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Post by Probie Tim on Sept 28, 2015 7:32:04 GMT -8
Ever since the topic came up during the Mote of Sin game, I've been searching for a definitive answer as to whether the hair and nails of a WoD vampire continue growing after their embrace. The search has... not been fruitful. I found one line in the V20 rule book at the beginning of the section describing the embrace that stated a vampires looks are frozen in time as of the moment of embrace (I can copy/paste and cite references if needed) but I can't find anything else in the topic and one sentence seems less than comprehensive. I've looked through V:tM V20, V:tM 3rd edition, V:tR, V:tR 2nd Edition, V:tM Players Guide, V:tM Storytellers Handbook, and the V:tM Storytellers Companion.
If anyone has any older resources and can check them, that'd be great.
Personally, I would lean to hair and nails not growing, but I would allow a blood point expenditure to cause hair and nails to grow which would last past the daily sleep (same as the wound healing used when spending blood points lasts past the daily sleep).
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Post by mook on Sept 28, 2015 9:17:52 GMT -8
I'm not sure if it's even a factor, but the hair and nails of normal humans don't actually grow after death (the flesh just shrinks, so it looks that way). www.snopes.com/science/nailgrow.aspEDIT: Dammit! Pedantry-Ninjaed by whodo in another thread.
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Post by HourEleven on Sept 28, 2015 10:38:14 GMT -8
I think it's somewhere in one of the requiem supplements that talks about the body sort of freezing its state at the moment of embrace, locking in age, hair cut, nail length, etc. And while the vampire sleeps the blood "heals" the body back to that state. So if you have 18th century hair, you need a barber each evening to cut you back to modern.
I could be wrong, but I swear it's in something they put out, and that's how my group has always played it.
Led to some great role play moments of the pre-embrace ritual where a sire helped their childe prepare themselves for the state their body will be in for eternity.
Also, that's requiem and a lot is different between that and masquerade.
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Post by mook on Sept 28, 2015 14:48:22 GMT -8
Led to some great role play moments of the pre-embrace ritual where a sire helped their childe prepare themselves for the state their body will be in for eternity. I dig that. Only played a bit of V:tM in the '90s, just one game of many, but at the last 5-6 cons I've totally enjoyed the Dead Gamer's Society vamp games. Great fun.
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Post by HyveMynd on Oct 1, 2015 15:03:28 GMT -8
I distinctly remember Vampire: the Requiem saying that vampires return to their normal physical appearance, meaning how they looked when they were embraced, as the sleep each day. I can't for the life of me find the page now though.
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Post by sbloyd on Oct 1, 2015 15:14:45 GMT -8
I just read it recently in VtM too. Dunno where.
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Post by sbloyd on Oct 2, 2015 8:25:18 GMT -8
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Post by Probie Tim on Oct 2, 2015 10:39:42 GMT -8
Great link. I didn't know stack exchange had an RPG section.
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Post by sbloyd on Oct 3, 2015 19:09:47 GMT -8
I'd been meaning to pass that link along. Found it in a Google search a while back.
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Post by sovereigncitizenkane on Feb 16, 2017 16:01:29 GMT -8
So I can't seem to find it, but I remember there being a optional rule about spending a willpower to prevent some cosmetic changes from reverting, that way you're not stuck with a mullet come Gehenna.
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Post by akavidar on Feb 16, 2017 17:18:54 GMT -8
I didn't realize this hair thing was a problem for Skully.
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Post by sovereigncitizenkane on Feb 16, 2017 17:35:22 GMT -8
Turns out the rule I was thinking of is from Requiem.
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Post by Probie Tim on Feb 17, 2017 6:22:24 GMT -8
I didn't realize this hair thing was a problem for Skully. Pubes. They're out of control.
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