Like 30 Days of Night, but, you know, White Wolf. So I saw the awesome folks at Darker Days Radio (check them out if you like podcasts) have been posting this daily, and I want to hop in on it, but I don't have the focus to do once a day. Which means a new blog! And I swear I have a ton of writing done, just nothing finished yet. I'm going to include classic/old World of Darkness and current Chronicles of Darkness in my responses here where appropriate.
Day 1 - InQuest magazine. I was doing Magic, L5R, and BattleTech, and IQ had this quick start for WW's Aeon/Trinity. I got hooked. Didn't actually get into World of Darkness until a few years later, when someone asked if my AOL screen name was a nod to WtA's Get of Fenris (I'm wearing the t-shirt today, but no, not related to an in-game nod).
Day 2 - Kindred of the East for sure for WoD, Demon the Descent for Chronicles.
Day 3 - Silent Striders, Werewolf the Apocalypse WoD (yes, even though I'm wearing a Get shirt, Striders are my top group oWoD), and not sure if I have one in the Chronicles, but if so, probably Mekhet vampires or Blood Talon werewolves.
Day 4 - Oh, man, San Francisco by Night easily for oWoD. That made me want to run a New Promise Mandarinate story so hard. Seattle for Chronicles, time splinters and all, but only because Union City doesn't have a book ;-P
Day 5 - Not mine, but best roll I ever saw was to escape a space station in Aeon, and the group's "intelligence guy" rolled multiple 10s on a hacking attempt that basically shut all of the security stations down and minimized combat so hard that I, as ST, was left fumbling for some added complications
Day 6 - Dunno if I ever had one in oWoD, and Trey Fischer/Loki in Chronicles. Because Mekhet. Also, Chronicles doesn't have enough canon characters.
Day 7 - Revised Werewolf and Vampire is where I had the most experience in WoD, and 1st Edition (so far) on all the Chronicles games.
Day 8 - I generally ST more than anything, but as far as NPC, I've always had more fun doing cultists than anything.
Day 9 - The aforementioned "intelligence guy." The player who made him wasn't dumb by any means, but he definitely went out of his comfort zone there and just rocked it so hard, whilst making us all laugh as well.
Day 10 - Aren't all grouping strange by their very definition?
Day 11 - One shot Chronicles of Darkness blue book/mortals, which I'll post as a future blog, but just the player choices made me chuckle and I had to really think on my feet when they went back into the house. Who does that??
Day 12 - Theban Sorcery or Coils of the Dragon from VtR. I never really liked "mystical characters" but the background between these two is really well done.
Day 13 - Only the ones I don't immediately understand... So pretty much everything from Mage. I mean, I love Mage (Awakening) and all the Atlantis stuff and whatnot, I just have a hard time with some of the rules.
Day 14 - Going old school with 1st Edition Exalted, Crimson Undertow, an Abyssal Exalted/pirate with a crew of the dead. Good times. Chronicles, Witold "Vee" Chodkiewicz, who we haven't heard the last of.
Day 15 - oWoD, Zhyzhak, the utterly insane Black Spiral Dancer from Werewolf the Apocalypse. Especially in the opening fiction of Book of the Wyrm 2e. Pitting an entire Sept of werewolves against her was a quick way to ensure a high Garou body count. The God-Machine in Chronicles. Hard to get more antagonistic than that.
Day 16 - Malkavians or Nosferatu in any setting. Never enjoyed seeing others play them, would get no enjoyment myself.
Day 17 - Splats that defy the norm or are interesting in their own right, like Daeva Lancea Sanctum or basically any form of Unchained. I love Demons.
Day 18 - Sin-Eaters. I love the concept of Geist, super muchos, much as I loved Wraith, but I've never had the opportunity to do much with them, because they're a little on the complex side and I'm a simpleton.
Day 19 - A lot of them?
Day 20 - I'd love to LARP, but I think I'm too shy for it.
Day 21 - I've never seen any character die at all in the World/Chronicles/Trinityverse/Exalted lines. Never.
Day 22 - The first time I was an ST. Mind-numbing horror was induced that day. For me, mostly.
Day 23 - Me, obv.
Day 24 - Rachel did super great in the abduction, just the outside of the box thinking. Also, honorable mention to the OG crew of Trish, Craig, and James.
Day 25 - Hunter the Reckoning. So much potential there that never got fully explored.
Day 26 - 28 - I don't really have any great answers for these.
Day 29 - Wavecleaver Daiklaive, from Exalted 1e. Absolute favorite weapon item ever.
Day 30 - Right this moment? Solid crossover game set in Union City, of course. But mostly a mortal or Hunter: tV chronicle. Pretty much anything except Mummy, which I would love to run in another part of the world, just not UC.
