This unironically sounds incredibly kickass, and has the potential to turn into a buddy-comedy where the vamp and the wolf are always at each other’s throats and the mage is the tired babysitter just trying to keep them both alive until the operation is finished
As a long time WOD fan I’d be completely down to play a game that involves entirely different rule books for each character. I think the interplay of mage and vampire magic would be super cool to explore. I think it would be very funny to try and sneak a Garou into a vampire meetup under the guise of being a shitty Gangrel. I think a determined and pissed off Mage is an extremely high quality companion during a blood hunt.
Unfortunately, actually pulling this game off would require near encyclopedic knowledge of like five books from all players, and would require a near superhuman effort from the GM, and I don’t have three other friends that are as autistic about this as I am.
It sounds great, but in practice it really doesn’t work. It’s not just the vastly different power levels, it’s the vastly different scope of the threats each splat is facing. In Vampire your main concern is internal and external politics. Meanwhile Werewolves are in an all out war with Cthulhu, and Mages are battling an enemy that routinely rewrites reality itself. These things are not compatible.
It was a desperate attempt to create some level of compatibility that lead to New WOD, but that didn’t really solve the problem and in the process it destroyed most of what made the individual splats interesting in the first place.
You’re better off with something like Dresden Files if that’s the kind of game you’re looking to run. WOD isn’t really set up for it.
Plot twist, OP runs Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, and soon will do a multi-ethnic World of darkness game with all of them at the same table
As someone who tried to run a 4/5 Hunter: The Reckoning-1/5 Mage: The Ascension, as bad ass as it sounds it is an absolute nightmare to run.
This unironically sounds incredibly kickass, and has the potential to turn into a buddy-comedy where the vamp and the wolf are always at each other’s throats and the mage is the tired babysitter just trying to keep them both alive until the operation is finished
As a long time WOD fan I’d be completely down to play a game that involves entirely different rule books for each character. I think the interplay of mage and vampire magic would be super cool to explore. I think it would be very funny to try and sneak a Garou into a vampire meetup under the guise of being a shitty Gangrel. I think a determined and pissed off Mage is an extremely high quality companion during a blood hunt.
Unfortunately, actually pulling this game off would require near encyclopedic knowledge of like five books from all players, and would require a near superhuman effort from the GM, and I don’t have three other friends that are as autistic about this as I am.
It sounds great, but in practice it really doesn’t work. It’s not just the vastly different power levels, it’s the vastly different scope of the threats each splat is facing. In Vampire your main concern is internal and external politics. Meanwhile Werewolves are in an all out war with Cthulhu, and Mages are battling an enemy that routinely rewrites reality itself. These things are not compatible.
It was a desperate attempt to create some level of compatibility that lead to New WOD, but that didn’t really solve the problem and in the process it destroyed most of what made the individual splats interesting in the first place.
You’re better off with something like Dresden Files if that’s the kind of game you’re looking to run. WOD isn’t really set up for it.