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Dark Ages Vampire - Bloodlines (Inactive)

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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5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 23/40 | Willpower: 8/8

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

Ding!
Female Vampire Tremere Courtesan

It is good thing vampires are immortal.
Generation 8th Clan Assamite (Warrior caste) Blood 11/15; Will 5/7 Temp: Potency Point

Durdona is here ready to cause some trouble. Glad things are calming down for you man.
Clan Malkavian Blood Pool 19/30

Opens a bleary eye "But I just got Comfy"
Gangrel Blood Pool 13/10

Present!
Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

Swamped, totally lost on whatever plans my Toreador had, but yeah, still with you
Shadow's Status

Two of the three unaccounted for I know in RL so they know we are about to get moving once more.

I wanted to get things going again Sunday but of course RL happens. My plan is to dedicate a few hours to this game tomorrow night (Tuesday April 24). I'll send each of you a brief PM recap of where we are at and get the thread moving again as well. This is as much for y benefit as it is for the benefit of all of you. In 5+ years this was my longest hiatus and hopefully the last one of its kind!

Thanks again for all sticking around!
Shadow's Status

Sorry, issues at home tonight, I'll update tomorrow. Apologies once more for the delay :-(

Hey if we waited this long...don't worry about it...
Male Ventrue 8 Generation 14/15 BP

Aye. A Hiatus is a Hiatus is a Hiatus. Getting things back in gear is always the harder part. No worries over a day or a few more.
Male Nosferatu 6th Generation; BP 28/30, xp saved: 0, spent 155

Onfroi has enjoyed his time away from pimp slapping a fledgeling. More pimp slapping will commence shortly. No need to hurry.
Female Vampire Tremere Courtesan

Hey everybody Dennis won't be able to do the updates tonight as he got stuck at work late. He said he should be able to do it Friday as he is off that day.
Generation 8th Clan Assamite (Warrior caste) Blood 11/15; Will 5/7 Temp: Potency Point

Thanks for the updates.
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Veronica Acqua wrote:
Hey everybody Dennis won't be able to do the updates tonight as he got stuck at work late. He said he should be able to do it Friday as he is off that day.

Who the f*%@ is Dennis? :-)

Shadow's Status

Boy I left Elysium with one hell of a cliffhanger eh?

I will full update tonight or tomorrow morning. Sending out PMs now. Sorry for the further delays RL is a b+%*!. Good news is that once I get past the PMs and refresh my recollection with where I was going with all of this the updates should be more frequent as I am literally running 23 or 24 less games than I was pre-hiatus.
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Michele, I'll send you a text as you have no Private Messaging on the boards :-)
Shadow's Status

OK updated.

I'll get to your post Sister Maria on my next set of updates.
Female 6th Generation Brujah|Blood Pool: 18/30|Willpower: 6/6

Ok.
Gangrel Blood Pool 13/10

So I did a tally.

I have 42 xp to spend....

Oof, no idea what to do with it all.
Female Vampire Tremere Courtesan

I have which notebook my character is in...it may take a few days...I have lots of notebooks...
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Luca Marano wrote:

So I did a tally.

I have 42 xp to spend....

Oof, no idea what to do with it all.

Send me a PM and we can discuss.

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Veronica Acqua wrote:
I have which notebook my character is in...it may take a few days...I have lots of notebooks...

OK.

Shadow's Status

I will update the Narses Court scene tomorrow night, want to let a few who have not responded get a chance to chime in before I move on.
Male Nosferatu 6th Generation; BP 28/30, xp saved: 0, spent 155

I forgot just how bad excommunication was in this time. No way to attain God's grace or reach heaven. The church rules so so much in this period of time.
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Onfroi wrote:
I forgot just how bad excommunication was in this time. No way to attain God's grace or reach heaven. The church rules so so much in this period of time.

Yep, this was such a fascinating event that I just had to set it at this time period :-)

Clan Malkavian Blood Pool 19/30

Apologies, it appears my mass PM out to everyone didn't send like I thought it did. I was out of town for a convention as of Thursday and just got back in like 10 minutes ago.
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Vitaliano da Riva wrote:
Apologies, it appears my mass PM out to everyone didn't send like I thought it did. I was out of town for a convention as of Thursday and just got back in like 10 minutes ago.

KK.

Clan Malkavian Blood Pool 19/30

Man, now I'm debating. Talisman no longer is as powerful a supporter as I originally may have been able to use. Musings to be had as to what to say or do.
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Vitaliano da Riva wrote:
Man, now I'm debating. Talisman no longer is as powerful a supporter as I originally may have been able to use. Musings to be had as to what to say or do.

Maybe, maybe not :-)

Shadow's Status

My day was a bit FUBAR'ed today, will try to post in the morning as I need to head to bed soon.
Shadow's Status

I have a few reaction posts within Elysium to get to and I will do so tomorrow or Thursday, getting a bit tired but I did want to move some scenes along.
Norwegian Mercenary / Aspiring Condottiero | 7th Generation Clan Tzimisce | BP 19/20 | Willpower 7/8 | Wound Level 0 | Active Effects: Auspex (Heightened Senses)

I should have a post up sometime tonight.
Female Vampire Tremere Courtesan

Still looking...,if I don't find it I will rebuild her...
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Einar Arnesen wrote:
I should have a post up sometime tonight.

OK.

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Veronica Acqua wrote:
Still looking...,if I don't find it I will rebuild her...

OK :-)

Now you can build her as a Vamp so that's ok too.
Shadow's Status

I'll update this tomorrow morning or at lunch, getting a bit sleepy and I need to be more alert for posts of the magnitude I need to write.
Shadow's Status

Ugh, sorry guys, work computer was on the fritz this morning. I will update this for sure tomorrow at some point!
Shadow's Status

Site was down this morning just love waking up early to post and can't.... updates later.
Shadow's Status

For the first time in a long time I can sleep in tomorrow, I will either update tonight after D&D table top or tomorrow morning. I am leaning towards tonight but I've been getting sleepy early these days...
Gangrel Blood Pool 13/10

Back from finals! Now the waiting for final grades....
Generation 8th Clan Assamite (Warrior caste) Blood 11/15; Will 5/7 Temp: Potency Point

Shadow get some rest, and Luca I hope the grades are good.
Shadow's Status

OK, it turns out updated are today, yesterday's tomorrow. :-)
Clan Malkavian Blood Pool 19/30

Manipulation+Subterfuge+Politics: 4d10 + 2d10 + 2d10 ⇒ (7, 7, 10, 9) + (8, 3) + (2, 2) = 48

I'm not sure if that warranted a dice roll or not, so I put it in here if so as to not confuse the players on the Gameplay section.

I think the 10 lands in my wheelhouse with Persuasive as my modifier?
Shadow's Status

I ended up updating every game but this one today and yesterday, I will get to Vamp updates tomorrow night.
Shadow's Status

I was going to post tonight but suddenly find myself hitting the wall, I'll set my alarm clock an hour early and post in the morning.
Clan Malkavian Blood Pool 19/30

I still can't figure out fully if Vitaliano is pissing people off or impressing them...or both. LOL ah, political intrigue how do I love thee.
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Vitaliano da Riva wrote:
I still can't figure out fully if Vitaliano is pissing people off or impressing them...or both. LOL ah, political intrigue how do I love thee.

It would not be fun if I told you now would it? ;-)

Norwegian Mercenary / Aspiring Condottiero | 7th Generation Clan Tzimisce | BP 19/20 | Willpower 7/8 | Wound Level 0 | Active Effects: Auspex (Heightened Senses)

Apologies for my delay, Shadow - I would have sworn I'd already posted!
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Einar Arnesen wrote:
Apologies for my delay, Shadow - I would have sworn I'd already posted!

No worries, I try not to throw stones, keeps my glass house intact :-)

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