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Adamska said:
You sure you ain't talking about Werewolf? Because that sounds exactly like Werewolf to me, right down to the fan appeal.
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Naw bro, that's the furries. Like the other kin that think they are dragons n shit.
 
BlueArmedDevil said:
Naw bro, that's the furries.
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Last I seem to remember a lot of special snowflakes and otherkin also play it too, and I think they form a more common proportion of the lot than furries because their lore is very prone to enabling regressive left pigshit. Especially Children of Gaia. Fuck Children of Gaia.
 
Adamska said:
Especially Children of Gaia. Fuck Children of Gaia.
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Well that's more classic world of darkness, especially since the release of the weebo beast courts and all that year of the lotus garbage.
 
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Adamska said:
Last I seem to remember a lot of special snowflakes and otherkin also play it too, and I think they form a more common proportion of the lot than furries because their lore is very prone to enabling regressive left pigshit. Especially Children of Gaia. Fuck Children of Gaia.
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Children of Gaia if played right are actually pretty good, humaine werewovlves looking at the big picture as opposed to pansy ass hippies/crybabies. The ones you need to watch are the "kill all hooomans" Red Talons, the prick who wants to play a differant breed in your wolf only pack and the cunt who always plays Shadow Lords, plus I've yet to see someone not fuck up Ragabash. Can't really comment on the Weeb beast courts because I've never played them but playing pai mai as a devil tiger in kindred of the east was fucking awesome.
 
Emperor Julian said:
Children of Gaia if played right are actually pretty good, humaine werewovlves looking at the big picture as opposed to pansy ass hippies/crybabies. The ones you need to watch are the "kill all hooomans" Red Talons, the prick who wants to play a differant breed in your wolf only pack and the cunt who always plays Shadow Lords, plus I've yet to see someone not fuck up Ragabash. Can't really comment on the Weeb beast courts because I've never played them but playing pai mai as a devil tiger in kindred of the east was fucking awesome.
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My least favorite thing about kindred of the east or whatever weeb books White Wolf would put out would just enforce this idea that "oooh asians are mystical and spooky~" by having specific supernatural forces at work there that Western vampires/werewolves/whatever didn't come in contact with just because they weren't kawaii. I mean, it makes sense for cultural changes to be apparent or that their political structure is different, but it felt really weird and exploitative.
 
Lackadaisy said:
My least favorite thing about kindred of the east or whatever weeb books White Wolf would put out would just enforce this idea that "oooh asians are mystical and spooky~" by having specific supernatural forces at work there that Western vampires/werewolves/whatever didn't come in contact with just because they weren't kawaii. I mean, it makes sense for cultural changes to be apparent or that their political structure is different, but it felt really weird and exploitative.
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I actually own that book in hardback thanks to some WoD nerd dumping their shit into the Goodwill; it's not as mystical as what you're saying it is; it was basically just Whitewolf's way of doing eastern-style vampires, which are notably different than what we would think of in the west.

Plus it's actually not weeby, because the basis of the Kuei-Jin are actually the Jiangshi (ie Chinese vampires), and the book is more rooted towards the Chinese culture than grolious Nippon.
 
Adamska said:
I actually own that book in hardback thanks to some WoD nerd dumping their shit into the Goodwill; it's not as mystical as what you're saying it is; it was basically just Whitewolf's way of doing eastern-style vampires, which are notably different than what we would think of in the west.

Plus it's actually not weeby, because the basis of the Kuei-Jin are actually the Jiangshi (ie Chinese vampires), and the book is more rooted towards the Chinese culture than grolious Nippon.
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I just thought it was weird that they were so noticeably different, but only in Asia. Like wouldn't South American or Eastern European kindred be as different? I know there's a book on Kindred of Africa, but it was a little... odd.
 
Lackadaisy said:
I just thought it was weird that they were so noticeably different, but only in Asia. Like wouldn't South American or Eastern European kindred be as different? I know there's a book on Kindred of Africa, but it was a little... odd.
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Eh, eastern european vampires are kind of already present in the form of the Nosferatu, Tzimisce, and the old Cappadocians pre-extermination; they were corpse-looking blood suckers that needed cursed earth to sleep in that fit with those myths. As for south american vamps, most of them are essentially women who suck blood, not really anything that screams special. There's like a snake one, but that's about it.

South Asia has the Nagaraja, which fits their myths on vampires, which are far more ghoul-like than their peers west or their energy sucking cousins in Eastern Asia.

About the only lot that Whitewolf missed was Southeast Asia, since vampires in that neck of the woods tend to have the ability to send their head out to suck blood and eat babies while the body stayed put.

It's not as weeby as you think shockingly.
 
Adamska said:
Eh, eastern vampires are kind of already present in the form of the Nosferatu, Tzimisce, and the old Cappadocians pre-extermination; they were corpse-looking blood suckers that needed cursed earth to sleep in that fit with those myths. As for south american vamps, most of them are essentially women who suck blood. There's like a snake one, but that's about it.

South Asia has the Nagaraja, which fits their myths on vampires, which are far more ghoul-like than their peers west or their energy sucking cousins east.

About the only lot that Whitewolf missed was Southeast Asia, since vampires in that neck of the woods tend to have the ability to send their head out to suck blood and eat babies while the body stayed put.
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Oh, yeah. The Penanggalan?

https://sneed-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d0/8f/37/d08f374b4fa1109acb70e478bad20ecf.jpg

I know it was incorporated into Pathfinder eventually, but it'd be a really rad NWoD enemy (or maybe even inspiration for a Wraith PC?).
 
Lackadaisy said:
Oh, yeah. The Penanggalan?

https://sneed-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d0/8f/37/d08f374b4fa1109acb70e478bad20ecf.jpg

I know it was incorporated into Pathfinder eventually, but it'd be a really rad NWoD enemy (or maybe even inspiration for a Wraith PC?).
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The vampire Night Horrors book includes rules for them along with their own discipline for NWoD. I'll share it later.
 
Lackadaisy said:
Playing as a floating, blood sucking head that reeks of vinegar is super rad.
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It's hyper fucking RAD.

Penalaggan are actually pretty rules intense. Basically they're different from normal vampires in that they lose two Vitae (Bloodpoints for oWoD) a night from rising instead of one. It also costs them a point to merge their bodies. They can't separate in sunlight, and otherwise function like your standard human in sunlight. Their guts can pick up and manipulate objects just as dexterously as a normal human (Theoretically this means RAW you could have a penalaggan double wielding Desert Eagles with their intestines which is fucking RAD) and anyone they bite suffers a wasting sickness that can eventually if they're unlucky, turn them into one. Their discipline revolves around them screeching, which has some fun effects like being able to project their voice, preventing others from accurately describing them, breaking glass, and my personal favorite, ALLOWING THEM TO DRINK BLOOD THROUGH THE AIR.

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Whoops, misread what I skimmed, fixed the errors. The Night Horrors: Wicked Dead for Vampire is really one of the books where White Wolf did some of its best work for nWoD - they're not statting out full on characters, but more templates and other ideas revolving around vampires. Memnovores are super neat, basically memory vampires. The Dhampir rules are also pretty neat, same with about everything else in this book.
 
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Sorry for the double post but I had to share this, because god damn I forgot how good Night Horrors could be.
Night Horrors: Wicked Dead said:
The Striges, The Nemeses, The Owls, The Birds of Dis

My lineage:
I am all of this.
I am none of this.

Today, I am a fat man. I disgust myself. The shirt on my chest can barely contain my girth. I’m sweating. The sweat smells of garlic, oregano. The breaths I take are labored, great squealing wheezes. I taste vomit. My esophagus is starting to break down—I cough up bits of throat tissue every time I bring up a mouthful of spit and phlegm.

Before this, I was one o f Them. Beautiful, hungry for blood, green eyes, red hair, a thousand-mile stare. Skin the color of skim milk. I wore her for a long time.

Before her, I squirmed into a skinny, rat-bitten man who slept on the streets.

Before him, I wore the skin of an old woman, rolls of puckered flesh hanging off of bad bones, bones that were pitted and brittle long before I took them for my own.

Before her, before him, before her, before him…

I was never these people. Not really. I don’t know their minds. I only know their skin, their organs, their skeletons. Each just a cheap suit, a snug costume. A happy masquerade.

I don’t know who I am or what I am. And I would have it no other way.
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The entire write up on the Strix is fantastic. The intro just takes the cake
 
Lackadaisy said:
Oh, yeah. The Penanggalan?

https://sneed-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d0/8f/37/d08f374b4fa1109acb70e478bad20ecf.jpg

I know it was incorporated into Pathfinder eventually, but it'd be a really rad NWoD enemy (or maybe even inspiration for a Wraith PC?).
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It was in the original Fiend Folio, too.
 
Lackadaisy said:
Oh, yeah. The Penanggalan?

https://sneed-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d0/8f/37/d08f374b4fa1109acb70e478bad20ecf.jpg

I know it was incorporated into Pathfinder eventually, but it'd be a really rad NWoD enemy (or maybe even inspiration for a Wraith PC?).
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Holy shit that thing looks amazing, I really want to hunt be hunted by those things in game, that sort of enemy could shit people right up.
 
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Techpriest said:
The vampire Night Horrors book includes rules for them along with their own discipline for NWoD. I'll share it later.
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I always thought it was weird that these weren't in Kindred of the East.
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
I always thought it was weird that these weren't in Kindred of the East.
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They are, you just have to take the flesh shintai discipline. The second dot let's you detach your head and you need the Jade shintai level 4 discipline to float around.
 
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BlueArmedDevil said:
They are, you just have to take the flesh shintai discipline. The second dot let's you detach your head and you need the Jade shintai level 4 discipline to float around.
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I'll have to recheck that. Kindred of the East wasn't my most favourite supplement because I felt like they didn't do enough research into what the East considers to be a "vampire"
 
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