Also Tom Hollandaise is everything Jim Darkmagic is not. Jim Darkmagic is a bastard of the lowest order and Tom Hollandaise is a baby Toreador cinnamon roll who is clearly way too good for Kindred society. I fear for his fate. Poor naive beautiful bastard.

14:24 - 15:00 XD

Could you imagine Sergei, Jamison, and Gary Golden having a Nos Party?

@@poolboy6 oh man, they would have a grand old time

@@poolboy6 ooh, yes.. Talking about Hollywood, clothes and KGB history od Yaga's son 😁 That would be something 👹

@clarissa35f The nosferatu played by Jason Carl - brilliant.

He's one of the best in the business. He is the Mercer of the World of Darkness.

100% amazing

They haven't established yet if the Cammarilla made Amanda dead in kine life yet so worst case scenario you find the closest hotel/motel and lock yourself in the bathroom she surely has a credit card of some kind. Though I do agree she could have thought on her feet better and made up a story about a chandelier in their house falling on him.

@@ohthreefiftyone Sure thing. In Vampire 5th edition, you have a Humanity tracker; it's pretty much like the Health and Willpower trackers so helpfully displayed at the bottom of the screen when a player character is spotlighted here. Most vampires start out at Humanity 7, some start at Humanity 8 if they're recent and nice. A Stain is a point of "damage" to your humanity; unlike damage to Health and Willpower, you count it from right to left, crossing out the EMPTY boxes. That's because at the end of a session, you do a Remorse roll - roll a quantity of dice equal to the amount of empty boxes you have left (for instance, if Jamison has humanity 7 and one Stain, he rolls two dice, because box #8 and box #9 are empty, box #10 is stained and boxes #7 and below are filled). If you get any successes on the Remorse roll, you manage to remove all stains, having felt enough guilt, shame or general introspection to move on. If you don't get any successes, though, this means you've rationalized what you did and are too ok with it - you remove the Stains, but you lose a Humanity point. This means that the lower your Humanity is, the more likely it is that you can shrug off small amounts of Stains; the higher it is, the more likely that even small evils can corrupt you. The mechanical effect of lower Humanity is that your vampire becomes less empathetic, more alien and monstrous. Lower Humanity gives dice penalties to rolls you make to interact with humans in a non-predatory context, it makes it even more difficult to pretend that you can have sex and to hold down non-blood food instead of throwing it up instantly, that kind of thing. At Humanity 0, a vampire goes into Wassail, the final frenzy, and becomes the Beast; these vampires are known as wights. Convictions are your personal values; usually, you have one to three, and each Conviction is represented by a Touchstone: a living human that you have some affection or obsession for, and who is an example or holder of that particular set of values. For instance, you could have Convictions to "always help women in need", "never break your word" and "the guilty must be punished". Violating your own Convictions can incur Stains, but they can also help you reduce or ignore the Stains you would receive from breaking a Chronicle Tenet - a Tenet is something that the Storyteller decided will warrant Stains for ANY character, based on the story he's telling. Here Jason said that "act like a person, not a Beast" is a chronicle Tenet, and that's why Jamison got a Stain for acting as he did. If he had some kind of Conviction to justify the act (say, "survival of the fittest" or some garbage like that), the Stain might have been waived. Which makes me wonder what kind of Convictions Betty might have :)

@clarissa35f I believe you are incorrect. Humanity loss happens when you fail your remorse roll at the end of the session; the remorse roll is rolling a quantity of dice equal to the unmarked, unstained boxes in the tracker. There are specific things, such as Diablerie, that can cause you to straight up lose a humanity point right then and there, no stains and no rolls required, but those are exceptions that don't contradict the standard system. In your example, if someone had 2 stains and 7 humanity, they would roll just one die at the end of the session (boxes #1 to #7 are marked, boxes #10 and #9 are stained, only box #8 is clear). On a success, they remove the stains; on a failure, they remove the stains and a point of humanity- which comes with penalties but also makes it less likely that they will fail again in the future. This reflects the fact that as a vampire's humanity lowers, they become more and more capable of tolerating monstrous actions. Jason chooses to handle humanity a bit differently, having characters roll dice equal to their total unstained humanity to shake off stains; he has told me on twitter that his intention is to make it less easy to drop in humanity when you have a high score, but faster when you start losing it, kind of the opposite logic that the core book uses. At the end of the night, how one handles humanity and stains is up to the storyteller and the player's personal preferences; what I described are the rules in the book, though

Well, one does hear things

I've played VtM and D&D. There was a post I saw a while back saying that one shouldn't feel bad if you aren't as good a DM as Mike Mercer. After all, he is an expert at the game, has been doing it for a very long time ... professionally. As in, he is paid to do it and paid to do it well. So don't feel bad if you aren't as good a Storyteller as Jason Carl. Almost no one is that good.

@@ohthreefiftyone Yeah. "Immortality", "Oceans", "Leash" and "Blood" have been song names, "No Code" is the name of the fourth album.

So... bets on how long until they run out of appropriate Pearl Jam references and pivot to Nirvana?

@@jasond4131 Season 2 :D

Miles I think I’m ok with the abrupt endings, but the “table talk” that occurs during the game takes me out of the moment. I prefer the “thematic” style play of LA by Night, and while Mike is playing up Tom’s naïveté, I feel like he needs to read the scenes better. I am also not a fan of them speaking over each other. Since this is a broadcasted game, I would prefer them to be more “on” vs playing like a home game.

Team Betty over here

Also, I am totally on team #Obetty

I'd imagine the story for Bloodlines 2 is already written; too late for this show to influence it. But maybe we'll be introduced to the upcoming factions and characters

Still waiting on bloodlines 2. I would love a Tom cameo though

Yep!

@@pennyarcadeTV Fantastic! I look forward to shenanigans.

Not quite, because that's superficial damage, and her father took aggravated. Serious cuts do aggravated damage to humans and superficial damage to vampires. But yes, they'd notice she was all scratched up (not bleeding necessarily, because vampires kind of control their blood, but still all torn up). It was a slight and understandable oversight.

@@phaerlax She would look slashed up, even if the wounds didn't bleed / weren't aggravated damage for a vampire. Have you ever been cut by glass? It isn't pretty... (At a minimum, her clothes would be shredded and bloody, with lacerations all over her upper torso and arms. But she bluffed her way through with, "I found him like this..." Okay, but what about you?) I agree it was a fairly minor oversight, narratively, but it's exactly the sort of incident that can blow up the Masquerade, so I was hoping Jason would do more with it. Maybe next game? ;-)

@@AdryNT my "not quite" was in regard to her looking *more* injured than her father; beyond that, yes, her own state was clearly overlooked. Understandable with all that was going on lol

@@phaerlax "Superficial" is relative to how easily the damage heals, which is particular to the creature-type. The exact same wounds could be aggravated or superficial, depending on whether the recipient is human, thin-blood, or full vampire. I concede she may not seem MORE injured, if her father's health boxes are ALL checked. (He is unconscious and dying after all...) But with only one health box unchecked, Amanda would appear very badly injured, either way, and hospital staff don't just ignore that. (With all that was going on, I don't begrudge the oversight. I still thoroughly enjoyed the story! It just stuck out for me, that's all.) I look forward to seeing what Jason does with this story thread. The Giovanni have leverage over Amanda now, and I can't believe they will really delete all copies! They might want something from her one day...

Say a kindred was braking into a house. They didn't know there is a grow op in the guest room. They open the door to the guest room. To be blasted by 8000 watts of HPS lights. What would happen?

No. The rules specify that it's gotta be real sunlight. The curse is magical, not scientific.

There are things called "folkloric banes", which are kind of psychosomatically-induced deviations in the Blood. Some Kindred do take damage from silver, running water and UV lights. Some of the UV-light-damage folks might get burned by the light you describe as well, but they're rare.

@@phaerlax Awesome thank you both for the responses. So some UV light. But mostly it's got to be real sun light.

@@phaerlax Awesome Folkloric bane's. Well I actually got the core rule book today for Christmas. So now I'll be current on the rules. I haven't played white wolf games since 98. We used to play 3 days a week in college.

Hi! I was confused as well, but allow me to present what I was able to piece out, so Betty does indeed haave 4 dots in Wits but only 1 in Drive, that's why Jason was trying to find a better hability for her but decided in the end Drive was the most appropiate, even if she only had one dot. The dialogue went like this: "so you have 4 Wits, 5 for Drive and your rousing of blood makes 6" he was adding as he was listing :)

A lot of people are into adventure, but not quite as many are into horror as a theme.

In addition to the darker themes overall, there's a potential pitfall for the idea that the players can be double-crossed and ended at any moment. Some story tellers or groups feed into that, resulting in more of a rogue-like experience intended to end in player death that further limits the potential player base.

@@XoRandomGuyoX yeah I never liked the good versus evil cliches in WoD content. Like caine and god and lilith. It tempts too many vapid players to be bad or naughty vamps... Like wtf idiots. You're playing a near immortal being, try and roleplay for story sake.

Well it kind of went through a bad few years after Bloodlines 1. Gaming wise WoD was dead in the water, and the first person to buy the IP only knew how to make 1 game. Otherwise Requiem had a lot of disliked changes to the world and systems, that made meta plots a lot less time spanning and made kindred look like they never heard of writing.

Yes