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[ElectricThunder]

At minimum, they have the heft of resources to have a much better shot at going the distance on the transmedia side than The Dragon Kings Project---bring on the games and whatever else and it should be about as good a shot as any outfit could reasonably ask for.

Hell, bring back Kindred done better on HBO---just go wild~

 

[Pilgrimzero]

New World has Changeling, Hunter and Demon. All amazing and much better than their old counterparts. Mage is also better just cause the game system actually works.

I disliked new Hunter. Your an average guy but you have tactics!

Demon is amazingly different. The WoD version of The Matrix.

 

[HK-47]

I disliked new Hunter. Your an average guy but you have tactics!

Demon is amazingly different. The WoD version of The Matrix.

That why Hunter is much better than old Hunter where you are a divine superheroic sociopath. All the level of the Vigil and the Slasher phenomenon make for a much better games. Also a better ruleset.

 

[Mike M]

Wait, what is V20? Is it different than Revised or 2E? I thought it was a reprint of one of those.

 

[HK-47]

Wait, what is V20? Is it different than Revised or 2E? I thought it was a reprint of one of those.

V20 is the 20th anniversary edition of Vampire the Masquerade.

 

[Mike M]

Well yeah, I got that. But it has a rule set and material distinct from other editions?

 

[Pilgrimzero]

Well yeah, I got that. But it has a rule set and material distinct from other editions?

Yes, more or less.

 

[Atilac]

There's a few if you're willing to dig a little. A good place to start would be RPGMP3 actual play that has a whole bunch of everything all in one feed. Otherwise just search for Vampire actual play on itunes and you'll find a bunch of stuff.

Darker Days has WoD news stuff.

Gracious

 

[Volimar]

Hell, bring back Kindred done better on HBO---just go wild~

I'm shocked that something like this didn't happen five years ago or so. True Blood and Vampire Diaries etc. opened the door for it.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

So is V20 supposed to be the 4th edition if this new one is going to be 5th edition? I'm assuming Revised was 3rd edition.

 

[Pilgrimzero]

So is V20 supposed to be the 4th edition if this new one is going to be 5th edition? I'm assuming Revised was 3rd edition.

Correct.

 

[Jintor]

Awww yis back to the time of thin blood mother suckers!

 

[Pilgrimzero]

I'm shocked that something like this didn't happen five years ago or so. True Blood and Vampire Diaries etc. opened the door for it.

It's a Toreador that falls in love with the main female character. Who happens to be a Changeling. And her best friend is a werewolf. And her sister a Mage.

Season finally is them trying to survive a blood hunt declared by the Prince.

 

[Affeinvasion]

Well yeah, I got that. But it has a rule set and material distinct from other editions?

Think of V20 as a GOTY type thing. The main rulebook consolidated material from all of the revised edition sourcebooks. So while the rule set is mostly the same, the main book has basically all the information you would need to run a storyline at any level including very high level.

 

[ElectricThunder]

I'm shocked that something like this didn't happen five years ago or so. True Blood and Vampire Diaries etc. opened the door for it.

I figured it was down to precisely something of a moment of fresh clarity like they now have to do with as they will that was lacking all these past tangled up years---now is the time, if only they'd have the hopeful sense to revisit it while, one would think, leafing back through all their other media jaunts from back in the day....ESPECIALLY Kindred as it got cut off waaay to damn soon/short before they could really go the distance with it.

 

[Pilgrimzero]

I figured it was down to precisely something of a moment of fresh clarity like they now have to do with as they will that was lacking all these past tangled up years---now is the time, if only they'd have the hopeful sense to revisit it while, one would think, leafing back through all their other media jaunts from back in the day....ESPECIALLY Kindred as it got cut off waaay to damn soon/short before they could really go the distance with it.

Death of the main actor tends to do that. Though I guess the ratings weren't too hot since they could have recast.

 

[Volimar]

That Brigid Brannagh though...

 

[cj_iwakura]

Death of the main actor tends to do that. Though I guess the ratings weren't too hot since they could have recast.

I think S2 was planned if not for that. The show had potential, nailed the Camarilla drama.

 

[Affeinvasion]

That Brigid Brannagh though...

Her eyes are really far apart. It's probably just the picture though.

 

[melonrabbit]

Not a podcast but look up Vampires of San Francisco. It's a blog that a player writes about their campaign and is one of the best I've ever read. She had never played it before or really watched any vampire movies and man now she loves the genre and the game.


The ST is a history major and it shows. He also loves WoD and has werewolves, hunters, demons, and mages show up. And oh man the Mage is great.

I can't gush about this blog enough. The writing is superb and the story fun.

Good stuff. Thanks.

 

[ElectricThunder]

Death of the main actor tends to do that. Though I guess the ratings weren't too hot since they could have recast.

...Somehow was not aware of that for all these years. Well. But also what cj says rings true---various shows contended with such back then. If they take another crack at it either as a continuation with a good recap or from a clean slate---boom.

 

[Chorazin]

I loved the old Werewolf, it just had so much of a spectrum of games you could play in it. Anything from High Fantasy in the Umbra, to deep personal stories of rage and regret, to balls to the walls orgy of violence dungeon crawls, to anime funfests with the Asian books. I still kind of want to get the Silent Strider's glyph as a tattoo....

Mummy was a neat idea for a book, even though it was hit or miss with a lot of people. I think a fun story would be getting a Mummy and Mokole together to just shoot the shit about "the good old days." of ancient Egypt.

I still own all my Revised and 2E books in paper form, and every Black Dog sourcebook except for Spectres, which I could never find. Really wish I could fill that long gaping hole in my collection....

The only nWoD book I read in depth was Demon, and I really thought that was cool as shit. But the rest of the line just didn't do anything for me.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

2 different companies will do each.

Onyx Path will do NWOD

White Wolf will do OWoD.

Who is Onyx Path?

Hope people won't automatically assume New World ad inferior.

I hope to in a few years to run a New World LARP.

 

[Khoryos]

Are they going to drop the ridiculous hippy tone from oWoD?
That was always my problem with it. It wasn't a thing in Vampire so much, but every other line had a real, real hate on for modernity.

 

[Dandy Lyin]

Who is Onyx Path?

Hope people won't automatically assume New World ad inferior.

I hope to in a few years to run a New World LARP.

Onyx Path is who has been working on the World of Darkness pen and paper stuff since CCP bought White Wolf. I believe it is made up of original WW guys. They licensed the PnP rights from CCP.

 

[Pilgrimzero]

Who is Onyx Path?

Hope people won't automatically assume New World ad inferior.

I hope to in a few years to run a New World LARP.

When White Wolf more or less vanished some of those people started a new company called Onyx Path and licensed the rights to WoD. Kept making NWoD stuff and starts doing old WoD anniversary stuff.

Then White Wolf got bought by the new owners who want to publish books and a deal got worked out.

Onyx would keep doing NWoD and the anniversary stuff. White Wolf would continue the lore of the OWoD with new books.

TLDR: Onyx is some old WW people mostly doing new WoD stuff.

 

[Pilgrimzero]

Good stuff. Thanks.

I especially like that he uses the cabby from the Bloodlines game.

Makes me wonder if the writer of the blog knows the significance of that character and if she ever finds out if not.

 

[Affeinvasion]

I especially like that he uses the cabby from the Bloodlines game.

Makes me wonder if the writer of the blog knows the significance of that character and if she ever finds out if not.

Well in the books it's retconned to not be you know who...at least not directly.

 

[Ganhyun]

Are they going to drop the ridiculous hippy tone from oWoD?
That was always my problem with it. It wasn't a thing in Vampire so much, but every other line had a real, real hate on for modernity.

The Mage book in the old format at least made some sense with it, somewhat.

I'll admit the NWOD Mage handles technology much better.

 

[dude]

I'm not sure I'm liking those directions... But Maybe I'm just bitter they took WoD away from OPP