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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.

Actually no. I was just hoping that conversation would be more productive and less toxic here. I won’t waste your time anymore. Sorry for bothering you.

They did. Paradox cancelled it because it didn’t come out in the 90s. How is that fair? Changeling: The Lost is widely considered superior to Changeling: The Dreaming even by most fans of the latter, but we’ll sooner see a (mutilated skinsuit) revival of the latter simply due to seniority. It’s...

That was back before they went evil, or at least when the evil was a lot easier to ignore than the dystopia we live in right now. Multiple things. I’m upset that various old IPs I liked were canceled and buried, or else driven into the ground and stripped of everything I liked in the first...

Have fun beating those straw men.

I'm trying. Between evil fascist copyright laws suppressing freedom of expression and audiences turning into deranged cargo cults of lore baggage, it's hard for me to maintain my motivation.

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...