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    World of Darkness: The Weird Little Monster We Love and Hate

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    • shit-piss-loveS
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      Honorable Mention to the runner-up Malkavian stereotype, I Think I’m Caine.

      About once a year in one of the longer-running oWoD LARPs, when we were moving a new “season” of plotlines, we’d do a Weird World of Darkness night where the plots and NPCs we’d roll out were strange stuff that didn’t fit with the rest of the continuity. Really Bad Santa, The Feaster Bunny, etc.

      One year we did 5 NPC Malks who were all variations on I Think I’m Caine and PCs got to pick which ones they wanted to help “win”. True to form, this led to one of the bloodiest nights we ever had.

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        @shit-piss-love We all know the real Caine is just cabbie that’s just vibing.

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            @WhiteRaven I feel like I remember seeing that in Dark Age Vampire. Man, I really miss Dark Age Vampire.

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                I sometimes think I would like to play Dark Ages: Mage, but then I think about how long my character would go between baths and my skin starts to crawl.

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                  @GF said in World of Darkness: The Weird Little Monster We Love and Hate:

                  I sometimes think I would like to play Dark Ages: Mage, but then I think about how long my character would go between baths and my skin starts to crawl.

                  So long as you remember that the Dark Ages is before the enlightenment, so the 9 spheres don’t exist actually, and it’s a lot more like sorcerer. As for baths, obviously give yourself a geas that requires you bathe regularly. Now you’ve got a flaw/extra bonus points, which gives you proper hygiene!

                  edit to add: ALSO OPEN DARK AGES: FAE! And maybe wyrm, too, for the lulz.

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                    @Jennkryst Yeah, I’m aware of the mechanics of DA:M. It’s the big draw for me. I know it kinda works in the meta that every Tradition was eventually forced to conceive of magic through a Hermetic lens, but I like the other Traditions having their own ideas, and I like the magic system in general being a little more narrative in nature.

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                      @GF said in World of Darkness: The Weird Little Monster We Love and Hate:

                      I know it kinda works in the meta that every Tradition was eventually forced to conceive of magic through a Hermetic lens

                      Eh, not… really? I mean, OOCly, sure, because real world science helps explain IC stuff. But each tradition does view it through their own paradigms and junk. This is why different traditions might have a rote for a spell that other traditions don’t (though in oWoD, a Rote is just a -1 on the difficulty of the spell, if memory serves? THEN AGAIN, you can also ‘aim’ your spell with a skill roll, and the whole idea of getting rid of a focus with each Arete raise means you are learning that traditions and paradigms are all an illusion, all that matters is knowledge and will, and oh god, how did we end up discussing mechanics?!?)

                      AHEM.

                      But yeah, totally pick up that geas, give you a reason to go meditate under a waterfall while naked or whatever.

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                        GF @Jennkryst
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                        @Jennkryst said in World of Darkness: The Weird Little Monster We Love and Hate:

                        Eh, not… really? I mean, OOCly, sure, because real world science helps explain IC stuff. But each tradition does view it through their own paradigms and junk.

                        Their paradigms are mechanically indistinguishable from a Hermetic one, using Hermetic concepts like Spheres and Arete but with a different shirt, like the difference between Mario and Luigi. I think that acting as if Hermetic isn’t the magical default is bad game design; I think the fancy term for it is ludonarrative dissonance.

                        DA:M doesn’t make a new magic system for each Fellowship, but it does enough to make me feel better about them.

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                          @GF I believe the idea that they didn’t bathe that often in the dark ages only applies to certain locations and is something of a myth overall. IIRC bath houses were a thing exported by the Romans to much of Europe.

                          Then again, it’s WoD, so of course it’s nastier and darker than reality.

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                            If you’re a Mage and not using magic to shower you’re doing it wrong.

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                              @shit-piss-love said in World of Darkness: The Weird Little Monster We Love and Hate:

                              If you’re a Mage and not using magic to shower you’re doing it wrong.

                              THIS, also. Because also remember, the reason that the Technocracy exists and invented SCIENCE was because the other wiz-nerds built mage towers and flaunted their majikz over people.

                              … or something like that.

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                                The Technocracy were the only actual heroes of oWoD.

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                                  @shit-piss-love Ohh, I’m now fascinated by that hot take. Tell me more.

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                                    @WhiteRaven said in World of Darkness: The Weird Little Monster We Love and Hate:

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                                        @Testament said in World of Darkness: The Weird Little Monster We Love and Hate:

                                        @shit-piss-love Ohh, I’m now fascinated by that hot take. Tell me more.

                                        The Technocracy’s position is that reality should be dictated by the unconscious consent of mortals. Everything else is a Reality Deviant seeking to exert nonconsensual force in the pursuit of their urges and/or agendas. Are their methods, uh, suspect? Maaaaaaaaybe.

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                                          Eh, Technocrats and Traditionalists are about equally prone to fascism. I reckon the Disparates would be just as bad if they had the numbers and/or organization to be.

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                                            @GF Yeah it can be awkward if you’re not used to it, trying to take the MtA game mechanics that are all written Hermetic-first, and try to play an Etherite or anything else with them.

                                            But it can be done. It just takes more work than just being able to talk about ranks of Ars Stuckupica

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