nWoD role-playing

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Anyone else in here like White Wolf's New World of Darkness game setting? I personally love them, Changeling the Lost in particular.

Tell me about it, which system do you like? What's your favorite thing about it?

Ooh, somebody else who plays WoD? I've got this one circle of friends that plays a campaign every semester (we're all in college.)

So far I've been in 3 campaigns. The first was Vampire: The Requiem. Our story was set in Victorian England, and we were trying to track down this psycho circus producer named Merriweather because he had done something to each of us and we were trying to force him to reverse the effects. There were about 6 of us, but only 4 made it to the end - my ex-girlfriend's character was a 6-year old girl and we had to kill of her char after she left and went back home after dropping out of college, whereas my character, who was a spy for the Crown and heir to a very wealthy noble family, got torn to pieces - literally - during a battle in our second-to-last session.

The second was Changeling: The Lost. It was set in an unspecified European country during the Middle ages. My character was the leader of a merchant caravan who had gone in search of his bride-to-be, whom he hadn't seen since he way taken by the Fae. He was a lightning elemental, and while I didn't get as much of a chance to use his electrokinectic abilities (mainly because they required a pre-existing source of elemental power, and barring the occasional lightning storm there wasn't much in that era), the few times that I did either worked really well or failed really bad. Sometimes a bit of both.

Our current campaign mixes several of the classes. We have a party of five: Dani as a Hunter, Shinta as a Werewolf, my girlfriend Patrica as a Vampire, Susan as a Geist, and myself as a Mage. This one is set in the present day, in a town called Podunk, USA: we've all agreed that it's the city of Laramie, WY where we all live, but not Laramie, WY, if you catch my drift.

My character has been fun to play with this time around. He is a computer hacker who was recently Awakened. Apparently, he was apprenticed to a Fate/Time Arcana master but left because his master was, quote: "A technophobic old geezer with no appreciation whatsoever for the opportunities presented by modern technology." Shortly afterwards, he fell in with Anonymous, and out of curiousity about how much the US Government actually knew about mages, he tried to hack into a military database which he described as quote: "The cyber-world equivalent of Area 51". He actually managed to get in for all of about a minute before they slammed the backdoor shut and traced his IP address. With quote "The FBI, CIA, NSA and just about every other three-letter acronym for a counter-terrorism agency" out for his blood, he had to flee the city he was living in, and is now laying low in Podunk as a college student. He joined the others in an investigation for a string of supernatural murders mainly because the Council that controls the town's supernatural creature population has the influence to "fix his problem". Being the sarcastic paranoid that he is, he now refers to said council as either the "New World Order or the goddamn Illuminati, take your pick."

^_^ sounds awesome.

by the way, it's venue, not class.

I've only ever played VtR as a LARP, though I've played VtM tabletop frequently. Requiem is old world, and while the LARP was awesomely fun, I still, personally, I prefer nWoD.

Ah, I see. I guess I didn't know the difference between WoD and nWoD. All of the ones my friends play have been the original WoD at least as far as I know.

If you played Changeling: the Lost you were playing new world. If it was Changeling: the Dreaming you were playing old world.

Oh, ok. Well we kind of have a mix of stuff in this campaign. I think Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost (for one of our recurring NPC's), Mage: The Awakening, and a few others that I can't remember which venue they are (although I know the races are Werewolf, Hunter, Geist, and Promethean)

you might want to take a close look at the core books. nWoD is Very different from oWoD you can get the pdf's for the books online.

they fixed a lot of the brokenness of the system. I mean, seriously, when you're brand new werewolf is more than a match for the thousand year old vampire, there's a problem.

Edit date 2/22/12.

I must apologize, I got my vampire books mixed up, Requiem is nWoD not old World. My mistake