I saw some good response to Lizette, a comparatively young Kindred whose modern revolutionary Embrace grounded the idea of “Children of the Revolution” in a context of what players and Storytellers might be able to do with the idea of domain and the limited understanding of stagnant Elders. By contrast, here we have Meixiu, a … Read more
Hello again, Kindred revolutionaries. Today we have a vampire much younger than many of the others we’ve seen here, in that she’s only a year old (if that!) but has made quite a place for herself. In particular, what I like about this character are: The creative use of domain, in the form of a … Read more
Hi, gang, Last week, we introduced you to the concept of the Arisen, the principle protagonists of Mummy. Since who/what the Arisen are is central to the game, we’re going to continue our discussion of them this week. My principle cohort on the nature and design of the Arisen was the esteemed Malcolm Sheppard, so … Read more
How many Gifts are in Werewolf 20? A lot. Not all of them — that’s crazy — but a lot. We wanted a lot of choice to differentiate starting characters, so we went up to five initial selections for Level One Gifts. And there’s more than two per level thereafter. Duplication does occur, mind, but people shouldn’t be too disappointed at the lack of choice. At least I hope so.
But why not judge for yourself? Here’s the list of homid Gifts as will be printed in yon book, no more, no less.
Meeting Notes The wedding was beautiful. Everything seemed to work out, and Rich didn’t really have any time to have withdrawal from the Internet. We share stories about bridesmaids threatening to thug someone. His dog goes crazy as the UPS guy delivers some more PoD proofs to review. I’m learning German. Not enough to actually say anything, though. … Read more
Hi, gang, First, I just want to say thanks for the feedback and enthusiasm you’ve shown thus far. Thanks to you, getting the word out on Mummy is starting to look like it might not be the Sisyphean task it otherwise could have been, and that is just as encouraging as it is appreciated. After … Read more
Howdy, faithful Kindred scholars. Tonight I have for you Nasch the Circassian. He’s got a few years under his belt, and he often finds his way into some high-profile trouble, but he has some blemishes in his history that a clever coterie might be able to work around or even remedy. In particular, I like … Read more
Ron Spencer has been full steam ahead with sketches and is now in create like crazy mode, so it’s a good time to show a few of the sketches. First, here’s the redo of the Bone Gnawer piece, with a fair number of minor alterations that really improve the piece. Please note that he did … Read more
Meeting Notes Since Rich and I met last week on Thursday, we didn’t have too much to go over this time around. I spent the weekend playing the Secret World beta, and got some interesting ideas, even if the background did remind me of an RPG design I had back in 1997. Rich is getting … Read more
Meeting Notes A fair amount of the meeting was trying to work with Rich on getting pictures to work right on the new Kickstarter project page. Flickr doesn’t host photos the same anymore, which broke things, so we tried to use Photobucket instead, with mixed success. I ran out of tricks. We talk a bit … Read more