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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4430690" data-attributes="member: 41584">White Wolf's books are good.  Their authors are often top-notch and can not just come up with some interesting rules, but, more importantly, tell a gripping story that makes you want to play their game and be a part of them.  But their website has always been kinda hit or miss.  I'd get disconnected two or three times a year, and then my username/password wouldn't work anymore, and I'd have to come up with another one.  *Active* threads would just vanish, never to be seen again, even ones started by game developers asking for eratta/input.  And the moderator would occasionally flip out, name-calling people in a fairly histrionic tone and deleting all posts by anyone that he'd deemed to be 'dishonorable.'  (The crime that got all of my posts deleted one year was telling someone on the forums  I *wouldn't* scan / upload some information from one of their books for him.  Apparently, even saying that you *won't* rip off one of their books counts as ripping off one of their books!) The authors *do* post quite a lot to the forums (or, at least, they *did*, back when I was in regular discussions with the Trinity, Adventure! and Scarred Lands folk).  Since they didn't have colored names or any sort of indicator that the person was a Dev, or a DevTracker sort of thread (not that their forum software would have been able to link to posts anyway, I imagine), it would be easy for someone who doesn't know them all by name to realize that people with names like BlackHatMatt, Barastrando, Mouseferatu, Kali or El Bastardo were actually writers or even fulltime employees and not just fellow posters.  Even some of the writers might have had the problem I had with constantly losing the username/login, as several of the above-named changed their usernames two or more times, possibly adding to the confusion... On the other hand, the writers also give as good as they get, and a critical poster can quickly get gang-banged by multiple writers jumping to each others defense, making it a very wild west kinda place to shoot your mouth off.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  It can be fun, at times, and a little overwhelming at others to realize that you just got in a flame-war with someone whose work you admire and whom you are also working with on a project...</blockquote>

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