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Dresdenverse game using World of Darkness rules

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quentra:
So, I recently started playing WoD, and got to thinking. The settings are very similar (not exactly, but pretty damn close.) With a few rules tweaks (No Paradox, etc.), I can see playing a Dresden game with the rulesets as very feasible. Y'know, until the actual rules come out. 

Thoughts? Anyone tried it yet? I can't see it as being too 'out there.'

TheMouse:
You could end up with something similar, but it wouldn't be the same. Mind magic would be rather different, as would Life and Time. Several things that are easy to do with few consequences in Mage are difficult, have severe consequences, or both in Dresden.

When you get into the other supernatural splats, the differences start to stack up. Vampire would be okay at running Red Court vamps, but pretty poor for White or Black Court. You might be able to handle it by passing different Disciplines to different Courts, capping them differently, etc. I imagine that it'd take a lot of work to get things about right.

But if that stuff doesn't bother you, it could work. If your group is fine with hand waving away differences things could work out well.

Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
I think of the Blampires as pretty much analogous to the Nosferatu, but that's just me.

Jaroslav:
It can work, you just have to change the arcana a little. No more turning orange juice into gasoline or corn into flies for starting wizards. And things like the fate arcanum are probably going to have to go.

quentra:
Yeah, that's what I've been thinking. Changing a lot of the ways arete, quint, and the spheres interact. As for the Vampire side of things, I think just modifying the bloodlines into courts and giving them specific disciplines would help. Probably not gonna have a Werewolf sphere, and Changeling is gonna need a lot of modification, but Hunter works pretty well for the powered mortals, I think. Since black magic leaves a visible stain on your soul in the Dresdenverse, I'd probably introduce a humanity meter of some kind for Mages and Vampires.

I mean, yeah, I see Black Court as pretty much Nossie, and developing new types of vampire for the Courts isn't overly difficult. I mainly like the system since so much of it is already easily adapted to an urban fantasy setting, seeing as it is one itself. Also, I'm constructing the game using old World of Darkness rules, mainly because I haven't looked at the new ones. Is the system any better?

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