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oWoD 20th MU* being setup
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I’m thinking of running and making an oWoD MU*. I would be in charge of Mage the Ascension.
My thoughts on it are as follows:
- Limited sphere (main focus on more mystickal Traditions like OoH, Verbena, Chorus, Akashics, Euthanatos, CoX) initially for PCs while Technomancers/Technocrats/Disparates will be more NPCs
- Set in the Bay Area (including Palo Alto, East Bay all the way to Oakland)
- Starting characters (as in standard CG) will be awakened for at least 2 years. They aren’t complete newbs and will know tradition protocol lest the elders get all uppity. IF you’re going to play an apprentice to dick around, then you start arete 1 and 3 spheres, cause srsly, people who play apprentice disciples are annoying AF
I have more thoughts on the metaplot, etc, but it’s still ruminating.
The MU* will be hybrid sandvbox/metaplot. What does this mean? There is an overarching metaplot for the game (run by me and other staffers), and PCs are free to create their own plots. However, I’d like their sandboxes to be logged, so that way anything that happens can be incorporates into metaplot.
IF you’re willing to help out on Mage or possibly other spheres, DM me. I’m a newblet when it comes to Garou and Vamp, so I wouldn’t be able to make a coherent history/metaplot for them.
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hears the Siren song calling
What are you thoughts on… well. You know.
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@Jennkryst I know nothing about Mummy and have no idea how I’d integrate it into stuff.
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@Jennkryst Also, there’s no Mummy 20th, so how would that work when everything else is 20th?
Sorry for the doublepost
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@jujube To point 1, I can tell you everything, but also fair if you do not want.
To point 2, rules exist! Unfortunately, those rules are like 1.5 pages worth of text (if that) in the Tal’Mahe’Ra/Black Hand book.
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@Jennkryst said in oWoD 20th MU* being setup:
Unfortunately, those rules are like 1.5 pages worth of text (if that) in the Tal’Mahe’Ra/Black Hand book.
They’re also terrible.
I am sad that nobody on Storyteller’s Vault has decided to update Mummy to 20thAbout 20 seconds after I originally posted this, I looked on STV and found Pillars of Ma’at, a 48 page microsupplement designed to update MtR to 20A. Not sure if it’s worth looking at, but it’s there.
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@jujube said in oWoD 20th MU* being setup:
@Jennkryst I know nothing about Mummy and have no idea how I’d integrate it into stuff.
It’s been a while since I read the books, but they seem to be reskinned vampires, so they’re pretty easy to integrate mechanically.
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@MisterBoring said in oWoD 20th MU* being setup:
@Jennkryst said in oWoD 20th MU* being setup:
Unfortunately, those rules are like 1.5 pages worth of text (if that) in the Tal’Mahe’Ra/Black Hand book.
They’re also terrible.
Not TERRIBLE, but definitely missing out on some important themes, like Wuxia for Chinese Mummies, and Llamas for South American Mummies. They do get bonus points for writing rules for playable Apepnu/Bane Mummies, though.
About 20 seconds after I originally posted this, I looked on STV and found Pillars of Ma’at, a 48 page microsupplement designed to update MtR to 20A. Not sure if it’s worth looking at, but it’s there.
How dare you make me spend money on this, a thing I just learned exists and would have bough immediately anyways.
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@Jennkryst You’ll have to tell me if it does the job or not. I can’t buy it until my next paycheck.
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Getting things back on track, ideally, I’d like Garou, Changeling, and Vampire.
I don’t know much about the three others, so if you’re interested in helping out in one of those spheres, then lemme know.
AS far as M+ goes, I’m planning on a strong metaplot aspect with the Arcanum if that helps.
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@jujube I am interested in Changeling, maybe. Especially since I feel that 20th changed the vibe of it to a degree that no other game has quite grasped/folks keep playing it like it’s 2nd edition.
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@WhiteRaven Apprentices who don’t know anything are fine.
The problem is people who are disciple level and claim to have passed apprenticeship but don’t know stuff OOCly and dick around generally acting dumb. I’m sorry if it came off in another tone. That wasn’t my intention.
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General vibe check on how you feel about yeeting standard chargen and/or experience point costs?
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@jujube For me, it’s not so much your tone as it is my own personal experience. I never had the cash to buy the supplements that tell me How I Must Act in my splat, so games that rely on me knowing that have always been a bad time for me. They feel like they’re punishing me for not knowing things I’ve never been told.
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Maybe it has changed in the years since I played WoD but most of the time apprentice/ic noob PCs have been treated horribly or ignored. Few people seemed to enjoy handholding or teaching RP. This was compounded by not a few people taking novice pc who made a lot of ic constant trouble for those trying to teach them (and it being a situation where there was not repercussions for that/people understandably got tired of playing the bad guy harping on the stupid/irresponsible behavior and even on the WoD games I played in the last 8 or so years before I quit the genre nobody really wanted to have to be the gal who PKed someone for ic sphere culture reasons, even if it was allowed). You didn’t have the skills to get involved in higher level plot. Many games had a lot of gatekeeping for xp spends so if you had a controlling or absent sphere staffer even as you oocly and icly learned it wouldn’t mean you could easily catch up.
I actually think fresh from the hedge/newbie anything pcs or the + pcs (ghouls, ect) can be harder/more advanced to play in a way that gets included in sphere stuff and navigate the would than a standard actual sphere pc, and so are actually not suited to ooc newbie folks because of the baggage/realities of WoD mush culture at the time.
Might have changed. But judging from the comments maybe not. I do not have an issue with gatekeeping a sphere per se but I think it is better/kinder/less aggravation to just be honest (if you don’t have the source books I don’t want you and/or there’s no guarantee you’ll be supported via active RP in game because I prefer to concentrate my energy on players who I don’t have to handhold through things so I will not be available to teach you very much.) So much kinder than telling people they need to app a noob, but then knowing there’s no support/they’ll be sidelined.
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@mietze You’re all misunderstanding me.
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I don’t like people who use the newbie/apprentice excuse to act like an idiot ICly/OOCly.
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I’m fine with people being apprentices. I want people to start off with low arete/sphere count so they can learn and get handheld by PCs or by my NPCs.
I’m not anti-apprentice/anti-newblet. I’m anti-idiot.
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@jujube said in oWoD 20th MU* being setup:
I’m not anti-apprentice/anti-newblet. I’m anti-idiot.
Tempted to play Int 1 idiot who is dumb, but not malicious, which is where I think the actual issue is, but could be wrong.
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@Jennkryst I would be fine with that. For sure.
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@jujube i guess the question is do you have the resources to actually hand hold people ic and ooc/do you have other players that are. If the answer is no, then it might be a good idea to just discourage that rather than set up an expectation. You might also plan your exit strategy for when you have a player that decides to take that angle bc they perceive it as a way to ensure more staff attention via NPCs and uses that to leverage against other players.
Thats always a risk on any game, I know. But there are a lot of stealth time and energy vampires out there that can really create problems either unwittingly or by design. I think awareness and boundaries help a lot with that though.
