I got Monte Cook's World of Darkness

[Alisair Longreach]

I just got my copy of Monte Cook's World of Darkness. Feel free to ask away.

 

[EricNoah]

Well start with a one or two sentence summary. Pretend I know nothing. (You won't have to pretend too hard!)

 

[Shawn_Kehoe]

Have all the special powers been adapted to feats? Or do the magi have spells in the traditional D&D sense?

 

[HeinorNY]

Sean K Reynolds hyped about the magic system. HOw does it look like?

 

[Yair]

Well start with a one or two sentence summary. Pretend I know nothing. (You won't have to pretend too hard!)

QFT

 

[Voadam]

How plunderable for regular D&D use? Is the PC material balanced against D&D classes as options to use in a D&D game? Will the monsters be directly useable in a D&D game?

 

[Alisair Longreach]

A short summary of the book:

As the title says, Monte has created his own version of the World of Darkness setting with d20 rules. There are rules for playing Vampires, Werewolves, Demons, Mages and a new archetype called Awakened which is a very competent human who somehow anchors reality.

The powers functions like a variant kind of feats. Demons have Cants, Mages have Gnosis, Vampires have Disciplines, Werewolves have Rites.

Mages create spells with Components. A Component is a point cost for casting the spell and the Spellcraft DC.

 

[Alisair Longreach]

If you ignore the modern day stuff I tthink McWoD could be used together with the D&D rules. All the five types start as 4th level characters with 4 hit dice, skill points, two feats and +1 to an ability score.

McWoD does not use the massive damage rules, instead the damage dice are applied as CON damage with a critical hit.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

More!

 

[Hunter In Darkness]

more indeed