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The Species listed there seem to be practically the exact same ones as in the Old World of Darkness games. The Game was essentially set in a moder day earth however supernatural creatures exist but have hidden them selves from Humanity. Essentially the game merges actual events from our world into a supernatural story line. For example - The reason all the supernatural creatures hide there existence from humanity is because the "inquisition" as we know it when all the witches were burnt was actually a genocidal attack from the humans on all supernatural creatures. Ultimately, the humans being much weaker in power but vastly greater in number whipped out the majority of all supernatural creatures from the world and so ever since Supernatural creatures have hidden them selves from humanity.

If you interested there are also a couple other races in existence such as the faie, wraiths and ghouls. Also some humans have mastered magic arts or have specialized in hunting evil creatures developing true faith(a sort of clerical magic).

As far as the character sheets are concerned the way it tends to go is every race has its advantages and disadvantages or merits and flaws. Vampires for example are immortal can heal themselves really quickly can move quite fast and can be very strong but they are hindered in that they are terrified of fire the sun and take massive damage from them both and they have to drink blood. Mortals on the other had have very few flaws but similarly don't have any merits.
As well as the Merits and flaws, in white wold each race also have sub-races essentially. For example, Vampire are divided into clans and each clan has different unique powers. So for example one Vampire clan can shapeshift(like how Dracula turns into a bat) where as another clan might be super super fast or have mind control powers or what ever. Werewolves have packs each with unique powers just. Magical humans have different casts such as necromancers or enchanters or shamans and so on.

All of the different races also have something that limits the use of their power (After all if people had any power ever it might get a bit hectic). For example vampire require blood to use their powers, a werewolf requires Gnosis, and wraith require passion. All of these things need to be obtained by the creatures in some way or another and therefor create limits on the players power.

Effectively with these character sheets first of all a player should be able to pick a race, then they should also choose a power that might be suitable for that race which will effectively define their sub-race. If people need inspiration in that respect I've got heaps of stuff.

An interesting interpretation. I in the world of Darkness system the science of supernatural creatures is explored but the theme only kinda exists second to the hole mythological, spiritual, theme. I often you'll find that if you drill every thing up to be science then people find if very easy to tear it apart. The replacement of magic offensively I think is a really good idea. I like the concept of a supernatural creature evolving to use it powers to wield modern weapons with great prowess so that it suits the moder world rather than it bing defiant and trying to use archaic powers such as throwing around fire balls, as they would seem less practical and alot less subtle in a moder world. I mean when your a creature that is essentially a monster in the eyes of humanity the last thing you wan to be doing is drawing attention to yourself. I mean sure a supernatural creature could wipe out a mass of unsuspecting humans but why would it bother when in moder society you can destroy or rule something socially fare with fare greater ease.

Yeah i like it, Jut one little thing though. In order for this virus to stop from over spreading, rather than having it be one of these situations where a creature bite you and you turn into on of them, can we make the process of passing on the virus more vicarious. Otherwise it has a strong potential to turn into a zombie situation, all humanity runs from creatures, eventually all humanity gets bitten, all the zombies have nothing left to eat, all zombies starve and die. I mean effectively if these creatures are feeding of humans, and every time they have a nibble the human then turns into one of them then they are going to run out of humans pretty quick. So rather that the creation process being just a bite and the virus being passed on that way, you could make it so the creature has to drain all of the humans blood (essentially sucking all humanity from them) and then the creatures have to follow it up by giving the human at least a drop of its own blood. That way all the human blood is gone and this new viral blood is in. That way the creatures also get a choice in who they get to make one of them. Also it means that the creatures could feed from a human and then just let them go again, meaning they can reuse the human.

ok, so what im getting is, Virus=ok!, but we need to work on the spreading effect. I see what your saying, and its a good point. If everyone bitten turned, they would quickly run out of food. Makes you wonder why there are rarely more than a dozen in most movies.
Ill look into the movie. For my basic Vampire ideas, i turn to Blade and Van Hellsing.
And what if we make it a chance happening. If you get bit on your next post, you use the dice roll action, like a 6-sided die roll, and if you get a 1-2, you just got bit, nothing special, 3-4, you die from blood loss, 5-6, you turn. What do you think of that? If we make it where they get to choose whether they make their prey turn or not, patterns would arise, and i dont think i want to look at my messages when that occurs.

Also, another thing i want to bring up again is the use of Technology. What i was thinking, was that Humans, would have an overall advantage in the feild of technology, while having weak physical abilities, where as a Werewolf would accel in terms of its physical capabilities, but do poorly in terms of technology. Vampires could be somewhere in the middle, such as super humans, but we could make it so that they basically are only able to use certain types of technology, such as guns and which is commonly stolen.

I have another Idea, based off other actual diseases. Take for example, Cancer (apologies to anyone offended), It takes a while for it to really start killing you, but its found way before that happens. What if we made it were the virus always infected those who were bit, but for the vampres, it takes a few days, and its a slow process of transforming you. also, we could make it to where the humans have an actual vaccine, but it has no effect on those who where born vampire, so that those who are bitten, have a chance to turn back into humans without making a new character. What do you think of that?

ye. i like how LA is thinking, where they dont turn just like that, something else happens or something. so im thinking like a timer or the dice roll. Werewolves are a bit easier, Full Moon. Vampires, im not sure. maybe a New moon.
Any Ideas on that?

I think if you were to make it so the vampires have a choice on who they "make" vampiric then it will make for a more interesting conflict. If vampires had a choice on weather they just wanted to feed from someone or make then a vampire you could have their society very specifically built up and ultimately solve alot of problems. For example, you want the vampires and humans to be at war right? Well what happens when some militant of the human army gets bitten in battle and becomes a vampire. Is his perspective suddenly going to revere just because he now posses the virus? I tend to find it to be really hard on role player who have specifically chosen the personality of their character only to have it so they suddenly have to completely change their characters values and personality. Essentially if the vampire had a way of choosing who he made a vampire then they could operate in such a way so that vampires could single out individuals who were willing to fight for the vampire side in the first place. Realistically in modern society if this virus was to outbreak and the vampires had no control who became vampires then people who are most defenseless would be the ones of become vampires first. Ultimately this would lead to the vampire society being filled with the under side of society such as homeless people and those who live in the slums. Or even more realistically the virus would attack the third world first. Now this would ultimately cause the vampire side to be filled with a majority of uneducated individuals and I'm not sure if I'm a fan of that concept. The way i see it the vampire side shouldn't be any less intelligent than the humans side they just don't have the resources technologies and numbers the humans have.

Personally I like the draining dry concept because essential even if vampires had the hole bite the person three times thing going on then they would still run out of people to bite eventually.