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- Sat Nov 24, 2018 9:06 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Urban Fantasy: How Many in the Conspiracy
- Replies: 125
- Views: 16894
Notably, people from New Jersey do not claim to live in New York City. Now with New Orleans you're not going to have another major domain abutting, so go crazy. In Los Angeles or New York, where it is densely packed and domains are geographically small, you need a focus that is much tighter. I live...
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 7:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Greg Stafford passed away
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1756
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 7:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Urban Fantasy: How Many in the Conspiracy
- Replies: 125
- Views: 16894
Their is no reason to make them all the same size, but they have to make sense. If a small city is close to a large city it's going to be natural that, over time, the large city ends up in charge. There doesn't seem to be any compelling reason to assume that state or international boundaries matter ...
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Urban Fantasy: How Many in the Conspiracy
- Replies: 125
- Views: 16894
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 7:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Urban Fantasy: How Many in the Conspiracy
- Replies: 125
- Views: 16894
Sana Cruz is probably going to end up belonging to the Bay Area, or SF or San Jose domain, depending on how you want to slice it up. As long as you send your tribute to the boss and don't get caught plotting against him or try to pop the masquerade the vampires of Santa Cruz can manage it however th...
- Fri Nov 16, 2018 6:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pentex is dumb-But how is a mega corp actually structured?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4576
- Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Urban Fantasy: How Many in the Conspiracy
- Replies: 125
- Views: 16894
- Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: A Cold War in D&DLand
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9583
Prak's first two examples of classes he thought were appropriate to a game about sneaking around and uncovering webs of intrigue were Bard , a class whose every class feature revolves around shouting, and Cleric , a class who is required by law to prominently display their allegiance every time the...
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why murder HOBOS?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7359
These days, in modern Western countries, murdering people for minor insults is considered socially unacceptable. This is an extremely recent phenomenon, and at all universal. Indeed, there are still cultures today where not murdering people over minor insults, even people who you nominally have a d...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 10:58 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: A Cold War in D&DLand
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9583
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: A Cold War in D&DLand
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9583
Well, you could steal 'A Colder War'.
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
Wouldn't you still get old vampires (or need a reason not to), just not European ones? It's an inventive idea, but one I could see being handled really, really badly. I shudder to think what White Wolf would have done with that idea 20 years ago. If you assume that vampires are alive, then the old ...
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 5:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
It's of course possible that, while it is widely believed that crosses repel vampires, crosses don't actually do that in the game. If you assume they are not some sort of evil demon-thing then religious ritual-type defenses of any flavor should be as effective as they would be against a tiger. Same ...
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
There is a highly successful vampire book series in which the general public knows that religious symbols are capable of destroying vampires (whose existence is universally known) if used by someone who believes. Whether or not the vampire knows that it is there. Which is not exactly identical to pr...
- Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
- Fri Oct 26, 2018 10:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
- Fri Oct 26, 2018 5:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:55 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 5:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: modular RPG - update parts, not new edition?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3547
It seems like you're thinking about the expansion model of Shadowrun. You have the BBB that contains basic rules for character generation and chapters that cover combat, magic, matrix, and equipment. Then you have expansion books that are things like the Magic book and the Matrix book and the Cyber...
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
So an example of lucky vs smart? I can kind of buy that given how awful the game is if you try to play the rules as written, but there are a LOT of urban fantasy books sold and there was obviously a lot of Vampire books sold, so there is obviously setting appeal. How many readers have any interests ...
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
You may want to tell the stories about lone vampire or vampire gangs going on blood orgies night after night. But those are the stories of vampires who get caught (usually by a remotely competent cop or a some random teenagers). I suspect they get caught by the hit teams sent by masquerade central,...
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
As Franks has pointed out, you can maintain belivability for that sort of approach with a tiny number of vampires. You can't have many thousands of vampires in a developed country killing lots of people in each year and have a game world where Wikipedia is a useful resource for the players. For exam...
- Fri Oct 12, 2018 7:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31473
I always assumed that vampires group together for access to an active nightlife/drug scene. You get to know pretty quickly who can be picked off easily in that scene because everyone will just assume they got into their van and moved on to the next town or they ODed in a ditch somewhere. I live in ...