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[thatkid]

The IC Thread Can be Found Here

There is an IRC channel set up. The channel is irc.freenode.net and the channel is #tknWoD

[filiusenox]

Well, this seems...interesting. Is there anyplace where I can find this Blue Book?

Or baring that have you create a char.

[thatkid]

You can get a pdf of the nWoD core book (the blue book) on DrivethruRPG or in most bookstores, to my knowledge. Barring that, I can collaborate with anyone who wants to join and doesn't have access to the rules, and make PDFs for them. There are also other less scrupulous ways to acquire a PDF copy, that I'm relatively certain I'm not allowed to promote here.

[Fniff]

Interested. I am doing another game, but I could participate.

[thatkid]

Interested. I am doing another game, but I could participate.

Alrighty. I'll probably be creating a thread for it soon, and running it in a manner similar to Aninimouse's Modieval/Medieval (I mean that it's sandboxish, but with plot).
Unless you guys would rather have something a little more focused on a smaller group of players who are all together?

[Fniff]

Here is a good character creator: It does a lot of sheets!

[thatkid]

Here is a good character creator: It does a lot of sheets!

Just checked it out by making my regular test character (myself).
I like it, it's a lot cleaner looking than Myth-Weavers. I was going to have everyone use pastebin, because I hate myth-weaver's sheets, but I'm not sure now.
The only issue, is that specialties don't have a clear slot (other than additional information), and health is just dealt with through check-marks. Neither of those are really problems, though, so I might ask everyone to use this.

E: Anyways, I'll be making the actual thread in a bit. Probably in about an hour, while I'm on the train home. Maybe! I dunno. This one will be locked, in any case, once that happens. Unless I decide to keep this around as an OOC thread. Hm.

[thatkid]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=105967.msg3142605#msg3142605

IC thread up.
This is now the OOC thread.

[mcclay]

I would like to be in this but I am on a Kindle so I  will need some help with the sheet. I am also intrested in becoming a Changeling, if that is at all possible. PM me please.

[thatkid]

Well, as I said in the OP of the IC thread becoming a paranormal creature like a Changeling is a privilege that has to be earned.

I'll PM you in a few minutes, though.

[HailFire]

Hmm, may have to get in on this (though I probably won't be able to until sometime late tomorrow)

Unfortunately, my only experience with/material on the World of Darkness is pdfs of the GURPS 3rd adaptations of Mage: The Ascension and Vampire: the Masquerade (and technically W:tA, but I never got around to reading that); how much different is nWoD?

[thatkid]

Hmm, may have to get in on this (though I probably won't be able to until sometime late tomorrow)

Unfortunately, my only experience with/material on the World of Darkness is pdfs of the GURPS 3rd adaptations of Mage: The Ascension and Vampire: the Masquerade (and technically W:tA, but I never got around to reading that); how much different is nWoD?

Uh...
Well, for one thing it's a lot less math heavy than gurps. That's for sure.
I'll be honest, I have access to the GURPS rules but I've yet to find the time to play a full-fledged game with them. At most I've gotten like half a session in. But lets see...
Attributes are handled very differently, as are skills. Instead of standard RPG-style attributes, you instead have 9 which are then split between three groups (Mental, Physical, Social). You pick one group as your primary attribute set, another as your secondary, and a third as your tertiary, and then you can allocate a different number of points to each set based on whether it's primary/second/tertiary. Same for skills. We use merits, which are more like feats, instead of advantages/disadvantages...

Health is tracked through bashing, lethal, or aggravated damage marks instead of actual solid hitpoints. Pools of d10s are rolled instead of d6s, with certain higher numbers "exploding" and adding another die to the pool to go along with a success. The scope of the rules, as well, is a lot more narrow and focused on flavor than in GURPS.

There's a couple of free pdfs on the White Wolf site that you can check out, if you want to try a short little story/adventure/whatever. I think the best one is probably in the Vampire section.

[filiusenox]

Char Sheet.

Might have messed something up...

[Fniff]

My character.

On leave from the military. Saw some weird shit in Afghanistan (On GM's discretion what she saw) and is curious as to what is going on. She was a sinking suspicion that whatever she saw in that country isn't limited to just there...

[thatkid]

Char Sheet.

Might have messed something up...

You've placed 4 dots in all of your attribute sets, instead of going with 5/4/3. It looks like you put an extra dot into your physical skills (you have 12, instead of 11) unless I'm counting wrong. Either your mental or social skills, whichever you decided was the Secondary set, is missing 3 dots. You should also think about picking specialties (if you have three) since those are useful in their situations. Merits are fine, I'm going to assume you got your math right for the other stuff.
I haven't been able to do much more than skim the backstory so far, but it looks good. Just fix up the attributes and skills, and you're in.

My character.

On leave from the military. Saw some weird shit in Afghanistan (On GM's discretion what she saw) and is curious as to what is going on. She was a sinking suspicion that whatever she saw in that country isn't limited to just there...

It looks like you're missing attribute dots somewhere (I'm counting only two in social and mental), and you're also short on skills and merits. Investigation specialty is a tad vague, but I'll let that slide because it makes enough sense anyways. As with File's sheet, I'm going to assume your math checks out, rather than going through health, willpower, etc.
Aside from those issues, I also need a slightly more in depth backstory. What have you been up to since getting back? Are you working? Living with family or friends? Do you see a therapist for potential PSD? Stuff like that, also information on your personality. The more info I have, the more I can work with you.
I ran a game back where a player had a similar character idea (soldier on leave, saw some pretty wack shit while in sand land) but the game didn't last long. So I've got some stuff cooked up already, it'll be nice to actually make use of those notes.