Any Wraith players that play Urban Shadows? Coming up with plans to adopt Wraith or Geist into the Spectre playbook as a continuation of our WoD series.
Any Wraith players that play Urban Shadows?
Any Wraith players that play Urban Shadows?
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Here are my issues, Geist is more of a game about humans already possessed by Ghost, so not really a Spectre. Wraith may work, but would have to introduce the Shadowlands, a mimic of the regular world but on the other side. Wraiths stay there, but can pull part of their being (pathos) over into the real world. That seems doable for Urban Shadows, but will make it a stretch.
Ability wise, here is what I am thinking. Of course I will add the 13-16 Arcanoi, as this is their abilities. I may add in either the Guilds or Legions, but as this is very RP based and a lot only deal with each other, I need to think on how I can implement them into a crossover style game.
Wraiths require no material sustenance but instead feed on emotions, fueling their existence through the use of Pathos, the energy of emotion. Wraiths acquire pathos by fulfilling their Passions.
So, I may make some abilities for that. Ie. when someone fails face your fears, the Spectre/Wraith heals.
Pavel Berlin, do you play?
What I may do is totally remove the additions and oddness about the shadowlands, and make it the exact same as the real world, but also being a place in which Wraith’s interact with each other as well as follow along the lives of mortals.
You should use Orpheus as your basis 😉
Orpheus?
Is that a WoD book or the greek mythology?
Orpheus is oWoD Wraithy game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_(role-playing_game)#Character_types
Dave Bozarth, I will check it out. Still trying to wrap my brain around why WoD would have made two similar games.
It was sort of a followup to the “Ends Of Empire” book that canonically “ended” Wraith. It was also a cool little experiment in limited, self-contained and planned metaplot sets. It kinda ended up informing how they would end up doing all of the “4th splat” books for nWoD.
Aaron Friesen That makes a lot of sense, by this point I had moved on from WoD, so I missed it all when it did come out.
It’s also much more “Ghostly Ghostbusters,” with a dash of “Drugs ‘r Bad” in there for good measure. The metaplot added “huge world-threatening conspiracy” to the mix. Wraith on it’s own was much more “life as a spirit, with glorious Jungian angst”, so they really covered two very different concepts just with similar set dressing.
Just skimmed through the first book and then read through the wiki and think this is perfectly usable.
Aaron Friesen and Dave Bozarth That Orpheus info was great. easy to turn specters into shades. I may add some rules for the aware as laments, but will write them out till then. Will need to streamline the flavour text, so it is based more around the Specters, not the Orepheus project.
Horrors and Shades should fit right in with ease. I will need to work out the best way to do manifestation forms.