In reply to Hugo Dupuis (msg # 48):

I keep thinking of potential changes myself at the moment. Should I shift this into that? Or keep it as is? Second guessing choices to say the least!

I understand that one all too well, Derek.

Thankfully I have Bird to bounce things off of.

I believe in you!

In reply to Moon Rain-Counter (msg # 51):


Also starting to think of themes and stories.  If we're going "Wild West", we've got some tropes to play with:

1) the wild vs. civilization (anarchs trying to live free of the Camarilla and start a new society, the Camarilla slowly encroaching and imposing order)

2) the fall-out from war (veterans of the Camarilla / Sabat conflicts, damaged by the experience, drift in, having not found a place in "normal society")

3) range wars and other resource conflicts (in an open city, Kindred stake out huge "ranches" as hunting grounds, inevitably coming into competition and conflict; conflict emerges between "ranchers" who feed widely across a large population to distribute it, vs. those who "homestead", staking out dense populations they groom; some Kindred "strike a claim", discovering a pocket of particularly rich feeding, while "claim jumpers" move in to try and take it from them

I mean, there's actually a lot to play with here.  It's especially funny given that we're in a city once described as "New York run by the Swiss" ;)

Oooh.

3) works insanely well for what Julian (I swear they will be joining today) and I are going for.

Asylum will be our claim, and likely fending off claim jumpers while we try and balance both sides.

In reply to Zofia Kaminski (msg # 53):


Do we have a time frame for the game.  I mean, is it set now?

As they never state a date of when the Second Inquisition, the Beckoning and the Gehenna War calls the Sabbat to the Middle East, let's say it is around 2014, two years before all hell broke loose in 2012 (Mayans got it right, just not for humans), and these events are still recent. Anarchs have been coming to Toronto on and off, some disappearing, some fights against Sabbat, but recent rumours were that it was empty by wandering Gangrel and Anarchs, pushing a migration of ambitious, hungry and exiled vampires looking to resettle.

Woot.  So, NPC vampires = plot foil.  Diggity.

Hahaha. Yeah, it would be a mistake to think you alone are in the city. I just didn't want people creating characters expecting elders/princes to give them orders. And I wanted them the PCs to not be passive players in any story, as that bores me, and you guys have to keep me entertained :)

Hello everyone.  Looking forward to hearing from everyone.

Hi Jack, welcome to the show. Tell us about what you're playing?

Playing a Venture financier/entrepreneur who got his start in the construction and mortgage loan industries.  I suppose you could say he came to Toronto to build something.;}

Another Blueblood. How nice to have more respectable company within our ranks. XD
Welcome.

Our game's getting really big, it's been easy to lose track of everyone's characters here, but I guess we'll be split up by sect and interests a lot of the time. I guess I can learn about you all when Sebastian actually meets you all in game.

I pushed out some threads today, and I'll have the remainder tomorrow.  This weekend I'll work on your sheets to make sure you are all set. After that it'll get easier on me as I'm done the crunch part, and just focusing on story, so that should start moving at a more rapid pace.

Thanks for you patience everyone.

Looking forward to it Sabastian.  I'm sure we can help each other out to better both our goals. Well met!

*More target on forehead painting*

Sorry all, got my ass kicked in with work and family, but the kids are at grandma tomorrow so you got me to yourselves.

Cookies and milk for everyone!

"I'm getting my ass kicked" has entirely new meaning with a global pandemic, take all the time you need.

Finally got Julian mostly done last night, spouse is going to review and edit him today, and I'm going to work on Zofia's character relationship maps as well.

In reply to Zofia Kaminski (msg # 67):


While I've played VtM before, this edition, and the relationship map, are new to me.  How are people recording them, and are we mapping them out ahead of time, or developing them in-game (or both)?

There is no official way to do it.  I was just going to use the draw tool on Google Sheets, post it to Imgur, and post that in my character description.


Between your Sire, merits, flaws, other PCs you might have history with, and Touchstones there is plenty to work with.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:37, Sat 17 Apr 2021.

Here is some freeware you could use as well, no idea if it's good.

https://kumu.io/
This message was last edited by the player at 20:54, Sat 17 Apr 2021.

It worked!

Formatting is ugly as sin, but I have a full relationship map in my character description.

In reply to Zofia Kaminski (msg # 71):

That actually looks pretty cool.

Would of helped if I'd actually linked the freeware

https://kumu.io/

Seems wife had plans for me yesterday, but I'm going through sheets, setting up private threads, and putting up threads for you guys right now.