Dark Ages Vampire - Bloodlines

Game Master Dennis Harry

Bloodlines is a continuation of the now defunct table top Dark Ages Vampire game wherein the PC's have created lineal descendants throughout the ages.

Attendees seeking a seat or have a seat in the Inner Circle:

Assamite - Lord Bajazet al Nasir.

Brujah – Lady Meridie de Chancie, Lord Criatas, “Dark”Selena, Robin Leeland.

Cappadocian – Lord Benne.

Gangrel – Milov Petrankov.

Lasombra - Prince Narses the Archbishop of Nod

Malkavian – Antione le Fanu, Lutz von Hohenzollern.

Nosferatu – Cristo Petradon, Simon.

Salubri – Brian Stack.

Setites – Sadir.

Toreador – Rafael de Corazon, Francois Villon, Helene la Jouste.

Tremere - Radek, Mistress Fanchon.

Tzimisce – Myca Vykos.

Ventrue – Alyssa Gilbert, Lady Jadviga Almanov, Lanzo von Saschen, Prince Alexander.

Remember - only those listed get votes. Of course influencing their Childer can go a long way to getting a vote.

Social Combat:

Let me first thank Sir Dunstan and his excellent Game of Thrones campaign as the inspiration for this rules tweak. A shout out to Vitaliano who also does an excellent job as a player in that campaign.

Game of Thrones has a Social Combat system that, while not translatable directly, I used as inspiration for this campaign.

This is a proposed rules set and I am more than happy to hear feedback from Players before I implement it in full.

Roleplaying is still required to get your point across. However, I think a mechanical system could be beneficial for this scenario, a scenario quite unlike anything I have ever done in a Vampire game before.

Making My Case

To convince a “voter” to side with your Sire, you may roll the following set of Attributes and Abilities:

1. Against someone who is clearly NOT in your favor --- Manipulation+Subterfuge+Politics
2. Against someone who is NEUTRAL – Charisma+Expression+Politics

The difficulty of all rolls is that Cainites Willpower. You will need to score as many successes as they have Willpower to win the contest. Once you engage the voter, you will only have three rounds to make your case and can only attempt do so one time per night.

If you have Presence – Awe or Enrancement, you may attempt to use these powers in conjunction with the above roll. Each success utilizing that Discipline gives you one more success on your total roll.

Beware, failing in using Presence in Elysium can lead to Sanctions by Thomas Brexiano.

Also beware, Cainites may try to turn this system around on you…

But What if Someone Else Tries This on a Voter I just Brought to my Side?

Amount of successes is a key factor here, you will want to score as many success as you can to ensure that a rival does not try to take that vote from you!

Certain NPC’s already believe that others are in their favor and would never change their votes. Those will be the toughest cookies to break.

Note this system cannot be used on:

Your In-Clan rivals, no amount of sweet talking or bribes will change their minds they all want this position badly.

Prince Narses, he simply will not entertain such discourse. Of course, this does not mean you cannot try to get into the ears of one of his Childer to have them speak with him…

Discerning My Quarry’s Intent

How can I tell if someone is for or against me despite what they are saying?

Make a Perception+Empathy+Politics roll.

The difficulty is 10, less that Cainites Humanity score. Those closer to the Beast are much harder to read. For every Century over 300 years that Cainite has lived, the DC will be increased by 1, topping out at 10, as these Cainites have well and truly mastered this game to have existed for so long in the first place.

Once you engage the voter, you will only have three rounds to ferret out their intent and can only attempt do so one time per night. You will need to score as many successes as they have Willpower to ascertain their intent.

If you have Auspex – Read the Soul or Invade the Mind, you may attempt to use these powers in conjunction with the above roll. Each success utilizing that Discipline gives you one more success on your total roll.

How else can I make my case?

The use of Presence, while frowned upon, is much less cause for censure than using Dominate. Dominate does not work on a Cainite whose blood is closer to Caine than your own. If you seek to use Dominate to convince a voter (or perhaps one of the Childer?) to vote for your Sire, it would be best used elsewhere in the city.

Boons – the boon system of quid pro quo can also be used to gain votes. You will need to offer something of course that that voter does not have or cannot get from another candidate.

Eliminate my rivals. This one is obvious though failure to do so without detection may subject YOU to the Final Death!


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FYI, updates tomorrow.


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Sorry, passed out last night long week and a bad commute home. Will have updates tonight!


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Due to my ridiculous schedule which will only get worse for the next few weeks, I am putting the game on hiatus until Monday October 3rd. Then I will be settled and work should ease up so I can post on the regular again thereafter.


5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 26/40 | Willpower: 6/8

Thanks for the heads up.


Oh, the suspense!


Posting this to all my game:

I will be away until monday for a tournament and unable to post


Posting this to all my game:

I will be away until Octobre 17th (posting will be very sporadic as i will be travelling often)
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Please bot me as needed


Male Nosferatu 6th Generation; BP 28/30, xp saved: 0, spent 155

Ok who ever made storyteller's work schedule obviously doesnt understand good roleplaying and hanging off a cliff while waiting for it!


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Onfroi wrote:
Ok who ever made storyteller's work schedule obviously doesnt understand good roleplaying and hanging off a cliff while waiting for it!

That was the good Roleplaying part!

I will be up and running again today or tomorrow. It was a combination of work and moving that has kept me away. This last week more moving then work.


Alessandro is waiting to become bacon!


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And we are at it again...


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Updates Saturday.

I think we may have lost Andrew the Hardy, he has not posted anywhere on the boards for a month. If any of you know him RL, send me a PM. Thanks.

For now I will DMPC him moving forward. At some point I will re-recruit if he does not resurface.


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Sorry guys, updates tomorrow, getting too late for me to write coherent responses...


I am terribly sorry, but I will have to drop out. I have a business project offer that will last at least 3 to 6 months and I need the cash. I apologize for the inconvenience.


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Sir Dunstan Füller wrote:
I am terribly sorry, but I will have to drop out. I have a business project offer that will last at least 3 to 6 months and I need the cash. I apologize for the inconvenience.

No worries Dunstan. Good luck on the venture!


Busy weekend... Back at it, tonight.


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I found a replacement for our Salubri, still working on one for our Brujah.


Dotting


Looks like I will be playing the brujah. More to follow.


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Excellent.

Thank you both for dotting in.

I will be moving forward likely Friday night with the largest portion of the group at Elysium as this night (unless Players wish to scheme on their own) is drawing to a close AT Elysium.


I will be working on Geoffroi's mechanics tonight. I already have a rough backstory penned into his character profile. Let me know if there are any problems


Male Nosferatu 6th Generation; BP 28/30, xp saved: 0, spent 155

Welcome aboard maties


Boy it's been a while since I made a Vampire character ...


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Clan Malkavian Blood Pool 19/30

Lol, I still am unsure if I built a Vampire character...^_^


OK. I think Geoff is ready. I haven't spent any freebie points yet (well-3 for merits) but if I could get an evaluation of how well I did. Be kind. I haven't made a Vampire character since 1999.


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Geoffroi de Clairvaux wrote:
OK. I think Geoff is ready. I haven't spent any freebie points yet (well-3 for merits) but if I could get an evaluation of how well I did. Be kind. I haven't made a Vampire character since 1999.

I'll take a bite out of him tomorrow night :-)


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Vitaliano da Riva wrote:
Lol, I still am unsure if I built a Vampire character...^_^

:-)

Be careful what you wish for, I mean food at your fingertips plenty of powerful patrons around. You were all embraced with silver spoons in your fangs. What could possibly go wrong...


Edwarde Ashedown is ready as a mortal.


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I will be assimilating our two new players into the game as this night draws to a close.

Those of you at the Conclave still, decide if you wish to seek out more votes or retire for the evening to discuss progress with your Sires.

Luca and Durdonna are also still relatively new and both of your scenes are winding down or up I suppose.

Onfroi, Michale and Xing - do you all wish to head back to Elysium or away from it?

Still waiting for our Tzimisce t check back in as he was on vacation till yesterday in RL.


Certes, I am ready to delve into this strange aquatic city.


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Onfroi will head back if his gondola is heading back....


Hey Everyone

Just got back from my trip. So playing catch up with the game thread


Storyteller Shadow wrote:
I will be assimilating our two new players into the game as this night draws to a close.

ONE OF US....


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Durdona Checheg wrote:
Storyteller Shadow wrote:
I will be assimilating our two new players into the game as this night draws to a close.
ONE OF US....

LOL.


Hopefully not assimilation in a Tzimisce sense... :O


Male Italian (Toreador)

Sorry folks, connection problems at my house. Hopefully I will catch up sometime tomorrow


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Lap top had a frigging meltdown last night. Will update tonight.


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Not the best series of days in a row there. Updates now, hopefully this week will be better than last week...


Quick question: I notice that everyone seems to post with a header detailing time and place. Should I do this as well? Is there any particular format I should follow?


I do a "reply"... Then copy the header section from the story teller's post.

I joined years ago, but wasn't party of the original crew. Just following along.


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Geoffroi de Clairvaux wrote:
Quick question: I notice that everyone seems to post with a header detailing time and place. Should I do this as well? Is there any particular format I should follow?

Your preference is fine with me. I do it cause it makes it easier for me if I need to go back and look at a relevant post in the thread on a specific date. I think most players just picked it up as I do it.


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Updates tonight.


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Updates now, too tired last night and felt like shit this morning :-(


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As you can see, the night is finally winding to a close.

Hopefully by next week we will be on the second night. Those of you who are mortals will have abbreviated Daytime interactions.

Everyone gains 2 XP as we close this night!


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Finn, I will update you once one of the other players checks in :-)


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I updated the Campaign Info thread to add new players and set the old players to the NPC list.

Note that systems for Disciplines are listed there, home rules and some other V20 rules changes.

If I missed an NPC or a location, let me know and I will add it.


Male Italian (Toreador)

I know I had mentioned this before and you said it was okay, but I'd like to buy performance and expression up. I ask this time because it would affect my roll if allowed, and I admit I'm counting on that ;)


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Ranerius Bernerius wrote:
I know I had mentioned this before and you said it was okay, but I'd like to buy performance and expression up. I ask this time because it would affect my roll if allowed, and I admit I'm counting on that ;)

Yes go ahead :-)


Clan Malkavian Blood Pool 19/30

I want to say Vitaliano's night is concluded. He would not seek out the sire of the person he just spoke to, he assumed he was speaking to someone else's Childe.


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Onfroi is done for the night and would only tell his sire about what he learned spying on the entrance and about the question posed by Vykos in return for his vote on wbat happened to the Giovanni... so if you want to fast forward that be my vuest, its merely repeating what you already know I know.

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