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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 9672146" data-attributes="member: 6686357">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 and decades ago with lower and lower returns. Constantly upsetting the fans with skinsuits isn't sustainable. Just look at Disney.WoD is a pale shadow of its former self that is completely unrecognizable from its 90s heyday. V5 basically destroyed the setting and turned the brand name into a skinsuit, and fans reacted accordingly. I don't even like V5, I prefer Requiem because it's a better game in every way, but I can still see that much. Paradox should've rebooted from scratch rather than turn it into a skinsuit, or better yet released everything into public domain.I don't like any of those games and I hate it when people recommend them to me after I keep saying so. They're based in a zeitgeist that I wasn't alive to experience and have no interest in now. I want more relevant settings like TSR's Star*Drive. But unfortunately it got canceled because it wasn't made in the 70s and the cargo cult of nostalgia for the mid-20th century is the only thing that matters to this industry. Ttrpgs are basically the most uncreative and stagnant industry I'm aware of besides Hollywood. TSR/WotC alone produced a bunch of neat non-D&D settings that are completely forgotten now and don't have any comparable games today. All the creative games get canceled in favor of this cargo cult of nostalgia. I'm completely sick of it.It's all so much dumb naughty word too. Creativity isn't a zero sum game, it's just that publishers are evil and hate creativity. If these dumb evil corpos don't care to steward the IPs they own, then they should lose ownership and the fans should be free to preserve and remix them. I wouldn't give a crap what Paradox or Hasbro did with their soiled IPs if fans could just fork our own versions of Planescape, Dark Sun, WitchCraft, Alternity, Hunter: The Vigil, Changeling: The Lost, etc.</blockquote>

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