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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SnowleopardVK" data-source="post: 5947868" data-attributes="member: 6677945">In my experience WoD NPCs will pretty much always tell the new vampire/werewolf/whatever to shut up and ignore the majority of, if not all attempts from said newbies to roleplay. That changes around after a while and does so faster if you all started as newbies (woe unto you if you're new to the system and came in later than the other players), but I've only ever actually seen the newbie taken seriously once.(In that one case I've seen where the newbie got to talk, I was playing a musclehead newbie and another PC was the charismatic, long-time veteran Other PC wouldn't stop bothering our NPC boss who clearly wanted to be left alone however, so I eventually just dragged the other PC out of the room, seniority or not. The NPC began taking me more seriously than the charismatic vet after that, despite my status as the "new kid" and my lack of charisma compared to the other guy.)My experience with WoD has admittedly left me somewhat jaded towards the system. To be fair, it really depends on the storyteller. A lot of STs that I've seen, especially in vampire, will play EVERY single NPC you meet as a jerk. Establishing yourself as a character whose opinions NPCs actually care about, and whose words they want to listen to takes a lot of time and a lot of patience (and when I say a lot, I mean a LOT).</blockquote>