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Snowman0147 · May 14, 2019, 01:05:59 AM

Hey now Doc. Let us not diss Nightbane. It is a pretty good game in its own merits.

S'mon · May 14, 2019, 03:09:07 AM

Only play-a-monster horror game I ran was NightLife, splatterpunk not personal horror. Great setting & NPCs. I ran it using AD&D though.

Xisiqomelir · May 14, 2019, 03:19:18 AM

Did people really take that example Brujah scene as the approved canonical way to play Vampire:tM?

So literal boot-shod punk vampires in leather with dyed hair and facial piercings in every coven? That sounds unbearably tedious.

Spinachcat · May 14, 2019, 04:55:47 AM

I haven't seen a RPG that achieves "personal horror". The closest was the Realms of Chaos for Warhammer 1e. In RoC, there were rules for your PC to follow the Chaos gods and eventually become a demon....but you gave up pieces of your humanity along the way, pieces that you really needed to hold your mind together on your road to demonhood because without some glimmer of sanity, you'd fall into the madness of mutation where you'd just become a barely sentient slave to Chaos.

I would not enjoy a weekly campaign where our PCs were devolving or desperately trying to dodge devolution. However, I think it would make a great card game or board game.

Mordred Pendragon · May 14, 2019, 10:24:47 AM

Quote from: Snowman0147;1087750Hey now Doc. Let us not diss Nightbane. It is a pretty good game in its own merits.

I may play Nightbane, but not as a substitute for World of Darkness without personal horror.

Otherwise, that would be "Some Other Game" and the Goths and Punks at RPGnet and Onyx Path Forums would win.

Chris24601 · May 14, 2019, 10:32:42 AM

My only issue with Nightbane is its pretty one note without pulling in other elements like Beyond the Supernatural.

My preferred WoD setting is Mage. Less Personal Horror, more Philosophical Knife Fights in a secret war to determine the nature of reality. I've used vampires plenty in it, but only as adversaries (there's invariably a weighting towards Hermetics so throwing in Tremere schemes is always fun).

Delete_me · May 14, 2019, 11:29:53 AM

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1087780I may play Nightbane, but not as a substitute for World of Darkness without personal horror.

Otherwise, that would be "Some Other Game" and the Goths and Punks at RPGnet and Onyx Path Forums would win.

The people you do not like already "won" if you're focused on trying to piss them off instead of actually playing the game you want to play. Just play the game you want to play.

HappyDaze · May 14, 2019, 11:55:42 AM

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1087780Otherwise, that would be "Some Other Game" and the Goths and Punks at RPGnet and Onyx Path Forums would win.

Trying to play WoD in the way that you describe sounds very "punk" to me, so you're in danger of becoming your own villain. They've already won if they can control your gaming habits in this way.

HappyDaze · May 14, 2019, 11:56:33 AM

Quote from: Tanin Wulf;1087789The people you do not like already "won" if you're focused on trying to piss them off instead of actually playing the game you want to play. Just play the game you want to play.

Shit. Didn't see this post before my own response. We apparently see this one pretty similarly.

tenbones · May 14, 2019, 11:56:52 AM

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1087715Ah, but running WoD in a way that removes personal horror is an act of resistance in and of itself.

We must trigger the Goths and Punks. We must own the Goths and Punks.

If I play "Some Other Game", I am caving into their demands and letting them win.

Doc,

They've already won. If you want to *really* resist - create a new game that will win the hearts and minds of people you want to play that game. I mean, sure you can play their game any way you want - you bought it. But they ultimately got what they want from you. You're not getting what you want from them. Nor will you ever.

Using their game in some unintended non-conventional manner isn't going to change that fact. You cannot remove the turd from the barrel of fine wine and pretend the wine is still "fine". It's not. Make a new barrel of wine and shop it around.

tenbones · May 14, 2019, 11:58:51 AM

LOL everyone beat me to it...

Ratman_tf · May 14, 2019, 12:08:47 PM

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1087743fuck Nightbane!

Yea, now it's on. Fuck you you weaboo faggot!

Mordred Pendragon · May 14, 2019, 12:40:34 PM

Quote from: Ratman_tf;1087796Yea, now it's on. Fuck you you weaboo faggot!

To be fair, I only said "fuck Nightbane" in the context of being "Some Other Game" to be played in place of playing WoD

Spinachcat · May 14, 2019, 02:11:13 PM

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1087803To be fair, I only said "fuck Nightbane" in the context of being "Some Other Game" to be played in place of playing WoD

To be fair, you stuck your head up your ass!

Now go buy Nightbane as penance.

I suspect you'll be a Palladium fan in about 20 minutes of reading.

Opaopajr · May 14, 2019, 02:18:28 PM

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