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Loomer posted:It was probably me when I made that sacrificial pact with the dice devil for 'more owod'. The Project is the lynchpin of a vast and terrible occult matrix
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Loomer posted:Vampires will have two looks, one for the mortal world and one for Elysium quote:The Masquerade more important than ever quote:The 2nd Inquisition is underway after governement agencies have discovered the truth. And its brutal and ugly. quote:The 2nd Impergium is underway with the Garou finally having listened to the Red Talons (and grudgingly accepted the Ratkinsw argument) that humanity must be stopped. Werewolves have realised that Gaia is almost dead. quote:The current world tensions between Islam and the west are in truth just the mortal facet of the Gehenna Wars
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May 12, 2017 16:00
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There's a part of me that's somewhat excited to see what comes out of this but also surprised at what's happening. Flavivirus posted:So Ken Hite - Author of Night's Black Agents - has been announced as lead designer of V:tM 5th Edition. He's friendly with everyone because he's a full time game designer. Not excusing anything but he's just super professional about everything because he's working hand to mouth in an industry that often doesn't pay its workers. They've also done episodes of Ken and Robin where they tell people not to be like Zak S. or half the OSR guys.  Kurieg posted:...what? No seriously what? Why would the Technocracy work with Pentex? I guess we're rolling back any sense of Moral gray and now the technocracy are mustache twirlingly evil? Didn't the Syndicate create Pentex and not shut it down even after knowing about the whole Wyrm thing? "Free markets, man and what's the threat?" RocknRollaAyatollah fucked around with this message at 16:13 on May 12, 2017 |
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May 12, 2017 16:09
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The answer to that depends on which line you're reading.
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The answer is always 'no', but they did wind up playing a not insignificant role for a while as investors. More on the unsourced hearsay doomsday propheteering! "Overall, the setting is intensifying in line with the intensification of world events The metaplot weill not be dictation. We are all going to have a major effect on all the metaplot elements. Its going to be something we make happen. Sects will fall based on the choices players of games make. The power they want us to have is that big. Dice tests will be reduced to a single roll where possible"
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*Warhammer 40k players look on nervously. Except for the Orks.*
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I look forward to the return of 'mail in postcards saying what your groups did.'
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Did your pack of Sabbat vampires execute or enslave the Yazidi villagers? What dark enlightenment ideals should the Camarilla champion at the Conclave?
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And Paradox Interactive is keeping them the gently caress out of their convention while my fellow Kaiserreich devs are running a booth. They, and indirectly I, get more attention than Swedracula from his publishers 
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Loomer posted:The 2nd Impergium is underway with the Garou finally having listened to the Red Talons (and grudgingly accepted the Ratkinsw argument) that humanity must be stopped.  I.....wha... there's so much to unpack here but this is is just. Ugh. loving really? Good luck explaining how Garou don't get absolutely loving destroyed in-universe. Red Mundus fucked around with this message at 17:02 on May 12, 2017 |
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Apparently the community-decided metaplot will also be dictated by vidyagamez and 'other interactive media'. So what, they're going to do a Telltale VtM story? (That wouldn't be so bad as a concept, to be honest, but still: 'Smiling Jack will remember that.')
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May 12, 2017 17:00
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"Yeah so the mages that effectively uphold the status quo are running a new Inquisition, and everyone on the loving planet knows that silver kills werewolves, but it's cool. The werewolves will get really angry at the problem and won't be instantly murdered.".
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It's like every terrible RPG idea from the 90s, for the 2010s! Amazing.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:They've also done episodes of Ken and Robin where they tell people not to be like Zak S. or half the OSR guys. *buys more Ken Hite books, but not the ones he cooperated with Zak Smith, serial harasser, on*
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The real question is, when the world ends, who will Swedracula allow to escape with him through his time tunnel to 1992?
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The good news is as players we can reject Swedracula's reality and substitute our own.
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LatwPIAT posted:*buys more Ken Hite books, but not the ones he cooperated with Zak Smith, serial harasser, on* According to his Twitter he's going to be working at White Wolf most of the time so good luck on anything made after this year. They've never collaborated on anything in the past to my knowledge but the future brings untold possibilities of edgy content and personal attacks on other game designers.
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I already didn't have any hope for this, but, if true, that Islam poo poo…woo boy. Also lol 40 books in development gently caress off
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I am actually at the event, and sat at the keynote. Whoever provided that summary seems like they are reading in to things a bit too much. Or maybe they managed to drag off the keynote people for a more quiet talk after the event. I did see them lunch with attendees later. For example the 2nd Impergium seemed more like something that is on the table now, but hasn't started yet. And the new inquisition was hinted to have some mage backing, but it wasn't outright stated that it's the Technocracy or Pentex or whatever. But I'm a very casual fan at best, so maybe I missed out on some of the implications. Only thing I really found myself apprehended by was the middle East stuff, which seems a bit hamfisted. But then the scenario competition here also had two separate Syria related entrees. I can try to answer some questions later when I'm winding down at the hotel in the evening, just keep in mind that I'm not super knowledgeable about the history of the game. A friend just dragged me here for some fun p&p stuff!
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Loomer posted:Apparently the community-decided metaplot will also be dictated by vidyagamez and 'other interactive media'. So what, they're going to do a Telltale VtM story? (That wouldn't be so bad as a concept, to be honest, but still: 'Smiling Jack will remember that.') They've got a stellar track record with their ifiction already!
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Attorney at Funk posted:They've got a stellar track record with their ifiction already! Smiling Jack's smear will remember that.
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That Old Tree posted:I already didn't have any hope for this, but, if true, that Islam poo poo…woo boy. What, 'half an idea for a title' doesn't count as 'in development'?
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Didn't the Syndicate create Pentex and not shut it down even after knowing about the whole Wyrm thing? "Free markets, man and what's the threat?" No, Pentex infiltrated the Syndicate, several Great Investors (or what they are called) are Nephandi. The Syndicate itself doesn't know, and on principle would fight it.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:According to his Twitter he's going to be working at White Wolf most of the time so good luck on anything made after this year. They've never collaborated on anything in the past to my knowledge but the future brings untold possibilities of edgy content and personal attacks on other game designers. I was thinking more of buying Night's Black Agents and The Fall of Delta Green.
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As of Syndicate Revised, the department in charge of working with Pentex, Special Projects Division, has gone missing. They don't return phone calls, they don't send progress reports, and people who try to figure out where they went tend to turn up as mangled corpses. They do, however, still turn in their projected profits every quarter. For this reason, the Syndicate has decided that everything is probably okay and there's no point wasting time looking into it.
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'Well, smart odds are on them all being consumed by evil spirits and warped into horrific beasts wearing human suits...but the profits keep coming in, so we've classified it as a diversity program.'
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I feel like we should find a way to troll the metaplot somehow.
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I tried doing that on a WoD MUSH once but all that came out of it was a really fun idea for a Technocracy game. 'Attention, please. Your team has been assigned to build, open and operate a mall as our beachhead of normalcy in a town full of reality deviants. Please ensure the mall is as successful as possible.'
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Loomer posted:Blood Pool is gone. It was described as a gas meter and thus not very sexy. In its place is an elegant and well thought out system relating hunger to the likelihood of frenzy. You will have composure as a resource. You can opt to spend this when faced with a situation where you want to resist doing something eg feeding at the sight of blood. If you spend it however you get a red hunger die or more in your pools (for probably all your rolls) which will act to increase your chance of entering frenzy. If you dont, you do something you dont want to, avoiding compulsion, but you will have more composure when the chance you frenzy comes up, and less hunger, meanijng less liklely to frenzy. This could be cool, but it could also end up making blood seem like an affectation rather than the source of life.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I feel like we should find a way to troll the metaplot somehow. Aren't the essentially doing that themselves? My knowledge of the oWoD metaplot is vague and muddled, but none of that sounds particularly great either for the NPCs or any actual PCs who want to actually interact with it. "World is dying, organizations all infiltrated, the end of the world is here, but since no one did anything about it for 15 years it's just going to be worse and there's nothing you can really do about it because -metaplot- (unless you suck up via LARPing)".
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Mors Rattus posted:'Well, smart odds are on them all being consumed by evil spirits and warped into horrific beasts wearing human suits...but the profits keep coming in, so we've classified it as a diversity program.' "The money may be dirty, but their spreadsheets are very clean. Ask yourself, could a discorporate alien entity be so good with Excel?"
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Loomer posted:The current world tensions between Islam and the west are in truth just the mortal facet of the Gehenna Wars I look forward to seeing Zak S and Swedracula's sensitive handling of this topic. (Credit Where Credit is Due: Making sure KotE 2: Wuxia Boogaloo isn't written by white dudes from rural Georgia is a definite step forward, and Ken Hite has written some amazing stuff with Suppressed Transmission.)
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I'm unironically stoked to see that they're serious about moving forward with this collaborative storytelling boondoggle and I'm hyped to see the flaming wreckage. I'm expecting a whole wiki's worth of drama.
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Jhet posted:Aren't the essentially doing that themselves? My knowledge of the oWoD metaplot is vague and muddled, but none of that sounds particularly great either for the NPCs or any actual PCs who want to actually interact with it. "World is dying, organizations all infiltrated, the end of the world is here, but since no one did anything about it for 15 years it's just going to be worse and there's nothing you can really do about it because -metaplot- (unless you suck up via LARPing)".
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Nessus posted:I'm kind of surprised there because I had the impression from the WW20 book that one of the big shifts was that they actually saw the possibility of success now. (I was also greatly amused at fracking being a profound Wyrm trick because that was just the right kind of cheese.) W20 has no relation to White Wolf's upcoming 5th Edition. The 20th Anniversary stuff is Onyx Path and has been entirely disavowed by White Wolf as not canonical to their new edition.
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Basic Chunnel posted:I'm unironically stoked to see that they're serious about moving forward with this collaborative storytelling boondoggle and I'm hyped to see the flaming wreckage. I'm expecting a whole wiki's worth of drama. Oh come on, when has asking your playerbase to steer the metaplot for your gameline ever ended up- wait, wait, poo poo. gently caress.
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just take my "I've never been more glad I have zero attachment to Changeling the Dreaming" post from a few days ago and just apply it to oWoD as a whole honestly
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Ironslave posted:Oh come on, when has asking your playerbase to steer the metaplot for your gameline ever ended up-
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