The new White Wolf RPGs

[Grunker]

I get butthurt when people say owod when they clearly refer specifically to vampire

 

[Ovg]

But the ifs, buts and waits are what make it fun!

Depends on what your definition of fun is. I much prefer GMing the nwod using owod fluff or mixing and matching when necessary just because the combat is fluent and doesn't take much more of my rather combat-light game. When I tried to run with the old rules, we ended up just throwing dice and comparing the results, and who loses gets hit for 2 "just damage", because after 3 hours of slogging through RULES AND RULES AND RULES, we just couldn't take it anymore. That's what you get when you put storyfags against rollplaying rules .

 

[Gambler738]

There are a lot of thing ins nWoD that are just stupid or silly, but its very modular, which is a great. I don't mind some of its ambiguous lore...but the again I've mostly played and GM'd for Hunter The Vigil.

 

[Rahdulan]

I could make a new thread or perhaps find a more appropriate one, but this seems fitting enough unless someone feels like moving it elsewhere. For all you nWoD aficionados out there - has anyone read Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras? I think I'd like to check it out just for idea mining if nothing else because I like me some historical settings. More farfetched the better. Book also covers pretty much all game lines to greater or lesser degree.

Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras reveals the world throughout its long and storied past. Through sixteen eras, you’ll learn the secret history of the world, from the flame-lit tales of the Neolithic to the drug-fueled rebellion of the 1970s. Delve into the past, and learn that the Chronicles of Darkness began long before the modern nights.

• TR & CTL: "Requiem for Regina": Elizabethan England (1587-1593)
• WTF: "The Bowery Dogs": New York City in the 1970s (1969-1979)
• MTAw: "To the Strongest": Alexander's invasion of India (330-320 BCE)
• PTC: "A Handful of Dust": The Great Depression/Dustbowl (1933-1940)
• CTL: "Lily, Sabre and Thorn": Three Musketeers (1600s-early 1700s)
• HTV: "Doubting Souls": Colonial New England (1690-1695)
• GTS: "God's Own Country": 1950s New Zealand (1950s)
• MTC: "The Ruins of Empire": Collapse of the Ottoman/British Empires (1893–1924)
• DTD: "Into the Cold": Cold War Germany (1961)
• CTL: "A Grimm Dark Era": Eighteenth Century Germany (1812-1820)
• MTAw & WTF: "The Sundered World": Neolithic (5500 -5000 BCE)
• Skinchangers & DTD: "Beneath the Skin": Aztec Empire (1486-1502)
• DTD: "After the Fall": The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (1453-1458)
• CTL & GTS: "Three Kingdoms of Darkness": Three Kingdoms China (220-280)
• WTF & GTS: "The Wolf and the Raven": Viking Era (700-1100)
• HTV: "Fallen Blossoms": Samurai Era Japan (1640-1660)