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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Just a heads up. I am leaving for California this morning and will not be back until early Tuesday morning. I won't have any access until that time, so I will not be posting until late Tuesday.

Sorry for the short notice, but I completely forgot about it. Please feel free to run my character while I am gone and I will catch up when I return.


Shadow's Status

Not a problem Baldemar.

Because of the nature of the game (each character essentially being part of a separate game at the moment) I will not run Baldemar until you return.

The final scene of the night will involve your character so I will hold off on that until Tuesday. Once that scene is over, Night will be come Day and I will reward XP (finally!).


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

I feel bad about being soooo lost. Not reading anyone's thread, so...


Shadow's Status

I believe that Baldemar is having travel issues. Once he is back we will be able to complete this night. Also Michael Santo has one scene left.


Apologies all. I came back sick and this is my first night back on my feet. I am going to the IC thread to post now.


Shadow's Status

Sorry for the delay Gents. Busy weekend!


Shadow's Status

Been very busy will update last encounter of the night tomorrow!


Shadow's Status

The last scene of the Night is now upon us. I will reward 3 XP as it has been a LOOONG time since I gave any out. Everyone has done a really exceptional job with their characters so far.

Once the final scene of the night is done the day will once again dawn and I will have posts up for each character ASAP. Thank you all for your patience, this is certainly been a unique experience thus far as we are essentially running 7 games at once in this thread.

At some point as I discussed late last year I will shut this thread down and start a new one. Archiving the old thread in Word will make it easier for me to look back at old posts. I have had very little time this year between baby, work and a heavy D&D table top schedule.


Apologies for my absence. Work and table top games all came together this weekend and pbp lost out. I am going to the in game thread now to catch up and post.


Shadow's Status

Will post tomorrow. Busy days lately.


Shadow's Status

FYI. It appears that I will have some time in the middle of May to finally complete the transition to a new thread. I will copy the entire thread in a Word document making our PBP available in a searchable format. Once that is done I will take all of your email addresses and send each player a copy so you all have it to assist in ease of thread searches.

Thank you all for your patience with the thread. At this time I am essentially running 7 different tales one for each of you, which intersect from time to time.

Soon enough the tales will begin to pull closer and closer together. At some point you will all be together. I am in no rush and I hope that you are all enjoying playing mortals!


Shadow's Status

Yes, the Game thread has been updated. Have at it!


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Awareness to 2, for 2xp.


I wonder how Xing is going to react to my request that she recuse herself from all other allegiance and pledge to serve?


Shadow's Status

I will update scenes over the next two days, no later than Wednesday. For those of you in scenes with other players please keep it moving forward.

Thanks.


sts and querini:

sorry for delay will post tomorrow


Shadow's Status

Hey. Been super busy lately. I am spending all of my free time prepping for my table top game this upcoming Saturday.

I will update the thread either Saturday evening or Sunday night just an FYI.


Shadow's Status

Hey. Apologies for the delay I have been crushed with quite a bit more to do than I expected in the last week or so. At this point I will update as soon as I can. Hang tight!


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Will be here.


No worries.


Shadow's Status

Felt like s@#$ all weekend. This week I will be up and running again.


I hope you're feeling better. Get to us when you're able.


Shadow's Status

Hey between being sick and packing to move I do not forsee getting to this for at least another week. However, when I am able I will get things up and running again.


5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 30/40 | Willpower: 8/8

Take your time. We'll be here when you are able to get back to the game.


No worries this game has been consistent and well done for a long while. Most games go on "unofficial" breaks at times. We might as well call this an "official" break!


Shadow's Status

Finishing up my table top RPG did not help matters, we had an 11 hour session for the finale on Saturday! I think the total session and prep time for the finale was around 35 hours over the past 5 weeks.

I believe that the only player left playing both this game and that game is Michele Querini.

I am hoping that once the schedule settles down I can keep a nice consistent run on this for at least the next 6 months (Holidays are always inconsistent for PBP). Perhaps by then some of you will actually BE Vampires! :-)


Shadow's Status

Another week and I will have things up and running again!


No worries. I have also been super busy as of late.


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

I'd accept XP as penance :P


Indeed!

Alms for the poor!


For everyone I am going on vacation limited time and/or internet access will be “out” for the next 12 days or so.

If I am DMing your game this will have a bigger effect than if I am just a PC in a game you are running


Shadow's Status

No worries. I am hoping to be up and running in the next 10 or so days when things slow down a bit in RL.


Shadow's Status

Update. Things have finally slowed down! I will be updating the thread no later than this Friday evening.

Sorry for the long delay. Torpor is a b@$#*!


Storyteller Shadow wrote:
Sorry for the long delay. Torpor is a b$%$+!

What? Maturation experience?


Shadow's Status

Sadly no, one does not receive XP for being in Torpor.


Shadow's Status

Game ON! :-)


Shadow's Status

Hey, just waiting for a few players to post before pushing things forward. As this is a game with a slow posting rate, and as I have long periods of absence myself, I don't want to push anyone too fast if they are busy R/L.

As a result I will give the game a few more days, if no updates come from absent players I will move the field forward a bit and they can jump back on then. (I will PM with the players who fell behind to catch up if I feel any important scenes have to take place).


Sorry will post in a bit was busy with over time at work and my sons football.... they won the championship last sunday. I coached the game it was awesome.


Shadow's Status

Will get back to this tomorrow.

For anyone who has not posted by tomorrow, we will handle your updates via PM at a later date.


Shadow's Status

I have the day off tomorrow. I will give non posters till then to catch up. After that, I will begin to move things along.


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Sorry folks, coming up for air!


Shadow's Status

Hey updates tomorrow. Last week was crazy and the wife was away this weekend!


Shadow's Status

It seems that Baldemar has gone awol. Should we: (1) allow him more time to return since his absence has not been all that disruptive anyway, (2) close the group at 6 players, or (3) recruit a new player?

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks!


5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 30/40 | Willpower: 8/8

I would say allow him as much time to return as it takes you to write him out of the story in a "natural" way. Otherwise I would be fine with leaving the group at 6.


M somewhat akin to a kender Y / MA

I would suggest sending him a private message and see if we can get some idea of what is going on. It is possible that since he has not posted in awhile that the threads stopped showing him that new posts were being made.


Shadow's Status

PM'ed him. Could have sworn I did that a month ago!


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

OK with 6, here if does not return. If it is cool with you, give him time.


Shadow's Status

All plots have been updated, night is approaching...

Still have not heard from Baldemar. I will keep his slot open as his character is now intricately linked to the plot. If he returns so be it. If not, we will stay at 6, at least for the time being.


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Lost track, we're we due XP?


Shadow's Status

Not yet :-)

As the night begins I will award XP, we are very close to the evening. I will do updates tomorrow.

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