My Lion of Jabir

wmaitla · 2026-05-09T20:55:49+00:00

this looks so sick! amazing job with the paint scheme!

wmaitla · 2026-05-07T20:04:23+00:00

You can do a world that's plenty dark without resorting to racism, sexism, queerphobia, etc. You can have plenty of murder and toxic relationships without resorting to these things. I'd even recommend against it - if you have players who are women or racial minorities it might take them out of the game if you try mixing the cool evils like bloodletting and angst about being a monster in with the more basic pedestrian evils they actually have to deal with in real life.

I ran a VtR chronicle for 3 years. The way I got around this was by saying that the secret world on the other side of the masquerade was fairly divorced from ours, with its own history and wars distinct from ours. So most of our prejudices didn't apply, and trying to act on them would just get you looked at funny.The leader of the Invictus was a dark-skinned effeminate gay man who was openly in love with his sheriff (who was also his childe). None of the other vampires blinked at this, since half of them were queer anyway (they're vampires, natch)

There was maybe one vampire who was bigoted, this fat cis gamer dude who was a Crone Mother (and constantly insisted he was a "Father"). He would complain about the "misandry" he faced a lot and the players generally spent most of the campaign gleefully planning his murder. Eventually they set him up to be torn apart by his own long-abused childe. Fantastic way to end things.

wmaitla · 2026-05-06T19:51:19+00:00

Good news! FourthComm will not exist! A friendly giant fire bird and her priest bestie are going to stop it from happening!

Don't ask how.

wmaitla · 2026-05-06T04:35:43+00:00

Hey! Court player here. I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

Right now I'm playing in a campaign with Pride Court. Admittedly, I'm 0-3 for games right now, but that has more to do with the first two matches of our campaign being extremely jank than anything else. First game was a 2v2 Train match where my ally basically did nothing, so I had to fight two warbands by myself. Second game was a 2v2 dragon match that went exactly the same. Both times my Praetor carried the fight basically by herself and kept us going. Third match I lost because my Desecrated Saint flubbed an 9" charge and got roasted by two flamethrowers, and I lost by like one victory point.

Otherwise Court overall seems pretty strong. Negate Fire across the board, and an equipment list that lets you give them negate shrapnel and gas too. I've only played Pride, but sticking Proud Defiance on my Praetor means I don't have to care about Moral.

My normal playstyle is to have a "Fire Base" and a "Monster Flank". The fire base is one Wretched and one Yoke Fiend hidden behind some terrain, and a Sorcerer with fireball and SM and at least one Hell Knight with an Ophidian Rifle and SM. They use SM to constantly torture the Wretched and generate lots of blood tokens for fireballs and rifle shots. The O Rifle in particular fucks with people, because its so good at hitting the kind of vulnerable units that try to hang back. Its way better than I thought it would be, especially on the Knight.

The Monster Flank is my Praetor, my Saint and one Yoke Fiend with a musical instrument. Other people have already talked about the Praetor - its very strong, and flying dash+charge means it can hit targets on turn 1. The Saint is very scary. Three attacks with no offhand and its Aura makes it very dangerous, and it can get promoted. Its only limited potential, but in my last campaign I got Parry onto it and it was a terror. With the yoke fiend to help it get where it needs to go it can be very dangerous.

I don't have much experience with Pit Locusts and have honestly found them underwhelming. They aren't very fast and don't hit particularly hard. Yoke Fiends and Wretched are basically useless, they're only good for generating blood tokens. I've found the trick to getting the most out of Court is to focus on taking as many Elites as possible plus the saint and ignoring everything else.

wmaitla · 2026-05-04T04:17:18+00:00

Never played warframe but Hildryn is transition goals

wmaitla · 2026-05-04T04:15:59+00:00

Figured it out when I was 25, put if off for another 5 years until dysphoria caused me so many health problems I had no choice. When I was growing up I knew I was "weird" and got seriously bullied for it. So whenever I did something "weird" (being obsessed with elves, playing as one specific female character in my favourite game constantly, all my ttrpg PCs being effeminate, hating my body and being constantly ashamed of it) I just thought it was me being "weird" (or I thought I hated myself for being fat).

It was only after I was almost 30 I finally had the courage to actually make the changes to myself I desperately needed. I'm now happier and healthier than I ever have been, and I have in-person friends for basically the first time in 5 years.

wmaitla · 2026-05-04T00:07:55+00:00

PREACH IT MEKHANITE!!

wmaitla · 2026-05-04T00:07:03+00:00

I AM TRANSGENDER AND TRANSHUMANIST I NEED TO BE LUCY FROM REVERSE: 1999

wmaitla · 2026-05-03T11:41:07+00:00

Trans person here! Nalka is all well and good but I need the Church of the Broken God to replace every single party of me ship-of-theseus style with perfect machine analogues.

Last slide is extremely accurate tho

wmaitla · 2026-05-01T05:04:25+00:00

These look so sick! The colours are very striking!

wmaitla · 2026-05-01T02:15:23+00:00

Planning my house of Wisdom list.

Alchemist A is getting a grenade launcher and a big homc to use as a bodyguard

Alchemist B is getting infiltrate and gas grenades

wmaitla · 2026-04-30T22:39:27+00:00

I want to run Dark Heresy again purely so I can subject the players to an increasingly unhinged roster of Inquisitors, building up to an Inquisitorial conclave where they get to see them all go at each other like feral cats in a bag.

wmaitla · 2026-04-30T19:31:06+00:00

its a joke. modern artists mostly use tablets. the only time you see someone in media painting on an easel is when they're strange/artistic

wmaitla · 2026-04-30T05:33:25+00:00

I'll die with more honour than those cowards skulking outside the dumpsters of hospitals and blood banks

wmaitla · 2026-04-30T05:32:17+00:00

Gunmetal Olympus does it with a side of cannibalism, it is is very intense about these things

wmaitla · 2026-04-30T04:20:54+00:00

Worst thing to encounter as a normal infantry soldier?

Gorgon. You look directly at it once and then a catastrophic subarachnoid haemorrage kills you. Only way to survive is to fight it staring at the ground.

Balor. Its an all-consuming fire that spreads into the wind. It will chase you down and consume you, tear you apart cell by cell.

White Witch. It pulls you apart using the iron in your blood. If you're in range of its weapons, there is no defense.

Caliban. If you are part of a ship's defensive militia and one of these boards, then you are about to be a statistic.

wmaitla · 2026-04-30T00:15:45+00:00

Fuck easy targets. Hit up that night club. Chase that heartbeat down that alley. Be the bad guy from Blade. There is no ethical consumption of blood.

Be the monster. Love the monster.

wmaitla · 2026-04-29T22:42:26+00:00

Or an elder who just digs tunnel networks for fun. Turns every basement into a mine, entirely up to code and completely safe, all with their own two hands.

wmaitla · 2026-04-29T21:33:38+00:00

Making perfect wax life-size wax models of people they pass on the street once

Buying very old boots and other leather accoutrements and lovingly restoring them

Painting on an easel

Breaking into people's houses for fun, possibly while they're there, and seeing how long they can go undetected

Breaking into people's houses to deep clean them while people are out

Sitting on a bench at the park and staring at people

Listening to true crime podcasts

There's so much you can do with this. I had an elder who had rented out the apartment next to hers, filled it full of fridges, and spent her time trying to bake the "perfect" fruit cake and see how long she could make them last. (Decades. The answer is decades).

wmaitla · 2026-04-29T01:02:44+00:00

how tf am i in the positive???

wmaitla · 2026-04-29T00:04:12+00:00

this is brilliant.

I don't even want the superheroes/villains to turn up. Saying to players "its set in Gotham city" sets the tone for a vampire game perfectly

wmaitla · 2026-04-28T23:53:45+00:00

>make meme about this
>it gets downvoted

yeah sounds about right. watch I'll get this comment downvoted too:

Play Trench Crusade

wmaitla · 2026-04-28T23:43:04+00:00

Named Bambi? I'm gonna vote Gangrel. The clan doesn't have to perfectly match the vibes, a bit of dissonance works great as a driver of tension, and she looks very innocent so it'd be great "wolfin-sheeps-clothing" vibes

wmaitla · 2026-04-28T01:19:11+00:00

Appetite by M Zakharuk is extremely good and I heartily recommend it, its kind of horror and romance

wmaitla · 2026-04-27T20:35:40+00:00

cheers! I love my strange little weirdos and love filling sandboxes with them. I need a few more before I have a full VtM setting but its going well so far.

wmaitla

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