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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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 can the God Machine transport players to another place?
This is a prelude for this question about the spiritual effect of such transportation. I didn't realize there were options at the time I started implementing my story. So here's the relevant thus far, ...
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Does a god machine doorway opening leave behind "spiritual" evidence?
So I had a player taken by an angel through a doorway in the infrastructure, from his home. What I'm wondering is if any of his packmates would be able to find any kind of spiritual change by the ...
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Patching new parents onto a Cover
In Demon, you can improve your covers by patching pieces of other peoples lives onto them.
For example if someone, a NPC named Fiona, was known as a cat lover, you might pact with her to take her ...
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Are there any god machine experience conversion rules for Werewolf?
In lieu of an update book has anyone suggested, or does anyone have suggestions for experience conversion rates for Gifts, Rituals, and Rites?
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Do Advanced Form and Terrible Form interact how I think they do?
Terrible Form is a style merit that lets you gain a modification, then a technology, then a propulsion and finally an extra process.
It seems designed this way to limit early access to the more ...
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Can I collapse my huge demon?
The demon form modification Huge Size (DtD Core Rulebook):
Appearance: When the demon takes on his demonic form, he grows out of his skin into a huge monster.
And the demon form technology ...
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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:
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Traps in the World of Darkness
I intend to place my characters in a trapped "dungeon" (I'm stealing the concept from the movie Cube as a God Machine experiment, and team building exercise), however I am unable to locate rules for ...
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How many are the starting merit dots now?
I notice that in Blood and Smoke that starting merit dots are 10, but I can't find any further reference to this in either God Machine or Mortal Remains. Since Requiem suggest 7 dots, has the new ...
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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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Is the Stalwart Numen always on?
The Stalwart Numen reads slightly differently to the other numina.
Most clearly read like the activated abilities they are.
Page 228:
Each Numen is a single ability linked to the entity’s nature —
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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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Do Interlocks use only Finesse Attributes?
Page 250 of Demon says:
The dice pool and effects of an Interlock should be based on the two
Embeds. Use the Attribute from one and the skill from another, or if
the appropriate dice pool remains ...
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How to stat up and judge the challenge of supernatural NPCs
I'm a fairly new ST, though I've tried my hand at it before. I think I'm doing better this time but I'm realizing that I'm having trouble statting NPCs. I'm not sure how strong to make them in ...
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Should mental conditions on character creation be given some kind of compensation?
If I give a character a condition on character creation due to a past experience with the supernatural, should I make them roll integrity (fairly horrific circumstance)? Should I give them any bonus ...
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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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Breaking up the Plasma Drive Propulsion
Every Demon starts with Propulsion in Demon Form. It is difficult and limited to get additional Propulsions, but not impossible.
Propulsions are (as the name suggests) movement abilities, though many ...
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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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Are mortals from after the God-Machine rules update more powerful than before?
What is colloquially being termed nWoD 2.0 makes a few changes to the rules system, some systematic some not.
For instance, buying points in traits is now linear not arithmetic. As well as this ...
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Reconciling Conditions with Flaws?
The God Machine chronicle rules update introduces the idea of conditions in place of various rules, one of which is flaws.
The leading text in that chapter explains how to replace flaws with ...
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Should availability be altered for non-US settings?
Certain items are more or less restricted in different countries. Some are more expensive (software in Australia etc.) And some are in less demand so less available.
What is the best and/or simplest ...
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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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Are there any restrictions on what rolls can benefit from 'Good time management'?
The Good Time Management merit (from God-Machine Chronicles Rules Update) lets me reduce the time between rolls in an extended action by half.
Is there any limit on this? Does it apply to contested ...
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Extended actions rules, retry at bonus?
The rules from page 188 of the God Machine Rules Update read:
Near Misses
So what happens if a character accumulates most of the
successes required for the extended action but has to stop due to
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Removing Conditions without resolution
So, I am rereading the God Machine Rules Update. An issue I saw the last time I played with it was that there doesn't seem to be a mechanic for removing conditions without resolving them.
Lets say a ...
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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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