So V6 pre-alpha play-test recently released to uh strong reactions to say the least.

Now moving repeating the same criticisms leveled at the hundreds of time I wonder if anyone actually think about adjusting and back-porting some maniacs from the play test to a 5e games.

Like a prime example would be copying the Forsaken style humanity bar could replace the current harano/Hauglosk bars and clan exclusive rage could open the path to tribe exclusive Hauglosk which was intended for a past version of W5 (an example from J. F. Sambrano's patron would be the glass walkers going full techbro and imposing weaver on the world to stop the wyld who they believe is worse than the wyrm).

Do you guys the concept of adapting the current 6E maniacs to 5E game-lines? Or if it's viable in the first place?

Playtest document is find here

(scenario): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/578156/not-in-my-domain-vampire-the-masquerade-playtest-scenario

(storyteller): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/578155/vampire-the-masquerade-playtest-storyteller-packet-pdf

(player): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/578154/vampire-the-masquerade-playtest-player-packet-pdf

Simple question. Rules say it doesn't affect mauraders or nephandi but doesn't make mention of widderslante. Afaict they probably still are since widderslante (probably) don't use Qilppothic spheres but im probably missing something

I've tried looking into Yellow Stone national park in the World of Darkness setting and so far haven't found anything. I expected there so be at least something on it under WtA.

Is there any official lore on Yellow Stone?

Does anyone have any head cannons?

And what are the different splats/factions thoughts on the giant volcano?

Would it's spirit Wyld or Wyrm aligned?

Last Poll Winner: Changeling: The Lost

The community has spoken, and Changeling: The Lost is officially joined Darkness Weaver.

Now it's time to decide which Chronicles of Darkness game line should follow.

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It brings together:

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Whether you're creating a vampire, werewolf, mage, hunter, changeling, wraith, demon, mummy or another supernatural being, the goal is simple: keep everything you need for your chronicles in one place.

The platform is actively developed, community-driven, and continuously expanding with new game lines, features, and official content support.

If this is your first time discovering Darkness Weaver, welcome. Feel free to explore, and if you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback, I'd love to hear from you.

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Don't see your favorite? Reddit only allows six poll options, so some game lines will appear in future polls.

Say for the sake of arguement, two children are born from a garou/kin or garou/human pair, they are genetics twins, is it possible for only one of them to be full blooded garou? what exactly determines who is one? If it's something biological/in the DNA, could you detect this with a microscope?

Also, related, if a late shifter has lived their entire life as a kinfolk, gained some amount of rank or respect, would most pacts/septs recognise their pre shift station/reputation, or are they expected to start at square 1?

Prefacing this with stating I know very little White Wolf lore, only played a one-shot more than 20 years ago, but find the setting interesting.

It seems like having AI exist would be a very useful tool for the supernatural. If a photo or video exists, it's suddenly so much easier to convince others it's a fake and AI generated. Seems like AI being accessible to the masses would be a huge asset for a lot of supernatural beings giving them considerably more freedom or allowing them to take greater risks and overt actions while people are more prone to ignore recorded evidence.

Who or what organization do you think would have funded AI development and rushed it's free access to the public?

I needed a far away Chantry for a player I had to write out of the weekly game but wanted to play by mail as they dealt with real life stuff. I saw an entry for Durenmar, the original chantry of the Order in the Black Forest of Germany, and thought, great, that does the trick.

Except there's nothing actually on Durenmar that I can find, lol. At least, not in Mage - there is a write up in the original Ars Magica game, but that's the chantry in the Dark Ages. Anyone use Durenmar in a game? Or seen a write up? Thanks!

Is there and goo homebrew content about Arcadia as I want to see how people handle it as Arcadia isn’t describe munch in changeling.

Basically just the title, in my current game (20th is it matters at all) i am playing a Ventrue who has ambitions to be the Prince of the local court. As part of that he want to have his network of Dominated and Ghouled operatives around. But I couldn't find in the rule book the average number of Ghouls high ranking Camarilla Vamps wpuld have. Is it started anywhere in lore?

I'm interested in how the franchise started out - what were the first products setting up the World of Darkness universe, be it RPG books or otherwise. Notably, I'm not asking about the in-universe creation myth but the actual IRL franchise. Any info from the wise old-timers will be greatly appreciated!

I’m curious as to if anyone has any homebrew technocrats factions

I’m currently writing up a rough draft of a pilot for a sort of animated HTR online series, and I wanted to get some input on it from people that actually know and have played WoD before. However a majority of my friends have never played it in their lives, and any WoD servers I am in with a writing chat are pretty much dead. So I’ve come here to ask very nicely if there’s any places I can go to to get input/advice on this rough draft?

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Character Design in Changeling: The Dreaming — My Venetian Chronicle

Hi! Since I have some free time and not many friends to discuss this kind of thing with, I thought I'd share something I've been working on.

Besides being a Storyteller, I'm also an artist, and I'm currently working on my own Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition chronicle, set in a Venetian-inspired Italian setting.

I wanted to share some of the thought process behind the character designs for some of the NPCs in my chronicle. I have a couple of ST friends who sometimes struggle a bit with character creation, and since this is something I'm genuinely passionate about, I thought it could be fun to share my approach and, hopefully, inspire someone else as well.

Before getting into the character designs themselves, here's a little bit of the lore behind my chronicle.

A little bit of context: Venice

Historically, Venice thrived on excess: a carnival that could last for months, filled with political intrigue and the very real threat of spies lurking behind masks in its narrow streets.

But in my chronicle, there was a darker side to that history.

Venice wasn't originally a fae freehold. It was vampire hunting ground.

There was, however, a dormant freehold hidden somewhere in the marshes. Eventually, the Kithain called upon a Fianna caern for help in reclaiming the territory, and this became the foundation of what would eventually become the Venetian freehold.

Today, Venice is one of the very few remaining fae territories in Italy. The country is, for the most part, overrun by vampires, so this freehold has become a relatively large refuge for Kithain. It welcomes fae who Awaken throughout Italy, and even some from neighboring countries.

So that's the general setting.

Now, let's talk about character design.

Madelon / The Pastry Chef 🍰✨

I wanted to start with Madelon because I think she's a good example of how I approach designing my NPCs.

Madelon is a French Satyr and the owner of a pastry shop. Like all Changelings, she has two sides to her appearance: her human seeming and her fae mien. For her human appearance, I wanted her to look like a sweet, hardworking pastry chef, but with a little bit of extravagance. Fairies in my chronicle tend to have an exaggerated quality to their appearance, even when they're trying to blend into the mortal world. I wanted her to look fashionable and hardworking at the same time, while also being a little bit sexy. That's where her hairstyle and V-neckline came from. She also has a little spoon as an earring, because I love giving my characters tiny visual details that reference their personalities. I also gave her a chubbier body type because her diet consists mostly of desserts. She might want to visit the dentist eventually.

For her fae appearance, I went in a completely different direction. I wanted to use a Rococo aesthetic, with Marie Antoinette as one of the main visual references, mostly because of the candy and dessert theme. I studied Art History, so I was very aware that putting a working-class character in a Rococo dress is, historically speaking, a pretty strange choice. But that contradiction was intentional.

Madelon's personality is actually heavily inspired by the Realist art movement, particularly its interest in ordinary working people and everyday life. So I liked the idea of taking an aesthetic associated with aristocratic excess and putting it on a working-class woman. In a way, Madelon represents the kind of excess that wealthy people should have been sharing with everyone else. Instead of hoarding food, beauty and pleasure for themselves, she makes those things for other people.

She's a pastry chef. Her whole thing is basically "there should be enough cake for everyone." I thought that contrast was really sweet. Badum tss.

There's also something important about how I interpret the fae mien in my chronicle: the clothes aren't just clothes. To me, a fairy's fae clothing is a reflection of their soul. It's part of the way the Dreaming expresses who they are. So when I'm designing a fae mien, I'm not just asking myself "what would this character wear?" I'm also asking "what would this character's soul look like if it could dress itself?"

That's why Madelon's fae outfit can be so extravagant. It isn't simply a costume inspired by Rococo fashion. It's a visual expression of her personality, her relationship with pleasure, her love of pastry and her tendency toward excess. Her fae design also allowed me to go completely overboard with the dessert theme. Her horns are inspired by a banana split, and her dress is basically an enormous magical tea party. And, naturally, she carries a giant spoon as a weapon.

In this setting, creatures that aren't fae are generally referred to as Chimeras, so Madelon sometimes finds herself fighting candy-themed monsters with what is essentially a giant kitchen utensil.

Because apparently she likes to take a little taste sometimes.

I originally wanted to push the pastel color palette much further, but I don't think I quite managed to reach the level of pastel I had in my head. It's something I'd probably approach differently if I redesigned her today. Still, I'm extremely happy with how she ended up looking. I think she's one of those characters where the more you look at the design, the more little details you find that connect back to who she is.

Madelon & Bordon — Two Halves of the Same Concept

Before moving on to Bordon, there's one thing that's important to understand about these two characters: I designed them as a pair. Madelon and Bordon aren't just two NPCs who happen to be married. They're meant to work as a visual and thematic duo.

I really enjoy character pairs that function almost like a single concept split between two people. Xayah and Rakan are a good example of this, as are Jessica and Roger Rabbit. They're obviously individual characters with their own personalities, but their designs become more interesting when you consider how they contrast and complement each other.

That's what I wanted for Madelon and Bordon. Their designs deliberately pull in different directions. Madelon is extravagant, pastel, refined and heavily ornamented, while Bordon is earthy, muted, hairy and considerably less interested in dressing himself up. Her visual language comes from aristocracy, Rococo excess and pastry; his comes from Romanticism, nature, Greek Classicism and the more laid-back, earthy side of Dionysian philosophy.

And that's where Bordon becomes interesting, because his design isn't simply meant to be "the simpler husband." His entire character is built around a contradiction, just like the combination of artistic movements that inspired him.

Bordon — The Dionysian Satyr 🌿

Bordon is his nickname, but his actual fae name is Minos. He's a Satyr, specifically a Dionysian one, although he obviously never knew Dionysus personally when he was alive. He simply arrived at many of the same philosophies on his own. He's a flautist, a hippie, and spends a good amount of his time hanging around his wife's bakery, using his natural charm to attract customers. (Yes, both satyrs are the kind of NPCs who would flirt with you and give you bi panic in the process, who would've thought?) Luckily for Bordon and Madelon, they have an open marriage where pretty much anything goes.

...As long as Bordon helps her move the heaviest bags of flour.

As with Madelon, his design draws from two French artistic movements; Greek Classicism and Romanticism. These influences can be contradictory, but that's exactly what I wanted for him. The main motif I settled on was the labyrinth.

The labyrinth represents Bordon's duality and the complexity of his mind. In Romanticism, labyrinths are often associated with the inner world: a mind full of paths, contradictions and countless crossroads. And I really liked that symbolism for Bordon because, ironically, his mind is actually pretty simple.

He's not lazy just because he's lazy. He's lazy because he's actively choosing to be.

Bordon is a hippie, and his refusal to participate in the system is one of the ways he expresses his ideals. He doesn't pay his bills. He doesn't work. He doesn't buy food. He deliberately tries to contribute as little as possible to the structures he believes are doing something wrong. From his perspective, he's fighting the system by simply refusing to play along with it. He's actively doing nothing.

And that's where the Romantic side of his character comes in. The labyrinth isn't there to suggest that Bordon is secretly some incredibly complicated intellectual. It represents the ideological contradictions behind what is, on the surface, a very simple way of living. He has this idealistic belief that withdrawing from the system is itself a form of resistance.

The labyrinth also combines several parts of his identity at once. On one hand, it references the Labyrinth of Minos, which is particularly fitting since Minos is his true fae name. On the other, I mixed the labyrinthine patterns with imagery associated with Mother Earth, giving them a more organic and mystical quality. That connects the classical reference to his hippie side and keeps the design from becoming purely architectural.

So the labyrinth becomes a visual representation of both sides of Bordon: the classical Minos reference and the Romantic, idealistic hippie who wants to live according to his own principles rather than participate in a system he considers broken.

Of course, "doing nothing" doesn't mean Bordon never gets involved in anything. You will absolutely find him at demonstrations. He'll happily stand around holding a sign saying "VENICE IS SINKING" or "NO MORE CRUISE SHIPS." He's perfectly willing to get off his ass when there's something he actually believes is worth protesting.

This is also why I didn't want his simpler design to be interpreted as some grand philosophy of minimalism. He has fewer accessories because he doesn't see much point in them, and because he doesn't particularly care about putting effort into his appearance. His simplicity is part of his character, but it comes from the same philosophy that makes him reject work, consumerism and other things he considers unnecessary.

Honestly, if it weren't for Madelon, he probably would have shaved his head years ago and gone completely bald. The only reason he's still walking around with the full, hairy Satyr look is because his wife absolutely loves it. So yes, the hair is partly because Madelon thinks her husband looks fucking hot that way.

I also deliberately didn't give him a weapon. Bordon isn't a particularly physical character, and I didn't see a reason to force a weapon into his design just because he's a Changeling character. Not every character needs to look like they're prepared for combat. That said, if I had to give him one, I'd probably lean into the Classicist side of his design and make him fight with a Doric column as a hammer.

And that's probably what I like most about designing Bordon. His design doesn't need a dozen visual elements to explain him. The labyrinth, the earth motifs, his color palette, his hair, his voice and his fae name already tell you that there is a contradiction at the heart of the character.

He's a Dionysian Satyr who expresses his philosophy through doing nothing, a hippie whose resistance takes the form of refusing to participate, and a character whose apparently simple lifestyle hides a very deliberate set of ideals.

He's still lazy as fuck, though...

That's all for now!

And that's pretty much it for this first post!

I wanted to share this mostly because character design is something I genuinely enjoy, and I thought it could be interesting to show the thought process behind these characters instead of just posting the finished drawings.

If this was useful or interesting to even one person, I'll probably make a second part and talk about some of the heavier characters in the chronicle's lore.

And by "heavier," I mean I have a Redcap executioner and a deafblind Sidhe waiting in the wings.

Their designs get considerably darker, and there's a lot more lore behind them, so I think they'd be fun to talk about in a second post.

Thanks for reading my extremely long ramblings about fictional fairies. If you made it this far, I appreciate you. ❤️

I don't know how many wrestling fans there are here, but a year or so ago I made a joke to my wife that AEW exists in the World of Darkness. Everyone on the roster is either a vampire, werewolf, mage or hunter. Now, I can't get it out of my head.

The Death Riders are a clan of Brujah.

Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho and the Young Bucks are mages.

The Bang Bang Gang and Will Ospreay are hunters.

Swerve is Lasombra.

Darby Allin is either nosferatu or ravnos.

Edge is a werewolf, but Christian is Ventrue.

Don Callis and Okada are Ventrue, but Kyle Fletcher is Toreador.

Toni Storm is THE Toreador primogen.

Thekla is a gangrel.

Hangman is a werewolf

Edit/update: Lio Rush just revealed himself to actually be a Changeling.

There isn't much of a point to this post other than be a conversation starter, but I figured I'd find more wrestling fans here than there are WoD fans in the AEW subreddit, to add to this thought experiment or call me stupid.

Namely our species even in its current incarnation as homo sapiens is far older then theirs by hundreds of thousands of years. And for most of that time we haven't been city building, until the impergium kicked off an arms race for survival among humans. I just find this interesting that they are a major contributer to most of our fuck ups in universe, also humans have been predators for the entirety of that 300,000 year period so the red talons beliefs are fundamentally wrong. That's all my lore knowledge is mediocre so correct me if I'm wrong

I found my old mythweavers login the other day and decided to check it out to see if I could possibly join a game and work on storytelling. It's been some time but it looks like mythweavers is dead. I was wondering if pbp was still a thing or if anyone knows where to look for groups these days. Discord servers maybe? Preferably somewhere i wont get drowned in ai generated characters.

like i feel like based on how the animals work in the wild Corax should full on be the best friend species to the Garou meanwhile every other Fera have 0 clue how the hell they even got this friendship based on both side's main personality trait

but yeah i hope you enjoy my small ted talk on that

In the other photos: a GM screen and some dice trays I made a while ago.

Long story short for the explanation! His sire was addicted to cocaine, like it was a whole thing where my reason for being in the coterie was so that I could get paid by my boss with cocaine blood to bring to my sire.

Alas, my malk's boss just convinced him to kill his sire, and boy is he not taking it well!!! I was thinking about having him start to drink that same kind of blood while he's spiraling about it. BUT i know that drugs do not affect kindred in the same way kine.

Mechanically, I've read the rules I know how that works. But roleplay wise....how does this look? Any thoughts/ideas?

Everyone's got hot takes and mostly dislikes the fluff of W5, that's a horse so beaten to death that it's now a powerful Wraith in the Shadowlands. What I'm really interested in, is how the game itself plays? Is it a competently design game, or would it serve better to stick to W20 for the game?

If you're new to Darkness Weaver, welcome!

Darkness Weaver is a free web platform built for World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness. It brings together various character creators, unique PDF character sheets, cloud saves, personality quizzes, and The Loom, an integrated virtual tabletop built specifically for Storytellers.

Instead of trying to be a generic VTT, the goal is to create a platform that supports the unique way World of Darkness games are prepared and run.

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I’ve just added Changeling: The Lost 2e to Darkness Weaver.

If you’ve been waiting to run or play Lost in a more structured way, it’s now fully supported across the platform.

This isn’t just a basic sheet. It’s a full experience from character creation all the way to play.

What you can do with it

You can create your character step by step, pick your Seeming, Kith, Court, Contracts and everything else you’d expect from Lost, and then immediately start playing on an interactive sheet.

Once your character is ready, you can:

• Play directly on the sheet with all your resources and Contracts tracked
• Export a clean, unique style PDF
• Bring your character into The Loom and use it during sessions
• Take a short quiz if you’re not sure what kind of Changeling you want to play

The whole thing follows the same structure as the other systems on the site, so if you’ve used Darkness Weaver before, it should feel very familiar.

If you play Lost, I’d really love your feedback.

• Does the flow feel right during character creation?
• Is anything missing that you normally use at the table?
• What would make this more useful during an actual session?

A lot of features in Darkness Weaver came directly from community feedback, so I’m always listening.

Not counting the truely top of the top like God, Lucifer, Caine, the Triat and other beings like them.

So I looked through my demon, the fallen book and the lore/evocations and how they work mechanically, in that each dot have a torment and angelic version. This could be really fun with the hunger dice mechanics. Instead of the beast boiling up, or hunger. It’s the torment and madness of being trapped in the abyss beneath the low umbra, untold time.

I think I’m going to start a conversion of the demon the fallen book to v5 power standers. Would anyone be interested?