Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, Chronicles of Darkness, Other TTRPGs

[The Cat]

This guy comes more from my perspective. I was super into OWOD and I got on board with NWOD pretty quick and I still dont see the underworld series on general principle for ending the old WOD
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[The Cat]

ROFL what a dick.

That being said, maybe in our last campaign there was one beast (?) -- I am not sure, because some of it blends in with Changeling and Werewolf. We definitely ran across NPCs (some friends, some foes) of each type, especially hunters (who worked for the conspiracy). I'm not really excited much by hunters either, it feels kind of boring.

Werewolf is definitely the big kick-ass physical melee build. They are absolutely brutal and never seem to permanently die.

However, I found the Mages to be really overpowered depending on the build. They are versatile and can bend their spells / apply them in different scenarios, and just can do impossible things as needed.

Deviants really is more checked-and-balanced, and about the only outrageous things i've noticed in gameplay is that if you buy Rapid Healing 5, you never die -- and too many fucking people buy Rapid Healing 5 (which also should be including a horrific scar). Too many people have had Rapid Healing 5 and I'm not sure what scar is impacting them if any -- it should be debilitating -- and I don't think it really fits the character concepts for some people but they just bought it anyway. I did not buy it because I was trying to be true to my character; Zahra mitigates by being Bloodless (turning all physical lethal damage to bashing), being invulnerable to certain elements (like fire), and using use Inhuman Digestion at range to do agg + heal the same amount done -- and I'll buy Carapace for her if the campaign is going on so she'll have inherent 2/4 flak jacket protection due to what she's made out of. Even not taking lethal damage from bullets, right now if a few people shoot her at once, it can wrap around into lethal and disable her, which is just dumb; hence needing bulletproof protection.

One thing I appreciate more about CoD is that it's not dependent hard-and-fast on a game map. D&D and Pathfinder and many games are so dependent on specific movement / positioning and you have to do a lot of practical maneuvering to utilize your abilities. CoD is more raw storytelling.

The contagion campaign is the crossover event that blends all the systems. It looks neat.

I agree about the storytelling over maps.

Deviant looks like a lot of fun also

 

[The Cat]

I will say I feel like Beast is a game Ive been looking for the idea of being a fear eater, I have some ideas for a campaign along those lines.

 

[Totenkindly]

This guy comes more from my perspective. I was super into OWOD and I got on board with NWOD pretty quick and I still dont see the underworld series on general principle for ending the old WOD
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I saw a post on ENWorld from 2003 about that:

Before I saw the movie, it seemed fairly similar, from previews and whatnot. After seeing it, I'm much less convinced.

There were a lot of similarities that are trivial, things from mythology (sunlight kills vamps, silver hurts werewolves, get bit to get infected, blah blah). There were also some differences from mythology, but they aren't WW-specific. For instance, Underworld vampires didn't have to be invited into a house. WW vamps don't either, Buffy vamps do, Anne Rice vamps don't, Blade vamps don't. Flip a coin, apparently.

Underworld vamps and werewolves were infected beings, you get the virus and you turn. You don't have to die first to be a vamp, apparently. That's not WW at all.

Underworld werewolves weren't clan-based, there was just one group of them apparently. They were also apparently immortal, like vamps. Not WW.

Underworld vamps weren't clan-based. There was apparently an american coven and european coven, but that's not WW-specific, anne rice and Buffy both had organizations of vampires. Had there been different clans with different powers, I might have bought it.

Never really saw many powers from either group, except they were all strong and fast. Eh. The vamps seemed to get stronger as they got older, but that's not WW specific either. There was no concept of generations like you find it Vampire: the Masquerade.

The part that killed most of the similarities for me was the virus. Both groups were descendants of one man, some nobleman in the 4th or 5th century, who survived some kind of plague. His children inherited the virus, which made one of them a vampire, one a werewolf, and one normal but a carrier. There's nothing like that in WW at all. WW is "Caine is the angsty forefather of vamps" and "Garou are the tree-hugging children of Gaia", and they have no familial tie.

WW claimed in their suit that a bunch of trivial elements added up to make the Underworld setting similar enough to the World of Darkness that it was infringing. I didn't see it. The clans and tribes of the WoD are central to the setting, and they just weren't in the movie. The look and feel was "vampire-werewolf shoot-em-up w/Matrix", not WoD.

The one part that screamed WoD to me was the "abomination". The concept of it could go either way, and the method of creating one wasn't the same as the game world, but to use that name for that concept was pretty blatent.

The story WW is saying is similar, "Love of Monsters", I haven't read, there could be some plot similarities in there. That might be where they got the "abomination" concept too. So the whole case really has to do with that story, I think, because the movie isn't very WW-ish at all.

Anyway, there are similarities, you can tell they both pull from the same general concepts but I would not see them as derived any more than all vampire movies are based on the legend of vampires.

The sad part about Underworld is that it should have been so much better than it ended up being. I mean, beggars can't be choosers, and the first Underworld is pretty cool -- and I think they did their best move by actually having decent actors involved who so much elevate the material (Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Kate Beckinsale, and Scott Speedman was even okay in his role). But they always produced it like a niche/schlock dark fantasy film series versus taking it more seriously from a writing and directing perspective, so it never gets quite out of "B flick" territory. SO much cool, but not as much realization of the concepts. Plus, they didn't pace it well -- it's like if Tolkien kills off Sauron as they leave The Shire, and then Sauron dies when they reach Rivendell.

And after you get past the first two, the third one is a needless prequel, and the later films are just recycled batshit.

They need Mike Flanagan to revitalize the property ROFL, like he's doing with the Exorcist and did with Ouija.

 

[The Cat]

I saw a post on ENWorld from 2003 about that:



Anyway, there are similarities, you can tell they both pull from the same general concepts but I would not see them as derived any more than all vampire movies are based on the legend of vampires.

The sad part about Underworld is that it should have been so much better than it ended up being. I mean, beggars can't be choosers, and the first Underworld is pretty cool -- and I think they did their best move by actually having decent actors involved who so much elevate the material (Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Kate Beckinsale, and Scott Speedman was even okay in his role). But they always produced it like a niche/schlock dark fantasy film series versus taking it more seriously from a writing and directing perspective, so it never gets quite out of "B flick" territory. SO much cool, but not as much realization of the concepts. Plus, they didn't pace it well -- it's like if Tolkien kills off Sauron as they leave The Shire, and then Sauron dies when they reach Rivendell.

And after you get past the first two, the third one is a needless prequel, and the later films are just recycled batshit.

They need Mike Flanagan to revitalize the property ROFL, like he's doing with the Exorcist and did with Ouija.

I did see the first one. Not because I had a crush on Kate Beckinsale(It was) Bill Nighy is like my celebrity free candy. I never know where he's going to turn up but I'm always pleasantly surprised.

 

[Totenkindly]

I did see the first one. Not because I had a crush on Kate Beckinsale(It was) Bill Nighy is like my celebrity free candy. I never know where he's going to turn up but I'm always pleasantly surprised.

He and Michael Sheen were just great in that film.

 

[The Cat]

White wolf will always be my favorite.
But I've been pleased as punch with Onyx Path Publishing.
I think I like the Chronicles of Darkness better than Old World of Darkness in many ways, but I have had few books Ive enjoyed reading as much or been inspired so much as old world of darkness source books. The lore was so rich and the books were so well written. I used to read them as writing guides/entertainment long before I ever actually got to play.​

 

[Totenkindly]

We finished our final current chapter of the Deviant campaign last night, in a final all-out battle against our evil counterpart team working for the conspiracy.

Those fools were too cocky and came after us too individually, which was just enough (with our tactical knowledge of the facility layout) to let us concentrate-burst a few of them, thank goodness. It wasn't cool they all had Rapid Heal 5, but we disabled them all enough to get through THEIR portal and catch the other mad scientist we were trying to grab, then get out of dodge.

We hope to revisit this campaign in the future, although the locale might change and we'll have to figure out a way to fit into Europe (as we're all Egyptian and only a few of us speak English, let alone the European languages).

Specimen #5 is a lucid telepathic King Cobra that had been experimented on inside the facilities. (There was also a semi-aware crocodile and a cat that could phase -- along with one human subject we found.)

Silent is one of their number we met in our second session, a trained assassin with Wolverine-like abilities, and a lamprey mouth (so she can't speak, she can only talk through pictures in her mind). She was mostly held by the mad doctor due to his having possession of her boyfriend, the portal master, who was too weak to escape. She defected to our team for weeks but was recently recaptured and we feared she would be reconditioned to attack us.

SESSION 26: When One Door Closes, a Portal Opens

We are currently in the hallway between the storage and the specimen rooms we investigated earlier.

• Behind us are the door we originally entered by, and then the double doors for the Storage room and the Disposal room.
• Ahead of us are double doors for the Specimen room and another room we never investigated.
• Beyond that are double doors for the Medical room and another room we never investigated.
• Beyond that is a final set of double doors for the Surgical room and the Bunks rooms where we found Maahla.
• And at the end of the hall is the exit door that Specimen #5 told us the passcode for.

From where the smell of ozone is strongest, we believe the gate has appeared in the Surgical room but none of the doors have windows, so we cannot see inside.

“They’re coming,” says Zahra grimly. “Everyone ready?”

Amal starts trembling. “What should we do? What should we DO??” Her eyes dart about as if she plans to run.

Rashid pats her on the arm, which just makes her flinch. Suddenly she seems to convulse briefly, and the next thing we know we see a familiar hateful gleam from her eyes. Apparently Hakim is in the building – but it’s just as well.

While Rashid teleports to the far exit door to check it for traps and disarm it, Specimen #5 slithers under the door into the first unknown room on our right. This might be to hide, but we also recall it telling us how the walls are hollow and it is familiar with sneaking around the complex through the walls and ceilings.

We hear an ear-splitting scream from inside the Surgical room and the door explodes across the hallway in pieces. This seems like a good time to move.

As Masil ducks into the Disposal room and Zahra into the Storage room, Modi throws a makeshift Semtex explosive ball down the hall, bouncing it off a right-hand door so that it ricochets into the Surgical room. Up in the alley, one of Modi’s shadow selves notes that four SWAT teams have rolled up to the building.

As Scream emerges brazenly from the Surgical room into the hall, we see his silhouette framed against a bright light as the Semtex explosion goes off amid shouts of pain. The blast wave rolls down the hall, knocking Rasheed off-balance, throwing Scream against the far wall, bowling Hakim to a knee, and rattling shelving and knocking things over in the adjoining rooms.

Before Scream can recover, there’s a blast from Modi’s shotgun to knock him on his ass, and then the crack of Masil’s rifle. As the man drops to the ground with seeming mortal damage already, Zahra’s pseudopod snaps outward, obliterating the left half of his remaining body.

“Let’s see you regenerate from that,” she mutters to herself, turning to see the short passage connecting the Storage room to the Specimen room. She hurries into the Specimen room and tells the crocodile that “Some bad men are coming and they are want to take away your food.” She smiles as the croc hisses back at her, either warning her off or hopefully just pissed off that some men would try to take the meal he’s already claimed for himself.

Back in the hall, Brick squeezes through the door, filling up much of the hallway, his shirt in tatters and a scorch mark on his chest. As nasty as the blast was, apparently it was partly muffled by this behemoth throwing himself atop it. We all hear Hakim’s savage cry as he fires his blue balls at the giant – and then do literally nothing when they strike him.

There’s the sound of a gunshot and suddenly one of Brick’s eyes seems to be gone – but we quickly realize it’s just the bullet that hit him there and lodged in the socket without actually entering his body. Still, maybe his sight is occluded a bit now? Zahra takes advantage of the opportunity to lean out the Specimen door and whack him with a pseudopod. The acid seems to sizzle on Brick’s skin, but unflustered his hands snap up much faster than expected, grabbing her limb before she can retract it and yanking her into the hallway. There’s another cry of rage from Hakim and blue balls flash forward again, bombarding Brick around the face and shoulders, but again they seem to have no impact.

We hear a wailing sound coming from the Surgical room – Caller is probably summoning a spirt of some kind. But Flame has also emerged from the room, wheeling on Rashid who is closest, who hasn’t yet had time to open the door. As fire flashes out, we see Rashid reflexively disappear. He finds himself back in the alley above, standing next to shadow Modi. Meanwhile, in the hallway, real Modi shoots Flame in the head and he drops like a sack of potatoes.

Brick pulls hard on Zahra, reeling her in to his inevitable embrace. Suddenly she lets herself lurch forward, slithering through the gap between his body and arm as he’s caught off-guard, and reforming behind him in human shape, free of his grip. From her new position, she can see the Surgical room is a total mess from the explosion, but her sight is dominated by two things: The portal itself in the room’s far corner, through which she can see the shimmering facility on the far side, and a cluster of people facing her: Caller, the shade he just summoned… and Silent.

Brick is momentarily confused over where Zahra went, but he still sees multiple targets down the hall and charges after one – Masil – taking him down to the floor. Meanwhile, having learned the pointlessness of trying to harm Brick, Hakim teleports down the hall to Zahra’s side and whips blue balls into Caller’s chest. The summoner grabs at his wounds, then crumples over.

Both Zahra and Hakim hear a voice from the other side of the portal: “YOU KNOW YOUR ORDERS -- GET THEM!” It’s Dr. Knock. Zahra perceives this command has been targeted at Silent.

“RASHID – THEY SENT SILENT AFTER US!” she thinks hard through the link. As she does, she also realizes that Caller is faking being dead, hoping to heal enough to come back into play. She steps back as the shade suddenly hurls itself forward. It dives through the wall as if it is not there and rams its eerie clawed hand through the back and then front of Hakim’s head. Hakim reels, trying not to scream as he feels his mind being torn apart, but somehow stays on his feet through sheer hatred.

Amidst all this chaos, Specimen #5 unexpectedly drops out of the ceiling above Caller, landing on the faking summoner and biting down hard.

Rashid reappears beside Zahra. She can tell he’s making eye contact with Silent, no doubt trying to persuade her to not attack us. As Silent starts moving, with Zahra back-peddling (recalling their first encounter weeks ago), Rashid sends Zahra a message: “Make it look good.” As Silent slices at her, Zahra realizes the assassin is pulling her punches. As the blow nears her, Zahra slithers around the hit to make it look like she was struck, and reels backwards feigning shock.

As SWAT teams bust through the front of the Autumn Health building above, and Masil manages to somehow flip above Brick and get control of their grapple, Flame sits up and obliterates the clone of Modi in the hallway with a roar of fire.

Zahra takes all of this in. She really wants to murder Flame but instinctively targets Caller, since the shade is an even worse threat. Her pseudopod lashes out and knocks Caller out for the count, for real this time, although all of these antagonists seem able to regenerate to some degree. With its summoner dead, the shade lets out an agonized shriek as it is sucked backwards towards Caller. When it tries to grab Hakim to prevent itself from being sent back to wherever it came from, Hakim manages to teleport out of its wicked embrace.

Specimen #5 looks into the portal, glances back at Rashid, nods, sticks its head through the portal, and then spits. We hear a pained higher-pitch shriek from Dr. Knock and then some clattering sounds as he stumbles backwards trying not to fall over.

Rashid adds Gate to the network and shortly after tells the rest of us that we’ve been asked us to save Silent in return for Gate getting us all out of this mess safely. Both Zahra and Masil realize Rashid is hiding information from us and intuit that Gate isn’t going to survive this final push, whether because his body is burned out by his power overuse or from damage done directly to him by the conspiracy.

With a huge roar, suddenly the entire hallway fills with fire as Flame cackles wildly. As Masil and Brick grapple each other amid the conflagration, Zahra snarls and whacks Flame hard with her pseudopod, dropping him coated in acid to the floor. The corridor continues to burn.

Up above, Modi can see two heavily armored helicopters circling the area. He dissolves that copy in the alley and leaps to the next at the parking garage where he had stationed it.

Hakim wakes up and teleports over to the Surgical room, where the shade hovers above Caller’s body scrabbling at the empty air to avoid being sucked back into whatever void it was pulled from. It tries to grab Hakim to anchor itself but Hakim stays well away.

“Through the portal now!” says Rashid through the mindlink, as Specimen #5 heads through after Dr. Knock. Out in the hallway, Zahra hefts Flame’s body over her shoulders and carries him through the portal with her. Hakim edges around the room to avoid the shade and follows. Masil releases Brick and sprints back to the Surgical room and leaps through the portal while Brick is still getting up.

As we all turn to look back through the fading gate, we see Brick burst through the door frame in pursuit – coming way too close to the shade, which immediately reaches out and claws at him desperately for purchase. Whatever Brick was impervious too, it doesn’t seem to include the virulence of the shade. We watch the light go out of his eyes right as the gate shimmers, pops, and vanishes.

As a half-blinded screeching Dr. Knock stumbles down the hall, with Specimen #5 in hot pursuit, we find ourselves in an odd combination of laboratory, armory, and experimental equipment facility. Gate is lying on a gurney in front of us, hooked up to multiple IVs and monitoring machines, with an oxygen mask on, his body spotted and withered, hair thinned and wispy, eyes yellow and sunken, his skin a sick ashen hue. It’s a wonder he’s still alive at all.

Despite all this, Gate listens as Rashid explains where Modi is. It is a location Gate recalls, and he opens a quick portal for Modi to join us, although his body shakes with the exertion.

Modi recognizes his surroundings immediately: He had been stored in this facility.

“Why did you bring him?” asks Rashid to Zahra, nodding to the body on her shoulders.

“A to-go meal,” says Zahra brusquely, throwing Flame on the ground and slurping over him before his regeneration can bring him back. The scene is horrific and yet fascinating. For a long 5-10 seconds the two powers struggle with each other without any visible change – acidic dissolution vs acute self-healing – and then suddenly Zahra bears down and the acid gushes with a loud hiss through the villain’s cellular structure, ripping apart its very fabric.

Within a few seconds Flame is gone, leaving nothing but a very shiny clean spot on the laboratory floor.

Zahra reforms, standing upright, struggling between fiercely feeling that justice has been served (because Flame would have never stopped coming for them) but still feeling shame over what she’s becoming. Gate’s face is haunted and disturbed after seeing this, and even Silent looks a bit surprised – but also there seems to be a secret smile in her eyes seeing Flame destroyed.

Joining the chase after Dr. Knock, Masil quickly passes the snake, comes to a swinging door, and finds the scientist desperately trying to wash from his eyes the poison that Specimen #5 spit into them. Masil’s hands snap out and find Knock’s throat right as Specimen #5 slides forward and bites the doctor on his bare ankle. As the doctor splutters and contorts, Masil starts dragging him back up the hallway by his neck.

Zahra (with a new flak jacket from a nearby rack) gently puts a hand on one of Gate’s. When he looks at her, she mouths, “Thank you,” to him. He nods before making a prodigious effort to turn his head and gaze upon Silent.

“They already said it,” he whispers, his voice breaking. He’s almost spent. “I can get you all out. GO.” Silent’s eyes actually look sad and wild as she gestures back to him. She doesn’t want to leave him. “Please,” he croaks simply.

As Masil gets back with Dr. Knock, Rashid reminds us there is a self-destruct counting down. Silent is holding Gate’s hand and making gestures with her other. The look she gives Rashid and Zahra says everything, even if she has no human mouth to express it; and it hurts to see her in so much agony.

His strength fading, Gate’s eyes flick over to a laptop on a nearby desk, and Zahra grabs it, handing it to Modi for safekeeping. As she does, she sees flashing red lights go off overhead. “Time to go. NOW.”

Specimen 5’s poison doesn’t seem to be sitting well with Knock. As he gasps for air, his throat swelling up, Gate squeezes Silent’s hand a last time, then lifts his arms in front of him and focuses, his temples running with sweat. Another portal struggles into view, although the destination on the other side is vague and out of focus. Do we smell salt?

The machine next to Gate starts beeping insistently, right as we hear a series of popping sounds from the hallway, followed by a very loud rumble and the floor shaking now directly under us.

Zahra grabs Khepri with one hand and Silent with the other, towing them both through the portal, while Masil drags a weakly struggling Knock through with him. Everyone else leaps through after them, aside from Gate who is just twitching weakly on his gurney as his monitors screech at different unsettling pitches. We barely have a chance to look back for him when the portal stutters, then winks out of existence, leaving nothing behind but a gentle breeze laced with the smell of ocean, the water crashing rhythmically on the sand below.

Silent stares at the ground, then drops heavily to her knees. No one knows what to say.

We don’t know where we are at first glance, aside from standing atop a building overlooking the ocean. When we pull out of our phones and get signals, we quickly discover we are near Alexandria, somewhat near where we stored our chopper only half a day ago. Specimen #5 slithers a bit away to an exposed area on the roof, where the sun is hot and bright, and curls up to enjoy the heat.

The scroll on the news sites now has a major announcement: “Major explosion in NAC takes out gas line and pancakes building during workday, killing all inside!” With a little more investigation, we determine this location was the SnoTop building that was next on our list to visit. When it exploded and collapsed, it took out all the other businesses in the structure including a coffee shop on the ground floor.

“Dammit, that was my favorite coffee shop,” snaps Masil. “Can you take this piece of crap?!” He thrusts Dr. Knock at Modi, who grabs him. As Masil dials Karen to make sure she’s okay and let her know where we’ve ended up, we realize Knock might not actually make it. Between his muttering gibberish, labored wheezing, spastic jerks, and the foam splashing from the corners of his mouth, he’s probably only got a minute left before his mind is completely gone.

“I’d guess none of us have anti-toxin on us?” asks Modi.

“For an enhanced intelligent snake?” Zahra laughs humorlessly. “I doubt that.”

She walks over to Modi. “Hold his head still. He might still be of some use.” She stares intently at his face and slowly her features change and shift until she looks like a healthy version of the man that Modi is holding, clothes and all.

Rashid taps into Dr. Knock’s mind, which is currently like a burbling kaleidoscope of non-sensical images and words, but he tries to do his best to get something – anything – from this monster.

“Where would you go now that your headquarters has been destroyed?” he thinks at the man.

Amid the slew of mental noise comes one distinct phrase – “Leschkircher Str.” (Later, we determine there is such a street in Munich as well as Romania. And we know the conspiracy was fleeing to Munich.)

“What does the location look like?” One image slides through Knock’s mind, of a building front that Rashid knows he will be able to recognize if he sees it again.

“We’re losing him,” says Modi’s voice from somewhere nearby.

Rasheed throws one last question into the dying man’s mind: “WHO DO YOU WORK FOR?!”

Rashid briefly thinks it might be too late, that Knock is gone, but then he hears a name echo ominously across the jumble of sight and sound – “Lee Chae-un” – along with a shimmering image of a Korean woman’s face. Then it all sinks into chaos and it’s like just watching sea froth beat against the shoreline. Rashid breaks contact as Dr. Knock’s body sags in Modi’s arms.

He feels a bit of apprehension as he blinks and sees another Dr. Knock standing beside Modi and the limp one, before he recalls it is likely just Zahra.

We hear a beep from somewhere on Knock’s person.

Zahra carefully fishes around in Knock’s jacket pocket and pulls out a phone, which she is able to get into and read the text message that he just received. She lets out an agitated breath, then holds it up for all to see:

“EQUIPMENT TRANSFER COMPLETE. OLD SITE DESTROYED. COVER FLIGHT SCHEDULED TO DEPART ON SCHEDULE.”

 

[The Cat]

Ok so if I'm understanding correctly Deviant seems to be the CoD version of mutants/"xmen" Maybe a bit of Angel (the big corporation)thrown in there too.
Hunter the Vigil is Supernatural.
Changeling the Lost is Lost Girl
Mage the Awakening is the Dresden Files
Werewolf the Forsaken is Stranger Things
Geist the Sin Eaters is The Frighteners
Mummy The Curse is a literal Mummy's Curse from the Mummy series.
Demon The Fallen is Terminator series.
Beast the Primordial is John Carpenter horror.
Vampire the Requiem is Gotham City by Night with more compelling batmen.

Thoughts?

 

[Totenkindly]

Ok so if I'm understanding correctly Deviant seems to be the CoD version of mutants/"xmen" Maybe a bit of Angel (the big corporation)thrown in there too.

Yeah, mutant/experiments prone to mental breakdown but trying to take out the people who "made them that way" aka the conspiracy in a big blaze of glory before they implode.

Hunter the Vigil is Supernatural.
Changeling the Lost is Lost Girl
Mage the Awakening is the Dresden Files

yeah.

Werewolf the Forsaken is Stranger Things

No, not really. Stranger Things itself is just a bunch of nerdy 1980-2010's shit thrown together insensibly -- it's more like Akira, AD&D 1st edition, and Tales from the Darkside, along with Stand by Me, but not done as well as any of those. (Season 4 is a high point, though.)

Geist the Sin Eaters is The Frighteners
Mummy The Curse is a literal Mummy's Curse from the Mummy series.

I think?

Demon The Fallen is Terminator series.
Beast the Primordial is John Carpenter horror.

I don't know either gamebook well.

Vampire the Requiem is Gotham City by Night with more compelling batmen.

eh?

I don't know Gotham City by Night. It's pretty much Underworld or vice versa, just with a lot more organization and structure to vampire society that is explored in the game.

 

[The Cat]

Yeah, mutant/experiments prone to mental breakdown but trying to take out the people who "made them that way" aka the conspiracy in a big blaze of glory before they implode.


yeah.

No, not really. Stranger Things itself is just a bunch of nerdy 1980-2010's shit thrown together insensibly -- it's more like Akira, AD&D 1st edition, and Tales from the Darkside, along with Stand by Me, but not done as well as any of those. (Season 4 is a high point, though.)


I think?

I don't know either gamebook well.

eh?

I don't know Gotham City by Night. It's pretty much Underworld or vice versa, just with a lot more organization and structure to vampire society that is explored in the game.

It was mostly a joke on the last part, but a big part of requiem second edition are the Strix, and they're vampyric shadow owls, so vampires commonly associated with bats, and an antagonistic parliament of owls, I couldnt resist.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

It was mostly a joke on the last part, but a big part of requiem second edition are the Strix, and they're vampyric shadow owls, so vampires commonly associated with bats, and an antagonistic parliament of owls, I couldnt resist.

It's too bad I changed my avatar to a white raven.

 

[The Cat]

It's too bad I changed my avatar to a white raven.

Oh look at that, I thought it was an egret trying not to fall out of a tree. Neat.

 

[Totenkindly]

Oh look at that, I thought it was an egret trying not to fall out of a tree. Neat.

It could be an egret with multiple personality disorder that thinks it is a raven, trying not to fall out of a tree?

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

It could be an egret with multiple personality disorder that thinks it is a raven, trying not to fall out of a tree?

That would explain the spastic wing flap.

 

[Totenkindly]

Quote the Egret, Nevermind.

 

[The Cat]

Mark my words, other entertainment companies are doing it too. Looking at you Disney.​

 

[The Cat]

I would enjoy a retelling of the raven, but instead of a raven haunting a man in a mansion its an egret who keeps landing on the hood of a guys car in stand still traffic. He finds the egret amusing at first, but then its stern unblinking eyes remind him of his judgemental inset family member here, and slowly goes insane. It really works with the "Nevermind." God Lenore why are you like that?

 

[The Cat]

I think Audrey II fits nicely as an antagonist for CoD especially Changeling The Lost.
What is thought to be just a rare type of goblin plant turns out to be a trap by one of the freehold's changeling's old Keepers, who put one of their titles into a clipping from the Hedge and left it at a Goblin Market. Once in the Mortal world it acts as a conduit to Arcadia, and when it gets big enough. It becomes A Huntsman, anything it devours is transported through the hedge into The Gentry's personal garden in Arcadia. I would have it call itself Yog Sothoth. For it is both the Key and The Gate.​

 

[The Cat]

A Chronicles of Darkness mortal/introductory chronicle:
In the criminal Justice System, Supernatural based offense are considered especially mysterious. In New York City the dedicated detectives who investigate these mysterious happenings are members of a special investigations office operating out of the 13th Precinct. These are their stories. Law and Order: Tales from the 13th precinct.