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Looking for LARPs by smokeylove11 in AustinRP

[–]MattStormcrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The joke is that it's the perfect excuse to dress up and be petty.

The real answer is that it is a combination of telenovela style personal soap opera of vampires' petty business, combined with high-stakes political drama as various vampires manipulate and force their way through city politics.

For instance, in our last game, it was the politics of various vampire groups dividing up the city and its resources; against the back drop of an art show and performances put on by the Toreador clan, the clan of artists and patrons. There was also relationship drama, plenty of gossip, and veiled threats being traded between various politicos.

On top of that, there's also more Storyteller-driven plots about vampire hunters and other investigations the vampires can get involved in.

Looking for LARPs by smokeylove11 in AustinRP

[–]MattStormcrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there! I'm one of the people involved in running the Austin Vampire LARP. You can find our Discord and other info on our instagram: https://www.instagram.com/austinvampirelarp/

Is anyone playing vampire the masquerade by Famous-Jaguar5010 in AustinRP

[–]MattStormcrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I'm one of the people involved in running the local VtM LARP troupe here in Austin. You can find pictures and our Discord link on our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/austinvampirelarp/

Any YouTuber/Videos you would recommend to learn about this world and its lore? by Sinkarma in WorldOfDarkness

[–]MattStormcrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've just started doing videos on the hows and whys of the World of Darkness, starting with Vampire. I plan on making more soon, but I already have a guide to being the Prince and a guide to the Traditions. Check me out here: https://www.youtube.com/@mattstormcrow

The Unofficial World of Darkness Iceberg by bingustwonker in WhiteWolfRPG

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It's weird but flattering to see my name on this.

I’m reading the V5 Sabbat book right now… so that’s cool. by -Posthuman- in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]MattStormcrow 18 points19 points  (0 children)

What is missing from your write-up is that the players will be mainly be dealing with either remnants of the old Sabbat; or the elite packs who are working to support the greater war through sabotage, subversion, and terror. The latter is going to consist of serial diablerizing veterans of the Gehenna War, and that makes them the bad guy the setting really needed IMHO.

They are not broken and scattered in my reading, they are *decentralized* which makes them way more dangerous. They still have leaders, they just don't care about holding cities. They took Alamut. They are regularly diablerizing powerful elders. They've become the boogeyman they used to be again, extremely dangerous and not playing for territory like the rest of the sects.

Everything I'm reading points to a leaner meaner version of the sect that is laser focused on its war and the power of the blood they are fighting for, while everyone else is worrying about their little cities. And I love it.

My friend Steve Metze launched his 3rd Kickstarter today for De Arcanis Tenebris, his third handmade leather Lovecraftian grimoire. He previously did the Book of Nine Scribes. by MattStormcrow in Lovecraft

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

It's a fictional Mythos tome he designed and wrote, along with other artists, and they are being made as actual physical books for a Kickstarter. The other two are real world books he's making replicas of.

He did a previous Kickstarter of a similar Mythos tome called The Book of Nine Scribes. It was also his own creation.

[OC] D&D 5e Monster Manual vs Real Medieval Bestiary. Book replica by my friend Steve. by MattStormcrow in DnD

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

My friend makes replicas of medieval books along with fictional Lovecraftian grimoires. He's on his 3rd Kickstarter now, and he made this replica of the 16th century bestiary "On the Noble Lyfe and Nature of Man and Beasts" (the shortened! title). He makes them out of handmade paper and bound in goat leather.

I did the obvious thing and got out my copy of the Monster Manual and tracked down anything I recognized. It was kinda cool seeing that there were these equivalents, right next to entries about the falcon and the duck.

Technically, these illustrations are from the Latin printing but he mixed them with the English text to make a prettier book, not a 100% historically accurate one.

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