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Ierne: The Gate
Another tale of Ierne: Photo by Yvonne McNamara. He held her arm as she took her first step up the hill towards the gate. “You can’t go there,” he whispered. She looked at him with a curious look....
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Rebuilding Vampire: Humanity
In thinking of what would I do to re-arrange Vampire’s mechanics to reflect the type of game I believe is intended (as opposed to presented), it always has been obvious that Humanity is the one central...
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Rebuilding Vampire: Joy & Sorrow
As I have already mentioned, at the crux of the tragic story of the vampire is the fact that they are on a downward spiral towards damnation, destined to destroy all that they held dear. If you read...
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Ierne: The Riastradh
Heading back to Ierne for another glimpse. It was a terrible sight to behold, and I could not turn away. Fomorian heads and limbs flew in every direction, making me doubt those creatures had the same...
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Rebuilding Vampire: Bringing the Pain
Though I’ve been silent for some time now because of classes and then finals, I’ve kept the Vampire project (it remains untitled and I really need to find a way to refer to it) alive in my head all...
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Rebuilding Vampire: It Is By Will Alone…
If (as always, in my experience) Vampire had another underutilized game mechanic in addition to Humanity, this was Willpower. Yes, we used it to boost up rolls and such, but it just never had the oomph...
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Rebuilding Vampire: Vampiric Powers
Auspex, Celerity, Obfuscate, Animalism, Obteneration, Melpomine, Chimerstry, Protean, Dominate, Cachexy. Those are just 10 vampiric powers (Disciplines) from VtM/VtR that came immediately to mind,...
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Rebuilding Vampire: Dice Mechanics
Because I’ve been writing about this game as I go along in a very piecemeal process, a lot of the systems have evolved as I set them down to “paper” from whatever I’ve been brainstorming in my head....
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[Rebuilding Vampire] The Gen Con Playtest Character Sheet
As I prepare to leave for Gen Con, I whipped up a simple character sheet to use for the playtest of When The Fall… [RAW]When the Fall… – Gen Con Playtest Sheet [/RAW] It’s incredibly bare bones right...
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[Rebuilding Vampire] The First Playtest
This first playtest for the rough first draft of the vampire game was indeed played at Gen Con 2010. Let just state it up front, in case you want to move on to other things: it was a disaster; the kind...
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