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August 9, 2011 in Roleplaying | No comments
A couple of things have put me in mind of White Wolf over the last few days.
One of them was unboxing my roleplaying books. They’d been boxed up as part of some home improvement and I never got around to unboxing them. This weekend, I did. It’s hard to describe how I felt. It was bittersweet, in that I felt nostalgic but also some sense that I might be done with roleplaying for good.
And then just now, I saw that White Wolf had put up their [publishing schedule for 2011 - 2012][sched]. Huh.
September 25, 2010 in Roleplaying | No comments
Via RPS, I see that some sort of dodgy footage (no gameplay) related to the World of Darkness MMO was at The Grand Masquerade, a White Wolf convention.
The video itself doesn’t offer any information— it’s a cinematic, in other words, and well done— but there was one tidbit. It will be based on “the older Masquerade system.” Based on what little I’ve been able to glean myself, it seems accurate. If nothing else, there’s plenty of corroborating chatter on Twitter.
I can’t say I’m excited. Vampire was my least favorite out of the old World of Darkness games. Mage occupied that spot, although my fervor for it has lessened. I’m not sure it has aged well, and I’d rather preserve nostalgia as it is than tamper with it.
Of course since I haven’t seen or heard anything about the gameplay beyond “it’ll focus on player politics and social interaction.” I can’t form an opinion based on that. The closest analogy is of course EVE Online, which has some fascinating politics and whatnot. I also have too much respect for the World of Darkness folks to dismiss the game out of hand. Purely on the point of adapting tabletop to MMO, the Masquerade setting is a better choice, given that it operated on a global scale. Still, to the extent to which it’s possible to formulate an opinion about this, I’m disappointed.
No matter how I feel, I still wish the White Wolf folks all the best of luck. It sounds like there’s a large portion of lapsed Vampire: the Masquerade fans, or folks who have no strong preference for original vs. newer Vampire. I just don’t fall into either of those categories.
April 10, 2010 in Roleplaying | 3 comments
There’s one last rumor I’ve heard, and I’ve gotta get this one off my chest. It’s a doozy.
It goes like this: not only is the World of Darkness MMO based on the old World of Darkness, but it will also be accompanied by a re-launch of the old World of Darkness.
Yikes.
