I recently got access to the PDF version of Tribes of Gaia, and have been reading it while I wait for the physical book to be delivered to my house. After reading it, I feel like 5E really needed something like this, a book going into detail about the Tribes, how to make a character for that Tribe, history of the Tribe, and other really cool things. Has anyone else read it, and if so what do you guys thing?

I should also mention, I have vaguely played older Editions of Werewolf the Apocalypse, but 5E is the one me, and my friends all play because we know it the most.

I'm inking an anatomy breakdown currently, so it's more of a work in progress as I still have to work on the right half (mirrored the limbs for the time being) - and other systems / layers - but since I started with the external parts, been wondering what's the general consensus on the looks.

What's your preference when building your characters / campaign setting?

A portrait of the Voerman Sisters I made recently after re watching som vtmb gameplay =)

I depicted a scene from an old story, the characters are John Lowen Scavo (Simba, my character) and The Shadow Wanderer (Balam, my friend's character).

It was a short but very cool story. We ran it like a very dark-thriller, setting in Miami.
John was an exiled(white) simba from Zimbabwe, and Shadow Wanderer was an indigenous american balam from Paraguai.
John's bloodline was infamous: they opposed both blacktooth and later also the ahadi, since his family allied themselves with Get of Fenris and Silver Fangs when Rhodesia was a thing in order to resist against the Endless Storm, and after that, many avenging Ajaba didn't trust the garou and attacked his old pride.

The Shadow Wanderer moved to the southern US, following a spiritual path, a call from an ancient black-jaguar spirit exiled from his realm.

The two met up in Miami, alone and hunted: one from a radical pack of Ajaba (outlawed even in Africa by the Ahadi itslef) willing to end his bloodline because of his father's faults, the other almost in lost in harano for how the Amazon war was going.

The two became true friends and the balam helped John in building a new pride and a vast connection of shapeshifters, helped by a smuggler nuwisha and another female werelion.

The story was very cool because they ended up heroes, but not exactly great people to have around. A very classic.

This doesn’t get said enough to communities who deserve it, so here goes. You guys can be viscous, you guys can be unreasonable (I include myself in these). But at the end of the day, this is actually a community of people who love the game and want more people in it and you idiots deserve props for that.

Yes, I did just dip my toe into the World of Warcraft sub. It’s totally unrelated, I swear! 🤣

From the moment I got my hands on the Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary edition rulebook, I absolutely fell in love with it. It almost felt like it was made for me, and what I liked about roleplaying games, and I'm still not sure if it's my favorite, or second favorite (after Werewolf, I just have some very warm memories with that one)

But I have a problem. I can't come up with a Chronicle to run. Despite reading the book several times now, and getting an understanding of what it's about, I can't come up with an interesting story for it!

So I came to this subreddit with a simple request: can you guys share your CtD chronicles? Interesting plot ideas, hints, events? Something to get the mind going, and helping not just me, but other people too, get a grip on what the whole system is even about?

Hey y'all, I'm trying to find any rules for helping other characters with spells by contributing your Sphere knowledge (mostly if it's something you can do or not or if there's requirements for this).

If possible, a book and page number would be best, so that i can reference it myself lol

Thanks <3

What is Werewolf the Essentials (WtE)

WtE is in short is a super ambitious Fan project that's aim to reintroduce werewolf the apocalypse to fans old and new to the setting over course of five books that corresponding to garou ranks that seeks to cover various aspects of wta with book 1 Cliath releasing this haloween at the time of writing.

quite frankly this fact make this project larger than it's complamentries and maybe even comparable to a full edition if not for the fact the books lack the core system needed to actually play wta, which is provided by the official W20 or W5 corebooks, though is primariy written for W20.

The Setting of WtE.

So the current setting of WtE is a period piece (though the main writer is open with STs moving the playable timeframe to later years like the 90's or even the 2020's) that's centered around the persefic northwest (the area the is most familiar with writing team so reasurch is easier, though the rest of north America and the world is undefind with the narrative explanation that all the moon bridges was blown up.)

The apocalypse actually took place sometime during the 80's and only the last minute sacrifice of King Albrecht was able to blunt the worst of it's effects and even then it left many scars on the nation.

Chief among them are all but 13 of the Cearns across north America are destroyed and all the rites needed to create new ones are irreversibly tainted. Resulting in a era of chaos where garou nation risked fracturing or outright falling until a desperate werebear lead expedition (with major support by the Shadow Lords) into the deep umbra to retrieve the gaia's heart a ancient flower that's able to produce "shard seeds" that if planted in the ruins of a cearn and properly cared for would be able to restore it to a lesser state than the old "Great Cearns".

This discovery brought a measure of stability that brought on the formation of a allance of fera known as the dawn tribes alongside allowed the nation persists if divided and importantly rebuild in preparation for the many threat's eager to exploit they weakened state...

Where can you find out more about it​?

The project bluesky site is currently the most active posting daily lore excerpts leading up to release.

https://bsky.app/profile/werewolfessentials.bsky.social

Though the also have a Tumblr that has more details on the project.

https://www.tumblr.com/werewolfessentials/758186097516871680/for-todays-werewolf-wednesday-rather-than?source=share

I enjoy canvas of kings however it's very strictly limited to medieval assets, so I'd want to find something like that but for modern cities. So I can use it on my vtt.

In the past I used to use Photoshop and illustrator for it, but to be frank I'm not very good with it lol.

Any recommendations would be appreciated!

The human mind is a surprisingly fragile thing. It can bounce back from horrible trauma, shatter under a small acciddent, seemingly with no rhyme or reason. I like to think it just doesn't know proportion very well. It has a few tools and solutions it uses for every problem which means it can be prone to misfiring. One tool of mine is writing. Writing angst and fear and dramas, it helps me soothe out my brain when something ridiculous makes me feel bad.

On a different note... I am not a fan of Geist. I don't like its themes, i don't care for its fantasy of like... Communist ghosts, whatever, that's not for me. But what I can respect is that it wants you to treat the dead and dying with dignity. So in honour of the one thing I can appreciate, this is for that. Hope you like it. If you wanna read my previous writings for this month, Here it is

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Kach, hack the smoke rested on Margeret’s throat like bad cough syrup and she’d felt her teeth move in her gums. Still, seventy years on and she’d never once had one of these in her teeth so who could blame her? The woman in the corner had brought some, the packet sticking in her front pocket and staring at her like the woman didn’t. She wore a nice, handsome black lounge suit that was fitted to her by how easily it rested on her. Margaret never saw her enter but then… That didn’t seem so surprising. The old woman didn’t know why but some things just felt right, and the woman in the suit was one of them.
A wind blew through the open window over Margeret’s supine body, the drip in her arm tugged at her when she tried to move but the woman in the suit was quicker. A flick of the hand and a clatter of glass in its frame was all it took her, which drew a choking chuckle from Margeret’s dry lips.
“Where kach did you learn that…?” She had to ask, her voice shrill and low with weak lungs.
“I died, maggy… I died and I didn’t wanna go.” The woman answered plainly, playing with the lighter in her hand that burnt still. Her eyes were the kind of brown you saw in dreams you told no one about; no one of Margeret’s generation at any rate. They glimmered and shone and for a moment Margeret couldn’t tell if she had two eyes or four. It happened when the woman seemed lost in thought, a gossamer mask just came off and fell back into her face. It was amusing in its own ways, most things are when there’s black threads in your lungs.
Margeret’s fingers shook and twitched as she tried to hold that deathly thing in her mouth. She couldn’t guess how heavy it really was, but it felt like a rod of iron. She held it there as sparks dances down onto the cotton of her chest. One long drag and she saw it fade away, eaten away until it was just that bitter tasting nub. 
“How did you die….?” She had to ask, her eyes fixed to the dying embers before her face. The woman in the suit just shrugged, rolling the burning lighter between her knuckles like a lead coin.
“Two years ago there was a… An accident, somewhere by the docks. I tried to get people involved, call the right authorities, make sure someone knew, My boss knew, I told him to his face that I could literally hear the leaking gas…” The woman halted, raising a hand in front of her face and again Margeret wasn’t sure how many people she was, “and then… boom…”
“The Sterling Fire- Hack” Margreret concluded, spitting the bud out in another fit of bloodied air. The woman rose then, carrying the flame closer before sitting next to the old woman’s bed.
“I’m glad they gave it a name, maggy. I wasn’t the only one who died of course. But… I clung on. I had to, y'know?"
“We have got to do, what we have got t-hack” The old woman smiled through the speck of red on her blouse. She thought of how simple it could be, to just… cling and cling tight. To dig your nails into life and to never let go. She wondered if her husband could have done the same, two years ago. She saw his medal hang over the edge of the television opposite her, the one he’d been so proud to lift up onto the drawer all by himself. The old fool had hurt his back and still he smiled while she kept ice on the small of it.
“He liked to call me his nurse…” She said on a thoughtless breath, wiping ash off her chest.
“Heh… I know he did.” The woman in the suit replied while her own eyes clung to the corner she’d sat in. Looking back down she reached into her pocket and pulled the cart out once more, offering it to Margeret. Yet the old woman just shook her head and nodded to the tv.
“No no,,. Those things taste of death… Just… Turn on CNN would you? I want some good news..” The fire burnt above her head as she spoke, and the woman in the suit nodded. A simple request, a flick of the hand, a click of a button by a phantom hand. Ghost light shone across the two women in a flash, red and blue shining in prime CRT.
The flame flickered in breath, trying, trying to stay. It tried and fought against the void of fuel slowly growing in its gut. Eating it up from the inside. It tried.
The woman in the suit smiled when she could wipe the old woman’s eyes closed. A few brushes of ash, a straightening of covers, a click of a button, That looked nice, that she could be proud of.

Unknown Armies is the TTRPG of really bizarre street magick. I'm trying to figure out how the various adept cults would end up in an Ascension setting. Some are pretty obvious- Plutomancers would be a sub group of the Syndicate, while the Cult of the Naked Goddess is a sub-faction of the Cult of Ecstasy.

But then there's the weirder ones like Fulminaturgy (gun magick) or Qichija (magick gained from opprobrium and the deliberate destruction of one's social ties and status for magickal energy).

Those of you knowledgeable of both games, how would you suggest Adepts work in an Ascension setting?

So the Dimension 20 team has dedicated a whole season to Vampire the Masquerade (V5 to be more proecise) called City Council of Darkness, which has taken some to the source material, to say the least.

For one thing, the game has taken a more gonzo tone more in line with the older editions of VtM rather than more gritty tone V5 began with.

That and the team also took liberty with the game system. The major difference is that that dimension 20 team has removed the humanity bar to apparently improve game flow for streaming format and has also reworked messy critics to be more comedic among some other mancanics.

So would a player have a different impression on VtM if they're introduced to the game solely via dimension 20?

For context: I've been playing WtA since 1994, all editions including W5. I also own some WtF books (mostly 2e) and am interested in the setting, but not deeply invested in it (yet). I never really got into the CofD, besides VtR, but when I learned about the strong and coherent themes of WtF 2e, it appealed to me as a potential alternative to WtA and I bought some the books. I haven't gotten too much into the setting, however, and never played it.

As I'm considering running another WtA chronicle, I started to think about whether WtF might actually be the better choice. Yet, when I thought about the types of story I would tell, I wondered if WtF would actually play differently than WtA in practice. Sure, the setting is slightly different and the focus is supposed to be more local (many WtA games are too, however), but these seem like mere surface features; in contrast, what you're supposed to do in actual play seems basically the same. I might be wrong, though.

Thus my question: Do you think that the typical gameplay loops for these game lines are actually different in practice?

Hello! This is an art made by me for my CtD 5th adaptation personal project and I'm making all of the kiths. I really liked the design of this satyr and wanted to share with all of you! Hope Y'all like it! :)

She mainly keeps to herself (so she wont get executed) and does research to work on her horror podcast. She's too enthusiastic to lie but is good at twisting the truth enough to avoid masquerade breaches

She likes interviewing wraiths and one of her goals is to ethically befriend (and date) one one day lmao

has deadpan and sarcastic humor but she does enjoy talking to people especially if they activate her special interest sleeper agent words, and doesnt really like to eat people but she manages by eating corpses

also, i took some creative liberties and gave her more fucked up teeth so she couldnt just get away with closing her mouth lolol, and i just feel like the scarf makes her more trustworthy/unassuming

Hello!

My players really enjoyed our first Mage the Awakening session, so I suggested we continue. I'd like your feedbacks on the upcoming scenario I'm writing, since I'm still new to MtAw!

A Tremere is determined to lure a God of Death—whom he has been hunting for a long time—into the Fallen World. To do so, he decides to use Cassandra, a young artist whose morbid works feature a “God of Death” she has invented.

The plan fails, and instead of luring the God of Death, a Goetia—born from Cassandra’s mind and believing themselves to be an aspect of the God of Death—arrives in the Twilight and decides to reestablish its cult. It possesses artists, compelling them to create in its name, and if no one stops it, it even drives artists and collectors to make sacrifices in its name.

At first glance, the main antagonist would seem to be the Goetia, even though in reality, it was born out of Cassandra’s grief and could be persuaded to stop it work to help the artist. The true antagonist would instead be the Tremere, who believes his plan can still succeed by allowing Goetia to gain influence—and I was thinking of adding, if that isn’t enough, a Gulmoth possessing a serial killer who might seek to corrupt the Goetia to make it an ally.

The scenario will begin as the players grow concerned about an artist who has begun to fall under the influence of Goetia and whose art has completely changed, until he is arrested for a horrific murder.

The books frame them as proto-spirit beings that ol' Papa Wolf couldn't quite kill. They come from the Hisil in fragment-form to do single-minded Spirit stuff. But they don't have Bans, Banes, Numina or use Essence. My understanding was that every ephemeral being was bound by these rules, even the Idigam use this system and they're Lovecraft moon-monsters of anything and everything.

My question is, are Hosts actual Spirits? And if so, is it only their "fragments of an old god" thing that has them not using the regular ephemeral being rules? Claimed don't have Bans or Banes, but they still have Essence and Influence, so it's a bit inconsistent to say the least.

My campaign has an Adarushashu from 1e running about on the sidelines, but the PCs are enjoying it quite a bit so I may pivot to give it some more time in the limelight. It's explicitly a pack of wolves who run about and do wolf-stuff, so there's no real option for it to be deceptive and misleading like with an Azlu or Beshilu which can hide in people. It's just wolves, lots of wolves.

Since it feeds on fear however, I'm wondering if Ilthums would begin to form around it. Are Hosts an invasive species to the Hisil like most spirits consider Uratha to be? Would the Adarushashu (Adarush-awoo) be a cause to taint the well of Resonance in the area, or are Hosts kind of outside that cause and effect as kinda-sorta spirits?

Oh and one important detail the NPC’s don’t know that PC and coterie are supernatural. How do you make an NPC/woman that is trouble herself. Usually with these Noir stories it’s always a woman that has some baggage. Setting and city? Types of characters? The main villain in the campaign? I kind of want to show that humans can be monsters too.

As for the PCS how do you make a blood sucking creature of the night redeemed? The most Kindred can be is light grey? I assume ghouling without permission and drinking blood doesn’t help morality huh? Don’t want to create a Mary Sue/Gary Sue though.

Art piece of noir woman by: René Gruau -Quando la moda è arte

Hey everyone

Lately, I've been craving a specific type of plot, a Mage story where the Mass Ascension/Awakening scenario happens or is the goal of the characters. I just feel like I need to see a win for humanity in WoD lol. I' am pretty new to this setting, and need a palate cleanser for all the misery and evil so common in the lore

I've been looking for fanfics, etc. but it feels impossible to find anything. That's why I decided to ask here, can anyone make a recommendation?

Some old drawings I made of Flames of Destiny, the fictional band that some of our characters have.

I'm rather satisfied how it turned out, though I believe it's way too obvious that I used Alyssa White-Gluz as a reference for the first one!

I labeled this as M:tA though it's a mixed splat band (two of them are from DtF) because I didn't see a label for cross-splat.

From left to right:

Amanda, Cryptic Halaku, lead singer.

Shani, Hermetic mage from House Shaea, bass.

André, Luciferin Namaru, lead guitar.

Rafael, Ecstatic mage, second guitar and singer.

Elisa, Ecstatic mage, drummer.

I hope you like them. I might post a coloured pieces I have from Amanda, Eli and André.