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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Is a Retainer actually less useful than the corresponding Service?
My PC decided to bring his PI in as a Retainer; unfortunately he'd been reading the old core book. In GMC
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How is immobilized resolved in the context of Screech?
Screech
The Strix emits an ear-splitting screech, rendering victims
unable to think or move and greatly assisting in a subsequent
feeding attempt.
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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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Hellfire guns as a gadget [closed]
Hellfire doesn't really seem to be a broad range of powers, and I don't see much way of altering it for a gadget.. is the fact that a Hellfire imbued gun wouldn't be able to imbue other guns enough? ...
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Multiple breaking points in a scene
So my PCs tortured and killed a vampire in a scene, I of course made them all roll breaking points. What I'm not sure is whether I should have treated the torture and murder separate, and made them ...
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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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Are there rules for torture?
My PCs decided to torture a vampire; are there rules regarding bonuses to social rolls (for information) or how to deal with inflicting damage in the controlled manner of a torture method?
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Does contact with red-hot metal cause frenzy, as being near open flame does?
My PCs decided to torture a vampire with a red-hot knife — would that have caused frenzy? I decided for the session that it was not a flame, and so did not, but I'm not sure that was the right call.
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Do Domination powers make memory permanently irrecoverable?
If a Vampire dominates a person into forgetting something is the memory lost permanently? or are they just unable to access it normally? could hypnosis, a spell, or other memory reading power recover ...
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Is there a high-level overview of Cosmology and Prehistory?
Based on The Voice of an Angel and other tales, e.g. Atlantis, Father Wolf, has anyone tried to put together a very high level historical summary for the World of Darkness? Obviously a lot of this ...
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What happens to a graft if the "donor" dies?
I've seen there are rules for grafts in case the donor "goes loud".
If the donor goes loud you loose the graft and it can have some nasty side effects. But what happens if instead he dies/is destroyed?...
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Can the Demon discern the Vampires influence on Hunter retroactively?
In my Hunter the Vigil chronicle, the players were doing a good job of not talking to people, and IMHO, abused one of my NPCs, Ariana, to "go do it for them". It refers to investigating a Demon, Sarah,...
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Does "going loud" allow you to take the extra demonic form pieces?
Here are the rules for "Going Loud"
Going loud allows the demon to completely heal any lethal or
bashing damage and shrug off any Tilts affecting her. In addition
to this, when the demon goes ...
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Clarifications about the demonic exploit: Show of power
Got a question about the exploit: Show of power (or more like a few questions that come down to a single one): What does it do / what does it do?
-Dicepool: What is if none of the supernatural type ...
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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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How does a fight started by a Sucker Punch get handled?
How should I handle starting combat that starts from a sucker punch?
a punch made without warning, allowing no time for preparation or defense on the part of the recipient.
This happened in a ...
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When does a demon "become someone else" in a Cover?
So from what I've read in Demon: the Descent, it feels like covers can manifest in 2 ways? First is when a demon becomes someone else quite literally, the demon becomes Bob. Second is when the Demon ...
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How to avoid having Dominate or Devil's Advocate dominate play
We're playing nWoD 2e and I've got a mixed group with a demon and a vampire in it. They are using the vampire power Dominate and the demon power Devil's Advocate quite extensively, and have even ...
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Converting Hunter: The Vigil to nWoD 2nd Edition
I would like to run Hunter: The Vigil with the God Machine Chronicle rules. Hunter has not yet been updated yet for the new rules, but how hard would it be to convert the rules a bit myself? The PCs ...
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Is Carthian rule more like democracy or anarchy?
I've been reading through Vampire: the Requiem 2nd edition, and I'm a bit perplexed about the Carthians. It makes the Carthians sound like freedom fighters who've little idea of how to rule once in ...
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Electronic pacts
Demon the Descent suggest that pacts must exist on something that'll have at least some level of permanence, a pact can not be written in wet sand. It suggest several mediums such as paper, and flesh, ...
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Do demons have gender? can their covers gender differ?
Since a demon's appearance is just a cover (I think?) if, say a female demon (do demons actually have gender?) were to acquire a male's role, would the demon appear male in that cover?
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How would a demonic pact for home, and deceased wife and child work?
I've just wrapped up-ish the back story of a character. The story is that his wife and child were killed by a Strix (he doesn't know the Strix part yet), on his Hunt a Demon is going to offer him a ...
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Where can I read more about the demonic tattoos from Mortal Remains?
In Mortal Remains, on p124 it discusses Fiendish Flaws.
A tattoo-like glyph on the demon’s forearm that’s visible
through clothing.
I presume this is a Demon the Descent thing, but ...
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Does "the Beast" have a mind of its own?
In the Strix Anthology short "There Are No Owls in Seattle", there's the following passage:
There’s Mackayla and her remarkable affinity for bolt cutters, of course, but there’s
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Does a line of salt prevent a baned entity from crossing?
If a being that can have banes (such as a Strix, spirit, ghost, etc) has a bane of salt, would a line of salt on a doorway prevent it from entering (like in Supernatural), or would it essentially have ...
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What do the Strix look like when they are "flying"?
For descriptive purposes, when a Strix is sitting it looks like a shadow owl, when it's attacking like a cloud of mist shadow, and smoke. What's it look like when it flys? does it retain an owl form (...
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How can I get my players to "go down the rabbit hole"?
So here's where we're at in the game. I've been running prelude to Hunter as if it is actual story. So the outcome is basically set. Two of the PC's are/were related, and the motivation is that the ...
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How does Demon: the Descent handle the common problems with Splinters and Time Travel?
So the main Demon the Descent features a campaign seed based on time travel but it doesn't discuss the "common" time travel issues such as causing a paradox, meeting yourself in the past, or reasons ...
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Does a Strix drinking the breath of a victim exsanguinate the victim?
The Strix can gain "Vitae" by stealing breath. This reminds me a bit of the Succubi Chi stealing in "Lost Girl", at least in its general description. I'm left wondering though, when a Strix isn't ...
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Do hunters have to know it's a supernatural to get practical experience?
Do hunters have to be sure that the thing they were dealing with wasn't human to get practical experience? Could they get experience if they only suspected the thing wasn't human? As a sort of aside, ...
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Do you share your story titles with players? [closed]
I've started to taking to naming my stories, even for no other purpose than record keeping. However I've been thinking about sharing the names of the stories with the players.
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Do specialties stack?
I'm wondering if you have 2 or more specialties that would apply to a roll, do all specialties apply their bonus. For example, if I had a specialty in handguns and revolvers (which is a handgun) and I'...
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Where can I find rules for Revolver Fanning?
Wikipedia definition of Fanning
Fanning is a revolver shooting technique in which one hand holds the trigger and the other hits the hammer repeatedly. This turns the cylinder and hits the firing ...
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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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How do I choose a Mood for my game? [closed]
The books make lots of suggestions for moods the game can be played in, as in its feel and atmosphere, and it seems to be a fundamental and important choice when starting a chronicle. But how do I ...
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How is an entity's Rank determined when it's not listed?
Here's the description of the Esoteric Armory Merit:
Esoteric Armory (• to •••••)
Effect: Your character is the go-to guy when one
needs a knife carved from the bone of a martyred
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Can already dead characters be resurrected?
Is it possible to bring a dead character back? by dead I do not mean undead. As far as I know there isn't anything like a scroll of resurrection though I could probably make one with reliquary, should ...
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What stuff gets used in rituals?
As far as I know, most of the "rituals" that are mentioned don't include a list of ingredients (because I think they're not actually required). Do any of the books include a list of things that would ...
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Supernatural Territories
So it's pretty obvious to me, that two Werewolf Pack Territories wouldn't overlap, but what about a Vampire territory, and Werewolf territory? Is it possible that they don't actually know the other is ...
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What Dread Powers do the Demons have?
Ch 5, p119 of Mortal Remains is about Demons, however there is no Dread Powers Section like there are in the the other chapters. I'm going to speculate that this might be because of there being ...
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What is this "black mist" in Demon?
On p120 of Mortal Remains, it mentions a black mist (which rather reminds me of the demons from Supernatural).
Unlike voyeurs, who tend to be invisible, devourers exist
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Bonus dice for being descriptive
I seem to recall that somewhere there is a rule that states the storyteller can award bonus dice for good player descriptions of actions. Where is this rule (I suspect it's in the orignal core book)? (...
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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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Purchasing a Bar
Previously I asked a question about my players stating they've been gifted a bar. This hasn't come into play yet because they've been on a road trip. I've been unable to come up with a good reason for ...
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What are the rules for exhaustion?
My players ran up the side of a mountain for about 8 hours. Then proceeded to get in a fight. I can't imagine that more than one of them (we got an athlete), even in wolf form, could possibly be doing ...
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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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How can I make a shapeshifter that takes human forms?
I want to make an NPC who can change into different human forms. The concept I'm forming is the character is committing a string of murders, and the PCs have additional problems tracking the killer ...
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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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Where is "Create Influence" documented?
The phrase "Create Influence" shows up a few times like a noun in the text, however, I'm only able to find two references in the text to it, and those are using it. I'm assuming it's documented under ...
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