*cries*

[muladhara]

Over the last couple of days, I've been thinking about the World of Darkness RPGs, and how much I miss them. I suppose what started me off was thinking about how in the New World of Darkness, the fae in the Changeling game are how I think they should be (i.e. evil bastards with a blue and orange morality who, essentially, don't understand humans). And about how I want a story about that (I'd write the thing myself if I could figure it out). Then I started thinking about Vampire: The Masquerade, and all the rest of it, and how it's been three years since I last looked any of this up/read about it and basically now I'm feeling REALLY nostalgic.

I have never actually played in a game, by the way.

I just like the world-building (to some extent; I have griped about this before) and, I suppose, it all appeals to the proto-actor in me.

(But I can't decide if the God Machine is a good thing or not. I'm thinking not if only because it gives Matrix-y overtones to something that shouldn't have them. That is, it is literally what it says it is, and every time there's a supernatural happening, so I understand it, it's because the God Machine hiccuped. Or something).

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[beccatoria]

You know, as much as I understand why they went the way they went with Changelings for the nWoD (and I own almost all those books), I will always, always have a special place in my heart for Changeling: the Dreaming, which I honestly feel captured something unspeakably sad and terrifyingly hopeful at the same time. Or maybe I was just at the perfect disaffected, yet optimistic teenaged age for it when it was coming out. It was the first game that I fell in love with, that nurtured my love of tabletop in general, which has had such a prolonged and profound impact on my social connections and life (albeit not always in obvious ways). Which I guess is appropriate.

I own almost everything ever commercially published for that game. Like the only things I'm missing are the jewelry pin thing they did, four of the cantrip cards (out of like...200 or something) and the third-party non-English language licensed stuff that occasionally got published in France. I STILL trawl through bookstores and ebay for this stuff, cus, gah, WoD. It was...a thing, you know?

Did you know that they're doing 20th anniversary reprints of this stuff? Like somewhat updated and with new gorgeous books that they fund through Kickstarters, etc.? Wraith is this year, Changeling next year. Vampire, Werewolf and Mage have already been done.

Again, I'm left terribly annoyed by the fact you live so far away, or you could come game with us, and we'd introduce you to the fun of actually playing the games!

[muladhara]

See, I have little knowledge of The Dreaming - all I know is what's in the Quick Start guide, and I haven't looked at that in a LONG time. I've never seen a copy of the core rule book in the flesh, as it were (although I totally never thought about looking on ebay, because apparently I am an idiot!) But I know what you mean, because I feel the same way about Vampire: The Masquerade, because it was the first RPG I encountered outside of D&D.

Wow, that's an amazing collection, go you!

I STILL trawl through bookstores and ebay for this stuff, cus, gah, WoD. It was...a thing, you know?

TOTALLY. This is why I still drift back to Vampire (and all the rest), even though I'm sick to the back teeth of vampires right now because OMG THEY'RE COOL or whatever.

YES. My friend Dingsi told me about the Vampire 20th anniversary book, because we squee together about the game and I don't know if he didn't also contribute to the kickstarter that was running at the time. I wish I had a heap of cash that I could just throw at Onyx/White Wolf for all the stuff I want from them.

Again, I'm left terribly annoyed by the fact you live so far away, or you could come game with us, and we'd introduce you to the fun of actually playing the games!

YES THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. I wish I lived nearer, too.

[beccatoria]

Ahahaha oh my god, the quick start guide is one of the very few things I don't have! I said commercially published cus in addition to the foreign-language stuff, I don't have any of the free promotional stuff (I started collecting a bit late). To my knowledge that includes two posters, the Quick Start Guide and a window cling. But the Quick Start guide is made up entirely of material found in the main book, which you can get pretty cheaply on ebay/Amazon these days, actually. The prices rose when it went out of print, but then dropped again. You can find a lot of these for way less than original cover price if you're interested. You can also get a lot of them digitally or print on demand from drivethrurpg.

Also re: the 20th Anniversary editions - while there are some specific goodies you can only get in the Kickstarter, once the book is funded, it becomes available as print on demand via drivethrurpg so it'll be there whenever you're ready to buy it!

[muladhara]

Yeah, I imagine finding any of the free stuff now would be akin to needles in haystacks :(

I only have a copy of the Quick Start Guide because a friend found a pdf online and printed me off one. I know the same stuff's in the core book, but there's more things in there and so I don't know All The Stuff and I want to, heh. (I don't mind the Quick Start Guides - they're a good idea to give you a feel for a setting, but I don't get as much out of them as a full core rule book. But that's just me).

[lassarina]

I keep wanting to run more WoD games (old and new) than I possibly have time for, and some of them would likely be online ones to accommodate people who don't live here. Shall I give a yell if that's the case?

[muladhara]

OH THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. So yes, please.