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That is so stupid and self-destructive. I would rather see lesser known IPs get revived, like Nightlife, WitchCraft, Everlasting, Chronicles of Darkness, and so on. I'd also rather see new IPs be created that can explore new territory, rather than constantly rehashing the same stuff from decades...

Trademark dispute, maybe? It could also be a trademark dispute with the White Wolf missiles in Ukraine. I think it’s probably coincidence. The contracts with Onyx Path and Renegade were allowed to lapse last year. That’s why Onyx made Curseborn. Paradox was planning this for months, maybe a year.

I really don't understand why all the people who are vitriolic about V5 haven't already done that several times over. It's an extremely derivative and generic IP. I can make 1:1 comparisons between the setting's various conceits and specific works of vampire fiction. The great laws from Anne...

They already were. The White Wolf writers were paid by the word. They don’t get residuals. The only bank accounts who would be harmed would be whoever drivethrurpg is sending money to whenever a PDF is bought. I strongly doubt that’s to the original writers. The copyrights are owned by a...

While we’re at it, I hate fascist copyright laws. Nobody would care about the White Wolf skinsuits if fans could fork the IPs and maintain their own communities. Instead, those corporate suits hold the IPs hostage, canceling and mutilating things at whim. So much of the fandom resentment would...

Well, that’s definitely not a good sign for the new White Wolf then.

So the hobby is just unable to sustain new IPs anymore and the ones that are currently maintained are the only ones that will ever be maintained until they eventually run out of steam due to creative entropy and skinsuits. Great.

Quantity over depth? Yeah, that seems to describe my situation. I was spoiled by the depth found in 90s and 2000s games like Unisystem, Alternity, Storytelling System, d20 Modern, etc. Nowadays nobody can compare with those. It’s so frustrating. White Wolf has alienated their fans so many times...

I read it. You have to make up the factions yourself. There’s four broad themes, but these aren’t really factions as such. Certainly nothing like the covenants in Requiem or the associations in WitchCraft. Good for them. If it’s still receiving supplements after 5 years, then I’ll consider...

I think WoD is decades past its expiry date and the new management were foolish to revive it. While I don’t agree with every creative decision in CofD, I think creating it was a way better idea than upsetting WoD fans by turning WoD into a skinsuit. I’m not remotely interested in Curseborn...

I don’t actually trust modern WotC to do Alternity justice at all. Their first attempt with a few perfunctory d20 conversions wasn’t great. Now they can’t even do updates of Planescape and Spelljammer. The 5e Spelljammer doesn’t even have rules for navigation or ship to ship combat. The Shadow...

Exactly. Meyer vampires are metaphors for Mormonism. Whedon vampires are not even a reimagining imo, they're a continuation of the demonic corpse that dates back to Mesopotamia. How unlucky. That's describing many depictions of Mina, tho. Her infection with vampirism by Dracula and her...

Yeah, but the whole blood libel makes me inherently revolted by the comparison. I think the best metaphor is addiction. Vampires are addicted to blood and driven to feed their addiction, even to the point of acting irrationally or against their best interests. They can share with their...

Ditto. I like biopunk settings like that and GeneTech from Polyhedron/d20 Future. They’re rare and each one is wildly different from the next. I’ll have to check that out. Werewolf: The Forsaken and Mage: The Awakening both tried doing this, especially compared to their predecessors, and got...

I love the premise for Bughunters. I think it’s better than the official Aliens RPG.

I took women's studies in college. I'm quite familiar with women in refrigerators and so on. I think Dark•Matter/d20 Modern's illuminati conspiracies can be salvaged and don't need to be completely thrown out. It's impossible to avoiding someone somewhere, so I don't think it's productive to...

Dark•Matter made reptilians, the “Kinori”, into good guys. You can find a summary of the problematic conspiracies here and here. Long story short; they’re mostly far right conspiracy theories. So there’s lots of anti-government screed, racism, sexism, and xenophobia. The only bit they don’t...

In any case, I’m not gonna let the nasty words of the nasty haters hold me back. I don’t know the first thing about making my own games, but I’m writing my own short stories inspired by the old dead ttrpgs I liked, including Star*Drive and Dark•Matter. It’s taking me forever, but I’m still...

The writers had just enough self-awareness to sanitize that part. Indeed, Judaism gets its own monotheistic magic system that is kosher with the angels (or aliens that inspired the stories of angels). That said, the game still gave us conspiracies like the "Amazons of the Gynarchy" (yes...

Regardless of TSR's finances, I think SD is a cool setting with tons of untapped potential. If it was given a chance to shine, then I believe it could have easily found a place alongside classics like Star Trek, Star Wars and Warhammer 40,000. It's been 25 years since the axe came down, but I...