World Of Darkness General (VtM, WtO, MtA, etc.)

Favorite WoD TRPG?

  • Vampire: The Masquerade

    Votes: 161 59.0%

  • Werewolf: The Apocalypse

    Votes: 42 15.4%

  • Mage: The Ascension

    Votes: 75 27.5%

  • Wraith: The Oblivion

    Votes: 31 11.4%

  • Changeling: The Dreaming

    Votes: 27 9.9%

  • Hunter: The Reckoning

    Votes: 33 12.1%

  • Mummy: The Resurrection

    Votes: 13 4.8%

  • Demon: The Fallen

    Votes: 21 7.7%
  • Total voters
    273
Tactical Wizard said:
Zak S has fucking delivered and this is just part one.
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Lol, progressives after becoming the woke target of the day.

Zak:
-You've totally failed to solve the problem of "Every time someone googles Benjamin Cusack they see 'Benjamin Cusack killed an Inuit family of 4 and ate them but only after molesting them and their dog"--which will destroy not just your career (small potatoes, really) but every other part of your life.

The solution is easy to describe and it's right there in the first section:

...you, the fans, have to do something different than what you are doing now. You can easily fact-check haters without trolling, harassing or hurting anyone, but most of you can't do it while staying in your comfort zone. You have to be as persistent and dedicated to telling the truth and making things better as they are at lying and making things worse.
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Also Zak:
@GRIM

erased. no gamergaters in my comments
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And he's still in the woke mindset that the path of critique is find a specific person and try to destroy their reputation by dismantling their moral character. I don't think it'll work exactly because he is cancelled and it will take anyone on the opposing side absolutely no time at all to claim harassments, transphobia, and go 'No sexual abusers like Zak S in my comments'. But maybe I'm wrong. He's talking their language, and it's not like they're opposed to tearing into each other when given half of an opportunity to do so.
 
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His writting comes across as dubious with the bailey jay, he's just trying to cover his ass over transphobia accusations. I'd really like some confirmation from her. Still if this somehow results in a tranny twitter slapfight with David vs bailey, that'd be amazing
 
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Emperor Julian said:
His writting comes across as dubious with the bailey jay, he's just trying to cover his ass over transphobia accusations. I'd really like some confirmation from her. Still if this somehow results in a tranny twitter slapfight with David vs bailey, that'd be amazing
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Probably not. I played We Eat Blood and All our Friends are Dead and that is in there. This will come up later because Hill and Co. claimed that the Avery Ailes character was actually a hit piece on the creator of Monster Hearts. I was lurking around RPG.net at the time when this all went down.
 
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Head Swede had this idea—the Camarilla half of Vampire: The Masquerade would look like Vogue, the Anarch half would look like a zine but both would have OSR-style info-design, Indie-inspired creativity, it would be grounded in the real world and it would have a team with a completely new take.
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Fucking cringe.
Head Swede’s idea for this edition was: New New New. They loved the old Masquerade but wanted to completely modernize it, make it work for the new century: new team, new ideas—push everything as far as possible, the sky’s the limit on big ideas and they’re LARPers and so they’d leave the tabletop details to us.
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Notes for next time: keep the LARPers and theater kids in their little corner where they can play dress-up and mean girl each other. Leave the metaplot/mechanics to the grogs.
Kenneth Hite had lots of ideas about tabletop game design and 100% up-front admitted he had no idea about visuals, Art Director was a woman who’d done a lot of impressive high-fashion shoots and music videos with fancy people and 100% admitted she had no idea about tabletop game design, and I was the guy who translated between them.

Art Director would say something like “Has there ever been a wedding in Vampire? I think that would be a great spread” (Because the art director is an art director).
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I literally can't with these people.
And Ken Hite would go “And that’s when the NSA finds them!” (Ken is always looking for ways to kill vampires).
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I like that Zak is laying Inquisition 2: Spook Boogaloo at Hite's feet without directly saying it. Nice touch.
 
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Corn Flakes said:
Chapter 2 is... trans trans trans look I love trans people trans trans trans.

Yeah, he's just padding to try to cover his ass from accusations of transphobia.
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Zak still doesn’t understand that the call is coming from inside the house. He’s obnoxiously woke and still follows the party line because he’s a true believer but he hasn’t learned that there is no forgiveness and that the moment someone runs to Twitter with an allegation, that might as well be a conviction in the minds of his peers. He’s against this because he was an early trial run for cancel culture on the RPG industry, in the years before we even called it that. I have no doubt that if Hill and his ilk hadn’t spent years trying to rip him down, he’d be jumping on those self same hate mobs that he now decries. The fact that he can’t see that it’s not a problem with the drapes but with the whole rotten edifice is because, well, he’s a lefty; his view of himself as a moral person is entirely intertwined with his politics.

That being said, he’s in a better position to pull back the curtain and he has the means to survive it. RPGs are his great love but they’ve always been the sidest of side hustles for him.
 
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Could we just abandon the White Wolf IPs and move on to other urban fantasy games or write retroclones?

For example:
www.drivethrurpg.com

CJ Carrella's WitchCraft - Eden Studios | CJ Carrella's WitchCraft | DriveThruRPG.com

CJ Carrella's WitchCraft - WitchCraftis a game of modern magic and dark secrets. Player characters are the Gifted. Feared for their unique powers,
www.drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com

DriveThruRPG.com - Chaosium - Nephilim - The Largest RPG Download Store!

Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.
www.drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com
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Feed - Whistlepunk Games | DriveThruRPG.com

Feed - In every gamer, there's a vampire story clawing to get out. Feed gives you focused, flexible rules to develop your story
www.drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com
www.drivethrurpg.com

Liminal - Modiphius | Liminal | DriveThruRPG.com

Liminal - There’s more to the world than most of us know. Academic wizards and gutter mages, vampires and werewolves, Men in Bla
www.drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com
 
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FreedomMussel said:
Could we just abandon the White Wolf IPs and move on to other urban fantasy games or write retroclones?

For example:
www.drivethrurpg.com

CJ Carrella's WitchCraft - Eden Studios | CJ Carrella's WitchCraft | DriveThruRPG.com

CJ Carrella's WitchCraft - WitchCraftis a game of modern magic and dark secrets. Player characters are the Gifted. Feared for their unique powers,
www.drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com

DriveThruRPG.com - Chaosium - Nephilim - The Largest RPG Download Store!

Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.
www.drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com
www.drivethrurpg.com

Feed - Whistlepunk Games | DriveThruRPG.com

Feed - In every gamer, there's a vampire story clawing to get out. Feed gives you focused, flexible rules to develop your story
www.drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com
www.drivethrurpg.com

Liminal - Modiphius | Liminal | DriveThruRPG.com

Liminal - There’s more to the world than most of us know. Academic wizards and gutter mages, vampires and werewolves, Men in Bla
www.drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com
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Not in the World of Darkness thread, we can't.

Who knows, maybe a urban fantasy thread could work. Plenty of speds in general populating that genre.
 
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I'll give Zak this much: he can spin an interesting yarn. I was amused reading it, but his coyness with detail is starting to get a little old.

On the other hand, am I the only one getting 2014 "the infamous internet hacker known as 4chan"-vibes from his description of SA?
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Ironically, for all his ass-kissing of transgender people up to now, he could feasibly be accused of transphobia for speaking ill of SomethingAwful in Current Year. That cesspool is literally the birthplace of troons, and they've all but completely taken over.
 
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I'll give Zak this much: he can spin an interesting yarn. I was amused reading it, but his coyness with detail is starting to get a little old.

On the other hand, am I the only one getting 2014 "the infamous internet hacker known as 4chan"-vibes from his description of SA?
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Ironically, for all his ass-kissing of transgender people up to now, he could feasibly be accused of transphobia for speaking ill of SomethingAwful in Current Year. That cesspool is literally the birthplace of troons, and they've all but completely taken over.
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I’m with you on that one. For this much set up, I’m hoping that the payoff is worth it. We should be right about at the point of the infamous dog with dice essay.
 
Pentex said:
Head Swede had this idea—the Camarilla half of Vampire: The Masquerade would look like Vogue, the Anarch half would look like a zine but both would have OSR-style info-design, Indie-inspired creativity, it would be grounded in the real world and it would have a team with a completely new take.
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I wouldn't go wall-to-wall with it, but as flavor text like the pages into a chapter that might be a decent aesthetic idea
 
Head Swede had this idea—the Camarilla half of Vampire: The Masquerade would look like Vogue, the Anarch half would look like a zine but both would have OSR-style info-design, Indie-inspired creativity, it would be grounded in the real world and it would have a team with a completely new take.
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So what will they make of the Sabbat when that book finally gets released.
 
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