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[Camilla]

I most certainly will....

[Camilla]

Basically, I'm envisioning my chronicle to be "Grand Theft Auto meets The Warriors with fangs", and I'll be sure to let my players know that. An even blend of action and political intrigue.

I'm running the first session on October 6th. Wish me luck!

[Camilla]

I'm aiming for a Vampions styled game. It's a well-known fact that I despise personal horror and I would go for "4X Fangs and Blood" but I'm wanting to run a Neonate-focused game instead....

[Camilla]

I like it. It just so happens that my hard copy of Chicago Chronicles Volume I not only contains the original Chicago by Night, but also has The Succubus Club. I may get the other two volumes so I can get Ashes to Ashes, Milwaukee by Night, and Under a Blood Red Moon and incorporate those elements as well....

[Camilla]

I usually use real-life history to guide my WoD games (with some anime stylized tropes thrown in), but shy away from current events for the sake of good taste.

In my WoD, the gang wars of today are just as bad as it was in the 1980's and 1990's, perhaps even moreso. In an upcoming Chicago By Night 1e game, I want to incorporate the gang cultures and history of Chicago's underworld into the plot, and have all the major gangs represented whether they be People or Folks, Black, Latino, or White, but I'm unsure if I should use the actual names and histories of Chicago gangs or do the...

[Camilla]

I will keep all those things in mind. I'm thinking of starting off small, like having the PC's start in Gary and then work their way towards Chicago before eventually meeting the major power players like Lodin, Annabelle, Capone, Maldavis, and the like. Maybe use either Modius or Kevin Jackson as a starter antagonist, and then see where the campaign goes from there.

Setting of course is 1990's Chicago, No Metaplot....

[Camilla]

I love pepperoni rolls, especially when served with Pepsi.

[Camilla]

Touchstones in VTM? Oh, dear.

Well, I don't like where this is going. Never was a fan of Touchstones, I didn't like them in Requiem 2e, and I probably won't like them here.

But with that being said, I might still get V5 anyway and see if I can remove Touchstones via Rule Zero. It's a well-known fact that I don't incorporate Humanity into my Vampire games, so maybe this won't be such a bad thing after all. I'll wait and see once the final product is released.

I remain cautiously optimistic.

[Camilla]

Alright, in the coming weeks I am going to run a Vampire: The Masquerade campaign for my college's gaming club and I'm wanting to make sure it works out. I'm pretty much the only one familiar with VTM (a few people are familiar with generic New World of Darkness) and I am wondering what would be the best way to go about it.

I am using First Edition, as I own it on hard copy. I also own Revised on hard copy, but I prefer 1E and I think 1E is probably easier for newcomers to take in, at least in terms of setting and background. Also, I want to keep the player options simple and limited...

[Camilla]

i do apologize for misspeaking, it's been a rough past few days for me IRL. I have not seen My Hero Academia, but I will definitely check it out!...

[Camilla]

I hate Marvel and DC. I used to like that type of stuff, but now I'm burned out on capeshit.

I vastly prefer anime and manga to capeshit.

If you like Marvel and DC stuff, that's fine with me. I'm just burned out on it all.

[Camilla]

It's alright. Don't worry about it....

[Camilla]

Ah, gotcha. Thanks....

[Camilla]

I know that. Laws of the Night was a lot closer to the tabletop disciplines than the original boxed set, though the boxed set did introduce the whole "Basic/Intermediate/Advanced" dichotomy that the disciplines in LARP followed in Laws of the Night.

Also, what were some of the house rules in place back then?...

[Camilla]

So, anybody have any stories of what the early LARP scene was like in the 90's?

I'm particularly interested in the earliest days of Mind's Eye Theatre with the 1993 MET: The Masquerade boxed set and the stuff from the pre-Laws of the Night/Laws of the Wild era. I do own the original MET: The Masquerade rulebook from the original boxed set, though not the boxed set itself. I bought the book off of Amazon for $5.00 USD way back in 2014.

While Laws of the Night is the superior LARP ruleset and for me, the ultimate MET experience (I don't have much experience or interest...

[Camilla]

I like the Ravnos, in fact they are tied with the Brujah as my favorite clan. They had some problems in 2nd Edition with the stereotypes but those can easily be resolved by competent Storytellers and players.

I've played several Ravnos characters and not a single one of them was a Romani stereotype or even a Romani at all. I've had an Irish Ravnos, a Japanese-American Ravnos who was a gambler, and a few others as well.

Just ignore the haters and do the game how you want!

[Camilla]

Once again, I apologize for yet another double-post but here's my newest fanfic project, titled "Autumn Moon Nights". My second fanfic project "Appalachian Backyard LARP" also has a second chapter now!

http://archiveofourown.org/works/119...pters/27047316

[Camilla]

Now, that I did not know....

[Camilla]

I would've loved to have seen the looks on everyone's faces when "Amish Paradise" started playing.

While I don't care for Type O Negative or Marilyn Manson (Siouxsie and The Banshees is decent though) I do kind of like the classic 90's style of cassette mixtapes and Boomboxes. CD's were a thing, that much of the 90's I do remember, but if I recall correctly, I didn't see any CD mixtapes until the early-to-mid 2000's with the Internet becoming more common and making it possible to download songs onto discs. So as you said, cassette mixtapes were the thing back then.
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[Camilla]

I love Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game and consider it part of my WoD head-canon....