In which Dixie, Matthew, and Eddy talk about Beckett’s Jyhad Diary and other bits of Vampire: The Masquerade
- Dixie asks Eddy and Matthew about their first Masquerade projects
- What is Beckett’s Jyhad Diary? It’s a celebration of 25 years of Masquerade metaplot
- The role of humor in the project
- Bloodlines is the new wrestling reference (RIP wrestling jokes)
- Who is Beckett? What is the Jyhad?
- The Book of the Grave War
- The look of the book
- Easter eggs and references
- The complication of what Activision owns
- The co-developer relationship
- The problem of silly Malkavians and the Joker
- Linguistics!
- Our favorite part about the book
- “Book boyfriend”
- Eddy asks everyone’s favorite clan
- Is this the new running gag?
I sleep with my BJD on the bedside table. Not sure if that counts as sleeping with it.
I find myself wishing – again and ever with this production – that this were a call-in show. Questions I wanted to ask:
• Why doesn’t Beckett write like a Brit?
• Who ACTUALLY wrote the Book of the Grave War?
• When the Gentleman Gamer starts his Metaplot Degree program, will he need a research assistant?
…So much fun, as a topic, a product, and a chat of great folks!
– Beckett doesn’t write like a Brit because he’s spent many of his last two centuries in the States and adopted American English.
– A Malkavian in the 13th century, name withheld.
– I’m good for now 😉
I never saw a Joker Malkavian but it does sound like it would be an easy go-to. And yeah, it’s hard really getting the balance between the stand-out vampire character and true to mental illness.