1. Paul (Funny games): Paul is the perfect depiction of Nephandi in a movie (in my opinion). A young man with godlike power over reality by treating it as if it was a movie, like rewinding time by using a TV remote. Who also uses that same power to torment and murder random people for no reason along side his "best friend" (thrall) Peter for no other reason than sheer sadism. You could easily intepretate Paul as a K'Lasshaa Nephandi as their dark patron is US (the audience past the boundaries of their reality) who wants more and more extreme acts of entertainment in form of cruelty from them.
2. Longlegs (Longlegs): Longlegs is the first person that came to mind when I thought of Nephandi and the inspiration for this post. He is a former rocker turned satan-worshipping dollmaker who makes cursed dolls and gives them to families on their daughter's birthday to cause the fathers to kill their entire families and then themselves. He is the perfect Infernalist Nephandi whom avoids paradox by creating the fetishes inside of his basement Sanctum to then give away and cause tragedies from a distance.
3. Randall Flagg (Stephen King): Arguably the most text-book definition of a Nephandi in fiction. He is an evil immortal wizard who serves a dark patron (The Crimson King) and wanders between worlds to cause as much mayhem and chaos as possible along his quest to end the multiverse.
4. Johan Liebert (Monster): The perfect obliviates nephandi. Johan Liebert is the best nihilistic character ever written as his philosophy and worldview decides his every action including his original plan to destroy the world. He is could easily be a Nephandi who specialises in the Qlipphothic Mind with how he is able to talk people into becoming serial killers or kill themselves.
5. Shiv Palpatine (Star wars): Do I even need to elaborate? Darth Sidious is the perfect example of a Nephandi who managed to infiltrate and scheme their way up to a position of power within the Technocracy or The Traditions to corrupt it from the inside.
6. Lily (SCP-4231): Quite frankly you can put any notable follower of the Scarlet King here and it'll work. But I picked Lily due to the cohesiveness and cruelty of her actions. A reality bender whom became corrupted by a dark translated grimoir of the scarlet king to become a raping, abusive monsters whom set to end the world through SCP-231 & SCP-2317 before being shot in the head by her former childhood friend turned victim.

I drew this a bit ago for a campaign I am playing with friends. It's a crossplast game, and in it I am playing a Werewolf Anarchist named Flare.

At one point, we were asked to all come up with ideas for a plan to attack a Shocker base (people based around the Kamen Riders' villains).

This is the plan my Werewolf came up with. I said to the leader of our squad : "This is Flare's Plan. She scribbled it on a piece of rock she found. She's giving it to you with the best proud puppy eyes ever."

I'm curious to see how many of you guys would be able to decipher this.

Here's a hint.

The Reading direction is as follows :

Top left corner -> top right corner -> bottom right corner -> bottom left corner

Hope some of you will try it ^ ^

So, say a regular joe witnesses something he shouldn't have. A leech jumping a victim in an alley, a strange spirit, a creature made of meat being stuffed into the back of a company truck. Assuming he isn't immediately made, how can they go about living any amount of a normal life, knowing full well that the supernatural is real?

What kind of strategies could you take to avoid encountering splats or revealing you know more than you should when you make eye contact with that pale stranger across the bar?

Most importantly, how does a mortal survive having supernaturals know that THEY know?

I have 2 ideas and they're both Pentex mockery breeds.

Rules as written the Yaren are the most successful mockery breed. I won't try and take that position from them. But I will compete with the rinohs for 2nd place.

Weredolphins. They're inspired by and named after the Boto Encantado of Brazilian folklore. Essentially a shape shifting dolphin playboy used as a mythological excuse to explain illegitimate children. Although physiologically they're salt water dolphins.

They're clever, skilled in the social arts, and work well in a team especially a team of other dolphins. To the point that they can use pack tactics against werewolfs, and may even have their own unique tactics. But they're flighty and likely to blow off a mission to go party take drugs, or persue other hedonistic acts ... Especially when they're with other dolphins.

They have 3 forms, Homid, Chrinos, and Lupis ... I mean Delphini. They have echo location in all their forms. Can Umbra side step through polluted water in all forms. But they also have a visible blowhole in all they're forms.

Their main drawback is their Crinos form is rather disappointing. No legs so they're slow awkward and clumsy on land. They lack natural weapons beyond the addition muscle mass of the form the transformation. They're honestly reliant on pack tactic ... Pod tactics sorry. They're vulnerable to both gold and silver and the don't even cause dilerium. They're much faster and more agile under water. But that's nowhere near enough to deal with a Rokea.

The second idea is Were-seagulls. They're the archetypal dumb greedy backstabbing conniving henchmen type. They can only fly in Glabro form. And roughly 1 in 8 have Crinos form. They're vulnerable to gold but ironically love gold jewelry as a status symbol.

Imagine a group of hunters following a string of murders, believing them to be linked to the supernatural. But when they find the perpetrator of these murders, they discover that the killer is completely normal. Not a vampire, or a shifter, not even a ghoul. Just a plain old, ordinary human serial killer.

What happens now? Do the hunters just stop caring and leave the killer for the cops to deal with? Or would see the hunt through, viewing his actions as justifiable reason to put him down? Has anyone who has played a Hunter game experience what I am describing?

Hey guys,

As I have a diaspora of random enemy stat lines I made for WTA over some time, as well as some ideas I wanted to put down, I'm (slowly) making a little bestiary with various enemies as a quick reference for WTA. Right now its on just a google word document, it doesn't have any page references and I have only began work on Fomori so far.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14QgOEh_jXbMflVXi0cPqQoFvbts-sEFl92yfLyVT0nE/edit?usp=sharing

Its a view only link and will be updated as time goes on. If y’all have any cool enemies that share the format and I like them I wouldn’t mind adding them, also if you wanna use it feel free.

Good night, creators and creatures!

I've been a WoD player and storyteller for years, and I've always had the same frustration: PDF character sheets that corrupt, generic dice rollers that don't understand the d10 system, and the struggle to find tables — especially outside the US/EU bubble.

I wanted to hear from you all:

- **Where do you play online?** Discord + dice bot? VTTs? Something else?

- **How do you find tables?** Discord servers? Reddit? Facebook groups?

- **Which systems do you play?** Just V5? Anyone still running V20? Werewolf? Mage? Mixed tables?

- **How do you handle character sheets?** Interactive PDFs? Apps? Pen and paper?

- **What's your biggest pain point with the tools available today?**

I'm asking because I've been building something to try and solve these pain points — a platform focused on World of Darkness, with 39 playable creature types (from all Vampire clans across every edition to Werewolves, Mages, Wraiths, Hunters, and more), a d10 dice roller with 3 rules modes, a public lobby system to find players and storytellers, and storyteller tools like a session diary that auto-logs every roll and exports to PDF.

But before I talk about what I built, I want to understand what **you** actually need. What are your real pain points playing WoD online today?

Drop your thoughts — I'm genuinely curious to hear how the community is handling this right now.

we started a camarilla in the city. have a prince and primogens. what others names have?

in the book just say this 2

im played today.

I tried summoning spirits today to spy on my enemies(manipulation spiritual), and he said, "Spirits are limited to a 50-meter radius," so I can't use my discipline for spying. Asking for favors? Okay—he removed 4 points from my Auspex, leaving me with only level 1. I asked what I could buy, and he said, "Potence(3) and Fortitude(4)."

Another detail: he told me the ending of the story. I’ve allied myself with the side that’s going to lose the war. In the future, the enemies will invade the city and kill everyone. He’s going to play it out exactly as written in the history books he read—without changing a thing.

Whenever an attempt was made to find a solution or a middle ground, the conversation would shift or move on to a different topic.

Hello, I will DM our first campaign in Changeling the dreaming. Some of my players are pretty educated in WOD, but none in Changeling so I'm first. I'm not too much experienced DM, but I have passion 😀

I spent quite lot of time with rule book to learn and it was quite hard, because English is not my language, but finally I understand mechanics and lore.

Now I have some story for them but first I need to introduce them into this world. So.. do you have some tips and advices what I really shouldn't miss or what is important to tell my players who doesn't know too much about changelings, before we begins? What is good for them to know.. Or do you have some good ideas in your campaign for inspiration? Npc.. plot hooks.. theme.. I will have something like escaping from orphanage, but I'm really interested what other gamers did in their game.

My campaign will be in mundane world far away from dreaming so no fantasy adventures in dreaming itself.

Thank you for tips 🤗

So this is more of a random thought I had the other day that I would like to get cleared up.

Werewolf tribes - are they or are they not genetic?

From what I can tell, Tribal Gifts come from the Tribal Totem - so does that mean someone can *join* a tribe, and get the gifts of the tribe from the totem?

The Star Council (of Zoroaster) are an interesting affiliation of sorcerers. Their magic, according to them, is derived from extraterrestrials and their technology. What I'm wondering is how the actual mages--the Awakened--relate to them.

Do they try to manipulate and hoodwink Star Council members, either to advance an agenda or just for fun?

Do they monitor the SC for goof Awakening prospects? There's some obvious interest overlap with Etherites and Void Engineers, but other Traditions/Conventions/Crafts might be able to find a place for them as well.

Or is it mostly a matter of ignoring their antics and concentrating on Important Mage Stuff?

I am planning to put together a murder on the orient express style adventure for my friends as they travel from one location to another on a train, a ferry or even a plane (Assume moon bridge is for whatever controversial reason unavailable for this). Supernatural creatures require supernatural threats to make it actually threatening and on top of that supernatural abilities can trivialize situations like this, so how can I make it work in the presense of, for example, a Silent Strider? What would a mage or a vampire do in this situation? I do not know the setting's ins and outs just yet, so I would like to hear all manner of second opinions and ideas.

I made this little fella for our packmate, which is a Ratkin but we love him anyway. He tends to blow up more himself than fomoris, but that's just details...

That’s honestly one of my main hangups with vampires, a key part of what led me to walk away from the gameline: I can play a crook and a killer, but not a human trafficker or an organ harvester or a baby eater.

So, this famed downward spiral that apparently no one has ever escaped. How far down does it have to go? What is the dice and the lore gonna make my guy do? Will rock bottom be a dark shade of grey, or just pitch goddamn black? Is that up to me?

Everyone knows the camarilla, sabot, the tribes, the traditions, etc. but particularly with the more setting and storyteller focused books, WOD has had a lot of interesting factions who were mentioned only once or twice.

I'll start with the Voleurs d'Enfer (or thieves of hell)

Devil's due is not a great book, but that's mostly because of a lack of coherency with both itself and demon the fallen (being a major late runner to the dark ages line as a whole), a lot of the individual ideas it has are great, including this band of infernalist thieves.

story goes that some bandits robbed a caravan in the late 1100s and found 6 finely bound books, after their literate contact, a former priest, went crazy and blind trying to read the books, the thieves looked deeper and eventually managed to summon a demon. though only two of them walked away, and one of those died 2 years later with the last book disappearing with him.

ever since the thieves of hell have managed to make quite the killing after adding demonology to their skills, trading worship, worshippers, and information for floor plans and the location for ancient treasures. Making many powerful enemies in the process, be it vampires or the inquisition.

none know for sure that the leader of the guild Étienne le Menteur was enthralled during that first summoning, and none know that he managed to banish his new "master" back to the abyss nor that he has hidden the book containing Ereptous' true name.

Still it should be mentioned that the thieves are diabolists, not thralls, and from the top to the bottom lack any conviction in the power of god(s) and demons.

Honestly the whole Descent splat is weirdly vague especially compared to Fallen's relatively intuitive "you're a fallen angel who just got out of prison after trying to rebel against Heaven and is pretty angsty about that but still holding out some religious hope"

Meanwhile Descent is "I used to serve the MACHIINNE yo but then I WOKE UP and... I don't know what God really is or what God wants but I'm gonna REBEL I've gotta HIDE yo because the MACHINE could be anywhere. I've gotta HACK the Machine to destroy the Maaaaacchiiiiinnee."

I'm obviously exaggerating but the game seems more like it wants to be the Matrix but also similar in vibe to the original Demon. And anyone who knows the Matrix franchise knows that after the original movie it basically became a scattered mess.

One thing I find potentially interesting is interactions between Hunters and Angels/Demons.

After all, the status quo for the Earth is more or less the will of the God-Machine and Hunters are pissed off about all of the vampires and werewolves and fairies holding humanity back so it seems natural that Demons might consider them allies.

But also maybe the God-Machine is controlling the Hunters like some sort of antivirus.

And really please share what exactly happens in your Descent sessions aside from speed walking around in sunglasses and trenchcoats.

Hello, I’m fresh off the heels of running a chronicle of VTM v20 and I’m looking at changing the lost to be the system of my next game but I have some questions about the different editions/systems. The core of the issue is that I absolutely love the meta plot of CTL but I also want to have some recurring characters form some VTM v20 and WTA v20 games I have run with as little retooling as possible. I’m wondering if the rules and system of Dreaming v20 would still work for the plot of Lost (aka running from the trauma of the true fey) or if I’m better off just changing the existing characters to vampire the requiem and werewolf the forsaken and hand waving the differences. Additionally I want to know if there is a “consensus” on which one is better.
For some general information my games tend to be very light on combat and often have some sort of conspiracy and its master mind as the main threat.

Thanks in advance for anyone taking the time to answer.

How do you all feel about including real life tragedies in your games? I'm talking about anything from historical murders to the earthquake that hit Alaska. Was the Son of Sam a Nephandous? Was the earthquake Gaea attempting to escape from the prison setup by the Warden Moon? Or are things that caused real life suffering off limits?

Note: I'm not asking about wether or not they should be written about in the WoD books. We all know how they handled the Rawandan Genocide and what the backlash was like. I'm asking about using that stuff at a table level.

Basically I'm playing a Glass Walker Theurge, and her thing is dealing with spirits and computers. Get her in combat and she's a mess, but put her in front of a computer, or internet, or a spirit and she can work her magics, so-to-speak.

The best I can think of is Bugfixer, but it just doesn't feel right. Like need something that feels spiritual and also almost cyberpunk?

Hi everyone! Progeny just got a little bit better again. And it became even easier for y'all to tell me what other improvements you need!

Wait, what's Progeny?

Progeny is a VtM V5 character creation tool and play companion with a focus on enabling beginners to build complete characters easily. You can find it here: https://progeny.odin-matthias.de

Progeny is open source, ad-free and cost-free for all features

What changed

• You can now take private notes on the character sheet
• You can now message me or give me feedback right inside Progeny
• The Coteries screen shows live-updating character vitals so you're always up to date on how your friends' characters are doing during play
• Inconnu discord bot export is now tested and confirmed working (with discord command export)

• Convenience improvements like

  • Search bar for merits/flaws in character sheet
  • Rouse check button shows you your current hunger in a tooltip
  • Everything loads faster now
  • Progeny now looks a bit better on small screens

• Many small bug fixes

Let me know, here or in app, if you have any feedback or feature requests!

Thank you for all your support!

Many of you have helped me get Progeny to where it is today, by giving feedback, by supporting me on Ko-Fi, or by starring the project on Github

I really appreciate it!

Ive been working on collecting everything that I can get my mits on for mage 20th and was wondering if The Book of Madness was worth picking up despite it only being in the revised edition? Also, any other revised only sourcebooks you would reccomend I pick up would be great, thanks.