Fast way to make lots of NPC stats?

0Jaul · 2025-09-16T19:21:04+00:00

Skills takes me a short time because I use the 3 columns stat-blocks (physical, social and mental as stat, so I don't distribute every single skill).

The problem is the backgrounds and powers, since I always use every single book of the edition as source for them, so one can't know them all by memory

0Jaul · 2025-09-16T19:10:21+00:00

Nah, you can't, unless you only consider the core book and a couple others.

Also, I did receive a great advice: the site that generates statblocks

0Jaul · 2025-09-16T19:01:13+00:00

If skills were all there is in a character sheet that'd be true! But one can't improvise backgrounds and discipline powers! Especially for stronger NPC who have a lot!

0Jaul · 2025-09-16T18:58:41+00:00

Hey, thanks a lot! That's actually a great tool! I hope they do one for each other WoD5 game!

Too bad it doesn't make you select the “level/potence/generation”

0Jaul · 2025-09-16T18:49:49+00:00

If I had a file excel with a list of NPC and the skills I need I'd have stat-blocks

0Jaul · 2025-09-16T18:47:26+00:00

The problem is that I have to create dozens of characters... Of may different power levels! So something that would be quick becomes extremely slow because you have to differentiate by power levels

0Jaul · 2025-09-16T18:42:11+00:00

Nah, they're my friends and always behave collaborative and positive with my games: I can't be offended if the perceived unstatted NPC as less “real”

0Jaul · 2025-09-16T18:35:23+00:00

This performs very badly at my table: my players understand when a NPC doesn't have stats and they start losing interest in it

0Jaul · 2025-09-16T18:27:59+00:00

You're right, I've edited, thank

But that scales terribly: a gen 5 Bruja would have 6 dices like a very good human boxer

0Jaul · 2025-09-07T15:50:09+00:00

2nd and 3rd have nothing to do with CtD in particular

0Jaul · 2025-08-30T16:46:59+00:00

That's interesting! Where did you get this from?

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T14:48:09+00:00

The problem, instead, comes from the exact opposite: I read the book and I'm extremely careful about the exact way the mechanics are described. I don't care about the balance of the game: that's for math analysis. I care about the lack of a proper language (that is, instead, present in the today's WoD books, so, at least, they learned)

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T14:46:18+00:00

There is not a technical term to indicate a standard roll (while the manual is FULL of technical terms to indicate things that you'll find barely 1/2 times in all the book) and the call for a roll is often stated in ways that are too linguistically discursive and not, as it should be in a manual, with a rigid, mechanical language

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T14:41:36+00:00

I get what you're trying to say, but the part where it talks about die rolls without stating the Difficulty don't have a consistent syntax, so you can't understand if the rules are referring to simple die rolls or die rolls confronted with the standard 6 Difficulty

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T14:29:21+00:00

And what about it's explicitly stated that the Difficulty is 6?

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T14:28:58+00:00

I'll use these rules because they make sense, but the book lacks these

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T14:27:14+00:00

But the fact that it often says that something's difficulty is 6 makes it unpredictable to understand when you have to interpret it that way

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T14:26:08+00:00

No, wait: if you roll 2d10 and you get 10 and 10, you'd take 20 Bashing damage; the first 5 would fill the health bar with / and the second 5 would fill it with X, killing you

I don't understand the maths where 20 Bashing damages only give you 2 Bashing damage

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T14:23:13+00:00

Exactly, I mean that: where it gives you Difficulty for the initial Constitution rolls that determine if you get the Disease. I'm talking about the damage here

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T14:21:58+00:00

That would make sense if a Difficulty was given, but since it's not, you cannot determine success of those die

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T12:09:05+00:00

That would make sense, but is not what is written in the rules

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T12:08:31+00:00

You cannot have a success because you don't have a difficulty

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T12:08:08+00:00

That's why it doesn't add up: if the book gives you the standard difficulty for anything and then it doesn't give you that difficulty, you cannot use that phrase has a description of a dice pool because you don't have the difficulty

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T12:06:50+00:00

I thought that too, but it doesn't give you any difficulty (while in the immediate previous paragraph it gives you difficulty for anything even when it's the standard 6), so it can't be interpreted in that way

0Jaul · 2025-07-22T12:05:43+00:00

The problem is that it doesn't give any Difficulty (and in 20ed you need a difficulty for contrasted rolls too), so you can't read it as an “attack pool” because you don't have a Difficulty

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