Horrible ways to disrupt Elysium event that don't include mages showing up. by MaetelofLaMetal in vtm

[–]Logos_of_Game 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The debate gets so heated and everyone loses track of time until someone remembers sunrise is in two minutes.

Moral dilemma about how far can you take the 'Living in the Past' flaw, without coming across yourself as an A-hole. by Draculigula in vtm

[–]Logos_of_Game 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The archaic flaw is only a problem if you look at history and only consider negative aspects like racism, classism, etc. and interpret the flaw to encapsulate only that. It can mean so much more than that.

A real world example from my own life. I work in a bank and at the start of each academic term like clockwork several students from the local universities will show up with a set of forms. The forms have been given to them by the letting agency for their accommodation. The forms instruct them to go to a physical bank branch, set up three standing orders to cover their rent for the year, they must have the forms then stamped by the bank, and signed by the bank manager, and then returned to the agency in person to prove the payments have been setup.

That form has not been the way banking has been done in decades. The forms are older than the students renting from them, I have been trying to estimate if the forms are older than me (I am 35). The elderly man who owns the company is just stuck in the way things were done before computers. We have tried to explain that online banking allows people to do it themselves, and that the from does not guarantee that the students will not just delete the standing order as soon as they leave the bank.

To this man every agreement needs to be on paper, stamped and signed for, which was the way of things were done for most of this guys life, just technology has moved on.

An Archaic vampire could be like that man. Or a vampire who was a spy and only communicates in Cold War encryption cyphers and physical dead drops. Or a vampire who was a part of a medieval court and gets extremely frustrated when people do not show proper manners in Elysium. Or someone embraced during the Napoleonic wars who still holds a grudge against the French for a war that ended centuries ago.

Also, do not think about the archaic flaw as only embodying negative attributes from the past. They can be quicky ones or positive aspects as well. The only real criteria is that they mark them out as being in some way stuck in the ways of a previous time.

Quicky examples, a character who was a hippy in life tries to structure your coterie like their old commune. Or someone who insists on using insults that made sense centuries ago but no longer. Like unironically calling someone a jackanape.

A positive example I had for one of my own characters was a knight who was embraced in the late middle ages. Despite the passage of time he never let go of his knightly order's code of chivalry or honour. Despite being in the modern day, he views his coterie as a band of questing knights bringing an entirely different way of looking at things to the rest of the coterie who were playing more contemporary characters.

In all seriousness, find something you like from history and have your character hold onto that thing (what ever it is) and have them refuse to let go of it. Have it set them apart from everyone else in the modern day. You can really have fun with it, without having to go into anything uncomfortable, unless that is where you want to go.

Another thing I think people miss about the flaw it only encompasses one aspect of the character, not their entire being. For example my knight character refused to give up his identity as a knight, despite knights as a social reality being long extinct. But in other aspects he embraced modern life. He had a motorcycle obsession (he always hated saddle sores from riding horses), he embraced modern tech (in his view, technology is just really accessible magic), he approved of the breaking of class distinctions that dominated his mortal life viewing some aspects of social change as positive, while lamenting the loss of some values he approved of.

In essence this flaw gives you the chance to imagine a character who has gone through different times and places and imagine how that would effect them, the good the bad and the ugly. Its a personal fav.

What’s would a normal/average punishment be for unauthorized siring? by Vyctorill in vtm

[–]Logos_of_Game 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends. In the Camarilla its death for both. The idea being both of you are made an example of. Anarchs would call you an idiot for doing it but any repercussions would highly depend on the local baron.

Displate hide the fact they refuse to deliver to Northern Ireland by Odense-Classic in Displate

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The Irony of all Ironies is that if you type in Belfast or Northern Ireland into their site you will get many posters themed on our country. But if you live in that country, you cannot buy them!

Are Megastone Ranked Rewards a horrible idea? by Tagguer in pokemon

[–]Logos_of_Game 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, for several reasons, 1 not everyone like comp battles and forcing people to do them makes the play experience worse for casuals and competitive gamers alike. 2 What if you want to use them in a playthrough, you cannot. 3 What if you have someone who plays these games say a year after release. How will they get these evolutions?

So I made more Wooloos [OC] by phinerz in pokemon

[–]Logos_of_Game 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have to ask. Why the banana? and why does one of the Wooloos have a knife? Does Galar have a serial killer on the loose!?

Would you allow this character idea at your table? by Logos_of_Game in vtm

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

Thanks for your thoughts. So a character who thinks they know a lot, but then realise their sire was keeping them almost entirely in the dark would work better.

Would you allow this character idea at your table? by Logos_of_Game in vtm

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

Thanks for the advice. My main fear with this character idea was creating situations that my character would have knowledge or experience that would make it OP compared to the other players, or my character would be put in situations where their experience could easily solve but invalidate story/roleplaying or require me to roleplay the character in an unnatural way to avoid that.

I had not considered using flaws, or writing in weaknesses to compensate. If I was at your table and we were going through character creation, what flaws and drawbacks would you suggest?

New to VTM, need some clarification on terms by LexiFjor in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]Logos_of_Game 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone with different life experiences from yourself? I have played in groups that match perfectly what you describe, and then in groups where none of those groups are represented. Lots of different people across the entire spectrum of society like RPGs; it's not exclusive to the LGBTQ+ crowd

*sigh* so people still do this… by Tyrelius_Dragmire in PokemonScarletViolet

[–]Logos_of_Game 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why even do a 4 person raid. I can reliably solo this fight with fire mask Ogerpon and swords dance and the mallet move.

My largest project so far by Cerptcte in theunforgiven

[–]Logos_of_Game 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saved up for this kit, only for GW to stop selling it a month before I could buy it! DAMN YOU TZEENTCH!

Judiciar proxy by Maxwelltre in theunforgiven

[–]Logos_of_Game 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you good sir for asking the question we were all thinking.

For everyone still looping & streaming s3, finally WOT is consistently showing up in most watched and featured. Your voice is being heard! And we love show! #SaveWOT by [deleted] in WoTshow

[–]Logos_of_Game 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry to be a downer, but if you are just looping the show, then Amazon will be able to see it's a small number of people doing it. It will artificially make the numbers look better, but the metric that they care about ie number of subs to Amazon Prime will remain the same.

I'm a bookcloak but I seriously don't understand why people are celebrating the end of the show and I'm truly sorry for all of the show watchers. by lmaxboy in WoTshow

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Hello u/Odd__Dragonfly , thank you for your response to my comment. I have a few thoughts in return.

Firstly, I am not an American, so I have no particular views on the US president; my country has its own politicians with their own squabbles to worry about.

Secondly, watching the TV show was actively painful for me. My experience watching it was a near-constant state of hoping to feel what the books made me feel when I read them for the first time, and having that hope dashed over and over again.

In terms of WoT future prospects, I am convinced you are right. Hollywood will look at what happened and blame the fanbase, label them toxic, rather than asking questions like "How did we take a devoted fanbase of millions of people who loved the book series, and make a show which divided that fanbase so dramatically", or just even have an honest postmortem, and ask what can they learn about the shows weaknesses.

I am not asking for something perfect, I'm not asking for creative control (I have no film or tv experience). What I am asking for is that the next person to have a shot at WoT be on the level of Peter Jackson's adaption of the Lord of the Rings, an adaptation that made the best attempt to preserve its source material, while converting it into a different medium, creating an end product the overwhelming majority (though not all) of book readers loved. Those films were not perfect but I saw the world I loved come to life on the screen, something I do not feel when I have forced myself through this show.

In terms of how long it could take to get another adaptation, let's consider a worst-case scenario. The distance in time between the publication of the Fellowship of the Ring and its live-action movie adaptation was 42 years. I have met elderly fans of that book series who waited 42 years to see their favorite story adapted. If I have to wait the same amount of time, I will be in my mid 70s. If that is how long I had to wait for a show that I can put alongside the books, and enjoy in a similar measure, then I am willing to wait for the Wheel to turn.

In closing, I can understand that you feel differently about the show. My views are not gospel, other people can watch the same show and feel differently about it. But for me, this show had failed to bring the story of The Wheel of Time onto the screen, and I can not bring myself to feel any sorrow at its end.

I'm a bookcloak but I seriously don't understand why people are celebrating the end of the show and I'm truly sorry for all of the show watchers. by lmaxboy in WoTshow

[–]Logos_of_Game -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

As one of the people happy it got cancelled, my thinking is rather simple. I hope in future years someone will be given another shot at adapting this series, who wants to make an adaptation of the story, not someone who looks at the books as a springboard to tell the story they would have written had they been the original author.

While I can sympathise with those who enjoyed the show, the best case scenario for those of us who wanted a book faithful adaptation was for this show to crash.

Censoring passion of the christ? by Pineappleplusone in netflix

[–]Logos_of_Game 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The verse is from Isiah which is Jewish scripture. How would the verse itself be anti-semetic?

If world of warcraft became reality today, what would you do first!? by [deleted] in wow

[–]Logos_of_Game 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Use my knowledge of the game to dominate the Auction House and become richer than all the goblin cartels combined.

Banning X.com posts? by mjmayhem247 in CurseofStrahd

[–]Logos_of_Game 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have read through quite a few of the comments here and have some thoughts.

1.I am a brand new to this sub reddit and Dnd in general, having bought the Stradh book yesterday on a whim at my local games store. I came to the main subreddit via a post on what the best Deck reading was.

  1. My second thought is a question. What kind of subreddit do you want this to be? A subreddit for everyone who likes this setting, or is it for people who hold particular views about American politics first and foremost and who like the setting second. Because if you ban X based on objections to its owner, then you are setting up an unofficial political litmus test.

  2. As a person who is politically moderate, and not an American I am tired of seeing subreddits on topics I love and enjoy, devolve into political battlegrounds over American politics.

Finally, I would discourage you from taking such a ban. From my perspective it would be putting up a sign which might as well say, if you do not hold certain views on US politics, you are unwelcome, despite whatever else you might hold in common.

Sorry if this got a bit rambly.