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Vampire: the Dark Ages Powered By The Dark Vampire: The Dark Ages This is a PbtA hack for Vampire: the Dark Ages. Read Apocalypse World or Monsterhearts for the fundamentals of *World games, particularly the philosophy of how to run them. Short version: be a fan of the PCs, fuck with them relentlessly to keep the story hopping, don’t sweat the piddly shit, treat NPCs like stolen cars (you can have fun with them but you can’t keep ‘em), who really gives all that much of a shit about combat turn order, and when PCs miss a roll, either fuck them with harm or a Condition or give someone an Edge for seeing them screw up, or do something to kick the story into a higher gear. There are more details in Storyteller’s section, below. This isn’t a stand-alone product. You need a Vampire: the Dark Ages or Dark Ages: Vampire corebook, preferably V20 Dark Ages, to use this, because it doesn’t reproduce things like the Aura color chart or hierarchies of sin for Roads, nor does it actually give you a setting rundown. Credits Writing and design by Holden Lee Shearer Powered by the Apocalypse World engine, by D. Vincent Baker and Meguey Baker. Contents Rolling Dice .................................................................................................................................... 7 Experience ................................................................................................................................... 7 Advances ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Botches ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Attributes ................................................................................................................................... 8 Pull .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Modifiers ................................................................................................................................... 10 Standard Moves ............................................................................................................................. 11 Physical Moves .......................................................................................................................... 11 Fuck them up.......................................................................................................................... 11 Do something athletic ........................................................................................................... 11 Run for it ................................................................................................................................ 11 Social Moves .............................................................................................................................. 11 Manipulate someone .............................................................................................................. 11 Stand your ground ................................................................................................................ 12 Show your teeth .................................................................................................................... 12 Mental Moves ........................................................................................................................... 12 Navigate a system ................................................................................................................. 12 Do something shady ............................................................................................................. 12 Read their eyes ...................................................................................................................... 12 Special Moves ............................................................................................................................ 13 Call in a favor ........................................................................................................................ 13 Make preparations ................................................................................................................. 13 Awaken during the day ......................................................................................................... 13 Drink blood ............................................................................................................................ 13 Special Systems ............................................................................................................................ 14 Edges .......................................................................................................................................... 14 Conditions ................................................................................................................................. 14 Staked! .................................................................................................................................... 15 Inflicting Harm ......................................................................................................................... 15 Suffering Harm ...................................................................................................................... 15 Recovering From Harm......................................................................................................... 15 Banes (Aggravated Harm) ................................................................................................... 16 Torpor .................................................................................................................................... 16 Roads ......................................................................................................................................... 17 Road Modifier ....................................................................................................................... 17 Losing Road ........................................................................................................................... 17 Raising Road.......................................................................................................................... 17 Wassail .................................................................................................................................. 18 The Beast ................................................................................................................................... 19 Frenzy .................................................................................................................................... 19 Rötschreck ............................................................................................................................. 20 Blood .......................................................................................................................................... 21 What if I Drink… ................................................................................................................. 21 Blood Buff ............................................................................................................................. 21 Blood Bond ............................................................................................................................ 21 Blush of Life .......................................................................................................................... 22 Generation ............................................................................................................................. 22 Diablerie ................................................................................................................................ 22 Ghouls ................................................................................................................................... 23 Background Moves ....................................................................................................................... 24 Merits and Flaws .......................................................................................................................... 25 Merits .................................................................................................................................... 25 Flaws ...................................................................................................................................... 25 Character Creation ....................................................................................................................... 27 Storyteller Rules ........................................................................................................................... 28 NPC Rules................................................................................................................................. 28 Scale ....................................................................................................................................... 28 Advantage ............................................................................................................................. 29 Disadvantage ......................................................................................................................... 29 Hard Moves .............................................................................................................................
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