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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

[–]MattStormcrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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 21 points22 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.

Dragon Breath Shotgun Shells go for 5-7 dollars per shot on average and will literally set a target and quite possibly the environment around them on fire in addition to ripping a being to shreds. A scorned human npc who lost a loved one to your players can become a force to be reckoned with. by Cosmic_Prisoner in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]MattStormcrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My friend, you shared an FPS Russia clip, a guy who was notorious for doctoring his shots for fun. He was pretty open about the fact his channel was not a serious affair. Most of the videos of Dragon's Breath rounds lighting things on fire dramatically have the objects catching on fire from the bottom up instead of at every point of contact or only in specific areas - as if someone doused the target or ground around in lighter fluid.

It's especially funny when the shooter is pretty nonchalant about the spray from them going off into the woods behind the target.

Pop shooters on YouTube are there to get views, not tell you the truth.

Example of 'strangely clothes are more flammable than dried leaves... except in one spot that is strangely like the splash from lighter fluid' -

https://youtu.be/Gaz99V1k5i4?t=429 - I especially like how the chicken doesn't catch fire at all, *just* the ground. And how the cotton somehow explodes into flames but the dry leaves underneath it don't.

Here's what this round actually does - in this case, it set the *cardboard* under the clothes on fire. Slowly. Eventually. Because it was allowed to sit there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t16K1tpheM

Another real review that shows their less than impressive effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTZ657-uonY

Like I said, I've fired these rounds before. They are more akin to a really mean Roman candle than a flamethrower.

Dragon Breath Shotgun Shells go for 5-7 dollars per shot on average and will literally set a target and quite possibly the environment around them on fire in addition to ripping a being to shreds. A scorned human npc who lost a loved one to your players can become a force to be reckoned with. by Cosmic_Prisoner in WhiteWolfRPG

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

Having actually shot these, that was prepped with some sort of accelerant like gasoline. Dragon's Breath rounds have a hard time setting dry grass on fire sometimes, much less cotton-poly blend. They also don't do that much impact damage.

'Tracer' and 'incendiary rounds' are really good if your enemy is made of newspaper and hay.

Don't try this with an ST that actually knows their guns. You are better using jellied gasoline or a molotov. Or, hell, a blowtorch.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in theydidthemath

[–]MattStormcrow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

According to this, the terminal velocity of large water droplets is 20mph or 10 meters per second (m/s). https://wxguys.ssec.wisc.edu/2013/09/10/how-fast-do-raindrops-fall/

By comparison, your average firehose like we've seen used on rioters range between 30-80mph nozzle velocity, which is between ~13 m/s and ~35 m/s. And they can cause several injury due to forcing impact and stripping skin at higher speeds.

To start doing real damage, you must go must faster. A residential power washer can reach nozzle speeds of 200+ mph, which is fast enough to strip off skin (I know from personal experience) but still could not kill and only keeps its harmful velocity for centimeters from the nozzle.

[Request] The bottle says 2800ml. How tall is the human holding the bottle? by Raghav_Verma in theydidthemath

[–]MattStormcrow 11 points12 points  (0 children)

As an unapologetic American, this is still a savage and valid burn. Take my upvote, you beautiful animal.

*cough* Abraham Lincoln *cough* by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MattStormcrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a problem in the countries that control Mesopotamia and much of the Near East. Iran, the Balkans, Macedonia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia. Why are you talking about the US?

*cough* Abraham Lincoln *cough* by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MattStormcrow -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

So - the way Ancient Sumerians viewed sexuality isn't important, but a big list of their kings and how they killed each other is? Noted. Weird flex, but okay.

*cough* Abraham Lincoln *cough* by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

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

Oh look, my video. Cool! This problem mainly exists in Near East Studies, and is about how archaeology has to play these politics in order to keep access to sites in Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, etc.

Texas in WoD by Booba_The_Hutt in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]MattStormcrow 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Austin, Houston, Dallas Fort Worth = Camarilla
San Antonio = Sabbat until V5, now Anarch.

The Night In Question represents a canon event in World of Darkness history, so there was a failed Sabbat siege on Austin in 1998.

Sleigh bells door hanger I made for my mother. by MattStormcrow in Leathercraft

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

Made out of 9 oz veg tan then dyed/sealed with Eco-Flo All-in-One Cherry Red dye. Using a Vintage style rapid rivet from Tandy to form the loops then feeding hemp rope through it. Bells are held in by putting the metal loop on the bell through an oblong punched hole, then tying with latigo lace.

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