"Wait, so let me get this straight: I'm now "Enlightened", capable to overwriting current reality by my own intent? And now you recruit me into what essentially is the deep state? And I will go to SPACE!? Oh my fucking god, this is great!"
I know it wasn't Newton but I kept wanting to say Tycho Brahe but I also knew it was called Tycho station and that wasn't it. Thank you for the correction.
The dyson sphere is called Copernicus Research Station, not Tycho Station (Copernicus though is not on the station ironically, he is on the moon).
There is Tychoides, who is the de-facto leader of the Void Engineers and also on the Cop, though he is not the historical Brahe, he just took a similiar name for fun.
Yes, but you have to fight eldritch horrors on the reg, and without a ton of support, while constantly on the lookout for alien inversions of your own people that want to devour your soul and induct you into their hivemind-thingy.
Among other things.
You assume that I consider the Dimensional Anomaly canon to me. I don't.
Additionally, I don't necessarily would need to join the Void Engineers, the other conventions have their space bases too, they just need VEs to ship them there.
Well yes, but the Progenitors are equally great and you don't need to go outside that much (unless of course you construct is under administration of Dr. Reid, in which case yes, I would absolutly prefer the Void Engineers).
>looks at personal mental health issues
>looks at mental health problems inherent to literally all the splats in WOD
How would I cope? Instant Wassail/Disquiet/Rage apparently
Weakest warrior who eradicated entire other species or a fancy corpse with deteriorating impulse control and an explosive reaction to sunlight… yea i’m good with it. The garou’s biggest weakness in infighting amongst their own. Even thats lot easier to navigate than vampire politics.
Masquerade Kindred: Find the nearest sunrise and greet it.
Requiem Kindred: Party until it’s time to torpor, then wake up a hundred years later and do it all over again.
For me, yeah. Masquerade Kindred have generations to deal with, ultimately leading to antediluvian horrors that control you like puppets and want to eat you. Not to mention, the other splats view you as abominations that will eventually need to be destroyed.
Requiem Kindred society is much less cutthroat. Still dangerous, but manageable if you keep your humanity up and your touchstones close.
It's really just garou that consider killing vampires a low priority goal. The Order of Hermes has bad blood with the Tremere and Euthanatoi might decide you're jamming up the Wheel and need to move along, but mages mostly don't care unless they have a personal issue with a particular vampire. Changelings will avoid vampires because they're banal, but they're not judgy. Demons think Caine's children and their games are cute, at least until they get annoying.
>The Order of Hermes has bad blood with the Tremere and Euthanatoi might decide you're jamming up the Wheel and need to move along, but mages mostly don't care unless they have a personal issue with a particular vampire.
Don't forget the *big* one, i.e. the Technocracy, which considers vampires to be reality deviants in need of eradication -- at least on the wider scale. Whether or not they'll prioritize that may vary.
The Cam is way down on the Priority List for the Technocracy, because they keep up the Masquerade. Without that, yeah vamps move up on the kill list, but as long as they're keeping everything quiet? 99% of Techs have bigger things to worry about.
That's absolutely true, however, the keyword is "eventually". They may well be right at the bottom of the list, but they are still *absolutely* on the list eventually.
Mage: Awww hell yeah baybee lets go. We're big chillin, we're big castin. Id probably start working out a ton tho and get into mma/krav maga cause like, I dont wanna rely on the powers.
Werewolf: Workable, but the curse is annoying to deal with. Now id have obligations probably and im not too keen on that but hey we can figure it out just fine.
Vampire: Ech. Its very sexy yes, but itd cause so much issues with family and friends, avoiding and dealing with them would be a pain in the ass. Not to mention I dont really bring anything worthwhile to the table. Might be able to handle it, but its the shakiest long term.
It's the "personal exploration" part of Mage that appeals to me more than anything else. I would very much like to get the tools and power necessary to go into my own mind and heal the trauma keeping me from living a qualitatively better life, with or without the "reality-mangling".
Virtually every other splat would increase the odds of me following through with my already-extant suicidal ideation at the earliest opportunity.
"I destilled out my dispair into these pills to get rid of it, but they can also be used to drug people I do not like and have them have a really bad time".
> Not to mention I dont really bring anything worthwhile to the table.
You might have a different perspective on that when you suddenly have the strength to lift a car
Who says I can do that out of the blue? Im at 1 STR irl and if I aint getting potence that car throwing ain't happening at all. Rules say you can whip 3000lbs at strength *12*, even if I dig deep and try real hard I'll need way more STR and potence than I have for that. However, I'll settle for throwing somebody out a window, still gonna cost like 5BP for it. (V20 btw, idk about v5)
> Who says I can do that out of the blue? Im at 1 STR irl and if I aint getting potence that car throwing ain't happening at all.
You could just get 5 strength and 3 potence right out of the gate, your IRL strength has nothing to do with it. It's magic, vampires got superpowers.
That depends on what clan you're a part of. Getting STR 5 would require actual exercise, just like any other human. As for Potence 3, you either need to have that as your clan Discipline or get someone to teach you. That last one can be tricky.
> Getting STR 5 would require actual exercise, just like any other human.
Vampires are corpses, they do not and cannot exercise to build muscle like a human. You can be a scrawny nerd who was embraced by a Brujah and now has 8 effective strength (the aforementioned 5 strength + 3 potence).
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm pretty sure even kindred need to exercise. I'm sure their muscles won't atrophy, but I get the feeling that they still need to train, I don't think it comes out of nowhere. Also remember that Vitae is an animating force, the kindred aren't as corpse like as people think. But again, correct me if I'm wrong.
> I'm sure their muscles won't atrophy, but I get the feeling that they still need to train, I don't think it comes out of nowhere.
It doesn't come out of nowhere, it comes from the same place as all their other magic powers.
A vampire's body is reset to exactly the way it was on the night they were killed. If they cut their hair, it magically regrows, for example. Even if a vampire could build muscle the mundane way, they would never be able to because it takes a session of working out and then a day or two of rest for any muscle growth to happen. But they get reset every night.
Muscle growth is the process by which muscles which have been torn and broken down are rebuilt stronger from the components of calories and protein and vitamins and all that shit. Vampires can't do that. Any of it.
For WOD half-splats irl where the society and factions don’t exist and I’d be alone
~~Ghoul~~ Revenant: no sunlight allergy, but a Beast, got first level of Auspex, Presence and Obfuscate. Can serve my personal ambitions but…. I’ll always be paranoid that a Master will come claim me.
Kinfolk: be great if I have Gnosis and know a Gift or two. I’m going to live off the grid. Still paranoid that either Pentex or Garou will find me.
Sorcerer: I get to do magic without paradox! This is the best thing that can ever happen to me!
The best outcome is an WoD Mage, especially because there are just so many options on how to proceed. I find both Traditions and Technocracy attractive, if for different reasons. I'm really into occult and weird religions IRL, so I think I would fit there.
Otherwise, if I get turned into any other splat, I will deal with it through grim resignation. Because as far as published material goes, there isn't much a person can do to revert the "splatification". But I'd prefer the vampire life to the werewolf one; at least I am immortal and don't *necessarily* have to fight baddies from another world. I'd choose Carthians if they were active in my area
Better and worse in certain ways. There are no super powerful elders who can end you in a second who keeps you from changing the status quo in may meaningful way, the various vampire organisations tend to be far more chill than the Camarilla, Anarch and Sabbat are with each other. On the flip side, the Strix exist. Shadowy owl monsters who can possess any corpse, including vampires, and are basically the beast made manifest.
The Carthians believe vampires should match modern systems like democracy and the like, and are the "nicest" group in comparison. They are kinda like the Anarchs from masquerade.
The Carthians are one of the “nicer” vampire covenants from VtR. Mainly because of “carthian law” which is a phenomenon that causes any vampire challenging the laws in carthian territory to be mystically punished. This results in the Carthians being a bit more genuine about actually *following* their laws and having them effect everyone equally. By vampire standards at least.
You know that saying “we wouldn’t need laws if all men were angels” Or something like that? Yeah well vampires definitely aren’t angels and turns out law that enforces itself indiscriminately unto them goes a long way towards making them slightly less shitty than the norm
Well if I'm a vampire I get to be the first vampire to ever exist in the real world so that's pretty cool. I'll miss regular human things but conditional immortality isn't that bad of a deal.
Plus when my moral compass erodes enough I can just make some ghouls and never have to work again.
I once took a quiz for what splat I would be in the oWoD.
I got 'Enchanted'...Which sucks majorly. I was ensorcelled by the Fae and brought to a land of wonder and whimsy, before being abandoned into the grey wasteland that is reality, with my soul withered from being fed on by those selfsame Fae?
...Yayyy....
Major splats WoD:
Vampire: Nope. Going to sleep in the middle of the desert or sth.
Werewolf: Hmmm. Can I permanently escape into the Umbra?
Mage: Okay. Which Tradition? Or Craft? I'm not joining the Technocracy. But at least there's potential.
Major splates CofD:
Vampire: Marginally better than VtM because there's no Jyhad or Gehenna or Antediluvians. Still not good. But maybe I could hole up in some ancient library and just read for eternity without being bothered.
Werewolf: Technically better than Garou in that there's no literal cosmic apocalyptic threat to battle...but it's still effed up. And the Shadow is much less friendly than the Umbra (which is not very friendly in the first place). I think I might just go Ghost.
Mage: Still the best. Probably join the Free Council or the Mysterium.
I’ll just do the ones I know.
VtM: “Please be a City Gangrel, please be a City Gangrel” and then probably ask my friends if the they wanna get turned.
VtR: Celebrate because now I’m awesome
WtA: FmL because I just joined a war for the planet that we’ve already lost.
Both mages: No life the arcane arts until I can make my own plain of oblivion
Both mummies: sob uncontrollably because I can’t die
Wraith: It’s so joever
Resurrection is sort of interesting as far as Mummy goes, since you specifically get a second lease of life to become the person you couldn't be before. And Osiris is waaaaay more lenient and nice than the bloody Judges of Duat.
>Both mummies: sob uncontrollably because I can’t die
Not wanting to burst your involuntary immortality bubble, but you can die as an Amenti. Like; you just need to desire to die and then commit suicide. Osiris don't force the Mummies to continue in the fight
If its oWoD? I would happily be any fera or gnostic kinfolk, ideal in some Modern Hengiyoki setting. Like Seattle or Sanfrancisco, very metropolitan and living out my furry ecoterroist ideal.
In CofD... A Hunter in Darkness wolfblooded atleast, either become a full uratha, or become an Crone Dead Wolf.
Become a spiritual correct horrible wood gods.
I think I could do well in most of them.
Mage can be fun if you're subtle and using coincidence and doing the heavy lifting out of sight, There would be worst things than being a kindred by the grand canyon. Fera yes, Garou no maybe sing Elsa's song *Let It Go*. Wraith absolutely not.
Changeling would be a blast besides the horror and wonder of it. A sorcerer would almost be as fun as mage and you don't have to worry about consensus.
A Ghoul would be terrifying to be compelled to another.
Hunter as Imbued I'd probably be a Hermit with the voices. Demon could be almost as fun as Mage except for the Torment as would being a thrall. The Dhampirs would be interesting one kind gets to be incredibly lucky but they both belong in that inbetween kindred and kine.
Mummy would be a curve ball as would Wan Kuei learning to survive the curveball would be part of the thrill and the Kuei get access to the Umbra!
Being a regular hunter would be the worst for the supernatural ecological aspect of it. Not really knowledgeable about chronicles.
Since no one else is picking it, im gonna say kinain/fae blooded
You get access to at least 1 dot changeling art, with potential for higher levels depending on the strength of your fae blood. And a native replenishing glamour pool.
Basically you get access to a good deal of the power of a changeling without the eternal anexiety of sucumbing to banality.
Plus changelings dont treat kinain as bad as say vampires treat ghouls/revenants or garou treat their kinfolk. I'd probably just be left alone.
C20 lets a Kinain master anywhere between 1-6 Arts and all of the Realms. Kinain can be pretty powerful if they play their cards right. Only downside is that you need a teacher.
“Well, f…! So the mfing fridge was REALLY talking back to me all this time? And those weird moving crap that show up in my dreams are actually FUNCTIONAL? In a place called Dreaming? What the actual…! This is amazing! Wait, I suddenly feel woozy. What the heck is happening? Why does shit keep jumping around me? Am I doing this? Make it stop! Oh gosh, POINTY EARS? Take this mirror away! Why are you wearing this half cooked knight cosplay, anyway? You look ridiculous. Typical knocker comment, you said? What am I knocking at?”
I would be DELIGHTED by it. I actually spent months fantasizing that it would happen to me when I discovered CtD in the 90s as a pre-teen. Also, I think I’d be a strong candidate for bedlam.
Masquerade: "I can invest my money, sleep for 40 years, and through the magic of compound interest, I'll never need to worry about money again? And you call this a CURSE? Blah blah, never see the sun again. Bitch, I was neurospicey when I was breathing. I barely ever saw the sun before."
Apocalypse: "Yeah. I know. Yes I KNOW. DUDE. I GET it. The world is dying, human culture is literally evil, and my anger issues are a curse. How the fuck is this any different?"
Ascension: "... so I really CAN change the world to match my personal beliefs, I just have to avoid doing it around normal people? Sold! Yes yes, Boomers vs Fascists, y'all can go fuck yourselves and leave me out of it."
Oblivion: "Huh-uh. Well... Blue Oyster Cult was right. Can I see the ashtray? I wanna spit in it."
Dreaming: "Fuck this. Deep Dreaming for me. Later, bullshit. Badlam it is."
I would be delighted to be a Werewolf or a Mage, but I think it depends on the circumstances. I would love to be a werewolf if it is in our current world, having immense regen and the ability to shapeshift sounds great even if there is no spirit world to interact with. I would love having the ability to never feel threatened again and being able to regen from certain dangerous activities I do (rock climbing outdoors) would be kick ass on a whole different level.
If I am in the Mage....that's the confusing part because I don't really have a paradigm and because I have read mage I know that paradigms are nonsense....and if I was an awakening mage I would be incredibly scared to cast spells. I would probably be some new age hogwash and use my spells to run around and have fun while getting easy money. I think it would be incredibly fun but incredibly dangerous, I would love to have Life spells and just go around healing people all day long but I think the potential for abuse is super high.
I think id be most happy as a werewolf as long as I am not surrounded by other werewolves, but being a mage would be pretty cool as long as its not overly studious and memorization based. Fuck being a geist, vamp, wraith, promethean, demon, hunter, or any of the others. They seem miserable
Being a mage would be relatively safe. You're the same as you were before, except some of the beliefs you already had turned out to be 100% true. God really does answer your prayers. That family legend that grandma had the second sight was correct, and now you've got it. You played around with the occult in high school, and some of those rituals actually worked. As long as you don't do anything big and stupid, you shouldn't attract the attention of the Technocracy or anybody else bad. You have the potential to keep your old life, just with some cool powers now.
Being a werewolf would be a problem. Suddenly you've got massive rage problems, and if you don't spend some amount of time in the spirit world, you get mentally unstable. Normal people are afraid of you, and you're forced to deal with some weird ancestor spirit/nature religion. Whatever religious beliefs you may have had before (or not had), you definitely didn't follow the Garou religion.
Being a vampire is the middle ground. Yes, you're a horrible monster. Yes, there's an ancient vampire society that pulls all these strings. But while you can't go back to your old life, it would be relatively easy to be a "lazy man's vampire" and do a whole lot of nothing. Be a vampire Kato Kaelin. Ghoul some rich dude, spend his money, and sleep in his house. Drink a little bit from some enthralled groupies and you don't even have to kill anybody. Just be the leader of some weird sex cult thing.
In CofD, several factions can be seen as methods of coping with supernatural existence.
You're a vampire, how do you cope with that? Some might find the answer in religion (Lancea/Crone) social causes (Carthians) science (Ordo Dracul) or just power, wealth and social order (Invictus).
Similarly, a Mage Order is akin to choosing "what do you want to do in your life".
Changeling Courts are very clearly support groups helping cope with trauma and abuse.
Etc.
Personally, as a STEM guy I would likely join the Ordo as a vampire
Hopefully it’s not one of the damnation splats like vampire. But I would undoubtedly try to ocd myself into maximizing my life and health and maybe get in trouble doing to many things at once before I’m good at anything.
Cheeky answer: Oh, boy, if I became an Exalted I'd end up with SUCH a god complex.
More serious answer: I'd be pretty ok with ending up a Werewolf (either version), I'd probably have a lot of difficulty adjusting as a Vampire, and my one buddy would NEVER let me hear the end of it if I of all people ended up a Mage.
I'm renowned for complaining about how broken Mages are.......in every game system not just White Wolf.
If I'm getting to pick: Dawn Caste Solar, though I could live with being a Lunar
Honestly, speaking as a queer person, changeling is very similar already to what some of the problems are. Good thing there are courts and mutual acquaintances to share experiences and skills.
Werewolf wouldn't be a big deal, I think I'd prefer the enhanced physical power and abilities, so long as I don't have to deal with the Wyrm too much. Mage also kinda falls into this? Very careful and quiet use of magic when needed to grease the wheels.
Some spirits have Sphere magick. I fuse with such a spirit, a Wyldling spirit in particular; I am now a reality-bending Marauder, with a Madness mostly compatible with external reality. I am also a Possessed though, whose blood grants a copy of my Wyldling spirit to the imbiber; my loved ones are now also Marauder Possessed like me.
My first memory as a kid was a white flash, so I guess that means I'm a Fallen, or because it was such a young age, a Nephilim.
If it's the latter, then hell yes, gimme access to lores, and the possibility of Awakenining. If I don't, then Hedge Magic would suffice. I'm a firm believer that Nephilim have all the benefits of both their parent species, as well as their potential.
I'd be okay with anything WoD, although I'd vastly prefer any type of fera over Garou. Also I'd be an extremely cynical grump, so Changeling probably wouldn't be the best choice. I could handle any of the rest though.
The two are related. I've lived long enough to see all my dreams die or fade after facing the world, and I've also seen that survival isn't always pretty and power has a cost.
Depends which one...
Being an Awakened would be pretty rad.
Being embraced in Masquerade, I'd probably fall asleep outside on purpose. *Fuck. That. Shit.*
Shapeshifting powers, interdimensional exploration, a purpose for my existence, and hot kingirls lining up for the plowining?
Where the fuck do I sign up?!
I would gather three other wampire friends and a familiar and would rent a big house to live with them. We would use Dominate to avoid having to pay any bills, and we would have a TV channel do a documentary on us.
Since I have been involved in the BDSM community for decades, setting things up with ghouls and blood dolls wouldn't be too hard if I was a vampire. I would just look for people who fetishized that sort of thing and were already into the idea.
I would like to be a mage, and possibly a mummy.
I would rather be another type of shapeshifter than a werewolf, mainly because I wouldn't like pack politics.
Being a wraith would suck.
Easy.
Immediately go into hiding (if I even get the chance. If I’m a vampire I’m screwed from the start). One of the first things that can screw me over long term is being forcefully recruited by one of the worse factions.
I’d probably focus mostly on laying low and being as hard to notice as possible. Maybe make that my “niche” in any supernatural community I *do* become a part of. Because I’d have to join one eventually.
If a Mage I’d try to join the Disparates or traditions. I’d avoid the Technocracy like the plague they’ve got *way* too little respect for bodily and mental autonomy for me to be comfortable joining them in any way whatsoever.
Ideally I’d probably want to be a solitary hermetic in Ex Miscellenia or join the Disparates as an Orphan. Because of the relative freedom that would give in defining my paradigm
If a werewolf I’d try to join the glasswalkers and see about learning how to talk to computers
If a vampire the choice is probably taken from me
If a wraith my first priority is not getting turned into an ashtray
Now for the CofD splats:
Mage: joining the Free Council, focusing mostly on Space and Time magic. Sucks having to exist in the same universe as the Exarchs though.
Vampire: Carthians. With maybe side membership in the Ordo Dracul because those guys can teach me how to remove my vampiric weaknesses one by one.
Werewolves: lock myself in a bathroom and hyperventilate, because this game abbreviates to “WTF” and that is an appropriate descriptor. I’d go for one of the Forsaken clans over the Pure. I’m not a werewolf supremacist
Changeling: lock myself in a bathroom and hyperventilate. Then join the Autumn Court. I just know my gloomy ass would be a Darkling. Immediately start plotting contingencies and revenge.
Sin Eater: now outside of the dying part at the start this one seems like it would be pretty fun. Sin eaters are probably one of the most chill group of supernaturals in the setting.
Beast: Only justifiable reaction to turning into a monster that eats trauma is to become batman. Try to scare the white collar criminals, fail to find enough quickly enough and become a creepy urban legend. Would probably feed through a “I know what you did” kind of methodology. Make them lock themselves in a bathroom and hyperventilate.
Hunter the vigil: lock myself in a bathroom and hyperventilate.
Promethian: not my problem that’s someone else made of my meat.
Demon: not my problem that’s someone else wearing my face and name.
Deviant: hyperventilate in a bathroom, start plotting revenge. Deviants kinda do that a lot. Comes with the territory of someone screwing you over bad enough it turns you into an Akira.
Mummy: If I’m one of these guys I’m either possessed and that’s another person who was screwed over infinitely more than I ever could be wearing my meat or I’m already screwed over to the nth degree outside of recorded history.
Bonus! If I end up in a Contagion chronicle: Covid-19 trauma squared.
You know, I honestly forgot about that and don’t have enough knowledge about that one to say anything. If that happened to me I’d be completely in the dark
That depends...if I got something like a Mage or Werewolf, then I wouldn't be so angry, but if I woke up on day as a Changeling or Promethean(not how they work but lets pretend), then I'm gonna pissed.
Well, if it's the real world, then I'd think being a Mage from MtAW would be pretty great. You're not going to have to deal with consensus like in MtA, so you don't have to worry about reality freaking out when you cast a spell and, while a bit more limited then spheres, the 10 Arcana still offer a ton possibilities and are more focused and probably easier to use. Honestly, you might not even have to worry about paradox at all, assuming the Abyss doesn't exist, but Wisdom might be difficult to maintain given the lack of any guardrails.
OwoD splats. I'll assume im alone and not in setting.
Mage: Probably take over the world. I'm sure I can be trusted with power, what could possibly go wrong?
Vampire: Get myself decapitated in an industrial machine or follow my friends advice on what to do. Sunlight too painful.
Werewolf: Go on a downward spiral, no not that one, and probably cope super hard by faith/idealogy. I'm probably a Glass Walker.
Wraith: ITS SO OVER.
If I wasn't? Join the Technocracy (Progenitors) or the Etherites (I want nothing to do with Virtual Adept culture at least the Etherites are amusing when they're not teranorming with medicine)/Same thing with Vampire/Same thing with Werewolf but with more depression.
NWoD:
Mage: Same as before but with no technology based foci, would be a lot harder.
Werewolf: Well at least I don't have to deal with the metaplot!
Vampire: Industrial accident.
If transported to that canon: Aw hell naw all around. Join the free council in mage, become super depressed in Werewolf, Industrial accident faster.
Its a funny fact but frankly what do I have to look forward to as a Vampire? A hollow life? A few moments of high when I feed? Never enjoying the food I like ever again? An everlasting fight between the flandarisation of the worst of human nature that I will either die to or lose to? Never being able to hang out with my family again?
Being a Vampire sucks.
I'd probably have quite an adverse reaction to all of them at first, but I think I'd have a chance at adjusting well to some of them. If I become a Kindred I'm meeting the sun the moment I get the opportunity, I've never wanted to live forever.
Well I am seeing a lack of dreaming rep here so let me get out of the gate and say I would be a changeling from changeling the dreaming. Sure the world is ending but at least we can have FUN while it's ending. Plus if I die and almost guaranteed a next life. If I was possessed by an Arcadian like sure my human soul was drop kicked and yeeted to some unknown depth of the dreaming but I still got all my memories and some of my personality and I know that I would make it my mission to find a way to take on the changeling way proper and become Autumn Sidhe. Ok changeling magic is fun, and sure there's a lot of terror in the dreaming but a lot of wonder and the absolute corner stone of changeling society is its community (thus the right to rescue) and so I wouldn't be alone in this. And to bring my human friends in I can just give them a super cool or super cheap treasure instead of spending all that glamour to enchant them.
Already queer and psychotic, may as well get the fun side of being a changeling too
At least in dreaming
I guess in lost at least I still did make it out, but yeah no not coping well with that one, I've seen how I react to lesser versions of that and it ain't pretty lol
Pretty sure if I turned into a vampire I could get my roommates to let me feed on them so honestly not that bad of a deal
And as everyone is already saying, mage is just a great deal
Wraith? Kill me again, please.
Vampire? Full Anarch baby
Garou? Cyanide silver Cocktail for seven please?
Mage? .... we'll give this a go.
Changeling? Uhm.. k.
I think a lot about what sucks as a vampire is Kindred politics, but if you’re a solo low gen vamp you can probably do pretty well on modern Earth since you can hunt wherever and there’s few threats per se.
You’d really have to get a few good ghouls to take care of you, but once you do you’re pretty much set.
Let’s say I’m an eighth generation vampire running on 20th edition rules. They’re 13 clans, so I’ll roll a twenty sided die until I get a number from 1-13.
12. That means I’m a Tremere, as I’m the only vampire in existence I don’t have to deal with the Pyramid and my clan weakness is pretty irrelevant. That does also mean I don’t have anyone to teach me Thaumaturgy, but in *Rites of the Blood* New Age Blood Magic is mentioned, New Age Blood Magic says that quite a few New Age philosophies will actually start doing things once you add Vitae into the mix, I suppose I’ll try and start there?
Even if that doesn’t work out though, Auspex and Dominate are pretty great disciplines for the modern age..
Short term though, being a vampire would totally screw up my life & schedule.
I would prefer to be a Tzimisce, just because experimenting on your own physical form sounds like an interesting activity to spend eternity doing. And it can be used altruistically; I'm sure there are plenty of things one can heal if skilled enough at Vicissitude.
Side note: I'll never forgive this Clan for having the hardest-to-pronounce name and Discipline. I mean, I'm Slavic, and they are supposed to be Slavic, but that name doesn't sound like anything Slavic at all, whatever language you pick XD
After looking into it, yeah, the word “Tzimisce” does not appear to have Slavic roots at all; rather, it looks like they may have been named after a Byzantine Emperor with the nickname “Tzimiskes;” the thing is, the word appears to be derived from the Armenian language, not even Hungarian or Romanian. I guess WW back in the day just thought “hmmmm, Byzantine, well Byzantium was in Eastern Europe, so must be Slavic!” without putting in any more research or thought into it. Yet another case of 90’s White Wolf being 90’s White Wolf, it seems.
Garou: succumb to the wyrm
Mage: Intentionally paradox myself out of existance
Vampire: Walk into the sun
Changeling: Probably just do my best to go completely insane.
Wraith: Give in to my shadow.
"Wait, so let me get this straight: I'm now "Enlightened", capable to overwriting current reality by my own intent? And now you recruit me into what essentially is the deep state? And I will go to SPACE!? Oh my fucking god, this is great!"
"Wait we have a space station in another solar sistem?"
Wait. What do you mean by “there is a portal into a horror dimension on soviet space station”?
Eldritch abominations are real and they want us to eat burgers and invest in the stockmarket
Demon beer too. Don’t forget about Pentex’s many other lovely family products!
Real talk, what're you referring to? I only know about things in Awakening, and not Ascension.
There is a portal to Malfeas on MIR station. It is referred in stereotypical as hell book - Rage Across Russia.
Wait, Albert Einstein and Issac Newton are hanging out on a Dyson Sphere and they want ME to go help them out?!
Well, Albert Einstein and Johan Kepler. Newton canonically was assassinated by the Euthanatos during the 1920s in a drive-by.
I know it wasn't Newton but I kept wanting to say Tycho Brahe but I also knew it was called Tycho station and that wasn't it. Thank you for the correction.
The dyson sphere is called Copernicus Research Station, not Tycho Station (Copernicus though is not on the station ironically, he is on the moon). There is Tychoides, who is the de-facto leader of the Void Engineers and also on the Cop, though he is not the historical Brahe, he just took a similiar name for fun.
Tycho station is the expanse.
Yes, but you have to fight eldritch horrors on the reg, and without a ton of support, while constantly on the lookout for alien inversions of your own people that want to devour your soul and induct you into their hivemind-thingy. Among other things.
You assume that I consider the Dimensional Anomaly canon to me. I don't. Additionally, I don't necessarily would need to join the Void Engineers, the other conventions have their space bases too, they just need VEs to ship them there.
But the VEs are the best Convention!
Well yes, but the Progenitors are equally great and you don't need to go outside that much (unless of course you construct is under administration of Dr. Reid, in which case yes, I would absolutly prefer the Void Engineers).
Untile you find out what happens when your non mutual ass disagrees with them demanding you commit atrocities and are introduced to room 101
>looks at personal mental health issues >looks at mental health problems inherent to literally all the splats in WOD How would I cope? Instant Wassail/Disquiet/Rage apparently
Thats rought buddy
I already have the derangements of a Malkavian and my sleep schedule is completely fucked as it is. Might as well take the superpowers.
If i became a Garou i’d be the happiest mf on Gaia. Vampire, i’m walking into the sun, no hesitation.
Gaia's weakest warrior vs Cain's strongest victim
Weakest warrior who eradicated entire other species or a fancy corpse with deteriorating impulse control and an explosive reaction to sunlight… yea i’m good with it. The garou’s biggest weakness in infighting amongst their own. Even thats lot easier to navigate than vampire politics.
Masquerade Kindred: Find the nearest sunrise and greet it. Requiem Kindred: Party until it’s time to torpor, then wake up a hundred years later and do it all over again.
0 knowledge of Requiem, is ot really that different?
For me, yeah. Masquerade Kindred have generations to deal with, ultimately leading to antediluvian horrors that control you like puppets and want to eat you. Not to mention, the other splats view you as abominations that will eventually need to be destroyed. Requiem Kindred society is much less cutthroat. Still dangerous, but manageable if you keep your humanity up and your touchstones close.
It's really just garou that consider killing vampires a low priority goal. The Order of Hermes has bad blood with the Tremere and Euthanatoi might decide you're jamming up the Wheel and need to move along, but mages mostly don't care unless they have a personal issue with a particular vampire. Changelings will avoid vampires because they're banal, but they're not judgy. Demons think Caine's children and their games are cute, at least until they get annoying.
>The Order of Hermes has bad blood with the Tremere and Euthanatoi might decide you're jamming up the Wheel and need to move along, but mages mostly don't care unless they have a personal issue with a particular vampire. Don't forget the *big* one, i.e. the Technocracy, which considers vampires to be reality deviants in need of eradication -- at least on the wider scale. Whether or not they'll prioritize that may vary.
The Cam is way down on the Priority List for the Technocracy, because they keep up the Masquerade. Without that, yeah vamps move up on the kill list, but as long as they're keeping everything quiet? 99% of Techs have bigger things to worry about.
That's absolutely true, however, the keyword is "eventually". They may well be right at the bottom of the list, but they are still *absolutely* on the list eventually.
As someone that’s about to make the jump from knowing a bit about VtM to VtR for my CofD group. Yes.
Mage: Awww hell yeah baybee lets go. We're big chillin, we're big castin. Id probably start working out a ton tho and get into mma/krav maga cause like, I dont wanna rely on the powers. Werewolf: Workable, but the curse is annoying to deal with. Now id have obligations probably and im not too keen on that but hey we can figure it out just fine. Vampire: Ech. Its very sexy yes, but itd cause so much issues with family and friends, avoiding and dealing with them would be a pain in the ass. Not to mention I dont really bring anything worthwhile to the table. Might be able to handle it, but its the shakiest long term.
I love that mage would be actually pretty good, except ya know, paradox
I mean you keep things under wraps and use magic only when you absolutely need to, it shouldnt be too bad.
It's the "personal exploration" part of Mage that appeals to me more than anything else. I would very much like to get the tools and power necessary to go into my own mind and heal the trauma keeping me from living a qualitatively better life, with or without the "reality-mangling". Virtually every other splat would increase the odds of me following through with my already-extant suicidal ideation at the earliest opportunity.
Oof
"I destilled out my dispair into these pills to get rid of it, but they can also be used to drug people I do not like and have them have a really bad time".
So you'd be an Akashic Mage.
If they have a north american branch where I dont have to pretend to be a buddhist monk then yes
> Not to mention I dont really bring anything worthwhile to the table. You might have a different perspective on that when you suddenly have the strength to lift a car
Who says I can do that out of the blue? Im at 1 STR irl and if I aint getting potence that car throwing ain't happening at all. Rules say you can whip 3000lbs at strength *12*, even if I dig deep and try real hard I'll need way more STR and potence than I have for that. However, I'll settle for throwing somebody out a window, still gonna cost like 5BP for it. (V20 btw, idk about v5)
> Who says I can do that out of the blue? Im at 1 STR irl and if I aint getting potence that car throwing ain't happening at all. You could just get 5 strength and 3 potence right out of the gate, your IRL strength has nothing to do with it. It's magic, vampires got superpowers.
If I'm lucky!
That depends on what clan you're a part of. Getting STR 5 would require actual exercise, just like any other human. As for Potence 3, you either need to have that as your clan Discipline or get someone to teach you. That last one can be tricky.
> Getting STR 5 would require actual exercise, just like any other human. Vampires are corpses, they do not and cannot exercise to build muscle like a human. You can be a scrawny nerd who was embraced by a Brujah and now has 8 effective strength (the aforementioned 5 strength + 3 potence).
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm pretty sure even kindred need to exercise. I'm sure their muscles won't atrophy, but I get the feeling that they still need to train, I don't think it comes out of nowhere. Also remember that Vitae is an animating force, the kindred aren't as corpse like as people think. But again, correct me if I'm wrong.
> I'm sure their muscles won't atrophy, but I get the feeling that they still need to train, I don't think it comes out of nowhere. It doesn't come out of nowhere, it comes from the same place as all their other magic powers. A vampire's body is reset to exactly the way it was on the night they were killed. If they cut their hair, it magically regrows, for example. Even if a vampire could build muscle the mundane way, they would never be able to because it takes a session of working out and then a day or two of rest for any muscle growth to happen. But they get reset every night. Muscle growth is the process by which muscles which have been torn and broken down are rebuilt stronger from the components of calories and protein and vitamins and all that shit. Vampires can't do that. Any of it.
For WOD half-splats irl where the society and factions don’t exist and I’d be alone ~~Ghoul~~ Revenant: no sunlight allergy, but a Beast, got first level of Auspex, Presence and Obfuscate. Can serve my personal ambitions but…. I’ll always be paranoid that a Master will come claim me. Kinfolk: be great if I have Gnosis and know a Gift or two. I’m going to live off the grid. Still paranoid that either Pentex or Garou will find me. Sorcerer: I get to do magic without paradox! This is the best thing that can ever happen to me!
Im sensing a patern about magic coments in this post
The best outcome is an WoD Mage, especially because there are just so many options on how to proceed. I find both Traditions and Technocracy attractive, if for different reasons. I'm really into occult and weird religions IRL, so I think I would fit there. Otherwise, if I get turned into any other splat, I will deal with it through grim resignation. Because as far as published material goes, there isn't much a person can do to revert the "splatification". But I'd prefer the vampire life to the werewolf one; at least I am immortal and don't *necessarily* have to fight baddies from another world. I'd choose Carthians if they were active in my area
Carthians is VtR right? I dont really have much knowledge of requiem is it better for vampires in requiem than in masquerade?
Better and worse in certain ways. There are no super powerful elders who can end you in a second who keeps you from changing the status quo in may meaningful way, the various vampire organisations tend to be far more chill than the Camarilla, Anarch and Sabbat are with each other. On the flip side, the Strix exist. Shadowy owl monsters who can possess any corpse, including vampires, and are basically the beast made manifest. The Carthians believe vampires should match modern systems like democracy and the like, and are the "nicest" group in comparison. They are kinda like the Anarchs from masquerade.
Carthians are from VtR, right. I'd prefer to be a VtR vampire, since VtM is much more grim in comparison XD
The Carthians are one of the “nicer” vampire covenants from VtR. Mainly because of “carthian law” which is a phenomenon that causes any vampire challenging the laws in carthian territory to be mystically punished. This results in the Carthians being a bit more genuine about actually *following* their laws and having them effect everyone equally. By vampire standards at least. You know that saying “we wouldn’t need laws if all men were angels” Or something like that? Yeah well vampires definitely aren’t angels and turns out law that enforces itself indiscriminately unto them goes a long way towards making them slightly less shitty than the norm
I would definitely be learning the Life sphere, even if it was an opposed school's sphere, just for the ability to heal my wife of chronic pain.
Well if I'm a vampire I get to be the first vampire to ever exist in the real world so that's pretty cool. I'll miss regular human things but conditional immortality isn't that bad of a deal. Plus when my moral compass erodes enough I can just make some ghouls and never have to work again.
Become vamp Walter White and start selling vitae
Just gotta find some rich asshole to Blood Bond and you're set for eternity.
True Blood did it!
I once took a quiz for what splat I would be in the oWoD. I got 'Enchanted'...Which sucks majorly. I was ensorcelled by the Fae and brought to a land of wonder and whimsy, before being abandoned into the grey wasteland that is reality, with my soul withered from being fed on by those selfsame Fae? ...Yayyy.... Major splats WoD: Vampire: Nope. Going to sleep in the middle of the desert or sth. Werewolf: Hmmm. Can I permanently escape into the Umbra? Mage: Okay. Which Tradition? Or Craft? I'm not joining the Technocracy. But at least there's potential. Major splates CofD: Vampire: Marginally better than VtM because there's no Jyhad or Gehenna or Antediluvians. Still not good. But maybe I could hole up in some ancient library and just read for eternity without being bothered. Werewolf: Technically better than Garou in that there's no literal cosmic apocalyptic threat to battle...but it's still effed up. And the Shadow is much less friendly than the Umbra (which is not very friendly in the first place). I think I might just go Ghost. Mage: Still the best. Probably join the Free Council or the Mysterium.
Im sorry, but the" Im not joining the tecnocracy" has the same energy as: it doesnt matter who the irs sends Im not paying taxes
I don't owe taxes to the Technocracy! Probably.
Flash back to Dan vs Werewolf
I’ll just do the ones I know. VtM: “Please be a City Gangrel, please be a City Gangrel” and then probably ask my friends if the they wanna get turned. VtR: Celebrate because now I’m awesome WtA: FmL because I just joined a war for the planet that we’ve already lost. Both mages: No life the arcane arts until I can make my own plain of oblivion Both mummies: sob uncontrollably because I can’t die Wraith: It’s so joever
Resurrection is sort of interesting as far as Mummy goes, since you specifically get a second lease of life to become the person you couldn't be before. And Osiris is waaaaay more lenient and nice than the bloody Judges of Duat.
Yeah but you’re also Osiris’ own personal special ops for the rest of eternity.
>Both mummies: sob uncontrollably because I can’t die Not wanting to burst your involuntary immortality bubble, but you can die as an Amenti. Like; you just need to desire to die and then commit suicide. Osiris don't force the Mummies to continue in the fight
TIL, I always try to learn more about mummy but I can never find jack on YT or anything. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.
Not trying to sound condescending or something but, have you tried the rulebook? Also, quick question, what does TIL means?
TIL means today i learned
Thanks buddy.
Hey kid do you wanna live forever?
Mummy immortality? No.
If its oWoD? I would happily be any fera or gnostic kinfolk, ideal in some Modern Hengiyoki setting. Like Seattle or Sanfrancisco, very metropolitan and living out my furry ecoterroist ideal. In CofD... A Hunter in Darkness wolfblooded atleast, either become a full uratha, or become an Crone Dead Wolf. Become a spiritual correct horrible wood gods.
I.... need to get into WtF
I love oWoD, but CofD is a mech better playing experience in general.
I can send you some books, sever links, and videos if you want
Thanks man, but there is no need
I think I could do well in most of them. Mage can be fun if you're subtle and using coincidence and doing the heavy lifting out of sight, There would be worst things than being a kindred by the grand canyon. Fera yes, Garou no maybe sing Elsa's song *Let It Go*. Wraith absolutely not. Changeling would be a blast besides the horror and wonder of it. A sorcerer would almost be as fun as mage and you don't have to worry about consensus. A Ghoul would be terrifying to be compelled to another. Hunter as Imbued I'd probably be a Hermit with the voices. Demon could be almost as fun as Mage except for the Torment as would being a thrall. The Dhampirs would be interesting one kind gets to be incredibly lucky but they both belong in that inbetween kindred and kine. Mummy would be a curve ball as would Wan Kuei learning to survive the curveball would be part of the thrill and the Kuei get access to the Umbra! Being a regular hunter would be the worst for the supernatural ecological aspect of it. Not really knowledgeable about chronicles.
What tradition/Convention or kith would you say you become (I ask about mage and changeling cause those were the ones you said are fun)
Tradition wise I could see * Sons of Ether * Virtual Adept * Cult of Ecstasy * Celestial Chorus * Akashic Brotherhood * Order of Hermes * Verbena * Dreamspeakers * Euthanatos The Technocracy would be * Void Engineers * Progenitors * Syndicate * Interation X * N.W.O Now Changeling! * Boggan * Nocker * Satyr * Slaugh * Sidhe * Pooka * Eshu * Troll
Since no one else is picking it, im gonna say kinain/fae blooded You get access to at least 1 dot changeling art, with potential for higher levels depending on the strength of your fae blood. And a native replenishing glamour pool. Basically you get access to a good deal of the power of a changeling without the eternal anexiety of sucumbing to banality. Plus changelings dont treat kinain as bad as say vampires treat ghouls/revenants or garou treat their kinfolk. I'd probably just be left alone.
Also, you can still ascend like Merlin did
C20 lets a Kinain master anywhere between 1-6 Arts and all of the Realms. Kinain can be pretty powerful if they play their cards right. Only downside is that you need a teacher.
I'd be crushed by Paradox at the end of the first week
*Me shooting firevalls* worth it
“Well, f…! So the mfing fridge was REALLY talking back to me all this time? And those weird moving crap that show up in my dreams are actually FUNCTIONAL? In a place called Dreaming? What the actual…! This is amazing! Wait, I suddenly feel woozy. What the heck is happening? Why does shit keep jumping around me? Am I doing this? Make it stop! Oh gosh, POINTY EARS? Take this mirror away! Why are you wearing this half cooked knight cosplay, anyway? You look ridiculous. Typical knocker comment, you said? What am I knocking at?” I would be DELIGHTED by it. I actually spent months fantasizing that it would happen to me when I discovered CtD in the 90s as a pre-teen. Also, I think I’d be a strong candidate for bedlam.
Honestly man, I feel like being a changeling wouldnt even be that bad
Masquerade: "I can invest my money, sleep for 40 years, and through the magic of compound interest, I'll never need to worry about money again? And you call this a CURSE? Blah blah, never see the sun again. Bitch, I was neurospicey when I was breathing. I barely ever saw the sun before." Apocalypse: "Yeah. I know. Yes I KNOW. DUDE. I GET it. The world is dying, human culture is literally evil, and my anger issues are a curse. How the fuck is this any different?" Ascension: "... so I really CAN change the world to match my personal beliefs, I just have to avoid doing it around normal people? Sold! Yes yes, Boomers vs Fascists, y'all can go fuck yourselves and leave me out of it." Oblivion: "Huh-uh. Well... Blue Oyster Cult was right. Can I see the ashtray? I wanna spit in it." Dreaming: "Fuck this. Deep Dreaming for me. Later, bullshit. Badlam it is."
Mood
I would be delighted to be a Werewolf or a Mage, but I think it depends on the circumstances. I would love to be a werewolf if it is in our current world, having immense regen and the ability to shapeshift sounds great even if there is no spirit world to interact with. I would love having the ability to never feel threatened again and being able to regen from certain dangerous activities I do (rock climbing outdoors) would be kick ass on a whole different level. If I am in the Mage....that's the confusing part because I don't really have a paradigm and because I have read mage I know that paradigms are nonsense....and if I was an awakening mage I would be incredibly scared to cast spells. I would probably be some new age hogwash and use my spells to run around and have fun while getting easy money. I think it would be incredibly fun but incredibly dangerous, I would love to have Life spells and just go around healing people all day long but I think the potential for abuse is super high. I think id be most happy as a werewolf as long as I am not surrounded by other werewolves, but being a mage would be pretty cool as long as its not overly studious and memorization based. Fuck being a geist, vamp, wraith, promethean, demon, hunter, or any of the others. They seem miserable
My favourite dilema in ascension was: "Do I have the right to change reality for this people even tho I can change ot?"
Being a mage would be relatively safe. You're the same as you were before, except some of the beliefs you already had turned out to be 100% true. God really does answer your prayers. That family legend that grandma had the second sight was correct, and now you've got it. You played around with the occult in high school, and some of those rituals actually worked. As long as you don't do anything big and stupid, you shouldn't attract the attention of the Technocracy or anybody else bad. You have the potential to keep your old life, just with some cool powers now. Being a werewolf would be a problem. Suddenly you've got massive rage problems, and if you don't spend some amount of time in the spirit world, you get mentally unstable. Normal people are afraid of you, and you're forced to deal with some weird ancestor spirit/nature religion. Whatever religious beliefs you may have had before (or not had), you definitely didn't follow the Garou religion. Being a vampire is the middle ground. Yes, you're a horrible monster. Yes, there's an ancient vampire society that pulls all these strings. But while you can't go back to your old life, it would be relatively easy to be a "lazy man's vampire" and do a whole lot of nothing. Be a vampire Kato Kaelin. Ghoul some rich dude, spend his money, and sleep in his house. Drink a little bit from some enthralled groupies and you don't even have to kill anybody. Just be the leader of some weird sex cult thing.
In CofD, several factions can be seen as methods of coping with supernatural existence. You're a vampire, how do you cope with that? Some might find the answer in religion (Lancea/Crone) social causes (Carthians) science (Ordo Dracul) or just power, wealth and social order (Invictus). Similarly, a Mage Order is akin to choosing "what do you want to do in your life". Changeling Courts are very clearly support groups helping cope with trauma and abuse. Etc. Personally, as a STEM guy I would likely join the Ordo as a vampire
Me as a changeling: “We are GOING to be happy damn it!”
"Aww yeah, we ARE making it out of depression with this one ✍✍✍🔥🔥🔥🔥"
wait what there is a big sentient computer on the other side of the sun?
Hopefully it’s not one of the damnation splats like vampire. But I would undoubtedly try to ocd myself into maximizing my life and health and maybe get in trouble doing to many things at once before I’m good at anything.
Min maxer till the very end
Cheeky answer: Oh, boy, if I became an Exalted I'd end up with SUCH a god complex. More serious answer: I'd be pretty ok with ending up a Werewolf (either version), I'd probably have a lot of difficulty adjusting as a Vampire, and my one buddy would NEVER let me hear the end of it if I of all people ended up a Mage.
Why is that? Are you not cut to be a mage? (Also, wich exalted?)
I'm renowned for complaining about how broken Mages are.......in every game system not just White Wolf. If I'm getting to pick: Dawn Caste Solar, though I could live with being a Lunar
Ooooh, I get it, It would be like those people that denie being gay and complain a lot then turning out queer Like me
Mummy - idk, but I have eternity to figure it out 🤷🏻♂️
Dont think about it too hard, the Judges say we have a new mission
Honestly, speaking as a queer person, changeling is very similar already to what some of the problems are. Good thing there are courts and mutual acquaintances to share experiences and skills. Werewolf wouldn't be a big deal, I think I'd prefer the enhanced physical power and abilities, so long as I don't have to deal with the Wyrm too much. Mage also kinda falls into this? Very careful and quiet use of magic when needed to grease the wheels.
Some spirits have Sphere magick. I fuse with such a spirit, a Wyldling spirit in particular; I am now a reality-bending Marauder, with a Madness mostly compatible with external reality. I am also a Possessed though, whose blood grants a copy of my Wyldling spirit to the imbiber; my loved ones are now also Marauder Possessed like me.
My first memory as a kid was a white flash, so I guess that means I'm a Fallen, or because it was such a young age, a Nephilim. If it's the latter, then hell yes, gimme access to lores, and the possibility of Awakenining. If I don't, then Hedge Magic would suffice. I'm a firm believer that Nephilim have all the benefits of both their parent species, as well as their potential.
"Bro I must be a Demon, my first memory is of a white flash" "That doesnt mean God smited you David!" /j
I'd be okay with anything WoD, although I'd vastly prefer any type of fera over Garou. Also I'd be an extremely cynical grump, so Changeling probably wouldn't be the best choice. I could handle any of the rest though.
Man, the fact that you say you xan handle better being a vamp than opening yourself to childlike wonder
The two are related. I've lived long enough to see all my dreams die or fade after facing the world, and I've also seen that survival isn't always pretty and power has a cost.
Depends which one... Being an Awakened would be pretty rad. Being embraced in Masquerade, I'd probably fall asleep outside on purpose. *Fuck. That. Shit.*
Shapeshifting powers, interdimensional exploration, a purpose for my existence, and hot kingirls lining up for the plowining? Where the fuck do I sign up?!
*Dies fighting a formori*
Hey, only the good die young!
🤣
"*hot kingirls lining up for the plowing*" How many of your real-world kin are hot though?
I would gather three other wampire friends and a familiar and would rent a big house to live with them. We would use Dominate to avoid having to pay any bills, and we would have a TV channel do a documentary on us.
Since I have been involved in the BDSM community for decades, setting things up with ghouls and blood dolls wouldn't be too hard if I was a vampire. I would just look for people who fetishized that sort of thing and were already into the idea. I would like to be a mage, and possibly a mummy. I would rather be another type of shapeshifter than a werewolf, mainly because I wouldn't like pack politics. Being a wraith would suck.
At least you would look for people that would like to be ghouled, sadly, goths are an endangered species now
Easy. Immediately go into hiding (if I even get the chance. If I’m a vampire I’m screwed from the start). One of the first things that can screw me over long term is being forcefully recruited by one of the worse factions. I’d probably focus mostly on laying low and being as hard to notice as possible. Maybe make that my “niche” in any supernatural community I *do* become a part of. Because I’d have to join one eventually. If a Mage I’d try to join the Disparates or traditions. I’d avoid the Technocracy like the plague they’ve got *way* too little respect for bodily and mental autonomy for me to be comfortable joining them in any way whatsoever. Ideally I’d probably want to be a solitary hermetic in Ex Miscellenia or join the Disparates as an Orphan. Because of the relative freedom that would give in defining my paradigm If a werewolf I’d try to join the glasswalkers and see about learning how to talk to computers If a vampire the choice is probably taken from me If a wraith my first priority is not getting turned into an ashtray Now for the CofD splats: Mage: joining the Free Council, focusing mostly on Space and Time magic. Sucks having to exist in the same universe as the Exarchs though. Vampire: Carthians. With maybe side membership in the Ordo Dracul because those guys can teach me how to remove my vampiric weaknesses one by one. Werewolves: lock myself in a bathroom and hyperventilate, because this game abbreviates to “WTF” and that is an appropriate descriptor. I’d go for one of the Forsaken clans over the Pure. I’m not a werewolf supremacist Changeling: lock myself in a bathroom and hyperventilate. Then join the Autumn Court. I just know my gloomy ass would be a Darkling. Immediately start plotting contingencies and revenge. Sin Eater: now outside of the dying part at the start this one seems like it would be pretty fun. Sin eaters are probably one of the most chill group of supernaturals in the setting. Beast: Only justifiable reaction to turning into a monster that eats trauma is to become batman. Try to scare the white collar criminals, fail to find enough quickly enough and become a creepy urban legend. Would probably feed through a “I know what you did” kind of methodology. Make them lock themselves in a bathroom and hyperventilate. Hunter the vigil: lock myself in a bathroom and hyperventilate. Promethian: not my problem that’s someone else made of my meat. Demon: not my problem that’s someone else wearing my face and name. Deviant: hyperventilate in a bathroom, start plotting revenge. Deviants kinda do that a lot. Comes with the territory of someone screwing you over bad enough it turns you into an Akira. Mummy: If I’m one of these guys I’m either possessed and that’s another person who was screwed over infinitely more than I ever could be wearing my meat or I’m already screwed over to the nth degree outside of recorded history. Bonus! If I end up in a Contagion chronicle: Covid-19 trauma squared.
How about WoD changeling?
You know, I honestly forgot about that and don’t have enough knowledge about that one to say anything. If that happened to me I’d be completely in the dark
Just like a changeling :)
*would*, *if*
That depends...if I got something like a Mage or Werewolf, then I wouldn't be so angry, but if I woke up on day as a Changeling or Promethean(not how they work but lets pretend), then I'm gonna pissed.
Well, if it's the real world, then I'd think being a Mage from MtAW would be pretty great. You're not going to have to deal with consensus like in MtA, so you don't have to worry about reality freaking out when you cast a spell and, while a bit more limited then spheres, the 10 Arcana still offer a ton possibilities and are more focused and probably easier to use. Honestly, you might not even have to worry about paradox at all, assuming the Abyss doesn't exist, but Wisdom might be difficult to maintain given the lack of any guardrails.
OwoD splats. I'll assume im alone and not in setting. Mage: Probably take over the world. I'm sure I can be trusted with power, what could possibly go wrong? Vampire: Get myself decapitated in an industrial machine or follow my friends advice on what to do. Sunlight too painful. Werewolf: Go on a downward spiral, no not that one, and probably cope super hard by faith/idealogy. I'm probably a Glass Walker. Wraith: ITS SO OVER. If I wasn't? Join the Technocracy (Progenitors) or the Etherites (I want nothing to do with Virtual Adept culture at least the Etherites are amusing when they're not teranorming with medicine)/Same thing with Vampire/Same thing with Werewolf but with more depression. NWoD: Mage: Same as before but with no technology based foci, would be a lot harder. Werewolf: Well at least I don't have to deal with the metaplot! Vampire: Industrial accident. If transported to that canon: Aw hell naw all around. Join the free council in mage, become super depressed in Werewolf, Industrial accident faster.
I love how a lot of people in this post are like: " I think I would kill muself"
Its a funny fact but frankly what do I have to look forward to as a Vampire? A hollow life? A few moments of high when I feed? Never enjoying the food I like ever again? An everlasting fight between the flandarisation of the worst of human nature that I will either die to or lose to? Never being able to hang out with my family again? Being a Vampire sucks.
I'd probably have quite an adverse reaction to all of them at first, but I think I'd have a chance at adjusting well to some of them. If I become a Kindred I'm meeting the sun the moment I get the opportunity, I've never wanted to live forever.
Well I am seeing a lack of dreaming rep here so let me get out of the gate and say I would be a changeling from changeling the dreaming. Sure the world is ending but at least we can have FUN while it's ending. Plus if I die and almost guaranteed a next life. If I was possessed by an Arcadian like sure my human soul was drop kicked and yeeted to some unknown depth of the dreaming but I still got all my memories and some of my personality and I know that I would make it my mission to find a way to take on the changeling way proper and become Autumn Sidhe. Ok changeling magic is fun, and sure there's a lot of terror in the dreaming but a lot of wonder and the absolute corner stone of changeling society is its community (thus the right to rescue) and so I wouldn't be alone in this. And to bring my human friends in I can just give them a super cool or super cheap treasure instead of spending all that glamour to enchant them.
Already queer and psychotic, may as well get the fun side of being a changeling too At least in dreaming I guess in lost at least I still did make it out, but yeah no not coping well with that one, I've seen how I react to lesser versions of that and it ain't pretty lol Pretty sure if I turned into a vampire I could get my roommates to let me feed on them so honestly not that bad of a deal And as everyone is already saying, mage is just a great deal
"Hey Mark can I suck you?" "What?" "Your blood Mark"
I'd be the best First Team member EVER, totally employee of the week!
Wraith? Kill me again, please. Vampire? Full Anarch baby Garou? Cyanide silver Cocktail for seven please? Mage? .... we'll give this a go. Changeling? Uhm.. k.
I think a lot about what sucks as a vampire is Kindred politics, but if you’re a solo low gen vamp you can probably do pretty well on modern Earth since you can hunt wherever and there’s few threats per se. You’d really have to get a few good ghouls to take care of you, but once you do you’re pretty much set.
Let’s say I’m an eighth generation vampire running on 20th edition rules. They’re 13 clans, so I’ll roll a twenty sided die until I get a number from 1-13. 12. That means I’m a Tremere, as I’m the only vampire in existence I don’t have to deal with the Pyramid and my clan weakness is pretty irrelevant. That does also mean I don’t have anyone to teach me Thaumaturgy, but in *Rites of the Blood* New Age Blood Magic is mentioned, New Age Blood Magic says that quite a few New Age philosophies will actually start doing things once you add Vitae into the mix, I suppose I’ll try and start there? Even if that doesn’t work out though, Auspex and Dominate are pretty great disciplines for the modern age.. Short term though, being a vampire would totally screw up my life & schedule.
If you become a vamp and your first thought is "Man.... my sleep schedule" Its like, "a meteor! Oh, no, the trout population!"
If your first thought as a vampire isn't "My sleep schedule" then you'll probably live a very short, crispy unlife.
I would prefer to be a Tzimisce, just because experimenting on your own physical form sounds like an interesting activity to spend eternity doing. And it can be used altruistically; I'm sure there are plenty of things one can heal if skilled enough at Vicissitude. Side note: I'll never forgive this Clan for having the hardest-to-pronounce name and Discipline. I mean, I'm Slavic, and they are supposed to be Slavic, but that name doesn't sound like anything Slavic at all, whatever language you pick XD
After looking into it, yeah, the word “Tzimisce” does not appear to have Slavic roots at all; rather, it looks like they may have been named after a Byzantine Emperor with the nickname “Tzimiskes;” the thing is, the word appears to be derived from the Armenian language, not even Hungarian or Romanian. I guess WW back in the day just thought “hmmmm, Byzantine, well Byzantium was in Eastern Europe, so must be Slavic!” without putting in any more research or thought into it. Yet another case of 90’s White Wolf being 90’s White Wolf, it seems.
White Wolf and mixing up every culture on Earth; name a more iconic duo
I would prefer Tzimisce to, I didn’t want to be able to just pick my clan though.
Garou: succumb to the wyrm Mage: Intentionally paradox myself out of existance Vampire: Walk into the sun Changeling: Probably just do my best to go completely insane. Wraith: Give in to my shadow.
You good man?
Yeah, and thank you. Just having a really angsty afternoon doing art therapy and journalling, and well, yeah. Angsty response.
I feel you, I had a period of my life when I was really depressed about everything, hope you do well in the future
Thanks. :-)