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Currently playing Vampire the Dark Ages as a Cappadocian during the Giovanni purge (think Jedi post order 66 for anyone who doesnt know the setting). Things are going from bad to fucked because the inquisition are in town. So now I've got a faction of vampire mercantile necromancers after me and the God squad are snooping around my house.

Fortunately I have Mortis 5
 
Emperor Julian said:
Currently playing Vampire the Dark Ages as a Cappadocian during the Giovanni purge (think Jedi post order 66 for anyone who doesnt know the setting). Things are going from bad to fucked because the inquisition are in town. So now I've got a faction of vampire mercantile necromancers after me and the God squad are snooping around my house.

Fortunately I have Mortis 5
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3p5udK-R094
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I am actually about to run a Vampire: DA game, which has been like a lifelong goal for me. Putting the group together for that was hard to say the least. Please let us know how that battle to the Final Death plays out.
 
I'm also in a DA: Vampire game as well. After our last adventure, a cave in caused our party to go into torpor. We've currently woke up in the 1980's with a bloody, naked Viking (one of the PCs) along with us. We did wake up in a hospital controlled by Vampire hunters and for a while we thought we ended up in Hell until we escaped.
 
Gym Leader Elesa said:
I am actually about to run a Vampire: DA game, which has been like a lifelong goal for me. Putting the group together for that was hard to say the least. Please let us know how that battle to the Final Death plays out.
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Last night One of the players only stopped diablerizing me in a frenzy because the sun went down as she got the last of my blood, since she saved my life last session we agreed to forget the whole thing happened., although she's now having to pay me for anything I do since not actively working against her is the limit of what you can expect at this stage, . The standard simmering resentment which goes with Vampire games ensures that our pc's have 4 secrets between them which would ensure that the Coterie implodes.
 
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http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...ldbuilding--Game-Design-in-the-Safe-Space-Age
It's available for free and I took a look at it.
This is the introduction:
Much digital ink (and blood) has been spilt taking about diversity representation in tabletop gaming and in every other field of geek and nerd endeavour. Usually these conversations are extremely combative and they tend to end poorly for everyone involved. I’ve been involved in these debates and discussions myself, to my detriment. The position I hold being that free expression and the vision of the author or creator should trump any and all other concerns – including diversity, representation and so on. To my mind the answer is for people to create according to their own conscience, not to be condemned out of hand or for their motivations to be presumed and for diversity of ideas to be the benchmark. I want a world in which Varg Vikernes and David Hill can both make and sell games and I can ignore both of them. That said, I cannot help but be drawn to controversial topics – that is where the interesting conflicts and stories lie - and there are few topics so controversial as the treatment of ‘minorities’ within media. Here we arrive at a nexus-point between realism, expectation, demands for representation, demands for free expression, historical revisionism, magic, science fiction, truth, ‘is’ and ‘ought’. That makes it interesting, but the battle lines of identarian politics, liberalism, conservatism, the regressive left and cultural libertarianism also make it an area fraught with difficulty and wilful misunderstanding. There are no good – or at least no satisfactory – answers to a lot of these questions. Perhaps there are just multiple approaches each of which will annoy some group or other. What’s true in all circumstances however is that these controversial topics are interesting, fascinating and important in terms of world, character and scenario building whatever your particular stance. 2 This booklet intends to examine these issues in and of themselves, outside of the current state of controversy and to ask – rather - how we might better simulate the plight of minority groups, understand them within the context of fictional worlds, make allowances for player-characters who might seek to buck those societal trends or allow characters – through their actions – to affect social change within the game worlds.
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ActualKiwi said:
Given you can roll/write up whatever the hell you please in even the most standard D&D system, I don't think we need more "Diversity" in our Dungeons, tyvm internet.
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To be fair, it's far from "there were black people all over the place in 15th century Prague" levels, and more about incorporating prejudice into Fantasy/Sci-Fi settings, and how this could be used in world building.
 
I was talking with some guys at the pub about trigger warnings and conceded all used something simular if running adult games, but just didnt want to call it trigger warnings because of the associations. Frankly any gm with half a fucking brain knows when to draw the line and any GM whose any good knows to keep the universe secular of his beliefs, I recall a gm I know whose a unlikable Conservative douche out of game. But his universe's never give indication that he's a lock em up and throw and away the key sort of guy.
 
Randall Fragg said:
To be fair, it's far from "there were black people all over the place in 15th century Prague" levels, and more about incorporating prejudice into Fantasy/Sci-Fi settings, and how this could be used in world building.
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That's a lot more acceptable than the other possibilities, but most GMs I've known are incredibly capable of doing that as-is, without having to be told how to by yet another sourcebook. Plus we all know where incorporating race-conflict dynamics takes us
 
ActualKiwi said:
That's a lot more acceptable than the other possibilities, but most GMs I've known are incredibly capable of doing that as-is, without having to be told how to by yet another sourcebook. Plus we all know where incorporating race-conflict dynamics takes us
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I'd say that FATAL isn't really a good example of where incorperating anything can take you, because the only good end would be to end all life in FATAL-land.

The biggest challenge would be to make people racially accept Kender. Or Doobies.
 
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I showed this to my group and apperently its fairly sane, though it does vaguely reference GG and outrage culture near the end.

"Criticism & Social Media
Role-playing games don’t get a great deal of professional criticism any more. Blogs, websites and forums offer some of this perhaps, but it’s nothing really like we see in other, comparable industries. Given the state of video games journalism this may actually be a blessing. However this does greatly increase the importance of social media and that can be a mixed blessing. On the one hand it is great for cheap promotion and building an audience, on the other social media is a roiling pot of scalding opinion and ground zero for periodic outrage storms, silly hashtags, petitions and more"

Also the mechanics seem to be a bit bad though
 
Sable said:
I'd say that FATAL isn't really a good example of where incorperating anything can take you, because the only good end would be to end all life in FATAL-land.
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Which incidentally can happen entirely accidentally through a miscast spell and isn't even all that unlikely. Bugged universe mechanics.
 
AnOminous said:
Which incidentally can happen entirely accidentally through a miscast spell and isn't even all that unlikely. Bugged universe mechanics.
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Oh yeah, I'd almost forgotten that there was a spell called Fatal which ends the universe, and is actually one of the mis-cast rolls.
Sable said:
I'd say that FATAL isn't really a good example of where incorperating anything can take you, because the only good end would be to end all life in FATAL-land.

The biggest challenge would be to make people racially accept Kender. Or Doobies.
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Imagine getting people to accept Otyugh
 
Sable said:
I'd say that FATAL isn't really a good example of where incorperating anything can take you, because the only good end would be to end all life in FATAL-land.

The biggest challenge would be to make people racially accept Kender. Or Doobies.
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You could make the Kender the trolls of the world, who pronk people for shits and giggles. Or have them be like Hamlet and feign insanity to get away with insulting people. Then they'd be acceptable to kill at least.
 
So this week my Cappadocian Orthodox priest instigated a sectarian riot which resulted in the deaths of 150+ people, enhanced the animosity between the Catholic and Orthodox churches and destabilized the situation on the Ottoman/Hungarian border. I'm now having to avoid the Tzmisce voivode/prince because the riot was far larger than it was supposed to be and her traditional way of solving her anger management issues is to brutally murder whoever upset her. Last time I rely on that Fucking lasombra for help at social manipulation, not in the least because the astute socialite she recruited for me in exchange for my services turned out to be blind.
 
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Ever wondered what kind of tabletop game that Go Make Me a Sandwich lady would make? Here's one of them where you play a guy who has terminal cancer? And no, there isn't a race to find a cure or do some kind of Osmosis Jones type adventure where you try to heal the patient. Though the person who's playing the cancer's goal is to send the patient into a mental breakdown.
 
So we had the first 5e game on Sunday, one based in Zendikar.


It's a mix of people who've not played 5e before, but most have played D&D, so there's not too much to learn.

We had a fairly typical party introduction,in this case being chained up at a cliffside for various crimes (hey, not as cliche as a Tavern). The party consists of a Human Eldrich knight, a Cloud Dwarf Bard (being pretty funny, apparently being arrested because he fell off the cloud where he was mining and onto someone's horse, losing his sack lunch and hat in the process), a Vampire wizard, a Cleric (whose race i'd not learned, though it's Human I think) and a tree...thing monk.

There's a brief landslide, and we're the only ones not killed, though we all slide down to the base of the cliff.

After introducing ourselves to each other, we begin doing what any good adventuring party does and began investing the debris for anything usable or salable. We find a chest, but none of us is any use at opening locks.

I did something useful for once and broke out what I like to call 'the barbarian's lockpick' (a crowbar), and busted the thing open. It was gold (yay) and a mysterious stone talisman.

After divvying up the loot, we heard combat in the distance, and the Cleric rolled a check and found that there's 3 mini spider constructs fighting an Eldrazi spawn.

The Wizard then proceeds to roll a critical hit on Chill Touch, therefore rolled twice for damage, almost rolling max twice. Then, the spawn botches its rolls against the construct and they manage to knock it unconscious. No-one else needed to touch it.

We're taking the constructs with us in case any more spawn happen upon us, because better safe than sorry, no?

...sorry for the boring story, it's been awhile since I've had one to tell. Introduction games are usually fairly standard.
 
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