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Aristotle says that people watch tragedies to experience catharsis, I imagine acting one out via LARP is just like that only more. Like, if you had a lovely and kind of controlling ex for a while it might feel good to spend a night play-acting someone who got through a much, much worse relationship and is still doing okay. Or of course the LARP could be more about the dope urban fantasy with side helpings of horror and metafiction parts of Changeling.
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There have been vamp LARPs in the USA that weekly. It’s utterly absurd and I can’t imagine how people could handle that without losing their minds. (Obviously the answer is that they do wind up losing their minds.) But yeah, a game where there’s regular tabletop meetups and downtime actions and maybe the occasional remote scene for one-on-one interactions with NPCs is a perfectly valid model, if a bit of extra work for everyone involved, which is fine if you’re only playing monthly.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I asked in a meetup group if anyone played wod and some group invited me that larps Changeling the Lost. Changeling is actually a great format for a LARP if you ignore the origin stories beyond 'the Fae are terrible' and don't explore it too deeply. Courts and pacts alone make for great social fuel in a LARP environment, the fact that you get to be dressed up as rubbish faeries is also part of the fun. However if you imagine that any given Vampire player character has like a 5% chance of being some kind of bugfuck weirdo who missed the memo on what the game is supposed to be about, Changeling is like a 50% chance.
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Meinberg posted:There have been vamp LARPs in the USA that weekly. It’s utterly absurd and I can’t imagine how people could handle that without losing their minds. (Obviously the answer is that they do wind up losing their minds.) But yeah, a game where there’s regular tabletop meetups and downtime actions and maybe the occasional remote scene for one-on-one interactions with NPCs is a perfectly valid model, if a bit of extra work for everyone involved, which is fine if you’re only playing monthly. We play mage for about 4 hours about every other week at my house. And then we do some downtime stuff via email. It's much less work than when I was running DnD because encounters (if there are any this week, they've taken heavily to talking their way out of trouble), are easier to plan for the most part. And the last big encounter I did plan (a twilight re-enactment of a Civil War battle to steal a supernal artifact from a ghost mage) got mostly skipped because MAGE. I don't plan individual scenes anymore. It does help that I have a mostly full setting for them to screw around in, so the most I end up doing is 20-30 minutes of planning a week anymore trying to guess where it might end up going. It helps that they're open about telling me where/what they want to do in advance.
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They did Achtung Cthulhu and a bunch of licensed stuff like Star Trek.
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UK company, did Achtung! Cthulhu and a bunch of licensed games based on their in-house 2D20 system (Conan and Star Trek being big names), occasionally will sneakily hire GMS as a freelancer and try to keep it quiet by crediting him as "Michael Brophy". They did the printing and distribution for V5 so them managing more of the line makes sense. Onyx Path getting the job would have been cool, but they simply don't have the printing and distribution connections that Modiphius do.
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So short version: they in effect fired everyone except the Nazis?
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...no? Modiphius is probably gonna produce workmanlike but not exciting material that no one gives a poo poo about.
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Honestly, it depends on who Modiphius bring in to do the writing (I note that it's far from clear from the announcement which individuals Modiphius are putting in charge of any of these projects). They could rehire all the Nazis, they could just hire a bunch of Onyx Path writers, they could use their own regular freelancers. AIUI they had no input on the content of V5/Camarilla/Anarchs though - literally all they did was print and distribute the material that ParaWolf had developed. So there's a chance that they will keep the Nazis out, there is a chance the Nazis will all come back.
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Also pretty relevantly Modiphius are the people who just remade Kult. I'm not sure how well they handled that but it would probably be a good benchmark for how they will handle oWoD.
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neaden posted:Also pretty relevantly Modiphius are the people who just remade Kult. I'm not sure how well they handled that but it would probably be a good benchmark for how they will handle oWoD. That's, uh, a really bad sign of the F&F of remade Kult is anything to go by. It did not seem like it came out well.
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neaden posted:Also pretty relevantly Modiphius are the people who just remade Kult. I'm not sure how well they handled that but it would probably be a good benchmark for how they will handle oWoD. Modiphius might be involved in the distribution, but if so it's on the down low - Kult's not listed on their website. EDIT: OK, weirder and weirder: Modiphius are definitely doing distribution, and there is in fact a Kult section on their site, but it's not listed in the drop-down menu of their games on their front page. Guess they're a little shy about it.
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Modiphius also distributes Legacy 2e by SA’s very own Jay Iles, and Legacy 2e is good. They distribute all sorts of products.
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I think the one time I heard anything particularly negative about Modiphius is that they need to hire more women.
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All I know about the games listed here is that Achtung Cthulhu had a good sidebar about handling the portrayal of Nazis with care while also having a book that lists a couple dozen Elder Gods and the ways they can be dealt with. Judicious use of artillery can either millennia-long KO or permanently kill a little over half of them, including a lot of the Big Names. I enjoyed that.
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Apparently if you didn't pre-order Anarch and Camarilla, you're SOL. The books will not be available in print OR digital, and Modiphius will decide whether to reprint/edit. https://blog.white-wolf.com/2018/12/20/vampire-modiphius-partnership/
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I mean, good decision.
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Mors Rattus posted:I mean, good decision. White Wolf's edited version will still go out to pre-orders (individual and store), but after that.
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I''ve seen from a couple places that worldofdarkness and its subscription service are also dead as of today. Wonder if there's going to be a lot of people looking for  edit: Yup, confirmed, and refunds won't be processed untill Q1 (I hope for people's sake that means JANUARY, not March) http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?5915-WorldOfDarkness-com-Closing-Down SirFozzie fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Dec 20, 2018 |
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SirFozzie posted:White Wolf's edited version will still go out to pre-orders (individual and store), but after that. Yeah, and I honestly think that's the best they can do, since the other option is total refund and that money is hella gone, the product exists, there is literally no economical way to do it.
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So does this mean Ericson is pretty much fired? That's going a long way to (mostly) erase the mistake of that book. I admit when I saw 'Modiphius is in charge' before I looked at the article I thought they were talking about some vampire metaplot thing. That name sounds like a vampire metaplot name.
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yeah, and following up on the WoD website thing, usually when they discontinue something they soft-soap it like "It was a good effort, but we felt our fans deserved better). Not so this time https://twitter.com/ShamsJorjani/status/1075501434404265984
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Night10194 posted:So does this mean Ericson is pretty much fired? That's going a long way to (mostly) erase the mistake of that book. From the blog post, it certainly sounds that way. The creation and sale of these books would not happen under the incarnation of White Wolf that we are building Which basically goes back to "We weren't going to make books after these anyway" but it is interesting wording along with I see White Wolf in the future as a company that will continue steering the World of Darkness as the setting for incredible experiences that both entertain and challenge our players, but with strong editorial leadership, and more guidance and input from a broader set of voices. There needs to be new leadership for this new direction, and we believe Modiphius will be an integral part of this process with regards to Vampire, but there are more steps still to be taken for the World of Darkness and White Wolf as a whole. Which sounds like "Edgelords be gone"
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Modiphius publishes so much stuff that it's hard to point to any one thing and say that reflects on how they'll handle the oWoD gamelines. Hopefully they hire good writers.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Modiphius publishes so much stuff that it's hard to point to any one thing and say that reflects on how they'll handle the oWoD gamelines. Hopefully they hire good writers. Modiphius is good, they've made an excellent Star Trek RPG and Conan is good too. They sell Kult in the UK but it's from Helmgast in Sweden, they didn't make it.
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thorsilver posted:Modiphius is good, they've made an excellent Star Trek RPG and Conan is good too. Infinity seems good, too. I think they're a bit hamstrung by having to deal with running everything past the license-holder, but it seems to work well by all accounts.
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I had forgotten that Dracula killed Marilyn Monroe and embraced Howard Hughes. The Dark Destiny books were wild. Shame about the pedophile editor.
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Der Waffle Mous posted:I think the one time I heard anything particularly negative about Modiphius is that they need to hire more women. To be fair, just about everyone in the business needs to hire more women.
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Loomer posted:Shame about the pedophile editor.
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Modiphius has also done a pretty good job with the Mutant Chronicles license, and their Kickstarters are typically* either problem free or worth the wait. They're very professional, which is a rarity in the industry. (*The Infinity RPG has been a mess, largely due to CB micro-managing the setting - So it's hard to fault Modiphius for that one.)
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Night10194 posted:That's, uh, a really bad sign of the F&F of remade Kult is anything to go by.
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I was talking to a buddy tonight and brought up DtD, because I thought he'd dig some of the concepts and DtD loving rules. Afterwards, since he knew of VtM, we got into the differences between oWoD and nWoD and what a metaplot and poo poo was. He asked me, basically, why someone interested in nuVampire wouldn't just play rVampire (god there are too many abbreviations and he didn't know the names but that was basically his question) like how someone wanting to play old school D&D could just pick up the 1e players guide. I talked to him a bit about how tabletop RPG game design evolves and builds off each other, how since the 1990s game design got a lot more thoughtful about asking like, how the rules they have encourage a particular style of play, and how new ideas filter into the mainstream through more experimental games. He thought that loving ruled. You know what? It totally does.
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