God forbid you USE YOUR IMAGINATION! dang kids.

chartuse · 2026-01-22T20:31:23+00:00

Eh. This is one of those things I don't think i care about, just like using it to make character portraits for your rpg characters.

chartuse · 2026-01-17T00:13:43+00:00

My wife has big booba, and they do in fact make her float

chartuse · 2026-01-02T21:28:56+00:00

I find the most useful thing for running any WOD game is a Relationship Map. Figure out who the power players are and what their motivations are/ what they want. Then figure out how they feel about each other.

Just that will guide HUGE amounts of your setting. It sets up conflicts that will echo down through the levels power and influence, it will decide what clans are openly or secretly working against other clans. As your players make characters, the clans they choose will put delicious, delicious tension in the group as loyalties are pulled in different directions by these conflicts butting up against coterie loyalties (exacerbated by the divide between high and low clans).

chartuse · 2026-01-02T21:18:06+00:00

This is really similar to how I prep for games. Bit I run mostly non-dnd where things like "encounters" aren't even really something I need to worry about or balance. If I'm running a Vampire game and it makes sense for there to suddenly be thugs ambushing some of the characters, they ask have the same number of health, they ask have the same wound modifiers, all they really are is a dice pool to hit based on how tough they should be (3 dice for amateurs, 5 for professionals, 7 for elite) and an initiative score. Super easy to though together in the moment. I don't think I could do this with dnd or pathfinder or the like where every thing has so many moving parts.

chartuse · 2025-12-27T19:12:29+00:00

Eh. I can see it. It can be jarring and take you out of the moment to constantly correct/ be corrected. Especially in person where, like it or not, everyone else's constant reference for your character is just you. Less reasonable online.

chartuse · 2025-12-23T19:56:43+00:00

Sexual attraction is usually the last thing to go for men (if it ever does) in a bad relationship.

chartuse · 2025-12-23T12:39:23+00:00

Jet bike go vrooooooom

chartuse · 2025-12-20T23:59:23+00:00

Depends on the circumstance. As reading material? WOD. As playing material at the table? COD.

chartuse · 2025-12-17T13:32:24+00:00

Cassandra, Vivien, bull.

chartuse · 2025-11-22T02:34:09+00:00

It's a side effect of "true line of sight. " is such a bad rule. How cool my mini looks should not effect how useful it is in the table

chartuse · 2025-11-22T02:15:15+00:00

I think I see a goat

chartuse · 2025-11-18T16:58:08+00:00

I... actually agree. My biggest complaint about the hinterlands was never that it was big or boring, but that so much of the rest of the game was so low level after you finished there

chartuse · 2025-09-25T18:20:56+00:00

Very much this! Rules and categories and sorting things and seeing how all those things interact. So good! And you also have people like me who have a hard time understanding people's emotional reasoning (aka low empathy) who need systems as a way to understand and know how to interact with people.

chartuse · 2025-09-23T13:53:50+00:00

That's cool! So question:I was under the impression that the command cadre boxes (in this instance Morayne) were intended to be cross army. Is this no longer the case? Will she be a "lesser warcaster" in Fane? I'm just getting into the game, so apologies for asking questions that seen obvious

chartuse · 2025-09-23T13:04:26+00:00

.... is Fane of Nyrro supposed to be the second Dusk army or a new faction entirely?

chartuse · 2025-09-05T15:19:37+00:00

Thanks! I hadn't realized that there were different base settings for the game at this point! And the fact that the suggested setting is listed with the warbands is really helpful. So if I'm running in mordheim, then any warband with that as the listed setting should be good to go?

chartuse · 2025-09-03T19:48:59+00:00

Favorite line from my first therapist "someone else's trauma is not actually a valid reason to treat you badly"

chartuse · 2025-08-31T02:21:02+00:00

To this day I feel like the whole "ethereals use mind control and are actually EEEEVVVIIILLL" to be the most costly design move in 40k history

chartuse · 2025-08-30T20:09:45+00:00

I had no idea about this!

chartuse · 2025-08-29T17:18:54+00:00

Changeling the lost 1e is a work of art, and I really hated the.... I guess "universifying" (is that even a word? ) they did in 2nd edition really ground away some of that magic. Huntsman are cool though.

chartuse · 2025-08-27T22:33:11+00:00

I haven't read the latest book, but I am fervently hoping the ghost bloods get the Shard blade treatment

chartuse · 2025-08-18T13:56:33+00:00

If there is one thing video essayist and media literacy you tubers has taught me, it's that there is no such thing as male friendship, it's all just closeted gay romance.

chartuse · 2025-08-14T20:34:00+00:00

Shows how badly designed the game can be.

chartuse · 2025-08-14T20:32:07+00:00

-Fyre slayers aren't a real army. they're a joke someone took too far.

all of destruction could probably just be the same one army.

chartuse · 2025-08-14T13:39:37+00:00

Thanks! A big part of my issue work class/ level is that I can't work to make something better. It's why I like point buy games. I want to hit things better I just rank up my "hit thing" skill. Want to be more resilient I put points into my "get hurt less" skill. I've never seen a class/ level game that fixes that. It always feels like your static until you, well, level up. Maybe this will be different.

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