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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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Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Five year old's Winter Concert! Damn kids...

:)
Shadow's Status

Felt poor all weekend and even into today. Bad DM bad DM!
Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

We here!

If only we got bonus .....
Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

That's my line...
Shadow's Status

Embrace was not enough :-)

It was a taste....but now I thirst for more..... ; )

It sure looks that way for andrew
Shadow's Status

OK, finally updated the thread. Once these scenes are over, which should be relatively soon, the next day can begin and all can get in on the action.

Depending on the actions of the next day, we may be hitting a bit of downtime soon and fast forwarding the calendar to a few weeks away from the current date. Downtime in Vampire usually comes with no XP equivalent. However, for the sake of the story I may at my discretion grant extra points on sheets to reflect what you would have improved upon in that few week block. I will also be PMing players information that they would have acquired during that few weeks time relevant to the upcoming action.
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My apologies for the big delays between posts, glad you are all enjoying the story enough to hang in there with me!
Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Is there a non-vampire alternative?
5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 30/40 | Willpower: 8/8

Hey! I want fangs too! ;)
Shadow's Status

The last few posts of the day should be finalized by tonight. At 10 PM the 10th becomes the 11th and a new day will dawn.

1 XP for all players.
Shadow's Status

Gettin a bit tired. Will update tomorrow night (day time I can't post as I will be slammed at work after being out for a few days).
Shadow's Status

OK updated! All are good to go for the next day.
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I will update tomorrow night.
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I just received my PDF copy of V20 Dark Ages. I will be looking through it over the next few days. Likely we will transition to this version of the game as it is suitable for the setting.

I believe this is the last book I will back for an RPG company unless something else really compelling is proposed.

Got mine too! Onyx path seems to be supporting VT and VtDA again, so maybe more purcheses in my future.
Shadow's Status

Will post likely tomorrow, baby never napped yesterday...
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Will update by the weekends end.
Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

No worries!
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OK, finally got a chance to update the thread!

Posting this to all my Games:

I am leaving tomorrow for some much needed vacation (ski trip). There will be next to no posting from me until the 9th March

Feel free to bot me
Shadow's Status

OK Finn no worries.

I don't think you will come into contact with any players for the remainder of the current day.
Shadow's Status

Will try to get to updates no later than Saturday gents.

Currently snowed in, so no hurry....
Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Yeah, north east snow is a pain.

i like snow :)
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Sorry I have been unavailable all week, will catch up tomorrow.
Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

:) we be here!

indeed

Game on

Long day journey into night....
5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 30/40 | Willpower: 8/8

Ready whenever you are.
Shadow's Status

I tried to get to this earlier today but just had too much to do today. Good news is that I am feeling physically fine after being sick for the 5th or 6th time this year. I am over the hump with work as well so should be slowing down for the next few weeks.

I will therefore be posting tomorrow from work all of the updates. As always, I appreciate your patience with this glacially slow PBP!

One of these years you will all be together and the story will pick up as I will be running one game and not seven separate games at once!

At some point I will archive this thread the free time to do so just has not made itself available to me yet.

yup and sorry if my "intro" doesn't help in that regard DM...

Hello to all i am once again going on a longer off piste ski trip from the 20th to the 29th. i will not be able to post at all.

So feel Free to bot me.
Shadow's Status

No worries, I will probably have you hang out in the background for now as you are not in a scene with a current player.
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Traveling this week, will update on Friday.
Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Safe travels!
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Sorry for the constant delays folks, this project at work just gets bigger and bigger and no matter how many times I give advice they ask the same damn questions and continue to sit on the answers! Oi.

In theory, things should begin to slow down for at least the next few weeks. Mid-April I have to take another trip so I will have a 4 or 5 day interruption at that time as well.

Me too April 9-20....
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Hello to all,

i am back unfortunatly hurt with torn knee ligaments (and moral down the drain for the moment. MRI is scheduled in 10 days to get a better picture of the permanent damage).

Ready to resume gaming after catching up the thread
Shadow's Status

Oh geezer what happened Finn?
Max Blood Pool/Current = 20/10

I just hurt my knee pretty bad training as well. Don't think I tore anything but it's sore as hell.
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Well to be expected Captain Cracked ribs :-)
Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Ehem... Fortitude, SOAK!

A fall the next day after a very long day of ski touring. Normally it wouldn't be hurt but i think body exertion took its tole
Shadow's Status

Hmmm. Supposed to be geeze not geezer damn autocorrect. Funny autocorrect not coming up as I type this rather ironic.

Anyway hope you feel better soon.

I know you feel no pain Caps so no condolences necessary! :-)
Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

No idea how to place a number on this.
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