@surreality
You are so whiny, jesus.
@tragedyjones
Here's something constructive for you, to shut @Surreality up.
It seems incredibly unlikely you're going to BE ABLE to put much effort into a metaplot, when your advertising post for the game is "We've got every splat you could ever want! And we're going to stay true to the theme of all of them!"
With 6 or 7 or more splats, there is no way this ends up being anything other than another sandbox.
It'd likely require at least two full-time staffers dedicated solely to vampire (while not playing it themselves) to run a Vampire sphere with "undiluted taste".
Werewolf as a splat flat out does not lend itself to story-telling games. Werewolf is the "join a pack, shack up with pack, do some 'me r alfa' sexxorz, occasionally do in-pack plot, and never be seen in public again" splat. This is actually one sphere that can be run fairly hands-off. Problem is this is also the quintessential sandbox sphere.
Mage, much like Vampire, would require multiple staffers solely dedicated to that sphere to provide a realistic Mage experience. They could potentially play in it though, since mage is usually a little less cutthroat.
Changeling is much the same, if you're going to provide an "undiluted taste", you'll need staff to run leadership NPCs at the start until they're phased out, and then staff to keep hands in the ongoings of the Courts after that.
So, just from those 4 splats, you're looking at needing 5-8 full time, 100% involved staff, some of them not playing in their own sphere. I only went over those 4 because I don't know Promethean/Beast/Geist (real talk though, Beast seems to be the most awkwardly Special Snowflake uninteresting splat ever, and really seems to water down everything around it since it's in theme for them to 'group up' with all the other splats, but that is just my personal impression after watching Beast on NOLA).
If you don't have that much staff, all of them willing to be that involved, this is just going to be a sandbox.
There's just no way around that.
If you do get the staff, odds are at least half of them will end up actually not doing their job very well or very actively and will basically lurk for the power of being 'staff' or they'll just quit within 2 months.
TL;DR cut down on spheres, or this will just be 2nd ed Fallcoast. (Disclaimer : I have not played Fallcoast, I just assume it is still the Discount Wal-Mart of nWoD with every splat and no story.) Yeah, you'll get your rocks off looking at a 60 person who list inflated by the fact that 8 people feel the need to make a character in every splat, but nothing much will actually be "happening" on the game.
Which works perfectly fine for a lot of people, admittedly. A lot of people don't want to be involved in shit, they want to sit in their corner and do their own shit. We just have a lot of games like that already.
@Thenomain I'm so sorry, please forgive me, senpai.
, mostly because I'm proud of my code. You don't have to be, that's fine, but it'd be more helpful to reel back the shotgun approach of complaining; you're less likely to hit a bystander.
