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I have! It's a different system though, not WOD at all. We'll need the Trinity Continuum core rulebook, and also the respective Aberrant rulebook. Anyone want to learn a new system from scratch? :) :)

(I had figured WOD would still be somewhat familiar and therefore preferable to most of us).

Yes, let's confirm it here. The last dice are the Mega dice.

So for example, rolling Subterfuge with Dex 4, Subterfuge 3 and MegaDex 2 means rolling 9d10, with the last 2d10 being the Mega rolls. I'll remind everyone again when we make our first rolls.

As we are slowly but surely heading towards a start, I'd like to talk about expectations and more importantly about red flags and no-go areas.

Expectations-wise, as I'm seeing some heavy Taint builds, and given that this is WOD-driven, I am open to a more gritty game if you are, let me know how gritty or dark: injury and gore, aberrations causing trauma, for starters, but also character/NPC death?

No-go areas. I am not open to violence towards children nor explicit sexual violence as part of PC agency or NPC actions. If there needs to be mention of genocide, rape, or such, they will be referenced or implied distantly, rather than described. I understand one of our characters is 13 years of human age, but his true age is possibly eons old, so that's not an issue for me.

Gnome reminded me I forgot to enable Custom as a permitted character sheet to submit. I've enabled it already, so that instead of using the WOD sheet, you can use the blank custom sheet, which isn't as constraining.

Jomsviking has exited.

I've invited 78rpmlife to join us, he was waiting in the wings. Looking forward to gaming with you!

Let's talk about that Phoenix. I use Nature to understand what the PCs motivations are. It helps me craft situations which put your characters where you'll need to make a choice. (And if it regains Willpower, so much the better). A good question to ask is, what drives Comet to do what he does?

On another note, since Discord was mentioned, I'll go set it up now, as I said I would from the start. Here's the invite link: Aberrant

Some thoughts about Backgrounds, especially Eufiber and Node. We're not necessarily following the technobabble explanation in the rulebook. If your character has Eufiber, it can have its origins based on anything you care to make up, eg it could function like FF's unstable molecules, or like the Venom symbiote, or like Dr Strange's cloak, etc, depending on how many points you put in it.

Same with Node. Your character can draw quantum from it, but it doesn't have to be a lump inside you. Sure it can be an inoperable tumour, but it can also be some mystic shard lodged inside, or even a pill you eat (that only works for you), etc

Hi everyone, thanks again for your patience. I didn't want to start until I have everything set up just right. But here are your individual threads. I may have made some tweaks to your backstory so please ask away if you need to clarify anything before you start posting.

Each of you should currently have at least two options open to you, a main one and a sub-one, depending on how you want to play them out.

78rpmlife, yours is coming right up. I have a thread, but it's only 90% in my head so far. You need to rename your PC for GP, and maybe pick an avatar if you haven't done so. Expect yours in a day's time. I'm gonna take a small liberty with your chaos power for purposes of backstory, but otherwise you'll have full agency after that.

I usually need a bit of momentum to get things going, so a slightly slower pace at the start, and we'll let things naturally pick up.

Next up is the worldbuilding's Who's Who.