#Chronicles Of Darkness

[deathandthesoul]

It might not be entirely spot on but this reminded me of the Arcanum organization in WoD. There seems to be some overlap though

A thing I really like about chronicles of darkness is Ashwood Abbey - it feels like a natural part of the world, that some humans would treat the paranormal as big game.

But what I'm wondering, is there something like that for the wod? Are there people who keep fangs as hunting trophies? Or are there black markets for the supernatural? Selling parts of kindred, garou, maybe even hunters to people who believe/know it grants them certain abilities or heals?

[probablybadrpgideas]

Ok, so.

In the World Of Darkness games - both of them - vampires are paralysed if they have a stake through their hearts. And this is considered "one of their weaknesses is having a stake through their heart"

But if you ram a stake through a human's heart, they just fucking die, which I think we would all agree is a worse consequence then being temporarily paralysed.

Ergo, by any reasonable standard, it's actually humans who are vulnerable to stakes through the heart, while vampires are resistant to them.

So what the fuck?

[not-a-very-good-dungeon-master]

[archaontheshitterchosen]

Created by myself

[lilmissbelljar]

Etherelle, the jazz singer, dream weaver & psychic star…

a commission I had done by the lovely @norrtam of my Changeling the Lost character 💜

[suminotomi]

My oc: Fatima. I play this character in a Chronicles of Darkness campaign and I love her so much T_T She's a mage (Mastigos) and travels around the USA with her friends: Wata (another Mage) and Nathaniel (a werewolf) __________________________________

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[neonjess]

This is a new character that I have been working on, even if I’m not playing much at all. You can say she is a witch, a necromancer, who’s best friends are ghosts since she was little

[awakenedsalamander]

This is gonna be a long walk. But I’ll get there. I promise.

In a lot of Chronicles of Darkness games, there are “minor templates” for players to take for their characters. These are basically lesser types of supernatural beings— undeniably marked by magic, but not transformed by it like the main templates are. So instead of being a werewolf, you might be a Wolf-Blooded, i.e., not the monster your stronger cousins are, but still recognizably having a connection to that world.

Again, a bunch of games have these. Mage has Sleepwalkers (and Proximi), Vampire has ghouls, Geist has the Absent, Demon has stigmatics, etc.

In Changeling: The Lost, there are the Fae-Touched. We’ll get to them in a bit. First, more on Lost.

In Lost, like many stories about faeries, oaths and vows are very important. They are, in the form of magical Contracts, the source of many fae powers. Changeling have a neat ability to make any spoken promise binding, invoking the force of the Wyrd to force even minor vows to be taken seriously. And many changelings are taken by the True Fae by getting ensnared in some kind of oath.

See, if you didn’t know, Changeling: The Lost is about humans taken to the home of the True Fae, and then transformed into changelings as the True Fae torment them. The game is very much about the way trauma changes a person, and how even recovering from trauma still doesn’t bring you back to the way you were— you’re healed, but you’re not the same.

And much like trauma changes a person, it isolates them too. Lost represents this in the fiction with fetches— the faerie-forged simulacra left behind in the stolen person’s wake, acting the roles of parent, sibling, friend, and so on while the original person is actually suffering with no escape.

But the Fae-Touched won’t stand for that.

Because while Changeling: The Lost recognizes that many promises aren’t serious, that when people swear, “I’ll always be there for you,” they don’t always live up to that, it also recognizes that some promises are different.

The Fae-Touched are the mortals who remember the words they swore, and will not ignore them. They can tell, in their dreams, through the nagging impulses they get in their waking moments, that the person they promised to help needs them now more than ever. They are lead by the Wyrd into the land of faerie to live up to that promise, and they follow it gladly.

A Fae-Touched is the father who knows the smiling fetch who claims to be his daughter isn’t the real thing, and that somewhere the girl he swore to protect is in mortal danger— and so he delves into a world of dreams and nightmares to bring her back.

A Fae-Touched is the woman who fights off briar wolves in a mad, twisting forest so she can find her wife, because when she said “I will never abandon you,” she meant it.

A Fae-Touched is the young man staring down a Lord of the True Fae and refusing to yield. He and his brother went through hell together years ago when their parents died, and they promised one another then that they’d always stand by each other, and some monster in a crown can’t change that.

Not every changeling is helped by a Fae-Touched, and not all of the Fae-Touched succeed. Sometimes you have to claw your own way back home. But God, what a beautiful concept.

I know that Changeling: The Lost is very dark, and the reason I love the Fae-Touched isn’t really because they’re the light to that darkness— I think that simplifies it too much.

I like the Fae-Touched not because they take away the darkness, but because they remind me we don’t always have to face the darkness alone.

Sometimes, when you think there’s no point going on, when you think it will just be the pain and the fear again and again and again… it’s not true. Because sometimes, maybe even more often than we think, there’s someone out there who knows you need help. And they ready themselves, they set out into the darkness, saying only,

“This is gonna be a long walk. But I’ll get there. I promise.”

[wayne-bruces-artblog]

OPEN OC CALL!

HEY YOU! 🫵

Do you like making OCs?

Do you like subjecting them to The Horrors TM?

Do you wish you were a teenager in the late 2000s to escape our increasingly bleak world through mindless nostalgia???

Well this is for you!

Just email me at gemstonerock97@gmail.com about how they look and a blurb about them and I'll include them in my upcoming webcomic!

FAQ:

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-How DO I make a changeling?

"For this comic I'm following the 1e rules from the Chronicles of Darkness splat Changeling: The Lost. A good place to find information is Codex of Darkness and the White Wolf Wiki! (Links included below)"

-Do I have to make a changeling?

"No! You can make regular humans/high schoolers and I'll still include them. Just keep in mind this is set in 2008-2009."

-Where is this set?

"This webcomic is set in two places. In the real world it takes place in Berkton, IL. A small, semi-urban rust belt town and it's only high school; Berkton High School. However, the world of the game it's set in Chicago, IL. Why? Well most WoD splats use Chicago as a base city and I'm biased."

-When is this set?

"Both stories take place in late 2008 and early 2009!"

-Do you have any guidelines?

"I play pretty fast and loose so here are the only ones I have."

-A changeling is a person taken by the fae who has escaped the fae realm, Arcadia.

-While changelings have to be adults, you are completely free to make an OC that's a high schooler for the segments about "the real world".

-Try to follow 1e rules for changelings but I don't mind 2e!

-You're character is allowed to be flawed, but not like a racist/pedo/ect. While this comic is based on The Eltingville Club, I'm not comfortable stooping as low as them.

That is all! Happy Trails!

[just-sg-art]

New Chronicles of Darkness OC. Her name is Lyra and she's a Fairest Changeling.

[romeofantome]

I can't stop now (can you do the things you dream about - it's too late)

[gehennatruther]

Artist: Sam Arraya

Book: "World of Darkness: Slashers" (2009)

Gameline: Chronicles Of Darkness

Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing

[probablybadrpgideas]

Wanna hear my favourite power in any game?

So! In Chronicles of Darkness, the way skills work is you have a broad skill and then specialties in that skill. Say, you could have Academics and then a Specialty in physics, say, or Persuasion and then Bribery. Got it?

One vampire bloodline has a universal skill specialty in "snakes". They have + 2 dice to all rolls - enough to match a skilled person - as long as that roll directly involves snakes.

Which is amazing. I can't fight unless I'm wielding a snake. I can do art commissions as long as you commission a snake, because I otherwise can't draw. I can sell snakes - don't ask me to sell anything else, gotta be snakes. I can give you detailed insider knowledge of the history, culture and political situation of any region on earth but only regarding how it affects the local snake population.

Roll to Snake, Motherfucker.

[cyberturbine]

vampire!E.C. x mage!Goodsir

[tadpole-apocalypse]

Approaching our 7 year anniversary playing our (mostly) weekly vampire the requiem campaign. Reposting some of my favorite illustrations over the years 🤲