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@Kireek said:

I have mixed feelings about this advertisement about where the game is going.. its definitely a big case of... I'll beileve it when I see it..

Reno nearly died becuase of a lack of staff assistance in running things.. so if they are willing to pick up the slack unlike what they did before.. perhaps there is something to look forward to! Again though, I wouldn't recommend getting too invested.. but..

We are partially changing our path - Reno was meant to be a Sandbox at launch, not a staff running things for people type venue. We're working to bridge the difference a bit.

Secret Wars has been fairly glorious all told. Probably the best event I have ever read.

Little information on Samurai-Style Hunter the Vigil:

http://theonyxpath.com/edo-jidai-hunter-compacts-and-conspiracies-for-dark-eras/

For the first time in almost 20 years I am somehow the bad boy tempting a girl in a relationship to stray. What the shit.

@Arkandel This is more a complaint about people but there is rarely enough reward to creating a compelling setting. The more you ask players to read and understand the less they seem to do. This is why it is so much easier to do a modern American city than anything remotely different. In my years I have seen many players not be too familiar with the lore in the books much less the custom background of your game.

Related, for those that do make the effort it can make things all the more frustrating when others don't. If I make a setting accurate character and everyone else is basically just a modern person in vague period attire, I lose interest.

UPDATE 1/4/16:

DESIGN INSIGHT

While BITN shares the world of other Chronicles of Darkness games, and the protagonist creatures from those lines, they are not to be featured on BITN. We will have Vampires and Werewolves, Witches and Patchwork People. We will not focus on Kindred, Uratha, Awakened or Prometheans. More generic threats, such as spirits, ghosts, claimed, these are more likely. Also unique or lesser horrors. Dead corpses that feed on blood can be used, these may be biological experiments, corpses possessed by a leech spirit, or even just unexplained phenmena that would be alien to a Kindred just like a mortal. Wizards and witches have cults and cast spells, etc. Even the rare Angel of the God-Machine may appear. But we will not be using setting material from other gamelines in any significant factor. No Covenants, there is no need to design a Consollium or Praxis or Protectorate.

This game is not about the monsters. It is about those who will no longer accept their rule. This policy further allows players to be surprised by the monsters, as well as limiting the number of books one needs access too.

PROGRESS

I am currently estimating a Spring Opening, but this is not a release date just a general estimate. Setting and such should be done by February, then a host can actually be set up.

If anyone is looking to assist with research into a particular part of our setting, I do have 2 counties currently being ignored by my crack team.

I am told I have the male equivalent of resting bitch face. Something of a neutral to angry looking scowl-sneer.

Yeah, WoD is done to death, but:

The code already exists in multiple forms, and I do what I know.

Executive Decision: All staff/player interaction shall be handled with Darth Vader quotes.

My office has a dot matrix printer. We also still use software originally designed in the 1980s. But I work in Criminal Justice for the Government, so take that as you will.

(We DO finally have Windows 7 and a new software suite that isn't finished so we also use the old non-GUI system)

Status lets you cancel out other folks social merits and also increases the ever useless social rolls!.

@Ghost Editorial mandate

My office air conditioning has died for the third time in two weeks. This is literally worse than all previous evils in human history.

Shadowrun needs to be a thing again. There should be a place where I want to simply just do casual Bar RP.

I once ran an IRC tabletop based on exiles, but blending Marvel and DC

Guys don't make me agree with @HelloRaptor guys. It hurts.

I reviewed the Kiths revealed alongside @Coin, primarily in regards to using them on Dust2Dust, and none of them are heinously broken, though I have issues with a few for either being too similar or having far too narrow a scope.

Having played on Heroes Dreams, while I have fond memories, there were a LOT of gay FCs.

@Arkandel said:

I know it's not TV but I can't be arsed to make a whole new thread for movies.

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/15/08/04/2018213/dungeons-dragons-is-getting-a-film-franchise

You heard it here first!

I heard it on Facebook yesterday bruh.