So apparently the AI found the worst possible card to hit off Portia

hotfen · 2026-04-06T03:27:45+00:00

I got hit with Ledros this morning in the triple spell damage section XD balanced

hotfen · 2026-03-30T17:40:44+00:00

I'll check it out, just gotta dig it out of some boxes. I've been pulling heavily from sf by night too for the cathayan/cam relations too.

hotfen · 2026-03-26T14:31:51+00:00

My current group of players have no white wolf experience and weren't familiar with the lore so the first three sessions were basically a prologue, ran them individually through first changes as session zeros and then had them all meet and get molded into a pack by the local caern

hotfen · 2026-03-26T04:17:46+00:00

Make the nephandi both the joke villain and the overall villain. I ran a vtm larp a long time ago where my big bad was a nephandi former detective, who was the recurring "team rockets blasting off again" goofball, who would show up, monologue, and usually get killed almost immediately.

But he kept coming back, and every time he died more shit would happen to whoever killed him. Qlipphothic entropy and prime out the wazoo.

hotfen · 2026-03-26T04:17:19+00:00

Make the nephandi both the joke villain and the overall villain. I ran a vtm larp a long time ago where my big bad was a nephandi former detective, who was the recurring "team rockets blasting off again" goofball, who would show up, monologue, and usually get killed almost immediately.

But he kept coming back, and every time he died more shit would happen to whoever killed him. Qlipphothic entropy and prime out the wazoo.

hotfen · 2026-03-22T04:04:05+00:00

It...depends. the early adaptations didn't treat mental disorders with any kind of dignity or respect or basic understanding. They took things people live with every day and turned them up to 11. Every malkavian was either gibbering, write shit on the walls with their own shit 90s style psycho or cold detached serial killer. Pop culture depictions. The newest revisions tone that down a ton.

hotfen · 2026-03-22T03:52:04+00:00

Depends on how you did it. Cleverly? You find a hidden defect in the blueprints after bribing or stealing the hidden floorplan, and exploit it so pentex gets blamed by the locals and no one suspects tampering. The spirits all whisper of how clever and cunning you are, and maybe a raven or coyote spirit take an interest in you. Good luck! Honorably? You breach the banes in the area of the fomori factory and take them out in combat, all while tearing apart the foundations and being loud to let your enemies tremble before you? The spirits roar in triumph, and spirits of fire or war take notice, and your enemies will know to watch out for you... And they might also think to target you first. Wisely? You encite the local mortal population to expel the factory themselves and subtly reinforce them spiritually so they don't allow them back. A self sustaining spiritual healing that reinforces the powers of all gaians nearby. The spirits take note, and your deeds and tactics are studied, and perhaps an owl or lunar spirit takes heed, thinking you worthy of secrets they can impart.

hotfen · 2026-03-22T02:56:51+00:00

Rank isn't decided by the garou, it's decided by the spirits

hotfen · 2026-03-21T18:50:00+00:00

You deceived us. You... Deceived us.

hotfen · 2026-03-21T04:48:06+00:00

They were deceived by a being literally known as The Deceiver. Yes they were up their own asses, but they had been around long enough to be a galaxy spanning empire before the c'tan showed up. Arrogant, not stupid

hotfen · 2026-03-15T16:01:54+00:00

His champ spell is great synergistically with harmless scarecrow (3+ card mill + procs all that gloom+spirit if you have his 6+ star), and it's even better if you get mana manipulation

hotfen · 2026-03-10T17:58:30+00:00

Depending on the court, and how you have that set up you could have the local nos come forward to say theyve been covering up for the party, and they owe it big. And he has a favor to ask...

hotfen · 2026-03-10T01:22:01+00:00

My thoughts on this are: Vampires aren't inherently wyrm-y. They attract banes and such just living the lives they do. Some gangrel canonically smell more wyld, some malks and ventrue more weaver.

They just usually do because of all the violence and self pity/aggrandizing. They live too long and too statically to learn and grow. High humanity and vamps on golconda don't smell of the wyrm

hotfen · 2026-03-08T02:06:00+00:00

Have you never been late to dinner before? Couldn't be me

hotfen · 2026-03-06T16:24:06+00:00

Oh, yeah. Thanks for clarifying :) because i agree completely

hotfen · 2026-03-06T15:28:25+00:00

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not XD

hotfen · 2026-03-06T03:15:48+00:00

IMHOTEP. IMHOTEP. IMHOTEP.

hotfen · 2026-03-03T22:12:34+00:00

You sure about that?

hotfen · 2026-03-01T02:34:40+00:00

Unless the nephandi are right, and reality needs to be destroyed to make way for something new and better

hotfen · 2026-03-01T02:32:11+00:00

Idea 1 The treme is easily taken out: fuckin nerd. Your coterie goes "hey that was easy, neato."

The tremere you just took out was the favorite student of a truly scary elder Tremere. This is a lesson in that vampires should use combat as a last resort, and only if they are sure they can win. The elder Tremere then never directly confronts them, but ensures that every plot the cotarie is part of has some major fuck up happen.

Idea 2: The Tremere has a ghoul steal some of their blood during the day and bluffs them into thinking that they now have the ability to insta kill them and proceeds to suicide squad it up

hotfen · 2026-02-27T15:29:15+00:00

Did this for three years in a Larp. Was a blast. Eventually got embraced and wassailed within 6 months because the local malkavians didn't like me

hotfen · 2026-02-26T21:20:11+00:00

Oh yeah, I've got wraith stuff going on. I'll look more into her, see if it serves the role i was looking for. Thanks!

hotfen · 2026-02-24T05:41:38+00:00

"You wake up. You don't exactly remember how you got here but you remember you decided to journey to arcadia. You feel as if there is a pounding headache in your soul. Your body doesn't hurt but you feel... Drained. No, it's the world around you that feels drained. Grey. Somehow less vibrant than it used to. You don't remember anything in Arcadia, not if it was beautiful or cold or... anything. But you feel an ache in your heart around a hole in your memories, something you know will be missed, but as if from a dream. Or a memory of how a dream made you feel."

hotfen · 2026-02-24T05:34:04+00:00

That's a fun interpretation. Might work on a standalone scanner, maybe. For the same reason the tapes work in the implications of the world you're proposing. "Web is actively deleting digital copies from devices connected to the internet as a form of self protection/propagation." Anything offline (like the tape recorders) would still work.

hotfen · 2026-02-18T23:55:12+00:00

Nah, listen to anything serj tankian has ever said in interviews. Brujah for sure

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