World of Darkness Confessions

Welcome to wodconfessions! Here you can submit confessions related to the old World of Darkness. Including (but not limited to) Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Wraith: The Oblivion.

I wish dhampirs weren't just basically revenants in old wod. I'd like for them to be more expanded on them in v5 as well

I love Nosferatu x Toreador ships so fucking much.

I think it's time to admit that VTM and WOD are not more popular because of the fanbase. It is fractured, nostalgia poisoned, reactionary, and constantly angry about everything. It's reaching Star Wars levels of toxic. No one wants to touch it. Either chill the fuck out and kick the bigots out or don't complain when everything crumbles.

I don't understand the point of the Beckoning. I thought it would be a fresh start, an opportunity for White Wolf to kill its darlings, but it turns out the popular metaplot characters found a way to not be Beckoned. So... it was all moot, basically.

I like the "appearance" stat in V20. I also don't run it as about traditional attractiveness.

We don't have enough (tragic) Tremere x Banu Haqim rivals-to-lovers actually. What do you mean not enough people see the vision in sorcery rivals who eventually look past their clan histories and know each other as individuals? Where one is addicted to vitae while the other cannot bond another kindred. What could go wrong? Chef's kiss.

this will be an unpopular opinion... i don't mind fishmalks that much. especially when it's all a facade. "distract them with my forced kookiness while i read their minds" sort of thing.

I have a lot of pbp experience for WoD games. I think it's an awesome way to play the games. But I find those large pbp servers are such creatively limiting spaces and force players to have non narratively impactful characters. I feel for the new players who try out WoD games in those servers and have it leave a hard to diagnose bad taste in their mouth.

Tumblr WOD fandom is becoming, if not already is, just as toxic as the subreddit. There's too many "no fun allowed" moral absolutist puritans who think there's only one way to play the game.

One of my players took multiple flaws related to seeking out forbidden knowledge and I am priming them to accidentally become a Baali

Carter Vanderweyden was innocent, and his dementation taken advantage of.

Some people just want to play edgy superheroes, and that's fine, but I am glad that's not the direction VTM is taking. I like the Hunger mechanic in v5. I like to be reminded that I am playing a tragic monster, not goth Spider-Man.

i feel like the vtm bubble i'm in on tumblr is kind of a circlejerk when it comes to talking about The Themes and the Moral Conundrums of a Proper VtM Game. idk like. i DO agree that playing The Good Guy in vtm is fucking dumb if the player earnestly believes they can actually Be That Guy. but every time someone else says they prefer to play a more lighthearted comedy style games using vtm, everyone and their grandma's dog hops in to say that Actually, Vampires Are Monsters and it's A Gothic Game of Personal Horror. which i agree with, and i also dislike the completely unserious and woobified takes on vtm, but like. how many times are we gonna go over this guys. just play the game the way you like you don't even have to interact with the people that play it in a way you find incorrect/cringy/heretical to the genre. it's giving edgy teenager who's not like the other kids because they make creepypasta ocs instead of avengers ocs

I like it when Kindred have outdated views. I don't mean racism. I mean stuff like mistrusting left-handed people, thinking asbestos is awesome and a cigarette a day is part of a balanced diet, and treating a 13 year old like a full grown adult because, well, at that age back when they were human the Kindred was already working in the coal mines.

i love pet ghouls

love that saulot straight up looks like peter steele with a third eye