The WOD Purity Test

Word Of Darkness Purity Test

How close are you to the World of Darkness? Check all questions for which your answer is "yes," then click the "submit your score for calculation" button at the bottom of the page.

ic = in character (things your character does)
ooc = out of character (things the player does)

Part 1: Technicalities

Have you ever played a World of Darkness role-playing game? (if the answer to this one is "no," maybe you're in the wrong place =P)
Have you played more than one type of WOD game? (Vampire, Werewolf, etc.)
Have you ever been involved in more than one WOD campaign at a time?
...of different types? (Played a V:tM and a W:tA game at the same time, etc)
Have you ever stayed up past 4am playing a WOD game?
Have you ever played a game involving 5 players (including StoryTeller) or more?
...10 players or more?
...20 players or more? (battle rounds must last forever)
Have you ever StoryTold a WOD campaign?
Have you ever been part of a WOD campaign that lasted for over a week (real-time)?
...more than a month (real-time)?
...more than a year (real-time)? (talk about your involved story-lines!)
Have you ever been part of a WOD LARP (Live Action Role Playing) using White Wolf's "Mind's Eye Theater" rules?
Have you ever been part of a WOD LARP using any other rules system?
Have you ever played a free-form WOD game (without a Story Teller)?
Have you ever played WOD on an on-line chat (Net Chat, IRC, etc)?
Have you been a regular member on a WOD role-playing chat? (where everybody knows your name)
Have you ever had a WOD character in any type of game that lived (or whatever the applicable description is) for more than a month (real-time)?
...more than a year (real-time)?
Have you ever been part of a WOD club of any sort?
Have you ever started such a club?

Part 2: Details

Have you ever bought any White Wolf books?
Have you ever bought any White Wolf non-gaming books? (story books, etc)
Have you ever bought any WOD clothing? (t-shirts, hats, etc)
Have you ever bought any WOD jewelry or other paraphenilia? (clan symbols, etc)
Have you ever worn said items on a regular basis?
Have you spent more than $50 on WOD supplies?
...more than $100?
...more than $500? (my, a little over-budgeted, are we?)
Have you ever gone out and searched for a specific clan or tribal symbol because that's the type of character you prefer to play?
Have you ever dressed up as one of your WOD characters?
Have you ever bought such items as colored contacts, fangs, or other oddities so you could look exactly like your WOD character?
Have you ever spent an extended period of time dressed as your character (more than a few hours)?
Have you ever actually begun to think exactly like your character? (now we're into the really intense role-playing)
Have you ever actually begun to believe you were your character? (now we're just going over the top)

Part 3: The Nitty Gritty

Have you ever embraced another character ic (if, of course, you were playing Vampire at the time)?
Have you ever played a mortal in a WOD game just for the excitement of watching the vamps, shifters, mages and such squirm whenever you walked into a room?
Have you ever had an ic romance in a WOD game?
Have you ever had an ic romance with a mortal while you were playing a non-mortal in a WOD game?
Have you ever had an ic relationship with a non-mortal while you were playing a mortal in an WOD game?
Have you ever made out with someone ic?
Have you ever had sex with someone ic? (technically impossible for vamps unless you want to blow a bunch of bp, and still not as much fun as feeding)
Have you ever gone steady with someone ic?
Have you ever gotten married ic?
Have you ever started a real life relationship as the result of a WOD game?
Have you ever made out with someone you met as the result of a WOD game?
Have you ever had sex with someone you met as the result of a WOD game? (now we're getting personal)
Have you ever gone steady with someone you met as the result of a WOD game?
Have you ever married someone you met as the result of a WOD game?
Have you ever met someone in person from an on-line WOD game?
Did you actually go out of your way to meet someone from an on-line WOD game?
Have you gone out of your way to play a WOD game?
Have you gone out of your way to meet an entire group of people from an on-line WOD game?

Part 4: Personality

Have you ever blatantly gone against your own kind's strict rules? (the Masq for Camerilla, the Litany for Werewolves, etc)
...and gotten away with it?
Have you ever been involved in a hunt for someone who broke such rules? (tack up the Honor points)
Have you ever killed one of your own tribe/clan/sect members (justified or not)?
Have you ever been dragged before the Prince/Sect Leader/Arch Mage/etc to answer for your crimes? (sounds like you're screwed...)
Have you ever discovered a new Gift/Discipline/Spell/etc that isn't in the rule book?
...and actually convinced the StoryTeller to let you get away with using it?
Have you ever frenzied?
...three times in one game?
...ten times in one game?
...more than ten times in one game? (aggressive, aren't we)
Have you ever actually scared the other characters in your pack/clan/etc?
Have you ever been killed in the middle of a really stupid folley? (charged ahead and not noticed no one else was following, etc)
Have you ever survived a such a stupid folley? (just plain luck!)
Have you ever earned esteem by pulling a buddy out of a stupid folley?
Have you ever watched a buddy charge ahead stupidly and just sat back to laugh at him?
Have you ever single-handedly started a clan/tribe/etc war?

Part 5: Style

Have you ever stepped sideways to seek out a specific spirit?
Have you ever had a spirit seek you out? (give you a stud point)
Have you ever emerged as the understood leader of your group?
Have you ever lead a noble charge to rescue a character?
...another player's character? (loyal to the end)
Have you ever spouted off some phrase or line that caused everyone else to do a double-take?
Have you ever been rewarded experience simply for playing your character so well?
Have you ever played a Caitiff/Nomad/etc successfully? (without dying in the first campaign and making everyone else actually like you, despite your status)
Have you ever had such a cool character that they came back for cameos in future games?
Have you ever done something so hilarious ic that everyone else had to drop ooc just to laugh?
Have you ever overthrown the local powers-that-be to take their place?
...and given it to someone else? (generous, aren't we)
Have you ever indirectly caused the fall of the local powers-that-be?
...and no one could prove you had done it?
Have you ever gained power so fast, you eventually out-ranked your sire/elder/ teacher/etc?
Have you ever killed your sire/elder/teacher/etc? (little blood-thirsty hound that you are)
Have you ever had your sire/elder/teacher/etc attempt to kill you because they thought you were a definite threat?
...and actually survived their attempt?
Have you ever been the focus of an entire plot line?
Did tons of your friends and allies die thanks to such a plot line? (chalk up extra points if a few innocents were added to the body count, as well)
Have you ever figured out who the villan was within the first ten minutes of a campaign?
Have you ever smashed some poor StoryTeller's intricate plot by killing the villan within the first ten minutes of the game? (how rude!)
Have you ever stood your ground against an Ancient (Antediluvian, etc)?
...and, by some miracle, lived?
Have you ever played a character using the system from "the Time of Thin Blood?"
Have you ever played a scenario based on "the Time of Thin Blood?"

Part 6: General Obsessions

Have you ever written/maintained a WOD-based web page?
Have you ever written an alternative rules system for a WOD-based game?
Did you actually buy a copy of "the Time of Thin Blood?"
Do you visit the White-Wolf web site on a regular basis?