Patroling?

[Bubba Kush]

so what's this patroling I keep hearing about? I see it in the 'letter', what is it?

Is it really people walking the streets like Buffy, wandering until you find something?

[Shah-Khohr of Ventrue]

If you're one for that sort of thing...

[Just Evan]

'Patrolling' is the generic term we use for the various acts of keeping an eye on a given region. It can absolutely involve beating feet over a small area and seeing what (if anything) is happening. The game breaks investigation of a region into four separate types of tests, all found at the top of this page. You can have minions or retainers (or even other PCs) break a large area into smaller, manageable chunks and do other creative things to have a better chance of actually catching someone doing something wrong.


-Evan

[Kevin K]

I can't help but think of this every time we have this conversation...

[Bubba Kush]

oh great, just when i thought this game was too accessible

thanks for the help

[Skir]

I haven't got around to making a brand new system to simplify this yet, so it's currently as stated on the website.

However, take heart, in that while there are a number of different rolls there, they are actually more accurately different "styles" of doing the same basic things, but giving you options for different die rolls as befits your character's strengths.

Just an additional note here, though. You can only successfully patrol one Domain at a time per character.


I do plan to replace this at some point with a passive alert system rather than "omg I totally just walked up RIGHT when the Sabbat was feeding in THIS Alley, out of the sixty thousand alleys in this city. Man, I'm good."