Gothic Horror RPGs set in your Hometown – An Intro To World Of Darkness

"This video is sponsored by Noble Knight Games!

Fulfill all your your tabletop/RPG needs there!
- and/or buy glue I beg of you
___

SpeakerD takes you on a journey through the World of Darkness, the dark urban fantasy setting of Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and our very own Hunter: The Parenting.

Learn everything you need to start your own tabletop WoD game! Hear broad strokes about it's lore, feel, and design philosophy! Indoctrinate your friends, neighbors, and housepets in this anecdotal beginners guide to World of Darkness!

(SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: According to Magadon pharmaceutical guidelines, you must drink 1.1 deciliters of synthesized Psilocybe extract to engage 3D vision.)
_________________________________

Soundtrack by Mackeerre, Glowtide, Karl the Deranged and Vrinde

- As well as tracks sampled
from VTM: Bloodlines by Rik Schaffer

Audio Composition by Karl the Deranged and Alfabusa

Video Composition by Alfabusa and Garrot

Animation by Alfabusa, Karl the Deranged, Garrot and Dr. White

Sound Mixing by StringStorm

___

Written and Presented by SpeakerD

Script Editors: SpeakerD, Alfabusa, Earndil and Dr. White

Additonal Voicework by Fredrik Knudsen and Karl the Deranged
___

Art by:

Inktooth

Rude Rubicante

Ironirocal

Garrot

Karl the Deranged

Nostalgia

Eliphus

___

Featuring Official World of Darkness Art by Alex Shiekman, Leif Jones, Michael Gaydos, Guy Davis, Ron Spencer, Steve Prescott, David Leri, John Cobb, Jeff Laubenstein, Steve Ellis, Langdon Foss, John van Fleet, Vince Locke, Tim Bradstreet and many, many more. Please, consider seeking out and supporting the extraordinary artists who created the lense by which we see our wonderful world of darkness.

___
Patreon:

Paypal Donation Page:

Our Twitter:

#worldofdarkness #vampirethemasquerade #huntertheparenting #magetheascension #hunterthereckoning #werewolftheapocalypse #dungeonsanddragons #dungeonsanddragonsalternative #ttrpg #tabletopgame #videoessay #ogrepoppenang #beginnersguide #guide #urbanfantasy #wod #20thanniversaryedition #rpg #roleplayinggame #gaming #characters #comedy #vtm #mta #wta #htr #htp #rantsona #educational #alfabusa #speakerd #"blessed" #michaelfaraday #halflife #halflifeopposingforce #garrysmod #gmod #halflifememes #tts #iftheemperorhadatexttospeechdevice #warhammer #warhammer40k #warhammermemes #sorry for the warhammer tags #youtube doesnt want to recommend videos from this channel without them.

[alfabusa]

This is our first time trying anything like a video essay so this quite experimental and in its visual and narrative language very clearly headed by 5 people with roiling, overcooked ADHD brains but you might've already expected that going into a video on this channel.

Nevertheless, we hope you enjoy and, of course, give this setting and franchise a chance if you haven't already because _Its Good, _ we think.
And if you DO enjoy this format, we could look into more stuff like this in the future.
Not neccesarily just about WoD either!
We could cover whatever we feel we've got an interest in.
Hell, we could maybe even do something Warhammer if there's interest, this format plays within their legal ballpark, could be worth looking into.

[Enixon]

one of my favorite little lore bits is how the Technocracy was behind the Apollo missions as part of a plot where they thought that by showing everyone that the moon is just a boring dusty rock with nothing mystical or special about it would weaken Werewolves, but instead the Luna Landing inspired so much wonder in people that it brought the fairies back instead, leading to Changeling: The Dreaming.

[DrWhite]

It was an honour to do a little bit of the animation for this video. This video is a wild ride and I hope everyone enjoys it.

[HalfTangible]

5:55 So, I looked it up, and that burger chain is also apparently the main enemy of the werewolves in this setting.

[hfar_in_the_sky]

One of my favorite clown shoes aspect of the WoD setting is that Rasputin is probably an otherworldly being, but even in WoD he is SO weird that no one actually knows for certain WHAT kind of thing he is

[NostalgiaChan]

I hope everyone enjoyed the brief return of Flashback Puppets. Hopefully I can do more of them for further videos.

[postmodernguava]

Chronicles of Darkness actually has two popular fan-made gamelines: Genius: The Transgression, where you play as mad scientists; and Princess: The Hopeful, where you play as Madoka-style magical girls.

[thegreenness]

“You’re not invincible, no one is” followed by pyotr’s surprise present in the form of the landmines is a lovely pairing

[Omnicide]

"Cringe is dead and I'm still breathing" is one hell of a line

[snaki]

No matter how horrific or dreadfull WoD setting can be I will always describe it as a Gothic themed clown car that fits in vampires, werewolfs, ghosts, mages, mummies and god knows what else, it's the best thing ever.

[speakerd]

One of my favorite videos to write and present, and the most terrifying for me to launch. I hope you guys enjoy!!

[madmac]

"This setting is off it's shit!"

Might just be the best sentence to describe the world of darkness that I've ever heard.

[linear]

My favorite template is Mage: The Ascension.

I played an Akashic "Mage" named Cidney who watched so many Jackie Chan films that he started to think it was all real, and no one told him otherwise. Mostly because he could actually DO it.

Mans was a Saturday morning cartoon character with how much shit he could do, and how stupid it got. Later on in the game, he even got a pair of arm mounted grappling hooks so he could be a discount Spiderman if he wanted to.

In his first appearance, he punched a zombie so hard it's head flew off and spin-kicked another into dust, both saving and mildly traumatizing a bus full of school children as he did so.

Another time he grabbed a charging evil horse, and spun it around to throw it at its buddy. And then continued to do that until he killed them with each other.

And another time he drank from the fountain of youth by accident because he didn't realize what it was and he was really thirsty.

And another time, he suplexed a serial killer off of a motorcycle and then shot him in the face with a massive revolver.

Also, he was the friendliest person on the team with by FAR the best stats for talking to people.

He was an action himbo that fought monsters for three reasons,
1 because it was fun,
2 because he was good at it,
And 3, he was raised by a Hunter. So it's basically in his blood.

I played him as a carefree goofball who wasn't all that smart, but meant well, and knew everything there was to know about the streets, and hunting monsters (which we did rather often).
This very often led him to being the VIP in combat, while mostly being full clownshoes comic relief outside of it.

The rest of the party was composed of a druggie musician who played us battle music and other scene appropriate music, and he also dealt with vampires in his free time, a mad scientist whose brain was fused with an Akashic child, and so then they did sci fi tech AND kung fu, a reporter who leveraged spirits to get the next big SCOOP, and a drug dealer who did blood magic on the side, and was the Akashic kid's overprotective cousin, but didn't know that the kid wasn't just the kid anymore.

It was a fun, if sometimes very stupid, game. I miss it greatly.

[FCM]

I don’t know if Bruva will ever read this, but honestly I’d rather spew positivity to the winds instead of being silent; the TTS series were the catalyst that brought me into 40k and eventually wargaming as a whole and miniature painting as a hobby. I’d listen on repeat while building and painting minis and would excitedly announce new releases of the series to my friends (even those who thought of me nothing more than a raving lunatic).
The hiatus of TTS, like many fans, hit me like a cold knife slowly greeting my spine with shockwaves of sadness and anger at GW. Didn’t really help I was going through personal self destructing agendas at the time.
Watching the first episode of HtP was once again, like TTS, a muse that guided me into new things… specifically it motivated me to go outside the umbrella of GW and try new systems and different miniatures to paint. Even tried out TTRPGs and painted characters for them.
The D&D OGL fiasco left me a bitter taste… and then this video was released.
I ordered Hunter the Reckoning 5th edition. I found a cell of willing players. We will dive into the World of Darkness very very soon.
So thank you. Everyone. All the souls that pour their very being into these videos.
You have turned me into a WoD fanatic that will refuse to touch grass in any way shape or form. Also D’s voice makes me moist. OKAYIGOBYENOW

[ethangoss]

“Failure. Perhaps next time”. An old voice from a friend not seen for what felt like an eternity. A faint smile grows on an aged face as memories of a simpler time return.

[Xebelan]

My favorite WOD character was my Wraith-- "Brother Confessor" who I made eternal and able to appear in multiple locations with a single note I was allowed where he triumphed over the destruction of his cathedral. He became an information broker for our mixed storylines. Edit: incidentally, made the storyteller mad i broke the game with a throwaway thing he gave me because of player table shenanigans but he thought it was such a cool sidestep that he allowed it. And later everyone enjoyed having Brother Confessor around. He was kinda like ghostly gps and google who could also offer advice to heartsick monsters.

[BossEvasion]

Something about a vampire willingly going out in broad daylight just to shit on Dracula seems like a very vampire thing to do.

[Talon]

Honestly, hunter the parenting is the single greatest introduction to the world of darkness.

[Airier]

So, any chance there's going to be more vids about the various other aspects of WoD?

[vintheguy]

Do a mage introduction to prove you aren't cowards