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).
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).