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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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Shadow's Status

More update later, need to leave soon and I won't have time for them all :-(
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Cause it's been a while 5 XP for everyone.
5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 26/40 | Willpower: 6/8

XP! Whoo Hoo!
5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 26/40 | Willpower: 6/8

Storyteller Shadow:
Given the requisite roleplay, I would like to purchase the first dot of Thaumaturgy [Lure of the Flames, 1st level ritual; Domino of Life (V20:DA pg 303)] and the first dot of Valeren [Healer's path] when you deem it appropriate.
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Lorenzo Cappelli wrote:
** spoiler omitted **

Proceed!

Female 6th Generation Brujah|Blood Pool: 18/30|Willpower: 6/6

What would the difficulty be to recognize what this stranger is talking about here? I'm assuming the roll is Intelligence & Theology.
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Sister Maria Bellarosa wrote:
What would the difficulty be to recognize what this stranger is talking about here? I'm assuming the roll is Intelligence & Theology.

Yep, Int + Theology DC 7 (as Greek Gods are probably not something you've studied but you've heard of them in passing perhaps).

Female 6th Generation Brujah|Blood Pool: 18/30|Willpower: 6/6

And thus, Maria is damned.
Norwegian Mercenary / Aspiring Condottiero | 7th Generation Clan Tzimisce | BP 19/20 | Willpower 7/8 | Wound Level 0 | Active Effects: Auspex (Heightened Senses)

Wow! Glad I popped in - a lot of action tonight :)
Female Vampire Tremere Courtesan

Wow there is alot of posts all of the sudden...
Shadow's Status

Procrastination, pbp be thy name....
Shadow's Status

Trying to get updates in more frequently :-)
Shadow's Status

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

yes! my favorite game is updating like a mad man
Male Italian (Toreador)

Boy did I fall behind. Sorry folks. I'll try to figure out what I'm doing
Shadow's Status

Posted this on my status thread but here it is again for those of you who don't follow it:

Magnus the Great Dane died at 5:04 on Sunday June 24th in the sunshine of his own backyard of congestive heart failure. 6 years - 7 months - 3 days too damn young. He left behind one sad puppy brother, one eternally cheerful little sister [who informed me that he was in dog heaven with Shady the Black Lab (who I had as a boy and teen) EXCEPT when we are driving, when we are driving they are chasing after us], and one very sad doggy Daddy - he will be greatly missed.

I will be updating once more either this Friday evening or Saturday evening, barring my life falling the f%&% apart again.

Hopefully, I can catch a break and life will be somewhat normal for a while and my posting rate will be better and our lives all full of joy from gaming.
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Ranerius Bernerius wrote:
Boy did I fall behind. Sorry folks. I'll try to figure out what I'm doing

I'll PM you when I have my s@~% together again.

Clan Malkavian Blood Pool 19/30

Man, sorry to hear that. I will be sure to snuggle Grim and Punky extra hard tonight for yah. (My American Great Dane and Euro Great Dane)
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Vitaliano da Riva wrote:
Man, sorry to hear that. I will be sure to snuggle Grim and Punky extra hard tonight for yah. (My American Great Dane and Euro Great Dane)

:-)

I still have Bruiser so he's a comfort though I find myself comforting him as he's one sad pup without his brother :-(
Male Italian (Toreador)

Sorry for your loss.
Shadow's Status

I passed out for a few hours this afternoon after having one last moment of silence for my beloved boy.

I will update this game tomorrow.

Sorry for the delay folks.

Within the week, we will have Durga Syn re-emerge from her cloister and give the results of the vote!
Gangrel Blood Pool 13/10

Sorry to hear you lost a good boy.
Shadow's Status

More updates tomorrow.
Shadow's Status

Ugh, sorry for the delays, almost back on track. I will update after I put my daughter to bed tomorrow night. I intended to update tonight but it was a LONG (though productive!) weekend and I am just running out of steam here. Sorry folks!
Shadow's Status

I've got 15 minutes for updates, I need more time than that for this game. Will get to updates later today, sorry for the further delay.
Shadow's Status

Grr, delays delays delays.... I WILL get something up soon!
Shadow's Status

Thanks for the patience folks updates now.

Thank you for all your great gameplay!
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Geoffroi de Clairvaux wrote:
Thank you for all your great gameplay!

And to you as well!

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I am certainly enjoying this game, nothing like having an NPC exit one scene with a player and enter a new one with a different player :-)

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Also, our announcement has finally come and Elysium's current Conclave is about to break up until the next night.

There are a few people who wish to do a few things but I want to move to the next night soon.
Shadow's Status

OK. Conclave for the night is over. I will be bringing this night to a close soon. Post up anything you want to try and accomplish with the little time remaining.
Shadow's Status

Updates tonight.
Male Italian (Toreador)

I now have Performance THREE

Fear me!!!
Shadow's Status

No later than tomorrow night, I will update, see my status thread as things have continued to be interesting. :-) :-(
Shadow's Status

Update tonight, running out of time this morning.
Shadow's Status

Hoping to wind down the rest of the PC nights by Wednesday. I am away Thursday to Monday. I will resume posting once more either that Monday night or Tuesday night HOPEFULLY, with a new night to play with!
Shadow's Status

OK. I have closed out:

Durdona,
Franz,
Geoffroi,
Lorenzo,
Luca,
Michele,
Onfroi,
Ranerius,
Maria,
Veronica, and
Vitaliano.

Xing is nearly closed out.

Still need a post from Einar but as he is in a solo scene I am not too worried about that.

Tomorrow will be the last time I will post until next Monday evening or Tuesday.

Taking hiatus till then. Feel free to spend XP or PM me (or spoil if you prefer) any IN game ideas you have of what to do next.

Quick Run Down of the Meta Plot Points

1. The Brujah vote is the next night.
2. Sunday, is the night that Nosferatu, Tremere, and Malkavian seats will be decided (the Low Clans don't get no respect!).
3. Simon the Nosferatu is still missing.
4. The former Seneschal Brexiano is deceased.
5. Someone attempted to Assassinate both Salubri the prior night.
6. Talisman is out there. Somewhere.
7. Vykos did not attend or vote at the Toreador seat.
8. The Pope excommunicated the City the prior night but the Kine have been relatively docile this night, hard to tell if tensions will escalate once more.
9. Hunters are still active so activities beyond Elysium are still curtailed.

Each of you has their own minor and major plot points to explore which I'll not discuss here.

The Camarilla is nearly formed! Peace in our time is within the Elders err. Everyone's grasp. What could possibly go wrong?
Shadow's Status

FYI. I have no plans to "convert" to Vampire the Masquerade 5E.

However, I MAY consider utilizing the new Hunger rules as I believe they create a system that makes sense with respect to Hunger that the old rules do not capture that well.

Stay tuned.
Clan Malkavian Blood Pool 19/30

Apologies, I am in the middle of a move, so I will be a couple of days before I'm able to post again. Again, apologies for the short notice. We closed on our house three weeks early.
Shadow's Status

No worries, I believe you are closed out for the night anyhow.
Shadow's Status

With the exception of Einar everyone is completed for the night.

I will TRY to get us up and running for the new night by Wednesday, if not it will be Friday night.

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Just an FYI, I have (or will) re-start my Modern Vampire games set in Chicago and Milwaukee by the weeks end, if anyone except Michele who will be playing in the Table Top version is interested I have at least one spot on each table at the moment. [(Some of you are already in those games and can ignore this message :-)].
Male Ventrue 8 Generation 14/15 BP

Shadow, there was one open issue to be resolved during Court, with the Seneschal...regarding Ghouling.

The Post was from January and I kind of forgot to bring it up again, but it can have happened off-screen as well.
Specifically, it was about learning about the proper protocols and getting the right to blood-bind mortals- so that Franz could take the street girl on as a 'Maid' and ensure loyalty of the caretakers of his herd.
Shadow's Status

Noted Franz, I will address that tomorrow.

I was going to update tonight but I just hit the wall a bit.

I am off tomorrow (including Daddy duty) and it looks to be a rainy day so I'll get this kickstarted again mid-day tomorrow.
Shadow's Status

Venice by Night – Saturday March 29, 1309

As it is a new night, all Vampires should mark down 1 BP.
Generation 8th Clan Assamite (Warrior caste) Blood 11/15; Will 5/7 Temp: Potency Point

I'll get a post up tomorrow.
Male Nosferatu 6th Generation; BP 28/30, xp saved: 0, spent 155

Wow the whole month of site down issues
Shadow's Status

Updates tonight if the f$!~ing site is working....
Female Vampire Tremere Courtesan

Profile updated to effect vampireness finally...
Shadow's Status
Veronica Acqua wrote:
Profile updated to effect vampireness finally...

Yay.

Shadow's Status

I'll get the ball rolling again this week.
DO NOT STICK FINGERS IN CAGE

the ball rolling??
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