Recent content by VelvetViolet

Indeed. That’s one of the reasons why I lost interest in D&D. It is designed to represent itself, not any of the genres that inspired it. Because a bazillion authors worked on it over decades and never slaughtered any of the sacred cows or went back to the original inspirations, the end result...

Yeah. I know GURPS is the biggest and even though I don't use the system, I find their books useful due to all the non-game info they provide. It saves me a lot of time on doing research. Yeah, this is one of the main flaws with that system. It's not universal like GURPS or AFMBE or NBA or...

No offense taken. What are the examples you can think of? I’ll take a look when I get the time.

I don't know if this counts, but there's a lot of rpg settings/premises I liked that got canceled and I've never been able to find suitable replacements from any settings that are still supported/still have fandoms. These seem to fall on genre lines, I think. Universal Scifi rpgs. Not counting...

I long since realized that the only person who can write a setting I'd like nowadays is myself, but that hardly helps when I want to chat with other urban fantasy fans. Unless I publish my setting, they won't have a point of reference.

That might be a relic of the fact that the vampires, ghosts, werewolves, etc. only got playable rules in supplements, so the core rulebook couldn’t really integrate them into the setup without feeling unfinished. Most of the associations don’t discriminate against them and allow them as members...

Ok. I’m more interested in the idea of WitchCraft since I got into rpgs after it was canceled and only learned it about a decade after when the fandom was already largely vanished. What would you find interesting then? Tell me. Maybe I’d like it too. I’m not satisfied with the current...

Exactly. That’s why I like it. I could never get into Mage, even when they changed the origin of magic to Atlantis. Awakening introduced the Ascension War again and even crazier by making it a war to rewrite not only physics but also time. It was like a mix of Marvel comics, Doctor Who and...

Who thinks ttrpgs are a hugely profitable sector, anyway? Most “publishers” are single hobbyists!

This is a meaningless statement that you can say about anything. I personally care about those details and find they produce very different experiences. The communities and playstyles were very different.

It doesn’t stay successful. Not continuously and not forever. Even so, that doesn’t mean that other creators should give up and stop making things. Nowadays you can put a completely original game on kickstarter and raise a million dollars.

Exactly. The settings are in the same genre, sure, but the details are wildly different. Mage: The Ascension is about… just take a look at this screen art. C.J. Carella’s WitchCraft is about playing people with magical powers—including psychics, wiccans, vampires, shifters, Atlantean...

I got that in a bundle of holding sale. I basically want everything to be like GURPS

Ditto. I don’t like WoD. I want to play a different take on urban fantasy. I don’t need to justify myself to anyone. If nobody else wants to make urban fantasy rpgs anymore, or new entries in any other genres, then I’ll just leave. I don’t need rpgs to live.

I’ve also been posting elsewhere dealing with angry commenters, so there’s probably some emotional entanglement? I’m sorry. I suck.