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The publisher has a demo download available at http://starlinepublishing.com/golden-sky-stories-tabletop-day-2013-demo/ Violence explicitly doesn't solve anything in GSS. In fact, engaging in any serious fighting will reset the character's connection to the local town, which (aside from any...

Ravenloft's beginnings date back to Barovia vanishing into the Mists in the year 351, when it became the first domain, while the current year is 755. However, individual domains generally have their own "false histories": even if they were created only a few years ago, which is a distinct...

It's the new God-Machine material that interests me, especially since I've often toyed with the idea of running a mortal campaign based solely on that "Voice of the Angel" vignette from the nWoD core. Frankly, I always wondered why WW did so little with that snippet of mythology, when it...

Of course, the downside with this approach is that even a potentially interesting idea by some enterprising newcomer could well end up neglected and never reach the market in any form for want of funds and encouragement. Then again, I admittedly do treat Kickstarter mainly as a way of...

Well... The changelings don't strictly speaking qualify as quite human any more, physically or mentally, and what they've been through definitely has left them supernatural through and through. However, that in itself doesn't make them "monsters", except maybe in the eyes of the kind of people...

This actually is more or less how a rather obscure Finnish alt-history RPG from the 90's, Hiljaisuuden Vangit ("The Prisoners of Silence"), is meant to be played. During chargen, all players fill out in-character "surveillance reports" on their PCs (known in this case as "Dissidents"), official...

Then again, according to that same presentation and Q&A session at the Grand Masquerade, Romance is one of the major themes that the MMORPG will focus on, along with Danger, Mystery, and Power. Details on what that actually means in practice are still rather scant, though, aside from the...

It's possibly even more amusing when you realize that both of those tabletop versions were published by White Wolf (through their Sword & Sorcery imprint), whose first manual of WoW monsters was also partially written by the author of Nobilis.

Until recently, I ran Nob on every other Saturday, but at least for the time being it's now been replaced by Changeling: The Lost from White Wolf. Personally, I don't purchase RPG material that wouldn't see at least a slight amount of use in actual play. There's always bound to be something in...

...And after WW's "Darkness Revealed" announcement at their Grande Masquerade event, it turns out that their upcoming MMORPG will be based on the old Vampire: The Masquerade rather than the nWoD. Apparently one of the supported playstyles will be "theme park": perhaps they've turned some of that...

Well, there's also Monte Cook's World of Darkness, which doesn't share its continuity with either of those other two settings. So several different WoDs could officially co-exist at the same time without any trouble.

They're also working on that WoD MMORPG project, although there's no way of knowing yet how it'll turn out in the end. Some speculate that more information about it will become available during the Grand Masquerade. At least one of the panel discussions will deal with what people would expect to...

These days WW is far more likely to present the Strix (or similar adversaries from the other lines) and what they might be up to as completely optional story hooks, possibly expanding on their history but refraining from dictating any future course of events. Even the present cosmology isn't...

Judging by what's been discussed on other forums, that's just part of their whole digital publishing initiative. White Wolf will be gradually abandoning printed products entirely, except through On Demand arrangements. They still have supplements scheduled for the next year, but those are all...

True. For instance, the Strix is an ancient enemy that's mentioned repeatedly in the background information of Vampire: The Requiem. However, the presence of these owl spirits would only become a matter of metaplot if at some point during the line they were to, say, destroy one of the Covenants...