Did anyone ever pick up the new World of Darkness?

[Dorquemada]

My group never got into it. We still play Vampire: The Masquerade revised. I got the new World of Darkness and Requiem books when they came out, but it just wasn't the same.

[Ed Zachary]

I never bought any Requiem, LARP did more to kill Masquerade.

[PhishStyx]

I played 2nd edition Vampire for about 2 years, but I never did buy any of the books. I just never got into it. After that gaming group broke up, I didn't play anything for a long time, more than 3 years probably.

Nowadays, if I want to play something I have to run it or I'm stuck playing D&D (where's the sickly smiley when I need him?), which I really don't want to do.


So when I run games now, they're pretty much all using Eden Studios' Unisystem. Since GoO went out of business and White Wolf seems highly unlikely to be interested in publishing more Tri-Stat product, I may end up reworking all my super powered folk into Unisystem whenever Eden's Post-human (which I'm hoping will be Beyond Human far more than City of Heroes) powered book comes out.

[Farcaster]

It has been years upon years since I have played any World of Darkness games. I used to play Warewolf: The Apocalypse and some Masquerade. What has changed so much in the newer editions?

[Dorquemada]

I haven't looked at anything but Vampire: The Requiem. They changed just about everything about vampire society: They make a real effort to de-emphasize clans, making the character's coterie and faction (called a Covenant) the more important affiliation, they eliminated the Generation score, vampires now have blurred images on visual media, elders who awaken from torpor have fragmentary memories (making eternal jyhad somewhat less feasable), and vampires have to make frenzy checks every time the encounter another of their kind (causing many potential roleplaying moments to be reduced to combat). Oh, yeah, they finally bowed to the fanboys and created a sex clan (the Daeva, which combine elements of the Brujah, Ravnos, and Toreador).

I guess it could be said that the series bad run its course, but its successor just isn't up to par (as is confirmed by all the new WoD books in the bargain bin at my local store).

[Moritz]

Oh, yeah, they finally bowed to the fanboys and created a sex clan

Please tell me that Anne Rice has nothing to do with this game.

[Farcaster]

What's wrong with Anne Rice? The Vampire Chronicles were pretty good up until Memnoc the Devil, and she may have gone a bit over the top with The Vampire Armand. Nonetheless, the mythology she created around the vampires in her world was actually very well done, I thought.