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advice on phasing out WoD in favour of the Dresden Files?
svb1972:
What exactly are your vampires doing that's out of balance and crazy.
Also, what are the other players playing?
What Gen are your vampires
What clans/powers do they have.
finarvyn:
--- Quote from: iago on April 02, 2010, 04:04:49 PM ---how do you phase it out? You end that game. Then you start another one.
--- End quote ---
This is exactly my first thought as well. Let your WoD campaign play itself out in the next few months and then gear up for a new campaign using the Dresdenverse. Let the players know that the new Dresden campaign will be similar in many ways, different in others. Let them know that the power structure will be different, as it's not the same world. In the meantime, let them enjoy their vampires.
beachhead1973:
hey, sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this, Army Reserves and Exams can be the witch's brew.
okay, i'm gunna cop to this right now, we do rotating GM, we do our own chapters to the story, I am GMing two people who know way more about the system than I do and who i am convinced don't actually know as much as they think they do, especially about combat.
XP has seen alot of back and forth in our group. Our expert-GM started our by dishing out 12-15xp after every session until our expert-vampire suggested he up that, which he did and the doubled again before cranking it back down. Lotta action don;t get me wrong, but that was wild. In my chapter, just concluded, for almost two weeks worth of game-time, i dished out between 40 and 50xp total at the end of the adventure and i was critisized for low-balling. whatever.
further I must admit I am more about telling a good story than rules which don't track for me. So WoD be damned, the story was about a business-type who stumbles unto some innate ectomantic talent and enslaves the ghost of a murdered 30s hitman who then acts as his ghostly assassin in order toc lear the way for a lucrative downtown building project.
generations is a new one to me. wish i had access to either of their char sheets...maybe i can scavenge...okay found his, she took hers home.
Okay background;
we have two players with vampire characters. our expert player has one and our newbie player has another. I will note, they are both trueblood fans. never seen it, but apparantly stuff from trueblodd tracks under WoD rules and stuff from Dresden Files does not. whatever.
okay, She has set herself up, as almost something like a white court vampire, she is "older" ballpark 300-500 years. more into subtle powers and keeps a "Stables" if you know what I mean. but she could also play red court Bianca style, so I think. alot of mental powers, dominate is one.
he is about 100 years old. and a dead ringer for red court IRL and in game. yes, he is, himself a "character". real drive for power in him. Khaibit bloodline. pre-vampire telekinetic abilities and pyrokinetic invulnerability. obtenebration, full shadow-play stuff, which is hard as hell to GM. He seems not to need to feed on people. at all. instead he can get blood points from objects. theban sorcery. obfuscate, celerity (move 60KPH without regaurd to physics it seems, three actions in a turn) makes him nigh-impossible to hit. vigor at 3 dots and starting from 5 STR. both fo those at speed of thought. oh and something called obtenenbration and blood tenbrous. man there is alot here, a bunch more stuff, smaller things mostly, those look like the highlights.
okay, i need to admit that i have not studied everything about these guys, obvious since i don't even have full access to their char sheets. I have tried to understand it all, but it;s alot to keep straight, I just shoot things, or try to.
But i figure, why not convert? i see two reds, a junor-harry like wizard, a more subtle-magic witch, a corrupted human, hooked on vampire blood and the on-call human thug power with counter-goon capability.
svb1972:
OMG
I don't know about her.
But him?
He's playing a total cheese character. I mean.. A block of smoked gouda wrapped in velveta, topped with cheese whiz.
First off, the exp they're giving out is crazy. It should be 10-15 xp per adventure, not session.
Obfuscate, Celerity, Blood Sorcery, Shadow Magic(obtenetration), + human kinetics, and he's immune to certain types of fire?
Vigor 3? He's built himself a superfast, hard to kill, mage of doom. Who doesn't even need to hunt.
You need to look up their Clan weakness. Khaibit is a subclan of the Mehket whose weakness is that they take /extra/ damage from Sunlight and Fire.
I don't know about her, but he's bought all sorts of cheese with all his EXP. You're basically starring at a Munchkin character.
Moriden:
looks like you've got someone whos took whatever powers he felt like from Nwod supplements without having to make it actually make any sense. Part of the problem is Nwod is just a bad system, but most of it is he grabbed things for there mechanical benefits that usually had extreme price tagsor restrictions attached to it with out having to deal with those things. id strongly suggest simply scrapping the entire game and starting over with a new rules set. As a note generation is a old world of darkness thing since it sounds like you people are using Nwod they'll have blood potency instead. one of the flaws of this is that if its over 6ish they are prone to randomly falling asleep for several hundred years. feel free to invoke this isf he gets upity and wants to use thing son his charecter sheat "as writen"
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