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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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Patrick Curtin wrote:
the ball rolling??

LMAO, not quite what I meant...

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Still working on updates, this will be fully operational once more no later than Sunday. Once more, my apologies for the delays. :-(
DO NOT STICK FINGERS IN CAGE

Take care of you, Shadow!

PbPs ain’t going nowhere

You do this for free, we ain’t got no room to b*$$!

Thank you for all your hard work GMing!
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Updating now.

There are some stragglers who I believe did not respond to some posts early August, go ahead and chime in now. I am as back as I am going to be :-)

Guess who's back
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Generation 8th Clan Assamite (Warrior caste) Blood 11/15; Will 5/7 Temp: Potency Point

I"m here.
Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

Back, but way behind already.
Norwegian Mercenary / Aspiring Condottiero | 7th Generation Clan Tzimisce | BP 19/20 | Willpower 7/8 | Wound Level 0 | Active Effects: Auspex (Heightened Senses)

I'm back as well, and feeling quite lucky I'm in my own little Embrace aside.
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Yeah sorry bad month there. Tomorrow I will dedicate the afternoon to getting my games up and running once more.
Generation 8th Clan Assamite (Warrior caste) Blood 11/15; Will 5/7 Temp: Potency Point

It sounds like it was a heck of a month.
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Durdona Checheg v20 wrote:
It sounds like it was a heck of a month.

Had its ups and downs mostly downs.

Adjusting to the new Kindergarten schedule and having to have the child up early has been the toughest part as now my day needs to start and hour or two earlier, finally adjusting to that pattern, well almost anyway!
Generation 8th Clan Assamite (Warrior caste) Blood 11/15; Will 5/7 Temp: Potency Point

I got a new doggo a month ago. Now I have to get up at 4:30 with my husband to keep an eye on her. It's killing me. I have time in the mornings to post, but my brain just isn't working too well at that time.
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Durdona Checheg v20 wrote:
I got a new doggo a month ago. Now I have to get up at 4:30 with my husband to keep an eye on her. It's killing me. I have time in the mornings to post, but my brain just isn't working too well at that time.

That's what has been happening to me, I get home at night and I am just too damned tired to think so I go to bed. Luckily tonight I am feeling ok. I am sure being sick and the cough itself lingering along with crappy rainy weather for two weeks did not help. I am sure it is no coincidence that after two sunny days the cough is gone.

What type of pup did y'all get?
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OK, getting to late to update this one. I will get this reset tomorrow.

Thanks again for the patience.
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Sorry guys and gals, lot of kiddie crap to do tonight.

I will update tomorrow at lunch.
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Generation 8th Clan Assamite (Warrior caste) Blood 11/15; Will 5/7 Temp: Potency Point

She's the cutest little Pittie mix. She weighs in at a whole 40 pounds.

Tootsie
Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

AAwwww

She's adorable
Female 6th Generation Brujah|Blood Pool: 18/30|Willpower: 6/6

I want to give her headscritches. :)
Female Vampire Tremere Courtesan

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

Shall I start revamping Maria snrk now?
DO NOT STICK FINGERS IN CAGE

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

you are a tough cookie Einar! man I love the rp you are in.
Male Nosferatu 6th Generation; BP 28/30, xp saved: 0, spent 155

hey Ranerius,

The renaissance didn't really get started until around 1406. The city states of Italy particularly Venice and Florance and Milan being at constant war and being major points of trade were uniquely positioned with wealth and power for such a thing to occur. The Peace of Lodi in 1454 cemented the renaissance between these three major powers.

Anywho. The ideas you are playing with in your songs could be one of the very sparks that gets the above ideals going most especially the Greek versus Roman ideals that Milan being a monarchy and Florence being run by the Medici.

It wasn't until the sudden death (who knows how this really happened in the world of darkness) of Giangaleazzo (somewhere at the beginning of the 1400's although I don't remember the exact date) where his empire collapsed and the seige of Florence was ended that got things moving in many historians eyes.

I am such the geek.
Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

Well, naturally, ask the Toreador and they'll tell you art, particularly their art, has always been the engine of history.

No biases, of course. ;)
Clan Malkavian Blood Pool 19/30

Apologies it took me so long to post, I've been ill from lack of certain meds and then pushing myself too hard one day after finally getting back on all my meds. It's left me struggling mentally to catch all my games and realised I missed this one.
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No worries I too have fallen behind once more.

Yes please update Maria!

I will be posting tomorrow night when I have a good stretch of time to myself. I have have contracted the amount of games I play in once more hopefully that will help me timewise.
Female 6th Generation Brujah|Blood Pool: 18/30|Willpower: 6/6

Alrighty then. I’ll update as soon as I can.

How many dots of Mentor would Criatas be worth?
Male Nosferatu 6th Generation; BP 28/30, xp saved: 0, spent 155

Criatas is a major player and the childer of Menelaus of Troy. so spending three or four dots there I would think would be a great idea if I was you!
Female 6th Generation Brujah|Blood Pool: 18/30|Willpower: 6/6

Okay then. What generation is Criatas in this game? It might be different from what I've read he is...
Female 6th Generation Brujah|Blood Pool: 18/30|Willpower: 6/6

I'm going to hold off on fully updating until I get clarification from the ST.
Male Nosferatu 6th Generation; BP 28/30, xp saved: 0, spent 155

Of course just trying to be helpful lol
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Agree with Onfroi.

Maria:
Criatas is 5th so you are 6th Generation.
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Damn, lost time once more. I WILL update this tonight, latest tomorrow morning :-(
Female 6th Generation Brujah|Blood Pool: 18/30|Willpower: 6/6

Thanks, ST. :)

How many blood points do I have right now? And am I allowed to pick Flaws at this stage?
Male Nosferatu 6th Generation; BP 28/30, xp saved: 0, spent 155

Just to be straight Menelaus was with the Greeks whom attacked Troy due to the taking of his wife Helene of Troy(who becomes a Toreador). Manelaus's mortal life ends at the base of Troy when Hector Tamer of horses kills him during a duel which was supposed to be with Paris.

Attend to me muses and hear the tale.

<--- more super nerd
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Food shopping then will update this morning.
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I'll respond to your latest post once I have had some sleep Lorenzo. :-)
5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 29/40 | Willpower: 8/8

No worries, considering that very thing myself.
Female 6th Generation Brujah|Blood Pool: 18/30|Willpower: 6/6

Maria's fully updated. :)

CARTHAGE LIVES IN DEATH!
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Updates tomorrow. :-)
Norwegian Mercenary / Aspiring Condottiero | 7th Generation Clan Tzimisce | BP 19/20 | Willpower 7/8 | Wound Level 0 | Active Effects: Auspex (Heightened Senses)

I get the idea that folks in this game like vampires and other nameless, timeless horrors. A 1 player rpg game where you play such a creature is currently up on kickstarter - Thousand Year Old Vampire (link) - that I found fun. There's a free pdf of the playtest version of the rules linked on the page. It's basically a guided writing game, where you create characters and events based on prompts the game provides.

Anyway, I found the free version a great way to spend an evening, and thought some of you might too!
Female 6th Generation Brujah|Blood Pool: 18/30|Willpower: 6/6

I'm kinda hoping the 1 success will be enough to keep myself from completely drinking this guy...
Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

I find amusing that the Brujah has to worry about not frenzying and drinking someone dry at the same time the Toreador is worried about romantic complications in his life. It's almost like the ST is trying to test characters where they might be vulnerable :)
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Ranerius Bernerius wrote:
I find amusing that the Brujah has to worry about not frenzying and drinking someone dry at the same time the Toreador is worried about romantic complications in his life. It's almost like the ST is trying to test characters where they might be vulnerable :)

Weird right? :-)

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

what? getting tested where we might be weak and vulnerable? Nah, that would never happen...
Male Ventrue 8 Generation 14/15 BP

*Looks at Clan Weakness*
*Looks at GM*
*Smiles slyly*
"You know, us Ventrue find Promises of Power hard to resist. That relatively high Generation is also troublesome. Maybe I should grow some Amaranth in my garden?"
Male Nosferatu 6th Generation; BP 28/30, xp saved: 0, spent 155

Oh be careful with that wish and review my story dear Franz. Ones wishes coming true do little to stop the abuse.
Male Ventrue 8 Generation 14/15 BP

Ha, I know - Talisman is a good reason not to consider that, too. But alas, Dominate depends heavily on generation -_-
Not that I would even consider it before getting to know these Tremere a whole lot closer. :)
5th Generation Setite| Bloodpool 40/19|

I may have mentioned this before but in playing tabletop with ST close to 20 years we learned not to buy/enjoy houses/castles/etc in game as they always seemed to burn down, crumble, etc.....
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Michele Querini wrote:
I may have mentioned this before but in playing tabletop with ST close to 20 years we learned not to buy/enjoy houses/castles/etc in game as they always seemed to burn down, crumble, etc.....

LMAO, it's longer than 20 years so it's clear you cannot believe a word this man says!

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