I have made similar experiences a couple of years back, but the fact that some WoD players are pretty strange, doesn’t make WoD a bad game.

If you don’t like dice pool systems, you probably won’t agree, but in my opinion the new Storyteller is some of the better systems out there.

I don't disagree with you much Stargazer, but I have to respectfully disagree with you here: The only reason to download WoD is the fact that it is free. If it wasn't free I'd advise you that there are a thousand better games you could spend the same money on.

Disclaimer: I am biased vs WoD games as my introduction was with in a high school game with multiple goths. It had every bad point a game can have: Blatent favouritism, bias against one player who can't get away with anything the other players can (Me), GMPC, power spiral, and the Storyteller was the only one with the books, and she played most of the rules wrong (something I learned latter). None of the fact changes the fact that the rules are terrible dice pool based drek however.
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Ok, I've not played nWoD, but I found oWoD very open to interpretation, which combined with poor wording leads to a lot of uncertainty about what powers did. Posts I've seen about others tend to agree, has this been fixed?

I dislike any system that obsfucates your chances for success: I should be able to look at any chance and go 'I have a 2/3rd chance of success' or a 50% chance of success. In d20 you can do that as long as the DM is good about keeping DCs scaled right (ie this 'hard to climb' wall is about as hard to climb as the last one) and the math is pretty simple. Same with 4e.

With a dicepool the math gets really complicated, really fast as you are multiplying %s against each other, and I can't do 0.36 * 0.36 * 0.36 in my head.

Now I've heard it is better in nWoD as only the number of die change and not what you need on *each* die but still.
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Thanks for the heads up! Downloaded… While I as never the biggest fan of oWoD, I had fun with it. Of course I met weird people playing it, like I did playing Rifts and other games. I own theis book and the new Vampire in dead tree format. While I never played nWoD Vampire I thought this book would be ideal to run a game of supernatural investigation.

That was exactly what I thought! 🙂

…what? Free game…? Uh…okay. *click click click*