is White Wolf's hype machine broken?

[Insight]

Inconnu, hence the questions about whether it's intentionally spelled wrong or what.

Correct. Inconnu means roughly "unknown" in French. Iconnu means "I don't know how to spell Inconnu".

 

[kigmatzomat]

Is this... good or bad?

I loved Kult the setting, never could bring myself to use the mechanics. If this bridges the gap I might give it a shot.

 

[Nepenthe]

Correct. Inconnu means roughly "unknown" in French. Iconnu means "I don't know how to spell Inconnu".

Well, it's about as close a translation of "unknown" as you can get

And I agree, even if it's intentional (for whatever reason, maybe the Iconnu speak Engrish?) it's sort of... sad.

/N

 

[Crothian]

Sounds a bit like KULT.

Bye
Thanee

Yet a lot happier

 

[Kesh]

It's odd, it might be a good book (I'm not a big Cook fan), but it most certainly doesn't seem to be WoD. It reminds me of many different games to varying extents, and could be quite fun. It just seems odd to put the WoD label on it. (Other than Marketing of course.)

I have a feeling it was mostly marketing, but I expect he'll be taking familiar WoD conventions (Inconnu/Iconnu) and twisting them to suit this new setting. Kind like nWoD vs oWoD did, in a way.

I'm curious, might look into it. The concept has possibilities.

 

[Drowbane]

Looks like they've started, now.

Link.

Thats a interesting take on WoD. This sounds a bit like WoD meets Shadowrun meets Call of Cthulu... I can hardly wait.

 

[Ulric]

I gotta say, it would be really fun to turn the Inconnu/Unbidden into the Galchutt and have a successful "hooray, we saved Ptolus" epic campaign have a sequel "oh crap, we destroyed Earth" McWoD campaign.

Clue me in. What are the "Inconnu" and/or the "Unbidden" and which White Wolf books are they in?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Clue me in. What are the "Inconnu" and/or the "Unbidden" and which White Wolf books are they in?

Check the blurb on the White Wolf site about Monte Cook's World of Darkness: The Inconnu/Unbidden are extraplanar horrors who invade Earth and transform humans into monsters to serve as their army in this world. Unfortunately, not everyone gets brainwashed, so you have free-willed monsters mixed in with the others.

 

[imbiginjapan]

Well, I like the idea. I always found the original World of Darkness concept kind of uninspiring, actually. It never really sparked my imagination all that much.

Incidentally, it sounds like Monte played S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl recently.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

I would have preferred a d20 NWoD (OK, I actually would have preferred a d20 OWoD, since that setting labored under mechanics I like less than the current Storyteller system); still, I'm not interested in this for the setting, I'm interested in it for very good, flavorful crunch I can port to other d20 games.