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I'm kinda interested, as I'd really like to play a Mage... mrgreen

All you have to do is RP, and I'll tell you when to roll the dice and how many. It'll be fun, trust me. ^_^
DnD has way too many rules, but WoD doesn't, so that 's why I prefer it. It focuses more on roleplaying than the rules. biggrin

I'm sure you'll get to play one; however, the only thing is, I require all characters to start out as human. As the story progresses, however, that can quickly change. biggrin

Trust me, it won't. Most of the time, you may not even have to worry about rules. In fact, you don't have to at all. When you do something, I'll tell you when to roll the dice and how many. So, it'll be fun! ^_^

White Wolf d10 systems have a predisposition to de-ephasize the focus on combat by making combat unusually simple (Everything is active and competitive; you don't have a defense stat, you have dice that go towards a not-getting-hit pool) and really extremely dangerous (You're inhumanly tough if you have twelve hit points since guns regularly do three damage of the kind humans can't soak). Combat is also very, very fast in World of Darkness because next to nothing can go for more than a couple of rounds in evenly-matched combat before keeling over from exhaustion or an acute case of death. Even combat-focused starting characters can't solve everything with violence since more than one or two opponents would be deadly. World of Darkness faces the fact that normal people very rarely happen to be armed sword-masters or expert marksmen with their gun of choice, and the World of Darkness can and usually is very much about normal people in extraordinary circumstances.

The system itself stretches out over the whole areas of intellectual pursuit and knowledge as well as the realms of etiquette and seduction that Dungeons and Dragons just kind of glosses over (Charisma gets split into three stats, for one thing, and Wisdom into two). It has rules for things that Dungeons and Dragons doesn't have, such as rules for competitive seduction or examining a library for a certain book. PLENTY of rules that codify roleplaying much more clearly and much more fairly than in Dungeons and Dragons, if you choose to use them.

World of Darkness is rules-rich- VERY rules-rich. It just FOCUSES a lot more on the roleplaying aspect than the killing-stuff aspect.

I personally don't like Vampire because of the whole hopelessness aspect of it. I also like Mage because it's got the potential to be pretty wacky at the same time as being deadly serious.

So when do we start?

Oh, and if you need help coming up with a character concept, don't hesitate to ask. My first character will be a "violent junkie". Sounds neat, huh? No, wait! "Violent, paranoid junkie" sounds so much better...

Eh, I can deal with non-streamlined combat, if it adds in more interesting options. Like in A Game of Thrones d20, where combat is even more complex than D&D . . . and more realistic and specific and generally cool.

It's an interesting game, basically D&D without magic (generally), only humans (more or less), and where the characters are treated as human, not superhuman. Combat can't solve everything there, either. . . .



That sounds . . . amusing.



Heh. Very true. But that's where DM fiat comes in. Some of the rules are just stupid, anyways. And sometimes the books are so badly edited that they don't make sense. . . .