(Part 2) Best products from r/WhiteWolfRPG

I understand, the goth landscape has changed a lot as time goes by.

Speaking of movies, have you seen my favorite movie to watch as a WoD player: What We Do in the Shadows?

I enjoyed the Dark Kingdoms book;

https://www.amazon.com/Kingdoms-World-Darkness-White-Paperback/dp/1565049845

For books, /r/askhistorians (which has a strong group of indigenous American studies academics) often recommends 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and downplays Guns Germs and Steel, because Jared Diamond's research process was basically 1. create theory, 2. seek facts to justify theory, and the result is about as flawed as you would expect from that reversal of normal historical analysis. (Mind you, his book blew my mind as much as anyone's when I first read it...)

Or, if you're just asking for rpg books: I don't think White Wolf has anything set in Texas at all. It might be interesting to do 'banes as they lived in Texas before Pentex, and how the arrival of an organizing structure changes them' though. Especially if you take into account the difference in timing between the colonization of the east coast, central america, and texas, there could be repercussions in the spirit world long before your players see human impact. (ex: California didn't have major colonial impact until the 1800s, which is kind of crazy to think about.)

It was a really damn good trilogy: Ashes and Angel Wings : followed by The Seven Deadlies and culminating in The Wreckage of Paradise.

The trilogy was like a good campaign, deeply aware of the rulebooks but very creative with the mechanical possibilities (taught me tons about using the system and will convince you that the Lore of the Fundament is the shit) and circumvents all the major failings of white wolf: namely, the whole infernal court system (stolen from Vampire TM) is replaced by distance: the campaign in the novel is scattered across the continental United States. This is as Stolze shows, hardly a big deal since all demons can communicate by speaking each others names, so why the devil would they meet up for a sunday luncheon with every other demon in town? Again, not vampires.

The second thing Stolze did well is flipping around all the stereotypes: the factions as written in the manuals are super cookie cutter: Reconcilers are good, Luciferians are neutral good, Cryptics are neutral, Faustians are neutral evil, Raveners are evil.

Stolze switches this all around: the big bad is an earthbound reconciler, as is one of the more evil characters, while the two protagonists who aren't despicable are both sympathetic Raveners.

Highly recommend!

If you want to go with the '91 version of vampire (which was a SOFTBACK book), and play mortals, you want to check out Hunter's Hunted (1st Ed).

https://www.amazon.com/Hunters-Hunted-Battle-Vampire-Masquerade/dp/1565040201

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/459/The-Hunters-Hunted-WW2205?it=1

Use any sheet you want. Dark Ages or modern. But, Law can still be useful in a PA setting, as each desperate community would have their own traditions, and understanding them can be key to survival.

Mortals drinking Garou blood get sick, but would have no affect otherwise. Only vampires get a benefit from drinking it, and only their blood has an affect on mortals.

A mythological worldwide event whose actual basis is scientifically estimated to have happened somewhere around 5000 BC

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/evidence-suggests-biblical-great-flood-noahs-time-happened/story?id=17884533

The exact date is never specified in WoD texts or the Book of Nod since the conception and use of calendars was not yet common to societies, but the VTM lore calls the event "The Deluge" and it destroyed 'The First City'

http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Deluge

http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/First_City

I've used random.org to generate three random end-numbers as a possible date:

5481

The first city in WoD also refers to the myth of the city of 'Ubar' which is sometimes claimed to have been destroyed 3000 years ago (a good book on my bookshelf irregardless):

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-02-05/news/mn-1192_1_lost-city

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Ubar-Finding-Atlantis-Sands/dp/0395957869

http://www.cracked.com/article_19226_the-5-most-extravagant-ways-cities-have-been-wiped-out.html

For parity with WoD, Clapp should be considered incorrect and an alternate known or unknown site should be considered as the true archeological location:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_of_the_Sands#Theories_about_the_location_of_a_lost_city_of_the_sands

Especially of note is that in one of the Gehenna scenarios a party can travel back to The First City where there are statues of 27 different vampire Antediluvians, many more than the VTM clanbook narrators are aware of.

Inspired after I saw this and thought, "Clearly in WoD this is going to either mind control you or cause some other horrible effect."

I bought the equivalent of a pound of dice, that's just d10s.
Then organized them by color to form sets for different lines.

My favorite is 8 white milky ones with gold numbers, and 10 dark red marble ones with black numbers. I call it "blood and smoke". It's obvious what I use them for.

Edit: it was years ago but this might be it. I know it was cheaper for 100 then it was for 50 via Chessex.

It’s not very expensive on Amazon for Revised. I don’t know if the V20 screen is available.

Absolutely sure. It was an undersized book, same size as the Book of Nod flavor book, no mechanics in the text, just essays on pursuit of power.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1565042018?pc_redir=1408584953&robot_redir=1

Well, the official V20 Dice are an obvious choice.

There's also these "vampire dice" from Chessex.

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> It never hurts to have an odd D20, or D4, or perhaps some heavy metal dice for pivotal moments.

YMMV, of course, but Vampire only uses d10s. D100s, d20s, d4s, and other dice aren't part of the Storyteller System.

https://www.amazon.com/Sunglasses-After-Dark-Blooded-Collection/dp/1631401629

Do you mean Elysium?

Just for clarity sake, if I remember correctly, it was more specifically because of the book Love of Monsters which is set in the World Of Darkness in which a Vampire and a Werewolf fall in love. Naturally the Elders of both races get pretty jumpy about that and decide to kill them before they go trying to make an Abomination... A Vampire Werewolf.

As a result they claimed that the setting, characters and story were taken straight from their books, seeing as the story of Underworld was a Vampire and a Werewolf falling in love and the Elders of their kind trying to kill them before they make the ultimate Super Werewolf.

I'm not sure how the judge came to the conclusion, in the end, that the two things weren't related. I guess he considered vampires and werewolves to be far to much "public domain" and, thus, any story, even if almost identical to one with a copyright on it, that focuses on them was impossible to steal? I didn't keep up with it in the end... I just remember that Underworld came out anyway, sadly.

Yup, pretty good. Actually think the second was better, but it has trouble carrying itself in parts - fucking fantasy trilogy syndrome. No way I won't pick up the third though.

Last real 10/10 I read... I dunno. The Monster Baru Cormorant was pretty good, but suffering from middle book syndrome in a big way, and lost the pace of the first one somewhere. Maybe Shadow Captain, just because the first book didn't need a sequel, the second book proved it by following a different character and expanding on every scene in the first one.

Fingerprint readers work on the deceased...

Iphone thermal imaging camera $250...

Rechargeable heated thermal baselayers $300...

[Rechargeable pocket speaker with internal memory to simulate sounds of breathing/heartbeat....]
(https://www.amazon.com/Haoponer-Portable-Digital-Display-Porcelain/dp/B010A5P5WM/ref=pd_rhf_ee_s_rp_c_0_2/146-5740424-2101960?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B010A5P5WM&pd_rd_r=bfba0281-3f0e-47d6-9894-4cd539554ba5&pd_rd_w=3nTBv&pd_rd_wg=hX0XZ&pf_rd_p=144c9400-e7ab-4127-a834-816f6410c5df&pf_rd_r=KG5E9B7CGVAPXG4HN0FS&psc=1&refRID=KG5E9B7CGVAPXG4HN0FS)

That's not meant to be definitive, it's just an example that for every tech problem, there's a tech solution. If that sort of thing became a common enough problem, some neonate would probably invent a technique/combo-discipline that simulated all the life functions for very little blood cost for a night.

Ultimately, it's up to the Storyteller to set the tone. They can just as easily handwave tech problems as they can run a game of ever escalating James Bond Gadgets. Tell whatever story is enjoyable for the ST and players. It doesn't have to be a "reality" simulation.