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I would not call it a hopeless setting, just one where the PCs cannot safely rely on any of the built-in social or political institutions. They cannot safely rely on the Traditions, or the Technocracy, to either save them if the going gets tough, or to do the right thing when the time comes. It all comes down to the PCs - they are on their own. This is not the same thing as saying things are really hopeless, but it does mean adjusting your expectations....

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This is all good stuff. Putting his split that far back does answer some questions......

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Antje Traue as Aisling Sturbridge
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Gary Busey, from the 1980s, as Lodin.


Danny Glover, now, as duSable


Steve Buscemi as Michael the Toreador
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Alan Tudyk as Anatole


Vincent Cassell at Marcus Vitel


Tilda Swinton as Sasha Vykos (without tentacles or a carapace)
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Inspired by a bit of business in another thread, here are some thoughts on actors and characters. Please add your own.


Beckett, for my money, looks like a young Ian McShane, right down to the ascot.



Penelope Cruz is my image, more or less, of Lucita.


Carna is a femme fatale, and a witch, and looks like Charlize Theron.


Theo Bell looks like Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
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The Nephandi do not need a sophisticated ideology, or carefully coordination. They just need to poison make ideologically deadly, to riddle institutions with ontogolical cancer, to make people emotionally give up and either just go through the motions of life and faith, or to lash out with lethal violence in an effort to make themselves feel better. And the Nephandi are very good at all of that. It does not need to be a vast and careful plot, it just needs patience on the part of the Nephandi and a willingness to exploit the bitterness of members of the Technocracy.

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Which NPC looks like which NPC is probably worth its own thread....

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• The Technocracy is a totalitarian state Illuminati, and it defeated the Traditions. But it also lost the Ascension War. It lost the Ascension War because it is terminally corrupted and infiltrated by the Nephandi.
• The Traditions are a grab-bag of terrorist groups that finally failed in their objectives, i.e. the lost they Ascension War, because they failed to work together worth a damn. This is because each individual Tradition want to replace the totalitarian state of the Technocracy with their own totalitarian state, and they resented the mere existence of the other Traditions. As a group

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LA by Night (the book) really did miss a lot of opportunities....

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Walter was totally capable of selling out and trying to get two paychecks at one time....

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• Stephen King died at an early age from a spider bite. He never wrote any novels and no one replaced him.
• J.R.R. Tolkien died from an illness during WWI. He never wrote any novels and no one replaced him.
• Paulo Coelho, Mitch Albom, Jim Henson, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Boss Ross, George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry, Stan Lee, Dave Arneson, John Muir, Chico Mendez, and Billy Wilder all died – often murdered at a young age – before they ever made any contributions to society or culture.
• However, Walt Disney, Gary Gygax, Bob Kane, Frank Miller, John Norman and Uwe Boll all went on to long

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My points were A. the WoD is a deeply toxic and dangerous place, full of hateful predators, B vampires are not the only predator about and plenty of the others will utterly fuck up any vampires they encounter.

Edit: If I had to nail everything down in terms of game mechanics, Michael Myers is imbued, Leatherface is not he just has a support system in the form of his family, Jason is some manner of fomori or spectre driven risen, and Kruger is a spectre. So, out of that, only one is imbued....

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Various horror fictions in our world may be treated as documentaries or dramatic reenactments of events in the WoD. These include Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the podcast The White Vault, and the novel Carrie.

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My WoD counter-part will avenge him. And my WoD counter part is probably such a boozer, that if any vampire were to try to feed on him, it would be like when the face-hugger tried to impregnate Rick Sanchez.



I had no idea Huey Lewis had that kind of power.

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The Settites and the Cappadocians have a peculiar history....

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Harbinger: (fiddling with the smart phone) Say, is there an app that would let me block the True Hand, but without them knowing I've blocked them?

Nagaraja: Yes, but the Baali are the one's who made the app.

Harbinger: Damn it....

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A single book of 2000+ pages would not be viable. But something like the UA series of WotC/D&D would handle it, with different posts and articles tackling different locations and times. Or, as I mentioned above, a CoD approach, with one book section handling an era and multiple books appearing over the course of time....

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I would be interested in something that rather than have a single, set date and timeline, it offered a sliding scale of opportunity. Everything from the Fall of Rome (395) to the Battle of Hastings (1066) to the crowning of Charlemagne as Emperor of the Romans (800) to the Mongol invasions (mid 13th century) and so. Have the ability to play in the place, and at the time, where the PCs can do the most damage....

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Clearly, the Storyteller is God Almighty....