Livejournal of Darkness

If there's anyone out there who wants a free PDF of the World of Darkness Storytelling System Rulebook, I suggest heading over to DriveThruRPG now.

I believe this discount is only for today, the 4th, so grab it while you can.

Scion: Hero is also part of the deal, albeit somewhat off-topic to this community.

Hey, I'm a Storyteller from the Saint Cloud region in Minnesota. I'm a huge fan of White Wolf and all the game's they have released (at least the ones that I have played in or looked over, which is most of them). I started out my gaming experience playing VtM and have been in love with the games ever since then. I currently am running a Changeling game right now at my local game shop (paddysgameshoppe.com) and am always interested in doing something more. I'm also playing in a Mage game that a friend of mine is running, playing a Moros Sphinx named Anubis, its a lot of fun. If any of you are in the Saint Cloud or even Minnesota gaming area, please drop me a line sometime.

Today's the third anniversary of the World of Darkness.

Thoughts?

Based on the searchword in the back of Changeling: The Lost, it's looking like the next World of Darkness game is going to be a remake of Hunter: The Reckoning.

So I've started up a new community for discussion of it, which can be found at wod_hunter.

Posted to wod_changeling, new_wod, and dangerousgame

It occurs to me that I haven't made a Changeling community yet (at least, not for the new Changeling). So I did. wod_changeling.

With my Werewolf game being currently on ice, we've decided to give Mage a try for a while. We’ve already played through two sessions. As usual, I’m keeping a couple of files on the game, but they’re all in German. I'll try and translate everything to the best of my abilities and post the results to these threads, feel free to check them out.

Rpg.net

White Wolf message boards

Shadownessence message boards

It's still a work in progress, and I intend to update the threads as often as possible.

Characters are called to a local cliff. Its height doesn't really matter, as long as it's a fairly vertical drop and almost certainly fatal.

A body lies at the base of the cliff, in a relatively inaccessible area.

At the top of the cliff, right on the ledge looking over the body, is a circle marked into the ground. Its purpose is uncertain, but footprints clearly show the corpse at the bottom was standing in it before he walked off the edge. In reality, the circle is the number 0. As the characters stand near the 0, either to investigate it or to observe the body, they are unknowingly photographed. This could be an automatic camera or the murderer, made invisible. The shot will bear a passing resemblance to the classic Rider-Waite image of "The Fool." This photo will be mailed to them sometime during the next week with the note "Fools." They'll probably be a little creeped out by being photographed without their knowledge, but will probably pass the "fool" comment off as an idle boast.

To the murderer, whom I will refer to as Trump, the characters identities aren't important: he will teach his "lesson" to those who show up to the crime scene, no matter who, and will continue until the Fool's Journey is complete roughly six months from now.

The best way to access the body, at least initially, is for someone to rappel down the cliff. Hopefully one of the characters will volunteer. As they proceed down, they will pass words which have been carved into the rock face:

Inexperience
Irresponsibility
Immaturity
Innocence

The body is nothing special, although the set-up works better if it's someone the characters are at least passably familiar with. It's mostly the red herring to draw the characters to the scene.

This is an ongoing experiment with an idea I've had for a while, with heavy inspiration taken from "Se7en." In this case, the Tarot's Major Arcana are used.

This chronicle is intended as a mortals chronicle, specifically for characters in law enforcement, within a government agency, private investigators, or similar positions. Adjust to taste.

Each attack happens once a week, on Thursday ("It must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays"). The second attack happens on a full moon, which is important for all sorts of astrological reasons. I say the second attack, because the first one is actually numbered 0, and is thus a sort of "prelude" to the rest.

The intent is for characters (representing the Fool) to gradually be made aware of the existence of the supernatural. They are taking the "Fool's Journey," the path to enlightenment (albeit the twisted enlightenment offered by the purveyor of this twisted passion play). This can serve many purposes, depending on where you want your chronicle to go. It can serve as a great way to segue the characters into become supernatural creatures themselves.

And so, we begin.

Okay, so I have been out of the gaming loop for about 13 years - when did Vampire the Masquerade get changed to World of Darkness: The Requiem. Nevermind - that's not the important question here. This IS the important question:

In the original gaming books for VtM (or at least circa 1993) Aleister Crowley and John Dee were listed in the history as vampires with all their stats and back story etc. - Which book was this and does anyone have a copy of it handy? Short of this - does anyone know if they (particularly AC) is listed in the same manner in the newer books and if so does anyone have THAT handy?

Las Vegas Weekly RPG Group, this Friday
Las Vegas Players!

Sorry to Inturupt, just one quick plug and I'm gone.

Looking for a good group to play in Las Vegas? We are looking to
organize a small group of Serious and Mature Role Players for a weekly game (either Fridays
or Saturdays, TBA).

Trial game (to see if everyone works well together) this Friday,
February 17th, from 4:00pm until ??, near the strip. Soda and munchies
will be present but feel free to add.

We are willing to run one of the following systems for this trial game:

Vampire the Masquerade

Vampire the Dark Ages

Mage the Ascension

Mage the Sorcerer's Crusade

or Demon the Fallen

(These are just for Friday’s game, this list can be added to for
continuing games, plans for Exalted and New World of Darkness are in the
making, plus other suggestions can be played)

Please contact us before 1:00pm, Friday, for directions. Be sure to
include contact information and if you have a preference or suggestion
for Friday's game. Please, only 17 years of age and over need apply.

dgcleveland@gmail.com