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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:16 pm

Slasher is one of the coolest freakin' RPG books I've read in awhile. And that is exactly what I'm building the mini-campaign around.

Post by **Breakdaddy** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:46 pm

You could easily do up a damned fine Dresden Files game with WoD. THAT I would play in with a quickness!

CKDad · Post by **CKDad** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:47 pm

DangerDwarf wrote:
If I start dressing like a whiney emo punk somebody drive on out to Texas and slap me please. I'll try not to cry all angsty-like.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

No problem. Southwest gets me most of the way there, and I've done the West Texas drive before. May have a couple of Twilight punks strapped across the hood when I get there, though.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:12 pm

Breakdaddy wrote:
You could easily do up a damned fine Dresden Files game with WoD. THAT I would play in with a quickness!

Hell yeah.

Right now just working on a short game where the players are all employees at a rural childrens home where a 15 year old girl gets brought in who turns out to be a slasher.

Also considering using WoD (Hunter specifically) to run a X-Files type game revolving around the VASCU (Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit).

DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:14 pm

CKDad wrote:
May have a couple of Twilight punks strapped across the hood when I get there, though.

Dude, bring them and a +2 Cane of Ass Beating and I'll be cured!

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:35 pm

Geist has been tempting me, but I have resisted so far.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:53 pm

Geist, Promethean, Mirrors, Urban Legends...

They've got several titles I'm eyeballing.

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:05 am

HAHA!

I think you once gave me sh-t about liking/playing nWoD.

I knew you didn't understand the power...

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Hrolfgar · Post by **Hrolfgar** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:06 pm

DangerDwarf wrote:
Dammit. I'm starting to be taken in by the nWoD books. Will likely even begin running a side game in the coming weeks.

If I start dressing like a whiney emo punk somebody drive on out to Texas and slap me please. I'll try not to cry all angsty-like.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

checks calendar not april 1st this must be real.

Tell us your not wearing black nail polish yet.

Benoist · Post by **Benoist** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:10 pm

Promethean is great. Not for a beginning GM, but it's by far the most original title of the NWoD. Read it. Own it. Tweak for great campaign. It's a beauty.
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Joe · Post by **Joe** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:15 pm

DangerDwarf wrote:
I know. Sad, aint it?

I've got to give the system more credit than I initially did. Looks fairly nifty though with White Wolf's stuff, I generally prefer reading their books to actually using them.

Not going all supernatural critter gaming though, going to use it to run a mini horror campaign where the players are just average citizens who wandered into some dark and evil shit.

I have always wanted to play a game like this! You know actual horror rather than a superhero hidden behind trappings of horror.

I too have enjoyed reading the books but found the actual game play to be a dissapointment as they never came close to the potential of the game.

Make it your own game bro!
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:20 pm

Hrolfgar wrote:
Tell us your not wearing black nail polish yet.

Nope, not yet. I did trade in my blue mascara for black though.

DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:21 pm

Lord Dynel wrote:
HAHA!

I think you once gave me sh-t about liking/playing nWoD.

I knew you didn't understand the power...

Ummmm......guilty.....

DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:22 pm

I dig that so far it appears they have ditched the meta-plot of oWoD and pretty much let you do your thing.

serleran · Post by **serleran** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:40 pm

That is a step in the right direction. I must admit the title Slasher sounds appealing... but I might be presuming to assume. Do you play the role of movie-style stalker? Or, do you face them down?
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:44 pm

Either or Serl.

It is designed to give Hunter characters a nemesis or you can use it to create a character. They even include a pretty Slasher character sheet.

It is pretty damn sweet with different archtypes of slashers represented.

There are Avengers, Legends, Brutes, Masks, Charmers, Psychos, Freaks, Mutants, Genuises, and Maniacs.

A lot of pretty damn cool stuff in the book and it weighs in at a little over 250 pages of slasher goodness.

Omote · Post by **Omote** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:45 pm

Yes.

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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:50 pm

From the Slasher description:

Theres a different breed of killer out there. They arent driven by the need to drink blood or the pulse of the full moon. They kill because they have to, because murder is the only thing they know. Will you hunt the slashers or join their ranks?

A Chronicle Book for World of Darkness and Hunter: The Vigil

A grim exploration of the slasher phenomenon: why are some humansincluding some huntersdriven to kill? How can some of them shrug off bullets or ignore an axe to the skull?

A look at a new hunter conspiracy driven to investigate, huntand hopefully arrestsupernatural serial killers: the FBIs VASCU, or Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit.

Learn how to use slashers in a story both as antagonists and as anti-hero protagonists. Examine the cruel Undertakings of the slashers of the World of Darkness.

New weapons in the fight against slashers as well as new slashers in the fight against everybody with a pulse. Includes new equipment, Tactics, Merits, and Endowments (including VASCUs psychic Teleinformatics abilities).
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Joe · Post by **Joe** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:58 pm

Ok so NWOD is difeerent from oWOD?

How so?

Same company?

I remember seeing Monte Cook was going to do some WOD stuff but I never paid attention.
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:00 pm

Well, if I see Slasher in a store, I'll pick it up. Might as well give it a second chance.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:03 pm

Same company.

I can only comment on what I've read and that is some Hunter: the Vigil stuff and some Vampire: the Requiem stuff.

Changed up the core rules to a degree. Need the World of Darkness book for the core rules. The other books build off the core rules.

Gone is the meta-plot. More of a horror setting now. Vampires don't all come from Cain any more. They don't really know how the first vampires came into being. It leaves a lot more room for the GM to develop the hows and whys of the world and preferably leave it a mystery.

It is basically your world of darkness now.

SigilWraith · Post by **SigilWraith** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:07 pm

I have used the core nWoD rules twice... both times for a one-off evening. Both went smashingly well!

The first was a SIlent Hill type of game for three players. It was incredible!

The second, since the nWoD core book handles mortals so well, was in conjunction with the Reliquary book for an evening of Indiana Jones, which I damn-near built an ongoing campaign around, and still might!

The rules are simple yet fast'n'fun, and even tho my players initially cringed when they heard it was my system of choice to run Indy, they quickly saw why I had made the decision, and it was actually one of the better fits for Indiana Jones I have personally ever played. YMMV of course......

Shenron · Post by **Shenron** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:02 am

I am a huge nWOD fan, have a lot of their books.
It is a great system
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Sir Ironside · Post by **Sir Ironside** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:07 am

Breakdaddy wrote:
You could easily do up a damned fine Dresden Files game with WoD. THAT I would play in with a quickness!

Yeah that would be cool, but my affinity with the FATE system had me giggling when Evil Hat finally released The Dresden Files rpg.

It has been promised almost as long as the CKG.
As far as White Wolf goes, the few nWod games I have played have been a lot of fun, and I certainly do not mind the system. Easy and fitting for the WW worlds.
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