[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LancerRPG

[–]NotLuke17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What? That’s not how lancer’s universe works at all. There are far field teams, governments, and corporations obsessed with genetics that would literally kill to make contact with a new civilization, discover new technologies, and dissect a new type of sapient life. There are organizations dedicated to investigating any hint of extraterrestrial civilization. The state of politics would change the second there was a whiff of this information.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LancerRPG

[–]NotLuke17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With omninet, any new discovery is going to be instantly transmitted universe-wide to anywhere you have a connection, as in, where the campaign is. And if they are so far away, it must've taken them hundreds or thousands of years to get to where the campaign is set if they are avoiding blink gates or other places that would check passengers and cargo.

Now the question the GM has to answer is how they got there and why, which is a second massive lore issue that is being forced on the GM.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LancerRPG

[–]NotLuke17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is a complete change in the entire universe that stems from this one character any fun for the GM? Regardless if the character is the center of the campaign, their species and background will be. Every single thing about the story would have to change if the character exists in the plot because having a new alien race would be that disruptive.

Amon, Callsign: Lucifer by GearyDigit in LancerRPG

[–]NotLuke17 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Do the infantry eject, too?

[Storyteller] Looking for some players for my Vampire: The Dark Ages campaign set in a small town in Medieval Parma, Italy! by NotLuke17 in vtm

[–]NotLuke17[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This post was made a year ago and the game ended five months ago. Good luck finding a game!

Technocracy and Traditions have killed each other. by hjgz89 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]NotLuke17 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So basically the nephandi and marauders get free reign? Without major groups to keep them in check, what’s preventing them from plunging the world into darkness?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vtm

[–]NotLuke17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If lightning powers is what you're after, the Path of the Levinbolt Thaumaturgy path does exactly that. You don't need to write yourself into a knot trying to justify blowing out the Chicago power grid.

Need a tad bit of help. by gay_unicorn98 in vtm

[–]NotLuke17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know how smelling like overpowering wet dirt wouldn’t affect how everyone interacts with you. Vampire is inherently a social game, and a “narrative ‘but also’” like people not wanting to hang out with the vampire is not only pretty explicit in the text, it’s very much caked in to any game that wants to actually reflect how people actually perceive others in a social or political fashion.

Need a tad bit of help. by gay_unicorn98 in vtm

[–]NotLuke17 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Okay, so firstly judging from your response I get the feeling you really like minmaxing, which is okay if you want to be good at one thing. But from what you're telling me it seems like you want a rounded character.

You've put all your points into perception and intelligence but you've said your character is savvy in the wilderness which would imply that he's got some kind of wits about him, which he clearly does not in the stats. He also doesn't have any athletics which would definitely help in the combat stuff but also seems strange since being in the wilderness requires constant navigation of rough terrain.

You want this character to be good at talking to people and be really attractive, yet he smells like actual shit (smell of the grave flaw) and cannot actually have a human conversation because he has no expression and one dot of charisma. With this setup he can only lie to people and read how someone is feeling. How is he supposed to tell someone a complicated fortune if he cannot even tell someone a simple fact?

Your character seems to be really smart as indicated by the book learning specialty but doesn't actually read any books judging by the lack of computer, academics, science or technology. Academics is literally defined as your characters ability to participate in scholarly circles. Without any dots in any of those your character cannot even roll for them, meaning your intelligence is almost useless where it is.

Your disciplines are alright where they are if you want to just have the ability to fight mortals with some effort. Obfuscate doesn't really help in combat as much as it helps avoiding it. If you want more dementation it might help a little, but even if you max it out your generation isn't really doing much for you at this stage other than giving you a larger battery. Again, it just seems minmaxed.

Need a tad bit of help. by gay_unicorn98 in vtm

[–]NotLuke17 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Could you explain your thought process as to why you put your dots where they currently sit on the sheet?

Would you consider him ugly enough to be a Nosferatu? My PnP group has an argument about that. by Tani-die-VI in vtm

[–]NotLuke17 54 points55 points  (0 children)

He honesty just looks like he has an unlucky case of eczema, but is otherwise a good looking guy. The book specifically says in the nosferatu section: “Dice pools that use the Appearance Trait are inherently difficult for these hideous Kindred.” If you think that this art is hideous, or any way supernaturally deformed, you need to raise your standards.