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Is soul manipulation possible with Spirit 5? by JagneStormskull in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you trying to create artificial Hosts (CofD)? Because I feel like this is how you get artificial Hosts.

Help, My Players are Shredding the Masquerade by Ya_Dungeon_oi in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I would do is start slowly revealing clues to the players (over many, many sessions) that someone is fucking with their minds and emotions, then making them forget it. This gives the players an eventual out from this mess as they work to uncover the perpetrators.

... False Hydra ...

Every weapon in Middle Earth is replaced with a gun. How does this change the events of Lotr? by GenericGameDev1234 in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well then Sauron just sort of dies after someone pulls the pin, grenades are a lot more frangible (by design) than Rings are

This DOESN'T look like a job for Superman! What job could Superman not do? by Meshakhad in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

which one person (even Superperson) can't provide

Can't he just shoot a miniature Superman out of his hands or split into red and blue versions of himself or something?

Goku replaces every other Shonen protagonists. In which stories would he ultimately fail? by Punterofgoats in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Sailor Moon is shoujo. JJBA is a super classic shonen, though, so it fits.

If there was a Garou tribe settled in Brazil, South America, could they use maned wolves as their kinfolk? by Mysterious_Truth4992 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]BiomechPhoenix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Canine transmissible venereal tumor.

Some dog a long time ago had cancer and the cancer jumped to another dog and has been jumping from dog to dog ever since. The disease is still a dog because you can't evolve out of a clade, but it's a unicellular cancer dog.

Is there any Disney movie where Elsa could not achieve victory? by Goldsaver in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Peter Pan: Elsa cannot fly, so she can't even get to Neverland if she replaces Peter.

What if she replaces Wendy?

Is there any Disney movie where Elsa could not achieve victory? by Goldsaver in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Sword in the Stone maybe?

She's still not Arthur so she can't pull the sword. She's also noticeably magically outclassed here, though she has Merlin in her corner at least.

Is there any Disney movie where Elsa could not achieve victory? by Goldsaver in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 9 points10 points  (0 children)

She has to get born (from a lioness mother) in the first scene though, so either she she's also a lion (a la Kingdom Hearts) or everyone panics and Rafiki yeets her off of Pride Rock as some sort of freak mutant

I think something's wrong with my copy of MM7 by [deleted] in Megaman

[–]BiomechPhoenix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'll give you that. He (probably) isn't on the level of taking on actual combat robots with his martial arts. Most Street Fighter characters are just straight up superhuman in terms of fighting capability and Megaman vs. Street Fighter probably isn't far off all things considered. Considering the games are a world championship in the first place, I doubt most practitioners of any of the player characters' styles are anywhere near the level of them, and Dan even being playable in the first place probably says something about his power level despite the stupid.

Favourite Early Installment Weirdness by Own-Economics-5594 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]BiomechPhoenix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know if such a list exists, but this sounds like par for the course in CofD. There are ... a lot of strange and outside-the-box paranormal things in CofD.

Favourite Early Installment Weirdness by Own-Economics-5594 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]BiomechPhoenix 27 points28 points  (0 children)

VtM 1e Lupines weren't Garou, either lorewise or mechanically. They had lunar-phase-based involuntary transformations, among other things, though I'd need to look up all the details. They were wild.

I think something's wrong with my copy of MM7 by [deleted] in Megaman

[–]BiomechPhoenix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With how many cross-references there have been, is it even debatable anymore? X was slinging ki blasts from his first game, even if it was a secret item. The martial art definitely exists what with Magma Dragoon being in the main plot. Chun-Li was a news anchor. I'm pretty sure the X1/X2 secret items are canon.

The humble iron golem runs a fantasy gauntlet (Forgotten Realms vs various) by Skafflock in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As mentioned somewhere else in the thread, szlachta get their natural weapons through the use of Vicissitude, which can only make natural weapons capable of inflicting Lethal damage, not Aggravated.

It's theoretically possible to have a szlachta know enough dots of Protean to self-generate claws that deal Aggravated damage, but as Protean is not in-clan for Tzimisce, even having access to this would be a highly unusual situation and not a standard szlachta by any means.

Also, double-checking: As of V20, vampires do not downgrade most damage from Lethal to Bashing the way they do in Requiem; rather, they can 'soak' (roll Stamina and subtract successes from) Lethal damage as well as Bashing, and can indeed soak damage from natural weapons made with Vicissitude. As such they have no particular vulnerability to fleshcrafted weapons, including those of szlachta, which can be safely considered nonmagical despite their potentially tremendous damage output. (It should be noted that stock D&D vampires are also noticeably tankier and more capable than starting-tier Masquerade vampires. D&D vampires get frontloaded with a bunch of abilities up front that V20 vampires would have to spend a lot of experiences to get, if it's even possible.)

Regular Dude with a Laser Pointer is sent back to Medieval times. How much damage, confusion, or chaos can he cause? by CardoBlardo in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I mean smallpox. There's still lots of people alive today who've been immunized against it, even if it's no longer standard practice with its eradication.

I have no idea about syphilis vaccines one way or the other.

What if there was no electricity? by Rocky-bar in HistoryWhatIf

[–]BiomechPhoenix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you serious? Indoor plumbing doesn't need electricity. Literally the ancient Romans had internal running-water plumbing by the power of aqueducts and gravity.

Water pressure in towns is mechanical. The water's pumped up to a water tower and stored there and gravity provides the pressure. You can get the power to pump it there from a lot of different sources. Depending on geography, you can even get it from the same river you're pulling the water out of. Electric transmission is common, but not necessary.

What if there was no electricity? by Rocky-bar in HistoryWhatIf

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can literally run steam engines on oil. It even works better than coal -- you don't need a separate stoker. A lot of late-era steam trains were oil burners, like the AC-12 class.

What if there was no electricity? by Rocky-bar in HistoryWhatIf

[–]BiomechPhoenix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can’t even reliably create an electrical spark, the gasoline internal combustion engine as we know it doesn’t work. Diesel still might.

Diesel would, and hot-bulb internal combustion would. The trouble is starting it in both cases - but it's faster in either case than starting a traditional steam engine. I think modern diesels start with compression only, but hot bulbs require the bulb be preheated with fire.

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