The classic World of Darkness system has some impressive features.

System Summary

1. Add the character's Attribute + Ability,
2. And roll that number of D10's.
3. Each die which meets the difficulty number (default: 6) means one 'success'.

Bust in the Door!

• Strength 3 + Crafts 3 = 6
• Roll 6D10 (difficulty 7): 7, 4, 4, 3, 1, …

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Chekov's gun poses a real threat to some games.

If a group playing Vampire: The Masquerade ('VtM') encounter a Ravnos, spinning illusions, and confusing mortals, then the next time they hear about unusual events, they will assume that the Ravnos did this. Clearly - the Ravnos is part of the plot! After all, VtM draws …

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It's hard to remember all those little things mid-game, so I'm thinking of making a LaTeX footnote for stories, which mentions a random very-normal-thing.

• Three young students, complaining about the mosquitoes.
• Retired accountant, walking his dog at 5am because he cannot sleep.
• Traffic jam made by two German tourists …

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Using real-world time in RPGs has worked out great in my last fantasy campaign, so I'm thinking of using it for a Dark Ages: Vampire Campaign.

I want to create a game where every single neonate in the city has a player. I want to see a dozen players, all with a chatroom online, called 'Elysium', shooting the shit, …

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My favourite WoD RPG will always be Changeling. I've run one campaign, and I wish I had time to run more.

I don't know if I'll ever have time to re-write it, like I did with Vampire, but I have plenty of concrete plans for changes.

Seelie vs Unseelie

The book began by saying 'Seelie' does not mean 'good', and …

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So there you are, storytelling a twisted tale of modern horror about a coterie of vampires, when an odd ability crops up. One of your players has focused on controlling people so much with the Dominate Discipline that she can now enter other people's bodies, taking them over as if they were her own.

So we know that the …

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Vampires could never feel really plausible, but Vampire: The Masquerade created a lot of fantastic reasons to buy into the World of Darkness. Enough that once the reader allows the vampires and their magical powers, the masquerade they all keep - the mass conspiracy that they don't exist - feels easy to swallow.

Pull …

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I feel the World of Darkness could have done better by having the various spirit worlds accessible only through some trance, where someone enters that world in spirit-alone, and leaves their body behind.

Unintended Teleportation

Garou traversing the umbral planes, Giovanni vampires wandering into the land of the dead, …

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In the new Contest System for the Storyteller system books, both players roll the same Attribute + Ability combination for 'Extended and Resisted', so Subterfuge is used to lie and spot lies, and Investigation allows someone to uncover crime as well as hide it. This has made a number of people online strangely irate, …
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Specializations in White Wolf rules are a nuisance, in need of an overhaul.

How They Work

Specializations in White Wolf allow someone with a rating of 4 or more in a Trait to re-roll any '10's for a chance at an extra success.

Expertise (not used in all books, but present in the Dark Ages), allows a character +1 …

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