Excidium
P. banal
Yeah, was there any facet of the settings that wasn't already covered by 2nd edition lines? And considering WoD splatbooks are almost entirely fluff, the minor rules update hardly justified more of the same. The generally inferior content of revised books only made that more apparent.Yeah, because at that point, there were 500-1000 person games in pretty much every major city. And now if you have a 70 man game it's FUCKING huge. The average larp is 10 people where I live now. Finally, you've got less people playing tabletop than ever before. So to maintain profits, both quality and cost had to increase. You can't release 30 books a month anymore, the old business model of just printing whatever doesn't work anymore. Because there's no longer that teenaged crowd that buys every piece of bullshit you put on the shelf.
I really wish they published more Dark Ages books instead of truckloads of modern books of sometimes dubious quality and more along the lines of "hey man, this shit sells like hotcakes, better write more drivel regardless of quality", especially because Dark Ages was probably the soundest iteration of the ruleset, as far as oWoD went at least, until the 20th Anniversary Masquerade book got released. Hell, they even combined multiple Clanbooks into single books, for good and bad.
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