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Well, it looks like that NDA has just been blown! The reason why they are using more abstract Attributes than typical D&D, is so that you can play the game at a strategic level as well as typical adventure level. The game will have elements of Ars Magica’s troupe style play. It won’t just run...

It has been suggested.

Can we just say that there was a few comments made on the Modiphius board, some while ago, which they are possibly addressing with the press release? Like I say, it isn’t much worth dwelling on for me, and I had little interest in it. In the case of Chris Spivey, it is probably worth noting his...

I wasn’t really privy to (or even that interested in) all the conversations in the development of the game, but there was an issue with one of the contributors who I think left, accordingly. I think the comments may have less to do with the book than that, but flatly, I don’t fully know and it...

The fundamental plot line of Dune tracks the succession of power, based on political maneuvering. It is the machinations of competing Houses trying to outwit each other. The discovery of the world of Arrakis, and the personal development of the characters interacting with it, largely stems from...

That wasn’t my answer to that question. It was the notion that you play, long term, to build the influence of your House - which all the PCs belong to. This will certainly sustain a long campaign, not least because the GM can also create their own Houses along with the ones already established...

In terms of long term play, quite simply you will be building the influence of your House - through politics or just in carrying out missions - against the machinations of other Houses. There is at least a passing similarity to Lawrence of Arabia, in allegorical terms, as Arrakis’ spice...

I think the comments are just a reassurance that the game is inclusive and welcoming to all. The original books, written in the 1960s and 1970s, could be misconstrued as not being inclusive occasionally, but it was not trying to make a statement as such, as far as I am aware. Anyway, without...

Well, they’re going to be in the upcoming Vampire Companion. That is what left me confused. Actually, it was touch and go as to whether they were going to include the Ravnos this time round, although it looks like they are just going to remove heavy references to ‘Gypsies’ as in previous...

So should we now refer to 14 Clans, or dis-include the Hecata?

I also have found the StoryPath system a bit convoluted - they’ve added in some details that comes from games like Fate or whathaveyou - although I have hopes to be able to use it sometime. This is largely because the writing and ideas in Scion, especially, are really good - its almost like a...

Yep, I’ve ordered Cult of The Blood Gods, which should be with us early next year. I’m just confused by the number of official ‘Clans’ now, which was always mooted to be 13. There has always been plenty of ‘Bloodlines’ - including Salubri - but they weren’t all considered Clans.

It is probably worth noting that Onyx Path were already in the process, and had already started promoting the development of a 5th Edition of Vampire: The Masquerade even before Paradox stepped in. Although they were pleased with the 20th Anniversary editions there were problems. Namely, the...

Nobody is arguing that the Camarilla and Anarch books were not written by White Wolf before they were dissolved. Modiphius did essentially just republish them after editing them. Errata is errata - it isn’t something that gets credited, unless it is done by a professional editor. Lots of games...

My feeling was that when White Wolf, as it was, was dissolved in 2018, their publishing partner, Modiphius, just felt that V5 was too much of a sales success to let it be dropped as a product. There is strong evidence that V5 was their strongest selling product for at least three quarters (based...

Modiphius took over the line in December 2018; there's no mention of whether that is continuing. It is implied that they aren’t, considering that the content of the Vampire Companion book was mooted to be in Modiphius’ Vampire's Player’s Handbook which never materialized. It doesn’t appear that...

I think the good/evil thing in LotR is played out in terms of the main conflict, for sure, but can also be seen in terms of personal conflict too - Gollum, for example. In the case of WFRP, the Good/Evil axis is essentially replaced by Law/Chaos (as per Moorcock’s work), although Chaos is...

I’d also add, as an extra aside, that the whole Chaos/Law ‘World is doomed’ aspect of WFRP is also very British - it comes from Michael Moorcock!

As stated before, the defeat of Sauron was very much a bittersweet affair for the Hobbits in Lord of the Rings. It reflects on death in. pretty sombre way, while it isn’t at all clear that Sauron can possibly be defeated when reading through the book. In the case of WFRP, there are also...

I still feel people are portraying LotR as being all shininess and light, when actually the story itself was pretty dark. If you are reading it for the first time, then you don’t know who will win - it was a pretty bleak journey for Frodo - and even the end was bittersweet and stoic. If you play...