Ha!
Man, I haven't played anything WoD in ages. I think they've released several different rulesets since the last time I played (It was Revised edition, I think?)
Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!
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Kalshane - Jan 09, 2020 5:45:37 am PST #25508 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 09, 2020 5:54:12 am PST #25509 of 26133
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Vampire is two editions past that now, I think most everything else is at the 20th Anniversary edition stage (4th for the main three lines, 3rd for the others).
Kalshane - Jan 09, 2020 12:09:25 pm PST #25510 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I pretty much jumped ship when they blew up the old WoD and introduced new games with new systems and metaplot. I remember them deciding all Mages were from Atlantis or some craziness like that and never bothered buying any of the books after that.
One of these days I'll get around to running the 1999-set Mage chronicle where the villain is trying to use all the End of the Millennium hysteria to try to usher in the actual Apocalypse.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 09, 2020 2:47:43 pm PST #25511 of 26133
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'd stopped playing due to gaming group diaspora by the time Revised rolled out, but I kept following the books until that New World of Darkness revamp. No bueno.
Atropa - Jan 09, 2020 3:13:42 pm PST #25512 of 26133
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The most recent version of V:tM is a trash fire in terms of mechanics AND content. They leaned heavy into the edgelord aspects.
Kalshane - Jan 09, 2020 3:26:13 pm PST #25513 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Oof. I remember it being edgelordy enough, back in the day. It seemed like there were 9 Sabbat players for every Camarilla.
I also remember the few people who did play Camarilla were always Toreadors or Malkavians (who were always cartoon crazy).
Atropa - Jan 09, 2020 3:35:39 pm PST #25514 of 26133
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It's like the dev team for V5 looked at the original books and said "It's not dark enough! Hold my blood bag!"
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 09, 2020 9:51:12 pm PST #25515 of 26133
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Weren't the creators of the core big into the Scandinavian LARP scene, and basically writing for that crowd's playing style even though tabletop gamers were the actual customers they were trying to sell it to?
Dark themes aren't necessarily a dealbreaker for me (hey, I've played Call of Chthulhu and KULT!), but nothing I heard about the new version sounded like it would be any actual fun to play. I've yet to spend a penny on it.
Kalshane - Jan 17, 2020 10:45:23 am PST #25516 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Can I just take a moment to say "Thank God for VTTs?" We've got a potentially nasty winter weather system hitting us this weekend and the fact that I can just tell my players "Hey, let's play online tomorrow night so everyone can stay warm and safe at home" is huge.
Laga - Jan 26, 2020 6:58:18 am PST #25517 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Ooh yeah we use Tabletop Simulator and Skype (somehow skype ended up being the thing that works best with our group).
Hey so you may have seen my post on Facebook but I was wondering if anyone would pay to have D&D brought to your facebook. I have lots of details how it would work if anyone is interested.