The State of the Chronicles of Darkness

Thenomain

I am both horrified and aroused.

Vorpal

@Thenomain Thank god, I thought I was the only one.

Bobotron

I'm leaning less on the 'do want' category at this point though. Not that we'll have anything for TT until they get their vidya stuff in order. Vampires the only one I'm concerned about anyway, it's the only one I have interest in. There could be good ideas (I do like the post-Gehenna potential though).

tragedyjones

Quit hijacking my CofD thread with World of Darkness nonsense!

Thenomain

I, on the other hand, am now far more interested. It might go over as well as "Monte Cook's World of Darkness" (not bad, but not popular) or it might explode as The WoD With the Intense Metaplot.

I'm not sure what I think of that metaplot, but it hits the ground running and I don't see that, in itself, as a bad thing.

Bobotron

@tragedyjones
Can't we just rename it 'State of those Monster Games That We Play' or something at this point? There's no need to split the thread to WoD and CofD separate, as we're all interested (typically, anyway) in both.

Ganymede

I like how he throws Changeling and subsequent series under the bus.

Bobotron

@Ganymede
Apparently another dev from OPP is trying to do some damage control.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3712435&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=150

Vorpal

@Bobotron Good luck to them, I say...

tragedyjones

@Bobotron I don't

Groth

Wow, there's a lot of people irrationally offended by the fact that White Wolf are not going to try to license the CoD Setting for novels/games etc and that they don't consider TTRPGs an income source.

Coin

Which is dumb, because at the level Paradox operates, they aren't an income source, they're almost... like... advertisement.

Bobotron

I suppose we should all be glad they didn't just outright cancel CofD in lieu of their big multimedia ideas with WoD. They posted an edit/clarification today from the Big Man himself.

Clarifications:
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It wasn’t a painless choice revisiting the classic setting instead of NWoD. I’ve always supported that line, shamelessly ”been inspired” by it in other work and wanted it to make big waves, especially since I love it’s tonality and ground-up design thinking. But it’s hard to argue against CWoD as the setting that made the most dramatic cultural impact overall. The death of the publishing industry and lack of tabletop rpg-hype at that time combined with quite strong fan reactions never gave it a chance to go pervasive. It would have made perfect sense for us to cancel CofD entirely to direct all focus to WoD and avoid brand confusion as new players come in through future digital products. I’m happy we decided against it. Having CofD continue as it’s own thing is the closest we’ll get to confessing that it may be the better tabletop-only setting of the two. But to turn it into the centre for our transmedia-storytelling plans for the future would mean adding metaplot and characters to it, killing its identity completely. Made less sense than letting the beloved characters and myth of the dark original live on and evolve.

tragedyjones

I will begrudgingly admit that WoD makes a better and easier cross media platform.

tragedyjones

Informative Reddit Post (I know right?)

Even contains stuff you may care about, @Bobotron

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhiteWolfRPG/comments/472dfm/wait_whats_going_on_now_out_of_the_loop/

tragedyjones

Mmm, gambling

skew

RIP @tragedyjones's wallet.

Thenomain

So WoD is now going to become a big-brand trademark now, huh. Cheaper than trying to get rights to Underworld, I guess?

Sammi

Or Twilight.

Misadventure

Que?