Questions tagged [chronicles-of-darkness-2e]
Chronicles of Darkness (2e) is Onyx Path's 2nd Edition of what was previously called the New World of Darkness, itself formerly known as “God-Machine Chronicle Rules Update.”
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How do all the World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness RPGs connect?
I just got my kick-starter copy of Changeling the Lost 2nd Ed and I am starting to dip my toe back into the World of Darkness after a long absent.
And I found out that it is confusing as hell trying ...
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Why brass knuckles do 0 additional damage in Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition?
I've been creating a character and thought that it was cool for her to have brass knuckles to fight, but then I've seen that in the Core book (pg. 180) says that brass knuckles deal 0 damage (appart ...
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Can I create a Demon Dating service by granting mortals the True Friend merit?
I had an idea for a Demon: the Descent character who runs an online dating/matchmaking service. The idea would be that the exchange agreed in the pact/Terms of Service would grant the mortal the True ...
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When should I make my players actually roll for stuff?
I've tried to focus my group heavily on Role Playing, perhaps too well given some of my recent problems, which are Orthagonal, and linked mostly to provide historical context.
How to reveal plot ...
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Why don't changelings reveal themselves?
I am preparing to run my first Changeling: The Lost game, and I just read over the rule book. One thing I don't understand is why the mortals don't know about the Changelings.
Vampires have strong ...
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Does Blood and Smoke invalidate previous Vampire books?
After reading the God Machine Update I realized that it invalidated a large portion of the core book and Armory and Armory Reloaded. I am about to start a new chronicle and am considering getting ...
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How well do Mage: The Awakening 1e supplements work with the second edition?
As the title says, my fundamental question is: How well do the older books for Mage the Awakening 1e work with 2e?
This question: Which Mage: The Awakening sourcebooks are essential? is obviously ...
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Are Demons able to Effectively Deal with Angels in the Twilight
The rules on page 222 of the God Machine Rules update state:
Entities in Twilight can only attack or be attacked by other
ephemeral beings of the same type, unless the attack utilizes the
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How does nWoD's Secret History (The God Machine) chapter relate to the other core books?
Chapter 1: The Secret History (Unrecorded History: Voice of the Angel) of the new World of Darkness core book tells a story about a god-machine, angels, ancients, their children and whatnot.
How ...
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Are demons immune to reality changes made by angelic covers?
Normally angels are created with and/or are given a cover. Suddenly, a new employee works at a company with people thinking he was there already for years, or someone has a new cousin popping up with ...
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What are the major differences between Dream and Vocation versions of Princess: the Hopeful?
What are the major differences in setting, themes, approach and general mechanics between the two versions of Princess: the Hopeful fansplat?
Both Dream and Vocation books appear robust and well ...
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How does a Demon detect a Linchpin?
All God-Machine Infrastructure has a Linchpin.
The Linchpin doesn't have to be tied by human logic to what the infrastructure does,
thought there is often some symbolism or anti-logic to it.
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I'm trying to use disciplines to manipulate someone, why should I use majesty and not dominate?
I'm designing a Daeva character, who I want to be physically powerful but still able to handle themselves socially. The two social disciplines, Majesty and Dominate, seem to have a power mismatch.
The ...
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Does a Huntsman only exist for the span of a single dream?
In Changeling the Lost: Second Edition, it is said that a Huntsman's heart resides within a Bastion. It even specifies that
the heart can found within
the tempestuous mortal Bastion (p. 264)
So, the ...
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Is there a way to completely conceal a spell from a Mage?
I'm trying to come up with a plot where my character is possessed by a supernatural being via magic. The problem is, our cabal covers all of the ten Arcana, which means that, no matter what I chose, ...
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Can an angel in Cover Discorporate?
The Materialization Manifestation is different from angelic Cover. The first is an effect activated by an angel by her choice to achieve some goal; the second is a state created and maintained by the ...
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If vampire bites another vampire while in frenzy, do they risk blood bond?
Blood bond chapter states the following (on page 100):
Any time a character imbibes a point or more of Vitae, it
creates or reinforces a blood bond.
Frenzy chapter states this (page 104):
[While in ...
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How can I break world building down into something manageable? [closed]
I find building an "off the rails" world to be a daunting task. I'm trying to find a process to make it more manageable for my NWOD games, kind of like "Agile" process does for developing software. I ...
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What happens if a Helldiver fails their roll?
Changeling: the Lost book states that Helldivers can dive, becoming immaterial and being able to interact with ghosts. To do that, they need to roll dexterity + occult. What happens if they fail this ...
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How does ‘Pocket Dimension’ work?
Specifically, when cast without adding Time 2 (so time would flow normally), it seems intuitively that anything in the pocket dimension would effectively be frozen in place, making it the equivalent ...
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Are there dragon stats in any published OWOD or NWOD books?
I play in a World of Darkness game, and I have seen two different powers that allow someone turn into mythic creatures, such as dragons. I have never found stats on a dragon though in any WOD books. ...
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How does switching covers affect bodily needs?
Demon's can have multiple covers, but they can't have multiple covers active at the same time. When a cover isn't active, it's my understanding that it basically doesn't exist. These bodies have the ...
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Prime sight: Can the mage see if another mage have active spells?
Okay so I am part of two Mage the Awakening 2ed campaigns and the two GM's disagree on the rules for prime sight. What they disagree on is if prime sight is able to see if a mage have active spells.
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How do item based merits work after character creation?
I understand that you can use your starting merit dots to buy an item like an artifact or imbued item in Mage the Awakening, but what about afterwards? Would I have to pay experiences if I were to ...
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From the God-Machine Chronicles, what do the different intensity stun guns do?
What do the three intensities of this weapon do?
It's made clear that:
• = 1 intensity
•• = 2
••• = 3
But intensity is no further mentioned.
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How can I represent a large body of NPCs in a vote?
I run a large (20+) person Chronicles of Darkness larp. Our story centers primarily on rebuilding the Night Congress, a supernatural organization that keeps the peace between the large population of ...
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Can the Beast force its host vampire to talk?
From VtR (104):
While frenzied, the vampire does everything in her power
to accomplish the Beast’s desires. She does so with immediate,
forceful, and destructive abandon. If there’s someone in the
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How can I encourage the use of willpower?
I've never (or rarely, maybe once) seen anyone make use of willpower in a World of Darkness game, it seems like such a vastly underutilized resource. What can I do to encourage my players to remember ...
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What/where are all of the minor templates in Chronicles of Darkness?
I'm working on a mid-powered Hunter: The Vigil game, and I want the characters to have a bit of an edge in combat. What are all of the published "minor templates" that could be applied to Mortals -- ...
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Can show of power be used as a simple demon detector?
Related to this question: Do demons in cover generate disbelief?
So I have a demon character in one game who thinks that he can use a hunter power he has seen in combination with show of power to ...
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How can a mortal see the cogs?
What does a mortal have to do to be able to see god machine infrastructure? I'm trying to remember if there's a roll. I believe seeing it carries the risk of becoming a stigmatic? is there a roll for ...
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Has there been any previous mentions of these Lesser Ministries before?
On page 122 of the Mage: the Awakening 2nd Edition sourcebook Signs of Sorcery, there is a sidebar that introduces Prelacy bonuses for members of Lesser Ministries of the Seers of the Throne mage ...
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Will a pact with a Demon change the paper trail of the Demon and mortal?
Henry is a white collar criminal who got sent to jail for embezzlement at a bank. His life is ruined. I, as a demon, make a pact with Henry to take on that aspect of his life. Now I am a known ...
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Are 9 again, 8 again, etc cumulative or stacking?
While reading through things for the first werewolf game in ages (2nd edition nwod) I saw that there is a gift that gives rahu 8 again on brawl while there is a merit that can grant 9 again (or if 9 ...
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Do demons in cover generate disbelief?
Most of the time demons count as mortal beings especially if they could be found out by powers giving strange signals like "there is no human here".
How does this relate to disbelief for mages? Do ...
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Do "natural weapons" count as being unarmed?
One of the Uratha in our pack has the first dot of the Unarmed Defense merit:
From God Machine Chronicles, p65:
Like a Book (*): ... When facing an unarmed opponent and not Dodging, increase your ...
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Does 9 Again twice become 8 Again?
In 1st Edition, I know there were rules for it, but I haven't found similar rules in 2nd Edition.
In essence: If a character has 9 again for a specific roll but due to some other ability he gains 9 ...
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What happens when a Demon dies?
I feel like a lot of things are mystically tied to either the demon or its covers, so what what happens when the Demon, its covers, and miscellaneous associated things (peoples memories/reality/cover ...
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Can I as a mage cast a spell to remove a condition if the condition prohibits me from defying the will of the one causing it?
In my current round an interesting case appeared. I have 2 players 1 being a werewolf and 1 being a mage.
The werewolf thanks to predatory aura put the submissive condition on the mage (and succeeded)...
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Does killing humans impact Humanity if it's in pre-emptive self-defense?
We were being hunted by (what we suspect is) an angel. We entered a room with no way back and there were two figures in front of us, shoveling dead bodies into a machine. My character couldn't know ...
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Bringing the Team together
Here is the Team Concept: All characters are currently mortal but they'll be transitioning soon, so I've noted what they want to change into. How do I get them to work together?
My original approach ...
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Which book do I buy to get "New World of Darkness Core 2nd edition"?
I've been looking through drivethrurpg.com for quite some time now. I've seen Vampire: The Requiem 2nd edition, The God Machine Chronicle, etc. But it's difficult to determine which book is the ...
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Buying Automatic Successes In World of Darkness
Shadowrun 5e allows players to, with GM approval, buy Hits by trading dice on a 4:1 basis.
I was wondering if there were any published guidelines, or robust, well-thought-out house rules for doing ...
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Can Descent demons sense Fallen demons and vice versa?
With the Demon Translation Guide out now there is the ability to combine both fallen and descent demons in hybrid settings.
One question that popped up though is:
Does Aetheric Resonance register ...
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What might "The Demiurge" be?
Reading Belial's Brood and it says, in the standard I will neither confirm nor deny the truth of this, that Belial is the right hand of the Demiurge. Now, I feel like something else has been called ...
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Qashmallim, and the similarity to Angels?
So I've been putting together a story in my chronicle, the premise in it is that the God Machine uses Pyros as sort of of fuel. The God Machine is using a Centimani to refine flux into Pyros. ...
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Do Mortals have a means of casting magic?
So far in the World of Darkness, most forms of magic seem to be directly connected with being a supernatural entity (or finding a way to have dealings with one). Are there any rules that allow for ...
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Can a Mage heal a vampire?
In a cross-genre game, is there a spell/power that a mage can use to heal a vampire?
I’ve looked through the mage spells in Death and Life but neither show how a vampire can be healed.
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When in Demon Form, are demons vulnerable to mortal frailties?
When a Demon is in Demonic Form,
does he gain any intrinsic protection against mundane concerns like
breathing or falling unconscious?
In particular, when in Demonic Form do/are demons:
need to ...
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Does decapitation for sure kill a vampire?
This seems almost a ridiculous question, but since I can't find any rules regarding it...
Does cutting the head off a vampire for sure kill it? or if they had enough vitae could they regrow the head? ...
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