Caryatid Caryatid
Jul 12, 2016, 10:06 PM

@vanderlylle and I are toying with an idea for a single-sphere 2e (with tweaks) VtR game with a heavy political focus. And while we’re committed to working on it as a personal project, just to see what we can come up with between ourselves, we also thought we’d check with the community to see what interest might be out there for something like this.

The broad strokes are:

  • VtR 2e with some Mind’s Eye Theatre and other revisions
  • Single sphere, with mortals/ghouls allowed but no mortal+.
  • Focus on political play. Yes, vampires are violent monsters but we want to explore the long-term games they inflict on each other.
  • Automated systems for feeding, downtime, territory concerns, etc.
  • Focus on influence through the mortal world; we want to recreate the importance of mortals and ghouls to ancient creatures who have to hide from the daystar.
  • Set in Paris, France, in modern times, and after an event that left the previous Praxis gutted. Paris needs to be reclaimed from occupying threats while also navigating the night to night dangers of dealing with your fellow Kindred.

Right now we have lots of ideas, we have some unpolished writing done, we have lists and lists of Things We Need to Do and Write and Prettify. We have a work in progress wiki. We have the possibility of a server but no present coding ability to get the systems and code that we need in place (though @vanderlylle has been working on learning some coding, so that’s a work in progress too!).

But we also know we’re facing a few challenges here separate of our lack of coding ability. Single sphere games tend not to be popular. Foreign-set single sphere games, less so. Political-focus single sphere games set in non-English countries might well be too small a niche for most..

So what say you, community? Is this something you’d want to be involved with?