Vampires that have managed to survive for hundreds of years
without mortals knowing about them will break the
masquerade with law rockets if played in Akron Ohio.

The society known as the Camarilla which espouses complete
secrecy is usually portrayed by a bunch of 'tards with so
little fashion sense as to turn every head which walks by.

Rock Paper Scissors is another way of affirming one's
manhood.

Princes come in two forms: Ridiculously overpowered or
interchangable.

Most Camarilla cities are in fact anarch free states (see
previous statement).

Vampires have a dress code: 8 shades of black.

Tremere are easily discernable by double pleated pants they
wear.

In an argument, the person who knows the most rules is
obviously right. (SARCASM)

Respect your elders, for if they notice you your head
explodes!

Don't play with fire, it does aggravated damage.

Say "Thank You" when you eat something, because even if
nobody else is around, the person you kill may come back as
a wraith.

Any hierarchy, no matter how benevolent, will eventually
become corrupt and take over the known world.

Birth defects, homelessness, rampant consumerism, the hole
in the ozone layer, hate, malice, greed, alcoholism, the
destruction of the Native Americans, bad television
programming, violence in the media and strange chemicals in
fast food can all be safely blamed on a supernatural
entity.....usually Pentax

Almost anything, including artistic disembowelments, can be
justified

1) in the name of Gaia,
2) if you're 300+ years old, or
3) if you've been doing it long enough.

Everything dies -- Garou, mages, changelings -- but they
can come back in Wraith, and major villains can return in
the next book.

Murder is okay if it's done with style (or, as above, for
Gaia).

Stygian Iron is forever.

Tormenting librarians and accountants is a perfectly
acceptable method of artistic expression. So is live rune-
carving...if your Sabbot

The laws of reality are immutable, unless you buy the
Players Guide.

It's always darkest before the Apocalypse.

Not only are the Garou sexy, they have RULES for being sexy-
-page 218.

Reality is a user-defined parameter.

Every alley in the city is the site of some sort of illegal
sex trade.

When in doubt, blame it on the Nosferatu, or possibly on
the Celestial Chorus.

The only right (Tradition, tribe, clan, kith, guild) is
your (Tradition, tribe, clan, kith, guild) and all other
should be (outmoded, eviscerated, diablerized, ignored,
Oblivated).

Reality is like a parent: It has strict rules which cannot
be broken, and it is all set to break them in order to
PUNISH your ass...But only if your a Mage!

If you can't justify violent crime in the name of Gaia or
by dint of obvious natural superiority, change legacies and
go Unseelie.

Evil ALWAYS gets its own sourcebook.

The government isn't a puppet of Big Business, it is a pawn
of the Wyrm. If the Technocracy are mages, and Vampires are
Reality Deviants...Why does reality Punish the Technocracy?

If you don't like the rules, wait for the next book,
they'll change

If no one notices you doing it, it didn't happen....Ask the
Nosferatu, He saw you even if you did not do it...and he
has pictures!
Don't bring your girlfriend to a larp if you want her to
stay your girlfriend. Beware any woman you pick up at a
larp.

Police only have two response times: not at all or right
now.
Baffled by a cunning mystery? Wait a few books and it will
be explained.

There's no freedom in being a freelancer.

Never try to apply physics to celerity or potence. Never
speak of doing so near physics students.

The hot larp chic at the con never plays a member of your
clan.

Vampires live for centuries until they enter a LARP.

Vampires and Werewolves are fierce enemies, until they start LARPing together.

The Golden Rule: "God" is free to change the world anyway he/she see fitting
unless he collects Gold from his/her players.

One can make more friends in the city AFTER being bloodhunted...

A vampire, after residing in a mansion in the carpathians
for hundreds of years, will one day uproot everything he
holds dear and move to a midwestern city in America for no
discernable reason.
All supernaturals hate change and are very judgemental.
Until a PC gets to play one.
 The Camarilla is a feudal system of rule where status and station mean
everything and everyone gets a vote...
Sometimes you need to punish the Tremere for what you
haven't caught them doing.

The only person wrong when a player breaks a
law/tadition/litany is the one who punishes the criminal.

Never under estimate the ability of players to believe
anything you say, no matter how innane
 
Most of the folks who should be playing Aberrant, aren't.

Most of the people you think should be playing Aberrant
wouldn't understand the point of it, either.

Being a bloodthirsy predator who hates being a bloodthirsty
predator and spends most of thier time trying to resist
their decline into an even more bloodthirsty predator is a
good reason to hang about with bloodthirsty predators

Things don't have to make sense if you give them Special
Capitalised Names

People will frequently do things just to prove how mature
the world is

Just being old teaches you how to handle a sword

Supernatural beings can smel each other out from across a
city

Elders who can't understand how guns work can fully
appreciate the intricate workings of a modern beuraucracy

Life isn't fair. This simple statement justifies any degree
of nonsensical bullshit, as long as it hoses the PCs

Magic works. But isn't very interesting.

Given the choice between making themselves happy or making
somebody else unhappy, mature and well thought out
characters will make somebody else unhappy

"Moral Ambiguity" means having a second set of bad guys who
are even worse than thefirst set of bad guys

Everybody brings a sword to a gunfight

Being ugly allows you to find stuff out

All Occult Conspiracies really **are** as old as they claim
to be
One third of the time, I will screw up.

Without fail, the pacifist brujah will rip someone's head
clean off it it's the last day of the con and he hasn't
fought yet.

If you still have willpower at the con, you're not done
yet.

I hate a heavy handed storyteller. I'd much rather sit on
my thumb and complain there's nothing happening.

If someone speaks to me in character about something
happening outside of the game (like sports) I obviously
should drop character.

Every bad role-player thinks someone else is worse.

Beware house rules: if there's a system for putting a steak
in the heart, someone will come up with putting a bullet in
the brain.

Your girlfriend hates rock paper scissors.

Most larpers would rather see a guy in a rubber mask than
see someone playing Hannibal Lector.

Rumor can justify anything.

Kill anyone wearing a long black trenchcoat.

Princes can rule their cities peacefully for centuries,
until the chronicle starts.

People who have no last names should be laughed at. Yes
even Blade. This goes double for Toreador.

There is no problem that Thaumaturgy can't solve.

No matter how rare or almost extinct a certain type of
supernatural creature is one will always flock to the
middle of nowhere.

Fire fighters perform a vital and important fucntion in
life. Unless of course your character is burning down
something.

Vampires are creatures of beauty and sophistication, up
until the point where they have to go trudging through a
sewer to cut a deal with the Nosferatu.

Every city, no matter how small, has an intricate sewer
system that would put the Roman catacombs to shame.

Oh yes of course everyone would just LOVE to hear about how
your last character single handedly raided a Garou Caern,
embraced everyone in it and became "Prince of the Lupines"
Insert sarcasm as you please.
Whatever city you happen to live in will be a warezone.

Moving to another city (or just not showing up to social
functions) and dying are equaly bad.
Heavy handed storytelling is mature roleplaying. The
concept of PC protagonism is just a D&D holdover.

It makes sense to be able to put a bullet in somebody's
brain without killing them, or indeed without slowing them
down. Particularly if they're Adjective enough to take it.

As was demonstrated at a Mage larp I stumbled upon last
night, it is acceptable to wear a cape with sneakers in
public.

All vampires carry cell phones and have one another's
numbers memorized or programmed in. (this one was a lot
funnier in 95 when I started... cell phones weren't as
prolific and couldn't hold numbers)

There is always "that one guy" at a larp. Don't be that
guy. (you know who you are)

Carrying a katana / uzi / LAW rocket under a trench coat is
a perfectly socially acceptable action.

If it was in a movie and it was lame, some wanker will want
to base a character around it.

a Katana/Uzi/Law rocket can be concealed
undetectably under a trenchcoat

Everybody carries a katana. Most people carry an "original"
katana which was handed down from thier sire

Each supernatural creature knows which other supernatural
creatures exist and which are fiction and accepts this as
perfectly normal. "Werewolves? Oh sure. Yes, Mummies exist,
too. Dragons!? Don't be ridiculous."

Want to be part of a boring, over-dramatized scavenger
hunt? Sign up for a convention larp.

Its perfectly acceptable for your character to know 4
levels of Lore because "I read my sire's journal" or "I ran
with a Lupine Pack for 5 years."

Its perfectly alright to plot the untimely death of other
PCs, but it isn't fair when you get caught and the prince
calls a bloodhunt on you.

There is no such thing as patience, everything should
revolve around the concept of instant gratification.

If the storyteller is winning against your character, he or
she is must be cheating.

Every PC's (wife, child, significant other) was killed by
(BSD, Setites, shadow court, NWO) and that means that they
get the vengeance flaw but also secret knowledge about the
enemy.

The overweight, pale gamer at GenCon who hasn't bathed or
brushed his teeth since thursday wonders why the chainmail
bikini girl won't talk to him.

People working at the Con booths actually want to hear
about your character, and every other geek who tells them
about how damage and cool powerz their character has.


Dominate is meant to be interpreted by the victim.

Dominating someone to "Run" obviously means that they can
kick you as they "run" over you.

Elysium...

It's where vampires go to be on neutral ground... really...
it is... honest.

Most Elysiums are flammable, explodable, receive numorous
police visits, and are generally pleasent places for
vampiric discourse.

The first tradition doesn't exist in Elysium. Why? Because
it's "not here".

It's amazing how much bars and student unions resemble high
rise board rooms and warehouses.

The ten limos parked outside Elysium never draw a crowd.

Somehow, the brujah neonate with three mental traits and
two negative mental traits can find the Elysium of a city
with little trouble... even though it's location and
existence is supposed to be a huge secret.

Somehow, the sabbat warpack with three mental traits and
two negative mental traits can find the Elysium of a city
with little trouble... even though it's location and
existence is supposed to be a huge secret.

Most "Camarilla" owbn Elysiums are actually home to anarchs
who THINK they're Camarilla members.