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Has anyone tried to use the World of Darkness system for a fantasy game? Between the core rulebook; Armory Reloaded (for medieval weapons and armor); and Witch Finder (for magic), there should be enough for a generic -- and dark -- fantasy rpg.
You could always use the Exalted rules....
I ran Dark Ages for 4 Years...oWoD
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Has anyone tried to use the World of Darkness system for a fantasy game? Between the core rulebook; Armory Reloaded (for medieval weapons and armor); and Witch Finder (for magic), there should be enough for a generic -- and dark -- fantasy rpg.You could always use the Exalted rules....
I ran Dark Ages for 4 Years...oWoD
No, no Exalted. I'm envisioning low-level, dark fantasy ala Warhammer (but nastier).
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Has anyone tried to use the World of Darkness system for a fantasy game? Between the core rulebook; Armory Reloaded (for medieval weapons and armor); and Witch Finder (for magic), there should be enough for a generic -- and dark -- fantasy rpg.You could always use the Exalted rules....
I ran Dark Ages for 4 Years...oWoD
i loved Dark Ages
until my players decided in my vacation abscense to play with a munchkin dungeon master that made their interesting characters into ubermench in a couple of sesions...so i canceled the Chronicle... their lost... they just played those 2 tiems with them
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No, no Exalted. I'm envisioning low-level, dark fantasy ala Warhammer (but nastier).Has anyone tried to use the World of Darkness system for a fantasy game? Between the core rulebook; Armory Reloaded (for medieval weapons and armor); and Witch Finder (for magic), there should be enough for a generic -- and dark -- fantasy rpg.You could always use the Exalted rules....
I ran Dark Ages for 4 Years...oWoD
well, really then you can use anything from nWoD for this, except any Modern Times specific stuff. Are you looking to actually run one? or is this hypothetical?
Another good resource for mWoD Fantasy setting would be, Fall of the Camarilla & Requiem for Rome.
And I think Changeling: The Lost would work well to.
No, no Exalted. I'm envisioning low-level, dark fantasy ala Warhammer (but nastier).Has anyone tried to use the World of Darkness system for a fantasy game? Between the core rulebook; Armory Reloaded (for medieval weapons and armor); and Witch Finder (for magic), there should be enough for a generic -- and dark -- fantasy rpg.You could always use the Exalted rules....
I ran Dark Ages for 4 Years...oWoD
Nastier then Warhammer? Is that even possible?
I tried this awhile with my fellow gamers and although it worked just fine it was met with mixed feelings. Probably because it was very different from dnd and that was what they were all used to. It as a system did just fine though it was decidedly more dangerous and well darker than standard dndish rpg play.
Has anyone tried to use the World of Darkness system for a fantasy game? Between the core rulebook; Armory Reloaded (for medieval weapons and armor); and Witch Finder (for magic), there should be enough for a generic -- and dark -- fantasy rpg.
EDIT: NOT Exalted.
To be honest, I have been toying with the idea myself. The rules do appear to lend themseleves well to it. Agreed, core rulebook and armory good starting points, with Inferno and Antagonists to help with some basic ideas on demons and undead horrors (not including the likes of vampires), and then I would use Second Sight for magic and (if required) psychics. (I had not considered using Witch Finders).
And agreed about the game being a lot darker.
:)
I've posted this thread many times on the WOD site and it
always comes down to the difficult task to make one thing
just as even as another. Using the rules as is, how does one
make playing a rogueish caracter even with a spellcaster?
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It may not be exactly what you want, but Monte Cook's WoD takes the newish WoD over to D20, and could easily drop the postapocalyptic backstory for fantasy. I just did a podcast review of it over at http://darkerdays.podbean.com/.
It should be dropping today or tomorrow, I think.
Depends on how crazy you want to get with everything. Are we talking all the players being humans, dealing with various supernatural horrors? Or are they going to have acess to some supernatural stuff themselves?
I've been thinking of running a hunter chronicle for a while where the group is investigating various supernatural stuff, trying to figure out what's real and what's fake (the group getting access to their own supernatural powers later in the game). Though I've been planning on running it in modern times...it could be a neat twist to run it in a sword and sorcery type fantasy setting...though much less sorcery than normal.
Of course it depends on what kind of characters we are talking about here. Are they just mortals? Will they be allowed to learn deep dark secrets and powers? Are you going to be using any of the major game-lines, like vampire or mage?
The nWoD game-line "races" are atleast closer to mortals than oWoD ones were so there is a good possibility of keeping things "balanced". Try to keep "critter race" character's power attributes at base level (for example Heinrich just got embraced by a vampire lord 2 days ago, so he is a step up from human but knows almost nothing about vampire powers etc).
What could go a long way to keeping mortals in step with critter races is to collect/make a broad list of merits that let them invest in improving their mundane abilities. This would be good even if the PCs are not going to ever be turned into vampires/mages/changelings, as it gives the PCs a sense that they have directions to develop into, without needing a transformation. The combat system is meant to be brutal, so a rogue character with the proper investments could be quite deadly.
If the PCs are going to be monster hunting, you should probably look at the Hunter line for ideas on how the PC's might progress, what special abilities they might manifest. It is possible to use these rules to make saintly characters along the lines of clerics and paladins here.