Also, to note: I've never played any White Wolf game, so this won't have any dice rolling unless someone wants to give a crash course on the Storyteller/Storytelling systems.

For setting, I'm thinking west coast, LA, San Francisco, maybe a bit east into Nevada/Vegas. Time period...late 70s to mid 80s.

Gotta have a killer soundtrack, ye.

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Is that the 'Noir' period that you are thinking of?

If everyone is playing something different, having multiple independent plots will strain the GM unduly and result in a bare minimum of player interaction.

Again, I'd recommend the setting be "generic dark fantasy" styled after World of Darkness, so we can take what we want and leave what we don't, according to player preference and plot convenience.

To tie together a bunch of different characters, perhaps the plot could involve some sort of supernatural contracting company that employs our characters? I've seen that done well.

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I mean, I already didn't plan on really focusing on the meta-plots of the respective series.

But if it's just 'generic dark fantasy', well, what makes it WoD?

To tie together a bunch of different characters, perhaps the plot could involve some sort of supernatural contracting company that employs our characters? I've seen that done well.