, I didn't really delve that much into it. But then I did and I fell in love with both the game and its setting and I was aching to learn more about it and I was imaging how cool it would be to also see a medieval version of the game... and OH MY CAIN, it is a thing! I rejoiced in the fact that it existed, but for about three years, I didn't get around playing a single session of Dark Ages. I read on the lore, I fell in love with the whole Constantinople Saga, but I didn't knew any ST who runs it. Then Yuno met Horia and in turn I met Horia and we became friends with him and at one point he dropped the bombshell that he also runs Dark Ages, but he currently has a full campaign and does not know when he will get to play something with us as well. So it goes...

A couple of weeks ago however, one of my D&D players, who is also quite an experienced ST started a new Dark Ages chronicle and was gracious enough to invite me! So thank you Anca!

I played my first ever session, I am very much looking forward to play some more (in case anyone is wondering, I am playing an Old Clan Tzimisce Koldun and the chronicle is set in 14th century Wallachia + Transylvania), but until then I decided to write this piece on some of the differences I have perceived so far between the two systems and why I think that the assumption I have seen on my side of the internet, that Dark Ages would be less political then its modern nights counterpart is, frankly speaking a bit silly!

I hope you will enjoy this piece, I am going back to read a bit more on the lore and to plan for the next session!

Like can there be a whole family of awakened mages or that is too unlikely?