WOD / Vampire the Masquerade

[d_knight7]

Just a little thread to discuss pre-2005 White Wolf RPG stuff.

Talk about cool campaigns you ran/played in, fave books, that kind of thing.

I personally ran a werewolf game for YEARS, that turned in to a cool mixed WOD game with players playing all kinds of things like Mummies, Were's, Mages etc.

I was involved in a pretty cool Dark Ages game, where the plan was to work through all the Dark Ages adventures, through Victorian and in to the modern nights. It was pretty cool, but sadly I moved 5k miles from my friends so a tough gaming commute ;)

Fingers crossed for finding a cool GM in Dallas :cool:

[EmperorNorton]

The rebooting of the WoD was the stupidest decision by a gaming company ever.
The decision of either having my collection of 100+ books made obsolete or just not buying the new stuff was one of the easiest in my life.
Sadly even without moving 5000 miles away I don't seem able to get a gaming group together, as for some people it turns out to be impossible to arrange having a free evening every couple of weeks.

[JackAssterson]

I really enjoyed the WoD.

I LOVED the Trinity universe timeline, but unfortunately the only people who bought it were me and some guy in Buffalo.

[d_knight7]

My old group was pretty cool for getting together, we'd play most weekends, sometimes for both days, with us crashing on couches for all nighters.

The problem was more quality of players. One of the guys was pretty cool, we'd split most of the GM'ing duties. The other two guys though... the term 'filling the seats with warm bodies' really comes to mind :grin:


So, roll call of honor(infamy)

Werewolf/WOD:
Storyteller for about 6-7 years
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Glasswalker for a few weeks

Vampire:
Dark Ages Ventrue Knight
Modern Giovani Elder

Mage:
Akashic Brotherhood

Changeling:
Troll

[d_knight7]

I really enjoyed the WoD.

I LOVED the Trinity universe timeline, but unfortunately the only people who bought it were me and some guy in Buffalo.

Ah, well that's not WOD, it's a separate WW entity.

My friend had it, I played a bit. I was one of those physical powered guys, I was melded in to one of those bio-mecha suits that had camo I remember, but I used it to cover me in a full body union jack flag, and had speakers on the shoulders.

Bit of a section 8, even slept in his armor.


If we're talking non-WOD WW stuff I LOVED Ars Magica to pieces, but didn't get to play much because you really have to be a highbrow type with an interest in medieval history to dig it, not a lot of those around.

[EmperorNorton]

Back when I was still in school we played a lot, too.
After we left school I ran my greatest campaign, an adaption of Arthurian legend for Changeling: The Dreaming, but people moved away to University before it really took off.

[d_knight7]

Back when I was still in school we played a lot, too.
After we left school I ran my greatest campaign, an adaption of Arthurian legend for Changeling: The Dreaming, but people moved away to University before it really took off.

I'd be interested in some specifics of your campaign if you'd care to share.

It being Changeling, was it kind of Fisher King like?

[EmperorNorton]

I'd be interested in some specifics of your campaign if you'd care to share.

It being Changeling, was it kind of Fisher King like?

I'm afraid most of the details have been lost (or at least I don't know where my notes are).

The basic idea was to have an epic setting with a war like the one that sets the scene at the beginning of the Arthurian legend. Redcaps from the north were attacking the Changeling fiefdoms in England, the inhabitants of which brought in Trolls from Scandinavia to help but then couldn't get rid of them again.
In that time of turmoil a king should rise to unite his people and the players were supposed to accompany him and play through several adventures inspired mainly by Malory.
However, the group fell apart shortly before the sword was drawn from the stone...

[coyotejack]

Man....I had a lot of fun with the old WW stuff. I used to run an online game on AOL back in the day. My favorite characters I had were a Nuwisha (were-coyote, duh) and a Kitsune. :)

[hail_eris]

The rebooting of the WoD was the stupidest decision by a gaming company ever.
I was especially baffled by their reasoning for it. "Well, you can't maintain a coherent narrative with a looming apocalypse that looms forever..." Why on earth not? It works for every single one of the world's religions. They've all got some kind of end times story and I haven't seen a single one of them arrive yet. *sigh* Some of the stories were halfway entertaining reads, though. The Ascension story in the Mage line was maybe the most engaging (and true to its source material) of the lot. Gotta say, though, that the rise of the Methuselahs was fun to behold as well.

[Heathcliff]

I enjoyed playing in a Werewolf campaign that used stuff from the other product lines. I never cared much for the revamp (pardon the pun), and haven't played anything WOD related in a long time except for the V:TM PC game that came out a few years back, and a game of RAGE: CCG every now and then.

[houdinimachine]

I've played a Nocker in a Changeling game, a Lhaksmist Euthanatos in a combined Vampire/Mage game and previously a Brujah in that same game. (Let's just say he was a cop before he got turned... and when the police turned on him, he lost his cool... and obliterated most of the police department before having the back of his head blown off by a combat shotgun.)

[Haroudo Xavier]

I also ran games for YEARS. :)
But I have to say I really didn´t like Werewolf and Mage after the first edition, to me it lost appeal.
But I really enjoyed Vampire, Wraith and later, Kindred of the East. In the end, I have ran at one year campaign of every of the 5 big books, except Changeling.
And I was a vampire LARP player (a bully and scheming Toreador, who managed to overpower the city NPCs by committing several Diablerie and then they decided my character should be killed or turn onto a NPC) also for a few years.

I disagree with EmperorNorton. The nWoD is a much better game, in every aspect. And if you want to keep playing the oWoD, well, there is plenty of books and background to work with, despite the inconsistencies, broken rules, set in stone stereotypes, etc. WW made the boldest decision I saw a company doing in all my life: they sacrifice part or their player base to make something better. That required a lot of guts.

[d_knight7]

I disagree with EmperorNorton. The nWoD is a much better game, in every aspect. And if you want to keep playing the oWoD, well, there is plenty of books and background to work with, despite the inconsistencies, broken rules, set in stone stereotypes, etc. WW made the boldest decision I saw a company doing in all my life: they sacrifice part or their player base to make something better. That required a lot of guts.

I always saw it as "Well, we've sold them 3000 books, and we're down to Dark Alliance Nebraska or Vampires of the Carter Administration for stuff left we haven't covered, time for a reboot!"

[Shadowlost]

Loooooove WoD. Both new and old. Werewolf is my fav. All 5 tats are wod.

[The Arachnid]

The rebooting of the WoD was the stupidest decision by a gaming company ever.
The decision of either having my collection of 100+ books made obsolete or just not buying the new stuff was one of the easiest in my life.



I've played since 1st Vamp. And I have to say: I applaud what WW did. They've been harping on 'The End' coming since the beginning. To have all the signs and portents showing up and NOT having show up would have been pointless for several campaigns and source books. Atleast the books you have arent invalidated. Especially the Dark Ages stuff. Which I like alot more than the modern age. Less likely hood of some punk I munch in an alley being a Garou or Technarch.

[The Arachnid]

I really enjoyed the WoD.

I LOVED the Trinity universe timeline, but unfortunately the only people who bought it were me and some guy in Buffalo.


I have 90% of the Aberrant line. And I don't live in Buffalo. So, theres 3 of us!

[EmperorNorton]

Atleast the books you have arent invalidated.
True, but they lost a lot of monetary value, which bugs me a little.
Especially concerning the limited edition Storyteller's Guide and the Guides to the Sabbat and the Camarilla.

[JackAssterson]

I have 90% of the Aberrant line. And I don't live in Buffalo. So, theres 3 of us!

Hooray!

We now live in the opening year of Aberrant.

/is old :ermm:

My main regret is that they never got around to doing an Aberrant War sourcebook before they line went kerplooey.

[petenbailey9]

My tenure in WOD was that of a catiff and Silent strider in DA WW. Fun times.