@coin said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

@tinuviel said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

@roz said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

it is absolutely not baked into the theme the way it is for WoD

Yeah, most WoD games don't tend to focus on the horror bit either.

But it is baked into the WoD/CofD theme in a way that it is not in Spirit Lake.

For starts, no one is going to have a leg to stand on if they try that "it's the world of darkness not the world of sunshine and ponies" bullshit at Spirit Lake.

Even in horror-light WoD games, there are things like the hopelessness of being a Neonate while there are Elders walking around. Or being and Elder and knowing that an Antediluvian could wake up at any moment and demolish an entire continent. This game does not have that element. There's no impending or immediate doom that could be set off by the crack of an egg shell that everyone is standing on.

@tinuviel said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

@sunnyj It reads to me like it's low level Mage without the bullshit. Which... is what most people want out of Mage from what I've seen.

It will start that way at first, but in a year there will be spells closer to what you can do with Arete 4 or 5.

@coin said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

@tinuviel said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

@roz said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

it is absolutely not baked into the theme the way it is for WoD

Yeah, most WoD games don't tend to focus on the horror bit either.

But it is baked into the WoD/CofD theme in a way that it is not in Spirit Lake.

For starts, no one is going to have a leg to stand on if they try that "it's the world of darkness not the world of sunshine and ponies" bullshit at Spirit Lake.

Even in horror-light WoD games, there are things like the hopelessness of being a Neonate while there are Elders walking around. Or being and Elder and knowing that an Antediluvian could wake up at any moment and demolish an entire continent. This game does not have that element. There's no impending or immediate doom that could be set off by the crack of an egg shell that everyone is standing on.

@tinuviel said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

@sunnyj It reads to me like it's low level Mage without the bullshit. Which... is what most people want out of Mage from what I've seen.

It will start that way at first, but in a year there will be spells closer to what you can do with Arete 4 or 5.

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@Ghost No. You're just alone.