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That's easy: Tomb Savers The PCs are part of a specialist team under a UNESCO-style organisation, who are tasked with finding and securing sites of cultural and historical significance to protect them from the likes of Jones, Croft, Drake and co.

I figured it would be because it's too gamist for you, what with AEDU powers, skill challenges and such.

I'll always choose my boy, Skeletor Nagash, over Settra, but his refusal to attempt to kill Nagash until the Chaos Gods are vanquished just so it cannot be construed as doing their bidding out of pure psychological reactance is hard not to respect.

Both? I'll admit, I may not be parsing this in the manner you intend. So here's the official XP rules from V:TM V5: The Storyteller awards each player 1 experience point per session played, plus 1 point at the end of each story. In shorter chronicles and others where more rapid improvement adds...

You seem to have misread my post. The "allows for/requires" was in regards to increased transparency from the GM, which is in line with what @AbdulAlhazred and @hawkeyefan have been talking about. The follow-up on stances is a circumstantial result of that transparency.

Yeah, this accurately describes my view of WFRPG.

I've been collecting and playing Warhammer since before the Vampire Counts-Tomb Kings split, when it was unified Undead faction. The Old World being set after the Vampire Wars and using that as justification to not include Vampire Counts (as well as several other factions) absolutely killed any...

I'm not sure I'd want it using the same as Soulbound, specifically, but I'd certainly prefer a d6 dice pool system where one plays as units from the tabletop, in the same vein as Soulbound. Seems like a no brainer as a way to bridge the RPG and the wargame.

Enabling a given stance doesn't mean requiring that stance or precluding others.

In the same way an actor embodies a character even when they've been provided material by the writer or director. The actor (GM) incorporates their own ideas with what's been provided by the writer/director (player). (I know it's odd to see the comparison that way around when it's typically...

I don't believe I specified where I drew the line, but rather noted that others in this thread probably draw the line elsewhere from Harper. Not truly. My only experience with AW specifically is an actual play session I watched years ago run by Baker, involving Harper (and others), which...

Well, we're not off to a great start. I have literally never used the word "owns", except to tell you I haven't used the word, and this particular instance goes beyond misrepresenting my words into outright gaslighting. I refer you to post 15,098: This consistent factual misrepresentation when...

In real life, sometimes the only consequence is that you failed to do the thing. For example, say you have an interview for a potential new job that pays better than your current one. You flub it and you don't get the job. Nothing about your living situation materially changed. Now, if your...

You know, I don't think this is actually true of D&D5e. I think the problem stems from the fact that the results are kinda wishy washy and left to individual GMs as part of the whole "rulings, not rules" thing, which allows for one group to approach it that way, while another adopts...

Bolded for emphasis. See, this is how I understood it, though I suspect there's a difference of perspective at play. So, for example, I've talked previously about how in V:TM V5 the players come up with Chronicle Tenets and character Convictions, which are intended to signify to the GM the sort...

I simply wanted to make clear I don't have access to the primary source, and found one secondary source (Harper) conflicted, in my view, with another secondary source (you). Thanks for quoting the book. The MC is the one portraying the environment, the NPCs, etc. How is that not embodying the...

I think this is a misunderstanding of fail forward. The GM does not have to "introduce something that changes what the entire scene is about". It can re-contextualise the scene, but it can also simply make the current situation worse/more dangerous while still maintaining the players'...

So, I'd agree that the implication is that the runes always represented the map - whether one actually does or even can accept that, I think comes down to perspective - but I don't think the objection some have is strictly "the player getting a chance to say what some detail is". If we stick...

The setting being predefined vs established ad hoc seems besides the point. The GM is still in control of all the things the GM is typically in control of in a trad game, right? @pemerton seems to consider that GM-driven/centred in one game, but player-driven in another. I'm trying to reconcile...

I'm not sure anyone disagrees with this in principle. I certainly don't. Yes, and this is precisely what I aim for with my V:TM sandbox - a focus on the unlife of the PCs (and their goals/ambitions) within the context of a vampire society. I will come back to this once I've formalised my...