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 is free reach calculated?
A character receives a free Reach — which does not add Paradox dice — per dot of her highest-rated Arcanum that meets or exceeds the spell’s requirement. For example a mage with four dots of the Mind ...
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Is the spell Words of Truth affected by sympathy?
Words of Truth on page 168 of the new Mage: the Awakening 2nd edition lets you impart a true message to the spell's subjects:
subjects of this spell can hear her and understand her clearly, ...
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Is cleanse pattern lasting, otherwise what does extra potency provide?
Cleanse Pattern is on page 168 of the new edition of Mage the Awakening and says:
With this spell, a mage removes the tell-tale signs of Awakened interference.
But it's primary spell factor is ...
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Can secret room affect spaces acquired by merits?
Secret room is on page 178 of the new edition of Mage the Awakening, and stated it can increase the space of a room:
the subject space’s volume is increased or decreased a number of steps along ...
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Does unbound fate repel time magic?
Unbound Fate is a level four attainment on page 195 of Mage the awakening 2nd edition that says:
The mage can reflexively repel deleterious magic that will or could harm her fate. She can resist ...
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How does temporal stutter use potency?
Temporal stutter is on page 191 of the new Mage the awakening 2nd Edition.
The spell throws the victim forward for the spell's duration, but the text makes no mention of using potency.
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Are fae ephemeral and or supernal entities in Mage 2E?
Fae are mentioned in the section on ephemeral entities in the new Chronicles of Darkness book Mage: the Awakening.
Bans & Banes
All ephemeral and Supernal entities suffer from a mystical ...
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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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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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How does Clairvoyant sight work in regards to covers?
If someone using that form ability knows only one cover of someone and tries to find that cover would he see the demon in question even if he has a different cover active? (one which he does not know ...
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Can Clairvoyant sight be used to see someone in another dimension?
The form ability can be used to see someone one has met recently regardless of the physical distance. So far I understand it, but what is about another dimension thus in the shadow or underworld while ...
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Does the translated Aura of Vitality form power affect only one target?
The wording in the Demon Translation Guide for converting the D:tF power Aura of Vitality into D:tD rules is a bit confusing. Despite being an Aura, its wording uses “target” singular.
Is it now that,...
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Does Iron Will cover supernatural rolls?
Iron will (GMCRU) grants you the ability to use your Resolve instead of the usual +3 when using willpower to contest or resist a social interaction.
Does this include resisting or contesting ...
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What type of emotions are ephemerals able to have?
The NWoD 2.0 rules changed quite a lot in terms of how ephemerals work. It generalized them and unified them. Now as rank 1 automatons are more or less automatons still, I had a talk with a mage ...
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Can I see errors in angelic covers with wits+composure?
I think I've read somewhere that you can use wits+composure to see small errors...tells in angelic covers but didn't find the passage.
Am I right that that is somewhere? Or was it a wrong memory?
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Economy incept vs Mage Sight and Scrutinize Resonance
I'm having some trouble with the angels' Economy incept. It's clear that when a power affects the angel, the power's activator must pay (rank) energy.
But what about Mage Sight? If a mage uses Mage ...
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Is the new werewolf spirit sight an automatic identification of Duguthim?
With their new rules werewolves can watch the twilight spirits automatically and see them. Regardless which senses they actually use.
Now my question is though what does that mean if it comes to the ...
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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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How are heroes created?
Skimming trough half the book time and again I didn't find it: under what circumstances how (ruleswise) are heroes created?
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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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Is there a fan maintained list of god-machine chronicles virtues and vices?
GMC opens the door for a much wider selection of virtues and vices the new World of Darkness. The rules update moves away from cardinal sins and virtues, the book then lists a handful of each.
I'm ...
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Can supernatural beings be possessed and claimed by spirits?
I'm not sure about the spirit rules. Can supernatural beings be claimed or possessed?
(Didn't find any excepiton that says they cannot)
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What Fictional Businesses exist in nWoD? [closed]
I'm thinking that I want to ask my players to be employed within a given list of organizations, to flesh out the list I'd like to include some of the known in world companies. These shouldn't be ...
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Which nWoD books mention Detroit?
Which new World of Darkness books talk about Detroit? I know at least one book mentions the city, I'm not sure if it's more than that.
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Can a signet ring be a transport infrastructure part?
I'm not sure about the following and thus my question if the ring would just be occult matrix part or transport infrastructure, or just a part of a transport infrastrucutre (especially what a demon ...
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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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Can demons use abjuration?
As normally demons have a core and not a soul I would say no BUT then again it could be that a demon could be found out by just a simple test in regards to if he is able to abjurate a ghost.
So my ...
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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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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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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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Mortal infrastructure
A straight forward question as I had a discussion there with a player of mine:
Infrastructure is a physical arrangement of materials and manpower. It
is the vacuum cleaner in the closet that ...
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How many dots can be purchased at a time during advancement?
Is there any limitation on how many dots can be purchased at a time? e.g. one attribute dot per advancement, perhaps? I saw this somewhere on the inter-webs, but cannot find the post again, so I don'...
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When do characters advance?
Do the rules have suggested guidelines for when to advance? Is it assumed that it's as soon as the characters have enough Experiences saved up? Or do PCs have to wait to advance until there is a break ...
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How does a Ghost go to the Underworld, and Back, to get to Rank 3+?
As I recall in the GMC rules update,
it is stated that Ghosts can not get beyond rank 2, without going to the underworld.
Ghost are also not interesting in most games while they are in the underworld ...
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How many dots does the player need to buy at once when improving scaled merits and styles to their next level?
My understanding was that when improving a merit to the next level the player always buys one new dot, no matter how many dots they already have in that merit. Say, improving Resources from 2 dots to ...
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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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is there any risk of exploited gadgets causing compromise?
Demon the Descent p187
Whatever the change, an Exploited gadget is
never mistaken for mundane. At best a Demon might be able
to pass one off as a prop or toy, but that is unlikely to fool a
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How should I determine when to use which Social method?
In 2e their is a new mechanic called Social Maneuvering, in theory their are also regular social rolls and Extended social rolls. How do I decide which of these my players should be using in a given ...
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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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Can Obfuscate be targeted?
Can a vampire decide whether Obfuscate does or does not affect everyone in the room? For example, perhaps the party knows that their mekhet is hiding in the corner and they can see him but the enemy ...
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What are the specific conditions that require a frenzy roll?
So, I think, any exposure to a Bane can cause frenzy roll (unless otherwise stated?), but it talks about starving, social and injury, where can I find rules for what exactly constitutes these things? ...
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How does Oubliette work if you're outside of the marked region?
Oubliette the 5th dot of Obfuscate allows a vampire to make people, affected, believe whatever is within the region is real. For example a dilapidated house is a mansion. If you are not within the ...
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Can a Demon collect a Soul Pact on supernatural entities?
Can a demon make a soul pact with Supernatural entities? My gut instinct says no, they can make pacts but not soul pact, but I haven't confirmed this. I'm primarily interested in Vampires but it doesn'...
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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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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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Do Vampires need Auspex to see in the dark?
Can vampires now see in complete darkness, or only with Auspex added to them?
The fluff text for them never suffering the full penalties for being in complete darkness (vampiric senses) is:
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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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Extended rolls never fail?
When playing through any extended action, I've never had a single one fail, including the ones I set to high requirements, like 15 successes required. None of them have taken more rolls than the size ...
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Homemade flamethrower
My players have had the wonderful idea of building a homemade flamethrower, presumably buying a stable incendiary. Are there rules for doing this? Would the result suffer from instability or other ...
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Should you communicate the number of Doors required?
In World of Darkness 2.0, there is the Social Maneuvering system, it requires you to calculate a number of "Doors" (p192) that must be opened with a character to accomplish a task.
Once you’...
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