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Post by Houndin on Jul 31, 2013 17:51:50 GMT -8
I was in my garage the other day and found a milk crate with all my oWoD books in it. My first printing of WtA (the paperback one with "see page XX" sprinkled liberally throughout), my Year of the Hunter books, my untouched Wraith books. None of my friends ever wanted to play it.
I'm feeling nostalgic for my old Werewolf games. Would anyone be interested in playing?
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Post by Arcona on Aug 1, 2013 5:59:20 GMT -8
If you are interested in Play by Post I advise having a look in MythWeavers forums. There is an active and quite strong WoD Community though I myself am not a huge fan of Werewolf.
Also if you go to the White Wolf forums (a pale semblance of their good old self with the online games etc) you might find some G+ games in the relevant forums. I have seen a few games advertised/take off in the Vampire and Mage forum that way.
And yes, they do have support for the 'old' WoD games so you can find Vampire Requiem AND Vampire Masquerade forums for example.
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Post by sbloyd on Aug 3, 2013 6:08:18 GMT -8
He'll yes I would be interested in playing. Working on a one shot for the next jackercon, myself. Never got to actually play oWOD, unless you count one bad night at a Larp.
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Post by sbloyd on Aug 3, 2013 6:08:37 GMT -8
Damn autocorrect.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Aug 3, 2013 8:14:05 GMT -8
He'll yes I would be interested in playing. Working on a one shot for the next jackercon, myself. Never got to actually play oWOD, unless you count one bad night at a Larp. ONE BAD NIGHT AT A LARP. That should be the name of a con game.
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Post by sbloyd on Aug 3, 2013 8:31:05 GMT -8
Or a fiasco play set.
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Post by maxinstuff on Aug 3, 2013 17:06:50 GMT -8
You could name it - 'Fiasco At The Atrocious Larp'
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Post by D.T. Pints on Aug 3, 2013 21:41:44 GMT -8
I still have my Chicago by Night book and also the FATAL like illustrations of Milwaukee by Night.
Growing up in the outskirts of the "rust belt" it always felt like a perfect place to set a vampire game and werewolves in the corn fields. Then the girls with black lace and dark eye shadow showed up and then we knew we were REALLY into something. There's some god damn nostalgia!
Then the LARPers invaded my bio lab...but that's a story for another day.
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Post by Houndin on Aug 4, 2013 6:04:04 GMT -8
Yeah some of the illustrations in the old White Wolf stuff can't be unseen...
I never played an oWoD LARP, but I I played in, and ran several long term Werewolf games. I've started reading the nWoD core book and the mechanics I've seen look very similar, but I haven't looked at the new werewolf book to see how badly they've been nerfed.
In WtA the Garou (werewolves) were absolute combat monsters. The hard part was figuring out and executing solutions to problems other than 'rip it apart'. More than one 'let's sneak in and surprise them' was blown by an enraged werewolf ripping a door off because they missed one too many lock-pick rolls.
The biggest problem I found with oWoD was how unbalanced the games were relative to each other, but if you stick to only one game's mythos and mechanics everything works fine. At least how I remember it.
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Post by sbloyd on Aug 5, 2013 4:48:30 GMT -8
They always said they weren't meant to cross-over... But then they shoehorned all that werewolf stuff into Mage, the bastards. That being said, I ran a short set of games with a garou, a vamp, a sluagh changeling, and a Mage about twenty years ago. Damn, was I stupid.
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Post by Arcona on Aug 5, 2013 4:59:03 GMT -8
Generally from the three main systems (Mage, Vampire and Werewolf) it was obvious that:
In a direct combat situation a Garou can take them In an indirect combat situation a Vampire can take them Given preparation a Mage can take both of them and their families and their clans and their children too... and not break a sweat.
Still the games were not meant for cross-overs. Maybe as Antagonists but in general the 'others' were better used as Antagonists (so Cammie chronicle can use Sabbat as antagonists or just other Cammies, a Garou chronicle can use spirits, Pentex and what not and a Mage Chronicle can use Technoncracy or Nephandi etc) and cross-over things could be used as temporary flavor from time to time.
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Post by muntjack on Aug 10, 2013 6:59:45 GMT -8
Werewolf was never my favorite, but I do have nostalgic memories of playing one of my first WoD games as a rock band of werewolves. Fun times.
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Post by ericfromnj on Aug 22, 2013 9:10:23 GMT -8
Never played OWoD outside conventions and one LARP back in the mid 90's.
Always seemed to play Malkavians, including one who thought he was a Jedi Knight.
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Post by heavymetaljess on Aug 22, 2013 9:32:48 GMT -8
In the free-form online RPG community you could always easily spot someone playing a WoD werewolf. They would frequently use stat numbers (which no one cares about in that community) to justify their ridiculous lack of storytelling partnership. It really turned me off to WoD games until I read some of the books and realized it was a player problem and not a system problem.
Always wanted to play Changeling or Hunter, but no one in my town played them. I don't know how I never got involved in a Vampire LARP. I never even knew it was a thing until I heard some "actual vampires" making fun of the girls doing it.
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