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Variant RPGaDay - 25, 26, and 27

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Another game that has a lot of fond memories for me, and there were dozens of potential options I could think of for the various combinations of prompts, but I've generally gone with some stereotypical responses. I'm intrigued by the changes to the lore in the latest version of Vampire the Masquerade, and certain elements of the new system, but overall hate a lot of the "updates". Here's my batch of NPCs.   Batch 9 (VtM) Instinct – Familiarity – Loving and Giving (Salubri) Bianca worked for many years in an animal shelter, where she helped out as a veterinary assistant. This care for animals attracted the attention of a Salubri who was looking for a child to pass the secrets of the old ways to. Bianca had the powers and curse of vampirism explained to her and she saw it as an opportuity to look after humans in much the same way that she had been looking after animals. (Besides being a big fan of the Salubri, to the point that I have their antitribu symbol as a t...
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Variant RPGaDay - 22, 23, and 24

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When I first started lining up the games and the NPC ideas that I was going to run with for this series, I was actually looking forward to this one. Werewolf is one of my favourite games, and was actually my gateway into the World of Darkness when I first bought the original slashed paperback first edition in 1992. Batch 8 - Werewolf the Apocalypse Werewolf was one of the fiurst games I had encountered that used the cultures of the real world to flavour it's characters... Celts, Russians, Greek Myth, Native Anerican, and others...while a lot of that cultural referencing seems a bit trite now, some have claimed appropriative, even ethnophobic or racist, it made solid attempts for the time and those early steps led to more nuanced portrayals that couldn't have come without it. I still love the game and would love to make a revised version, rather than what we seem to be getting from the new publishers. The old versions of the game, and especially the variant breed books depicting...
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Variant RPGaDay - 19, 20, and 21

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Once again, I'm running behind on my posts, and I've even done a couple of posts on other topics while I've been procrastinating on this one. Batch 7 (Blades in the Dark)   I've been meaning to play this, I bought the book a couple of years back but just haven't managed to get it to the table yet. That means a lot of my ideas here aren't as grounded in play as they are for a lot of my other ideas for other games. I've got the idea here for a rival crew of characters who might be running in the streets against the protagonists of this story. Everything in Blades in the Dark seems to be drearry and gritty,  Associates – Desire – Works Hard ( Spider : A criminal mastermind and planner who orchestrates scores from the shadows and manipulates factions. ) The nominal leader of the group is Jacques d'Argent. He spent a few years studying at the college to  become a doctor, but things became difficult when there was a shortage of cadaver supplies to practice ...
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