Me vs. The World of Darkness
Jul. 2nd, 2009 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theronAs previously mentioned, it looks like the next game for my Saturday group (the one on hiatus from Champions) will be something set in the World of Darkness. The popular sentiment right now is for a mixed group of supernaturals charged with policing others of their kind. So far, so good.
The catch is, I've never played any version of WoD, even though I own a bunch of stuff for it. Vampire, I'm most familiar with, as it's the oldest and the one that gets most of the attention. So I've got an idea what one does with a Vamp. Werewolf should be a no-brainer for me, but the rules go off in weird shamanic tangents that are fairly off-putting to tell the truth. And Mage? Mage melts my brain. Seriously. The only game that ever made me feel more like an idiot than any flavor of Mage is Nobilis. Maybe it's due to all the drugs I didn't take in college or my 20s, but I just can't wrap my feeble mundane brain around it in the least.
So, I really don't know what I'm doing, which makes me worry I'm going to be less than competent at this, and for me, competence as a player very definitely translates to enjoyment at the table. Fortunately, I found a copy of V:tR for Dummies at Half-Price Books a while back. It seems to hit the high points, so I'm hoping I'll get through this OK, just as long as I play a bloodsucker.
The catch is, I've never played any version of WoD, even though I own a bunch of stuff for it. Vampire, I'm most familiar with, as it's the oldest and the one that gets most of the attention. So I've got an idea what one does with a Vamp. Werewolf should be a no-brainer for me, but the rules go off in weird shamanic tangents that are fairly off-putting to tell the truth. And Mage? Mage melts my brain. Seriously. The only game that ever made me feel more like an idiot than any flavor of Mage is Nobilis. Maybe it's due to all the drugs I didn't take in college or my 20s, but I just can't wrap my feeble mundane brain around it in the least.
So, I really don't know what I'm doing, which makes me worry I'm going to be less than competent at this, and for me, competence as a player very definitely translates to enjoyment at the table. Fortunately, I found a copy of V:tR for Dummies at Half-Price Books a while back. It seems to hit the high points, so I'm hoping I'll get through this OK, just as long as I play a bloodsucker.
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Date: 2009-07-11 06:41 pm (UTC)A couple of years ago, I wrote about this at length on LJ. I think I'll put it into a post here. It should be up shortly.