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[WarDragon]

I believe I expressed interest in the Infinite Macabre game last time, and would still be interested. Would you allow non-canon splats in it?

 

[Grey]

You did, but I'll need to be fairly fuckin' sold on a custom splattered.


Answers for the rest of Ye come afternoon. Skari, I have no doubt you'd turn up a solid concep

 

[Kaerri]

I voted for Werewolf and Infinite Macabre, but I realized afterwards it's nWoD and I know very, very little of that. Most of my experience is with the old systems. (By "most," I mean "I've played a were-horse in the nWoD, but that's it," so I'd need to learn a lot of rules and culture/background/lore.)

 

[SephirothSage]

For the Bureau for Inhuman Activities!


Edit: But I'd play whichever one you ran- they /all/ look like awesome good fun!

 

[TacoMann]

Indeed, they all look fun! But I'm here to protect my kind from things they really don't wanna know! I wanna know things I don't wanna know! Iz good!

 

[CrawlingChaos74]

If it's possible I'd like to be a backup for the werewolf game incase someone isn't able to play..

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• Personal Details
• Attributes/Skills
• Merits/Renown
• Gifts/Rites/Totem
• Stats in Flux/Shape
• EXP

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  Name: Kain Brigham
  
  
  Gender: Male
  
  
  Age: 26
  
  
  Description: A young caucasian man of average height with black hair and brown eyes. He doesn't seem to have any noteworthy features and tends to fade into the background.
  
  
  
  
  
  Virtue: Prudence
  
  
  Vice: Greed
  
  
  Auspice: Irraka
  
  
  Tribe: Hunters in Darkness
  
  
  
  
  
  Kain was taken to an orphanage in a nearby city after his home town was destroyed in a natural disaster. Because his parents were unknown and no one came to claim him, he became a ward of the State. The orphanage became his home and while understaffed he was taken care. Kain would often slip out of the orphanage and explore the nearby streets and alleyways. While this did get him in trouble, it often taught valuable lessons in what street life was like.
  
  
  When he reached maturity he decided to set out on the road instead of staying in the city. Travelling wasn’t easy and he often resorted to stealing to make it through his travels. His first change came upon him after being chased through a forest by a group of men for trying to pickpocket one of them. When the change came he easily avoided them and slipped away deeper into the forest. Unknown to Kane however he had caught the attention of a nearby tribe of Hunters in Darkness who brought him into their tribe.
  
  
  
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  Intelligence: 2
  
  
  Wits: 4
  
  
  Resolve: 2
  
  
  Strength: 2
  
  
  Dexterity: 3
  
  
  Stamina: 2
  
  
  Presence: 1
  
  
  Manipulation: 3
  
  
  Composure: 2
  
  
  
  
  
  Athletics: 2
  
  
  Investigation: 4
  
  
  Larceny: 3 (Lock picking)
  
  
  Medicine: 3
  
  
  Stealth: 3 (Shadowing)
  
  
  Streetwise: 2
  
  
  Subterfuge: 2 (Lying)
  
  
  Survival: 1
  
  
  Weaponry: 2 (Knife)
  
  
  
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  Ambidextrous [3]: Your character does not suffer the -2 penalty for using his off-hand in combat or to perform other actions.
  
  
  
  
  
  Danger Sense [2]: You gain a +2 modifier on reflexive Wits + Composure rolls for your character to detect an impending ambush. This kind of roll is typically made prior to the first turn of a surprise attack.
  
  
  
  
  
  Fighting Finesse (Knife) [2]: Pre-Requisite: Dexterity 3 and Weaponry 2.
  
  
  Your character prefers to fight with a chosen weapon in a manner that favors agility over power. With that one weapon (a rapier or katana, for example), you may substitute your character's Dexterity for Strength when making attack rolls. This Merit may be purchased multiple times to gain agility with more weapons, one for each purchase.
  
  
  
  
  
  Purity: 1
  
  
  Glory: 0
  
  
  Honor: 0
  
  
  Wisdom: 1
  
  
  Cunning: 1
  
  
  
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  "][1] Soundless
  
  
  Cost: 1 Essence
  
  
  Dice Pool: Dexterity + Stealth + Purity
  
  
  Action: Reflexive
  
  
  Using this Gift, the Irraka can strike in a single moment of blessed silence. Claws tear through flesh without a sound, a victim's mouth strains to form a scream that will not come. Though the moment of silence is fleeting, a cunning Irraka can turn it into a great opportunity. This Gift must be invoked during the Irraka's turn.
  
  
  Dramatic Failure: The Gift fails, and the Irraka is rattled by its failure. The Irraka suffers a -1 penalty to the action in question.
  
  
  Failure: The Gift has no effect.
  
  
  Success: The Irraka's turn happens in complete silence. If he tears the leg off a victim, the victim's scream is without sound. If he fires a gun at point-blank range, the report is inaudible.
  
  
  Exceptional Success: If the Irraka's target survives, her next turn is also spent in complete silence, preventing her from crying for help.
  
  
  
  
  
  "][1] Feet Of Mist
  
  
  Cost: 1 Essence
  
  
  Dice Pool: This power requires no roll.
  
  
  Action: Reflexive
  
  
  Sight and sound are not the hardest senses for a werewolf to defeat, but even a bloodhound would wear its nose out trailing a werewolf with Feet of Mist. The werewolf's scent fades to near-imperceptibility. All attempts to track or detect the werewolf by scent are automatically at a -1 penalty, even when this Gift is not active. By expending a Willpower point, the werewolf intensifies the penalty to track or detect her to -3. The character may consciously suppress this power if she wishes to lay a normal scent.
  
  
  
  
  
  "][1] Partial Change
  
  
  Cost: None (or 1 Essence)
  
  
  Dice Pool: Stamina + Survival + Primal Urge. The player has the option of rolling this dice pool, with the intended change occurring if even one success is achieved. In this case, the change is an instant action. Or, he may spend one Essence for his character to change automatically as a reflexive action.
  
  
  Action: Instant or reflexive
  
  
  This subtle Gift allows a werewolf to transform only the parts of himself that he needs in order to complete a task at hand. For example, a werewolf in Hishu form might transform only his nose in order to track someone through the city streets by scent, without drawing the attention to himself that transforming into Urhan would attract. Conversely, a werewolf in Urhan form might transform his eyes to human to gain sharper color vision.
  
  
  Dramatic Failure: Another feature of a different form is assumed instead of the one intended (the Storyteller decides which). Human onlookers are subject to Lunacy as if their Willpower is two dots higher than normal.
  
  
  Failure: No change occurs.
  
  
  Success: The werewolf chooses which parts of himself he transforms. The result might allow him to use certain abilities normally restricted to other forms (such as tracking by scent or using claws in Hishu; the Storyteller decides what modifiers transfer over). Though he may change as much or as little as he wishes, the choice is final. To add or subtract any feature requires another use of the Gift (so "undoing" features also requires another application of the power). The Storyteller decides if and how any human onlookers might spot the character's features and potentially suffer Lunacy. If it is triggered, normal rules apply and subjects' Willpower is considered one higher than normal.
  
  
  Exceptional Success: The change occurs as a reflexive action without the expenditure of an Essence point.
  
  
  
  
  
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  TBA
  
  
  
  
  
  Pathfinder's Sense: As scouts for the Forsaken, the Irraka have an easier time recognizing spirit influence. Irraka receive two bonus dice on the roll to look from one world to the next or to perceive ephemeral spirits, or on the roll to determine in which direction a locus lies while within its area of influence.
  
  
  
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  Health: 7 (+2 Dalu Form, +4 Gauru Form, +3 Urshul Form)
  
  
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  Willpower: 4 (4/4)
  
  
  Primal Urge: 1
  
  
  Essence: 7 (7/7)
  
  
  Harmony: 7
  
  
  
  
  
  Size: 5
  
  
  Defense: 3
  
  
  Initiative: 5
  
  
  Speed: 10
  
  
  Armor: 0
  
  
  Perception: 4
  
  
  
  
  
  Strength[+1]: 3
  
  
  Stamina[+1]: 3
  
  
  Manipulation[-1]: 2
  
  
  Size[+1]: 6
  
  
  Defense: 3
  
  
  Initiative: 5
  
  
  Speed[+1]: 11
  
  
  Armor: 0
  
  
  Perception[+2]: 6
  
  
  
  
  
  Strength[+3]: 5
  
  
  Dexterity[+1]: 4
  
  
  Stamina[+2]: 4
  
  
  Size[+2]: 7
  
  
  Defense: 3
  
  
  Initiative[+1]: 6
  
  
  Speed[+4]: 14
  
  
  Armor: 1/1
  
  
  Perception[+3]: 7
  
  
  
  
  
  Strength[+2]: 4
  
  
  Dexterity[+2]: 5
  
  
  Stamina[+2]: 4
  
  
  Manipulation[-3]: 0
  
  
  Size[+1]: 6
  
  
  Defense: 3
  
  
  Initiative[+2]: 7
  
  
  Speed[+7]: 17
  
  
  Armor: 0
  
  
  Perception[+3]: 7
  
  
  
  
  
  Dexterity[+2]: 5
  
  
  Stamina[+1]: 3
  
  
  Size[-1]: 4
  
  
  Defense: 3
  
  
  Initiative[+2]: 7
  
  
  Speed[+5]: 15
  
  
  Armor: 0
  
  
  Perception[+4]: 8
  
  
  
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  Experience
  
  
  Total Banked XP: 0
  
  
  

 

[Grey]

Forsaken is probably the single most accessible game I know, so don't you worry for a moment

 

[CrawlingChaos74]

Forsaken is probably the single most accessible game I know, so don't you worry for a moment

Really? It seems kind of complex from what I've seen, though I haven't taken an in-depth look at it yet.

 

[WarDragon]

You did, but I'll need to be fairly fuckin' sold on a custom splattered.
Answers for the rest of Ye come afternoon. Skari, I have no doubt you'd turn up a solid concep

For the custom splat, I've really been wanting to try Dragon: the Embers. However, a quick Google search reveals it's undergone some changes since I last looked, and it seems to be pretty obscure.


As another possibility, Genius: the Transgression seems to be pretty stable and has good reviews. If neither of those grabs you, I suppose I would go with Mage.


Some of Werewolf's ideas intrigue me, but I don't have the book, nor money to drop on it right now.

 

[hellrazoromega]

Really? It seems kind of complex from what I've seen, though I haven't taken an in-depth look at it yet.

While not as easy as systems like Savage Worlds or Fudge or a number of 'universal' systems, the Storyteller system in all it variations is one of the easiest systems there is. You want complicated look at some of they systems Fantasy Games Unlimited did back in the 80's Space Opera and Aftermath will give you a whole new definition of complex. Games like Chartmas--er Rolemaster and Leading Edge's Phoenix Command System were also complicated due to the insane amount of charts. Games on the Phoenix Command System had a book that was nothing but charts!!! As bad as those were Aftermath and Space Opera, while fun games ruled the roost for complicated--an Aftermath character took about 4-6 hours to make if you knew what you were doing and a Space Opera Character 1.5 to 2 times that. But I guess complicated it relative as almost any game today is simple of you played almost any game from the 80's (With the exceptions of game like Toon or the Ghostbusters RPG) so to an old fogey gamer like me most every game today seems simple :tongue:.


Why in my day we had to make our characters in 5 feet of snow while walking uphill--both ways--and we liked it!!! **he said in his best "old man" voice.**:cool:

 

[Foolish13]

Got two concepts depending on the game's setting, perhaps you guys could help select which one I should finish stating.

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Character model:

Nas
For super urban, in the middle of a city, we have...Swift Claw. A Cahalith Iron Master (Farsil Luhal) who had been saved from death alongside agang he used to run with in one of (sadly) many shootings by visions of the City and the Moon inspring him on the night of the shooting to script down a song as his crew left him behind to enjoy their last moments at local fast food outlet. Swift found himself being guided into one of the few natural areas in his neighborhood where he started rapping the song, which slowly turned into almost musical grunts and howls as he underwent his First Change. He could see the spirits around him, trying to get closer as he howled out loud to the moon, but they could not get any closer for the young werewolf was in the middle of a Ward, one that repelled spirits and humans, set up by the neighborhood's local Pack. The next day, Swift woke up to the sight of gang of 6 people looking over him, each one from a completely different way of life, each one of them unique, and yet...they were One, Whole, something that his gang never was. Then the woman spoke and he found himself listening like his life depended on it. The tale was one he vaguely remembered howling, that he found himself speaking alongside her to the rest of the gang's surprise and the woman's satisfaction. She continued and told that under no terms was he allowed to return stay on their territory, his gang had been killed because someone was looking for him specifically, she did however, guide him to a place where they could teach him to take advantage of the city's apparent interest in him, a Tribe of curious wolves, interested in the new world that humans had built for themselves.





Character model: Skye Sweetnam


She's the other concept, Winter Song, an Ithaeur Storm Lord (Iminir), a rather strange one at that. As far as anyone was concerned, she was always that strange, growing up being able to sense spirits would do that to a kid, but things got even worse when her relatives visited from time to time, the spirits around her all fled screaming unintelligible words, but it was clear that her relatives terrified them to an amazing degree. Her First Change, thanks to her connection with the spirits made it so much worse than it had any right to be, and by the end of that hellish night, she found herself in a cell in the local police station, smelling of soot and blood. Her family and her home had been burnt down to ashes the previous night, and as the sole survivor, she was under suspicion, her ranting and raving in her sleep when they had brought her in about living moons and angry suns did not help matters either. That night, her Relatives came by and quickly got her out, dragging her away from her destroyed life and into one that honestly terrifies her. However, she kept it hidden as she tried to emulate her Relatives' stoic outlook...it didn't work, and after a particularly heated argument, she snapped. Coming to the next day, she found herself in a cave, with a dangerous man who introduced himself as her grandfather. He offered her a chance to exercise the weakness out of her body and soul, and to become part of a Tribe that would forever make her strong.

 

[Skari-dono]

My current idea is a Cahalith, but I'm not sure on the tribe yet (leaning towards Bone Shadows). The man did not want to work the family farm, but rather become a teacher and help the students become the best they could be.


When he woke up beside two of his student torn apart, he ran. He knew this was his doing, he had dreamt it enough times before. He was found by others like him and they helped him. Now he teaches other kind of students to be the best they can and he strives for the same, but he will never forgive himself for the deaths he caused.


Might work some more on this.

 

[Foolish13]

Ah, if you're doing a Cahalith then Skari, I guess I'll be heading full force into my Ithaeur Storm Lord.

 

[Red Shadow Claws]

Then I think I'd play a Rahu Iron Master. From a young age, he was very physically strong, and in a country fair he saw two booths one next to the other, of a woodworker and a metalworker, and was fascinated both by their bulging muscles, as by their use of said strength to bend wood and metal to their will, and into new shapes. As he grew up, he joined wrestling and other sports teams, to build his strength, while he occasionally took some classes in woodworking and metalworking, to learn more on how to emulate the guys he saw at the fair.


Years later, when robbers burst into a country fair he went to, he lost it, and woke up later, with the two guys he met years ago, covered in blood, and they explained to him the mantle he has finally gained.

 

[Grey]

I consider Werewolf to be super accessible because:


1. Werewolves know their heritage


2. Werewolves have a purpose in the world


3. Werewolves have a territory


4. Werewolves have a pack


5. Each pack member has a role


6. Modern day setting


That, to me, makes it amazing for new or inexperienced players - instant group cohesion, everyone gets spotlight, and there's a defined location for the players to get attached to. It's also really good for first time GMs for much the same reasons.


Game will be set in Wicklow, Ireland. Only one character actually has to be Irish.


Forsaken are actually more numerous than Pure in Ireland.


I will probably take some stuff from the Idigam spoilers and extrapolate here and there - I might use the new Harmony, for example.


There will be a forum shortly, but the game might start for some time.


Runner Up





Infinite Macabre and Bureau will happen 'ere long, so don't lose hope you guise.

 

[Red Shadow Claws]

A hot-headed irish werewolf? count me in!

 

[Bardiel]

Wicklow, huh? Guess there'll be wolves in them there mountains...

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That makes the game super creep already.

 

[hellrazoromega]

I
Infinite Macabre and Bureau will happen 'ere long, so don't lose hope you guise.

Sweet, I'd be down for Bureau.

 

[Grey]

So eight people voted Forsaken,


Get in here and make yourselves known so I can make you fight over slots/cherry pick.

 

[CrawlingChaos74]

One of those is me. I didn't notice that it said multiple votes allowed, so when I reread it I added a vote to Forsaken.

 

[Bardiel]

Got an idea for a Kerryman.

 

[Inquisitor]

Like I said, I'm down for this.

 

[Red Shadow Claws]

As noted above, give me some Forsaken!

 

[Grey]

Oh, and for those who were interested in Infinite Macabre: http://www.roleplay.zone/threads/the-infinite-macabre.53448/#post-717158


@Kaerri Would you still like to give Forsaken a try?

 

[Alexandra]

Got an idea for a Kerryman.

Literally heard that in your voice.


I'll be watching this with much interest ~