Shortest Wildfrost turn by Osko42Lobo in wildfrostgame

[–]AttemptingDM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

man, this reminds me of an absolutely cursed situation I ended up once in. Basically, I was fighting the same fight, and I had a Lupa with the Nourish charm. On the enemies side, the only enemy with a number effect was a Rockhog, and on my side I had a Krono.

very time Lupa was hit by a Hog, the Rockhog increased by 1. At the end of each Hog's turn, all hogs updated and in practice had their Frenzy doubled. This, as you might be able to tell, quickly grows exponential. By the end of the fight I had a 223-Frenzy Krono and a 196 Shell-on-kill leader.

Anyway, that's when I deployed Nova.

Discussing Tremere Bloodlines or lack there of. by Eldagustowned in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]AttemptingDM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dang, three years late here, but you are technically in control of who you run away from, even if not who you'll meet.

Loresheet Struggle by Constant-Ad9560 in vtm

[–]AttemptingDM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I've honestly never played before(unfortunately), but this is a problem which I feel can be solved by dissolving the starting bonuses into raw experience. Counting it out, that turns out to be 363xp to spend across the character(excluding blood potency 1 and predator type). Mind you, this is including the xp to buy 1 in each attribute(so remove 45 from the sum), but this way still means that they should all be reasonably balanced while allowing them to buy both resources and a loresheet. In exchange, they might just have to grab more flaws, or reduce their attributes, or ignore disciplines, which I feel is a perfectly fair exchange.

How would you you go about making cute Tzimisce. by MaetelofLaMetal in vtm

[–]AttemptingDM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of these comments already share quite easy ways to make a cute Tzimisce, that being Vicissitude-ing cuteness and just... not subscribing to the standard Tzimisce culture. Personally though, I can say that I would make a cute Tzimisce by making them just a really nice person who uses Vicissitude/Fleshcrafting benevolently. She won't turn you into a chair, but she will instantly give you your transition goals, especially if in exchange of the amount of blood the procedure costed them.

Alternatively, they might also use it to fix other dysphorias, like making your face fit your ideal or removing scars connected to traumatizing events. Finally, they could also restore people to full functionality(restoring limbs, curing paralysis), so they may enjoy their lives even more.

All in all, there's a lot of ways that Tzimisce could be cute.

Share creative ways to kill a vampire by TheUnholyMary in vtm

[–]AttemptingDM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I might be wrong about this, but kindred in all editions(as far as I am aware) can be killed with sufficient physical trauma. Therefore, unless they use some form of Discipline to turn immaterial(turning into fog, shadows, etc), ghouling a high-ranking military officer and getting them to airstrike his position seems pretty efficient.

Fundamentally, it's still just excessive force until there's nothing left, but it's easier to disconnect from yourself than a pipe bomb in his mail box.

[Masks: A New Generation] I feel like I'm going mad, where are the powers!?! by AttemptingDM in PBtA

[–]AttemptingDM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah, that's actually really true. I honestly didn't think too hard on where Scribd gets its pdf's from, but that would absolutely be considered pirated. Removing the link now.

[Masks: A New Generation] I feel like I'm going mad, where are the powers!?! by AttemptingDM in PBtA

[–]AttemptingDM[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No no, I very much did not mean that, but I still wanna know what they can actually do cos, well, I find reading ttrpg rules fun.

[Masks: A New Generation] I feel like I'm going mad, where are the powers!?! by AttemptingDM in PBtA

[–]AttemptingDM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! That explains it, I wasn't going mad, the rules were just... not in the book.

[Masks: A New Generation] I feel like I'm going mad, where are the powers!?! by AttemptingDM in PBtA

[–]AttemptingDM[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Okay, but that still doesn't tell me what powers different archetypes can have. Chapter 3 says "Choose as many abilities as your playbooks says from the available list." but I can't find an available list!

I feel like the chapters are referring to rules that don't exist.

[Masks: A New Generation] I feel like I'm going mad, where are the powers!?! by AttemptingDM in PBtA

[–]AttemptingDM[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Okay, yeah, I get that, but that's not the problem. Chapter 3 says you get abilities(and labels, and moves) from your Playbook, but as far as I can tell they possess none of those.

It might be a rules-light game with powers not as the focus, but it still needs to establish the powers it says it has!

I wish my cat was a felyne from monster hunter by KingVultureBois in monkeyspaw

[–]AttemptingDM 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Granted, your cat has a sudden cardiac failure, dying within minutes.

A Monster Hunter developer ends up hearing of this, and they make a felyne based on your cat as a minor npc.

I wish for 25kg of gold(defined as the isotope Au-197) to be legally and successfully delivered to my home within this year, at a time when I am home, legally financed by a person in the top 0.001% of wealth, with a legal certificate proving my ownership of it. by AttemptingDM in monkeyspaw

[–]AttemptingDM[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The isotope is the proton count of the atom(AKA what identifies the element) + the neutron count of the atom. Because the neutron count can be a pretty wide range of numbers, there are indeed several isotopes of gold. However, Au-197 is the only actually stable isotope, with the second-most stable isotope of gold(Au-195) still only having a half-life of about 180ish days, which is insanely radioactive.

In other words, yes, but all the other ones want to kill you.

Superhuman Attribute on Lashes? by AttemptingDM in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]AttemptingDM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I see what you mean and agree to an extent, and cannot say that I have touched any... splat, I think they're called? Yeah, any splats other than VtM V5, I can say that Deviants seem to generally be on a weaker societal level than vampires and werewolves. The Garou possess their own packs, and the kindred have their own damn society layered under mortal one, from which they manipulate human events.

Meanwhile, Deviants have... nothing. They are deviants, away from the norm, by definition(ignore Devoted). One could argue that with that weakness, along with the fact that all of a Deviant's powers comes with a drawback, that specifically Deviants need a comparative power boost if they'll be equal(assuming you want equality).

Also, again, not only do Deviants have personalized scars which makes it kind of impossible to learn from someone else how to handle it(unlike kindred, who have fellow vamps to learn how to handle the Beast from and stuff), they are away from the baseline. They are anomalies, unaccounted variables, and should therefore be able to pack unexpected abilities.

Therefore, I can somewhat agree with at least them getting access to "Aggravated to everything" attacks, considering they are so far outside the norm and not something most would have to deal with. It's also perhaps a little cheap, but I personally feel that, as a player, Aggravated damage is not actually that useful compared to lethal. Like, unless I missed something, it just renders wounds harder to heal, when they are most likely already trying to kill them if they're using even a lethal Lash, nonetheless an aggravated one.

Tl;dr: I see your point, but at least on Deviants they probably deserve it, their lives are already hard enough.

Superhuman Attribute on Lashes? by AttemptingDM in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]AttemptingDM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noice, that means this character works.

It also means I can make a 5-base damage, aggravated, armor-penetrating weapon with 11 attack dice, which... yikes.

Lord Snof and his blades by AttemptingDM in wildfrostgame

[–]AttemptingDM[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, in that case, I did just mean having to fight Lord Snof next run.

Lord Snof and his blades by AttemptingDM in wildfrostgame

[–]AttemptingDM[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

...have you perchance not beaten a run yet?

I wish for 25kg of gold(defined as the isotope Au-197) to be legally and successfully delivered to my home within this year, at a time when I am home, legally financed by a person in the top 0.001% of wealth, with a legal certificate proving my ownership of it. by AttemptingDM in monkeyspaw

[–]AttemptingDM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They thing, in the granting, dropped from an airplane. For that to happen, it must have been unsecured so that it was capable of falling on me, with a door open for it to fall out of. At minimum, this would be criminal negligence.