General WoD Discussion #2: Its time to Celebrate!

[MugaSofer]

Er, no, Promethean is entirely playable. Finding a game is the hard part, because it's super-niche, which is what people generally talk about with Promethean.

But, yeah, Promethean has a win condition. Follow the right path and you can become a human, no ifs or buts about it. Promethean borrows heavily from alchemy; you can, through effort and enlightenment, turn lead into gold.

Which is part of the reason it's entirely niche game, mind you.

The other part, I think, being that most WoD players expect a more social game than "you can't stay in one place more than a few days or talk to anyone but your party more than once or twice*".

*(May be slightly exaggerated, but then it usually is when described.)

*shrug* I dunno. I've heard a lot of love for the game, but at the same time it's supposed to be so bass-ackwards as to be untenable; a poor balance between going crazy because you'll never have friends and your friends going crazy because of your aura.

Although, now I remember a fan splat about dragons? Perhaps I'm mixing the two? That sounds like a dragon thing. Something involving Tiamat, too.

And, neat! Way better than Changeling. Wyrd 10 is "go stark raving mad and become one of the Gentry", isn't it?

Sounds like Leviathan: the Tempest. Which I have never played, so I don't know how accurate that is, but I've seen it described a lot like that by fans.

I didn't even know there was anything for Wyrd 6-10 Changelings.

There's a disproportionately popular (and good) book with all that: Equinox Road.

A question for the board: would it be unusually cruel to drop a middling Leviathan as the main antagonist a group of seasoned Vampires that have, so far in-game, been in the dark relating to the existence of most other creatures?

You could even play up the whole "in the blood" aspect of Leviathan ... it wouldn't be hard to make them seem like cousins of Vamps, they share enough conceptual space. I think.

[quote="SiuiS"]It's like changeling. Killing is like, T5? Killing a human is T4.[quote]

That seems reasonable. There are plenty of non-humans out there for T5.