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[Michael]

You mean Horatius' Thunder? Probably not no, unless you use a magic technique to dry it out.

[Michael]

What is a 'Horace's Thunder'?...

[Michael]

Extra-Normal Entity.

[Michael]

I think, they'd make a better hound. I see a good sheriff as more of a 'people-person' role, who can act as an intermediary between the prince and subjects (not necessarily in a friendly manner, but still).

I mean, you can kinda see the issue with LaCroix. His sheriff is all muscle, which means LaCroix has to do a lot of the talking himself.

[Michael]

I mean, if all you have is a name; the Order of Hermes could be basically anything. Like, maybe the local Viennese caucus of the Silver Ladder calls themselves the Order of Hermes?

[Michael]

I've used the M20 system in Awakening. I just made the various instruments work as yantra.



Magic styles (I'm assuming you mean the thing from Chronicler's Guide?) are in my experience quite constraining. Like, you use one style, and only one style; there's not a lot of room for flexibility....

[Michael]

That makes me think of a kind of shortened 'Path of Enlightenment' from Masquerade. Like, each Covenant feeding on a certain group they feel they can justify to themselves. Fits particularly nicely with the paradoxes at the hearts of the Carthians and LeS.

The Ordo might not fit with that... I dunno....

[Michael]

I don't think that necessarily follows. Like, the Syndicate come across as complacent, but that's different from their immediate rivals, the NWO. I think I'd take the dodgy but somewhat-stable Syndicate over the violent paranoia of the NWO....

[Michael]

I mean, is that not an entirely plausible destination for the Syndicate? For all the talk about competition, the Syndicate are presented as incredibly complacent....

[Michael]

Speaking to Mage, the Orders do sort of have their own equivalent of the vows; the "Magic is..." format.

That said, there's potential for an interesting vow around how the Orders treat language. Like, the Arrow believe in keeping your word in spirit, the Mysterium don't tell lies, whilst the Ladder seem to be highly legalistic in their emphasis on precise wording.
The Guardians and Freaks are a little less clear to me. Maybe the Guardians Always lie? I dunno.

I think the focus on language is reasonable due to High Speech being such a core element of the...

[Michael]

Depends a lot on what you want to do with them. Like, the last game I ran had the mage PCs making friends with a vampire, and getting to know some of the local domain. Still, I didn't bother that much with being strictly accurate with how Requiem mechanics work. The friendly NPC could move around so quickly that they seemed to teleport, but I didn't really care how many dots in Celerity she had.