Hi, everyone. I've been hanging around this group for a while, but never solo played. I love using oracles and randomization, though, so I've picked up some great stuff from posts here. I'm my regular group's Forever DM, but even so, I have dozens of unplayed games just sitting on my shelf, calling to me (somehow I manage to move to another part of the country just when I've flushed the D&D craving from my current group, go figure).
So now I've decided to go ahead and start playing through my collection, starting with Night's Black Agents. This might be a bit difficult to start with, seeing as it's supposed to be a complex conspiracy uncovered one clue at a time, and vampires are supposed to be slightly different in each game. Does anyone here have experience with Night's Black Agents or Gumshoe games? Any ideas for randomizing the nature of my foes and making it a surprise during play? Thanks for all the excellent posts. Glad to be jumping in!
Omari Brooks Maze Rats is a good one for sure, but the content is not especially well-suited to this game. The best idea I've had so far is to just spend some time making custom roll tables. Maybe some kind of if-then logic framework for how the vampires work...
ReplyDeleteI found a few generators but I'd just oiece together my own. These links have enough powers / traits to keep things interesting.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_folklore_and_fiction
https://www.vampires.com/supernatural-powers-and-abilities/
http://infinitysrising.tripod.com/id5.html
en.wikipedia.org - List of vampire traits in folklore and fiction - Wikipedia
Andrew Engstrom
ReplyDeleteE,h the Tactic and Personality tables are genre agnostic if you're trying to create an "AI" to run enemies.
The Abilities table is also good for generating random Vampire Powers; something that is admittedly less useful if you are using stock-standard vampires and not really diving into the Vampire creation options in the NBA book. YMMV