Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
What's the date?hexgrid said:Someone from White Wolf confirmed this on the rpg.net thread. No new details, just the title and release date.
What's the date?hexgrid said:Someone from White Wolf confirmed this on the rpg.net thread. No new details, just the title and release date.
In the defense of the new Mage, picking up a later incarnation of the original version would be pretty baffling to someone expecting it to be wizards and witches (which is what fits in best with the horror theme of the WoD). I love the reality-shaping aspect of Mage (and Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade as well), but it was essentially its own WoD and really belongs in a totally different universe.GreatLemur said:Oh, hell, no kidding. The completely boring thing they've turned Mage into is one of the main reasons I'm not even bothering to look into WoD 2.0.
Whizbang Dustyboots said:What's the date?
Nightchilde-2 said:I like d20.
I like WW's Storytelling (and Storyteller) system.
However..
I would no more like to see a d20 WoD than I would a Storyteller D&D.
Part of the charm, for me, of the two games are the systems tied to them.
IMHO of course.
shaylon said:As to the comments above about Monte being back, who knows? He stated somewhere that he was staying in a closely related field to gaming, which could be writing fantasy/sci-fi.
Whizbang Dustyboots said:In the defense of the new Mage, picking up a later incarnation of the original version would be pretty baffling to someone expecting it to be wizards and witches (which is what fits in best with the horror theme of the WoD). I love the reality-shaping aspect of Mage (and Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade as well), but it was essentially its own WoD and really belongs in a totally different universe.
We never really had those oft-mentioned debates in 10-odd years of Mage games (a couple in the early days, swiftly resolved). My gripe was with the fistful of dice and the kind of mathematical oddities that eyebeams mentioned, where scaling DCs made higher sphere powers weaker than lower sphere powers (amongst other craziness). I really like the nWoD Mage mechanics and see them as a viable replacement, while preferring the oWoD spheres overall. But yeah, I have suffered from general dice-pool burnout, so the prospect of a streamlined dice mechanic (read: one or two dice only please) that would come with a d20 version of the WoD would really pump my paradigm, so to speak.Whizbang Dustyboots said:Oh, there were MANY mechanical problems in the old Mage, not to mention the central mechanic basically devolved into a debate any time anyone did ANY of their kewl powers. I instinctively flinched away from the new preference for rotes, but man, it's nice to not have to have a damn debate every time you throw a fistful of dice onto the table.
SnowRaven said:First thing I thought of was White Wolf's MMO stuff, with Monte Cook doing the "story" and such, but I could also see a novel of some sort. I can't see the byline with the first option, so probably the second.