Like charging above MSRP? Sounds like a great way for stores to fall apart unless they're having to independently order and import product in the region due to a lack of normal distribution channels. Can't say I've encountered that at a brick and mortar in the US.
Same, nigger, same.
It really isn't. It works for some games better than others (CoC imo) but playing TACTICAL WAR MINIS online is kinda miserable. And you can 100% tell that people are explicitly fucking around in-between turns. That said, if you're using a VTT it's nice to queue up rolling macros so that agonising combat encounters can go more quickly.
Yes, very common here, sadly. Many many B&M stores charge a premium and expect the consooomer to just accept it but that's partially because Amazon is rarely competitive and most people just stop searching right then and there if you're a filthy casual. Some premiums are worse than others but it feels pretty disrespectful to have any semblance of what MSRP should be and notice a price is well above it.
During covid my IRL groups decided to tried to play online. D&D was awful but CoC was actually really good, unfortunately the GM had some personal stuff happen and had to stop running the game as it was getting really good.
Online really benefits for games that can be played asynchronously and have real mechanical depth to them that's a pain in the ass to actually manage at the table. Traveller is a great example of that.
oh no you banned someone for talking about George Droid's Fent Reactor? That's terrible. Can you give me their contact info so I can be sure to put them in my CHUD filter?!
Exactly. My other suggestion is to read the room and look for the quiet, normie looking ones who just show up to play or just nod when the activists are looking for support against Trump or ICE. I also took the time to write a vague list of games, genres and twists on currently popular TTRPGs a few pages back that could weed out the undesirables.
Just run v20.
Fix'd for you.
This is good advice and I'd like to build on it with what I consider a useful mindset. Approach with the idea that you will run several one-shots as an exercise in finding people. After several of them you hopefully have a short list of good candidates and you can invite them to a more personal invite only group. Don't be afraid to have that group slightly small too with a view to continuing to recruit over time.
Well yeah, but I'm coming at this from recruiting new people from scratch. And unfortunately a lot start at v5 because newest and one most pushed by agitprop. I was just saying if they have only played that version that doesn't mean that you should instantly kick them. They're pretty retrainable compared to say DND 5e only speds. Just kick them for other shit player related reasons.
You say that until you read all the character ideas you get for that clan. I say this as someone whose second ever chronicle was a Chantry game due to that.
I knew I was missing something in that segment.
I find the best way to leash a Tremere player is up give them a boss, given that more than any other clan, their internal power structure is paramount. It is their "weakness" after all, and it should be treated as such, you've got marching orders and it doesn't matter if you're the biggest man in town, or the state, or the country, because you still have someone you report to. They're keen that you follow orders, and if you don't, you have peers and subordinates more than willing to snitch for a career boost.
And in V5 all of that got drone striked and replaced by a neo-pagan ecofeminist communist collective, because it's V5.
I did joke when I said I'd run vampire hogwarts for an all Tremere game. I'd actually run vampire The Librarians if you are familiar with that old franchise. Except instead of protecting relics it'd just be a lot of stealing and trying to unlock their power for the nefarious ends of the PC's superiors.
Don't remind me, I'm still in shock at what they did.
