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Concerns about World of Darkness Online

I have had a few concerns about World of Darkness online for sometime now as I mentioned on the forums recently so I thought I'd put them all in one place so I can see if any of you share my concerns. Concern #1: Making the World of Darkness Boring Seems impossible right? How could such a game

Comments 11 Comments Fetch submitted 2 days ago


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Everybody Has a Story


Comments 8 Comments Rick Gentle submitted 5 days ago


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Morality Does Not Equal Humanity

Like many game mechanics in World of Darkness games, Humanity can be a dangerous statistic. Allow me to elaborate – it can be alluring and easy to allow our statistics to roleplay our characters for us.  White Wolf has been wonderfully descriptive with their examples for each dot of the various

Comments 3 Comments HfxTenor submitted 5 days ago


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Metaplotting


Comments 2 Comments Rick Gentle submitted 12 days ago


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Not TOO Economical, I Hope

"Economy of blood".The phrase is enough to send shivers down one's spine, and possibly make one salivate at the possibilities in a vampire MMORPG. But let's face it - economics are complicated, and games are meant to be fun. How far do we really want the developers to run with this phrase? I'm

Comments 3 Comments Rick Gentle submitted 19 days ago


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Back to Basics: A look at CCP's Meta-Sandbox and Emergent Gaming

Small chat on the drip-feed of information we've been getting, then a look at how how sand-boxy designing this game must itself be.

Comments 4 Comments jlcrowl submitted 21 days ago


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No Kids Allowed

Every time I think about this topic, I always picture Eastwood squinting and growling “Get off my lawn.....” through clenched teeth. That said, I hereby propose that the WoD MMO should be designed with an ESRB rating of AO in mind. Not an M rating – AO (Adults Only).  It’s not what you think! I

Comments 5 Comments HfxTenor submitted 22 days ago


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The Poetics of the WODMMO

The idea that the WODMMO is going to have a "poetic" UI has been bandied about for a while now, and the developers are going for a much more "cinematic" gaming experience than what we've seen to date. Exactly how they're going to accomplish this, we have little idea, and there's enough speculation

Comments 5 Comments Rick Gentle submitted 26 days ago


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Another Heterosexual, White, Cis-man talks about Gender Identity and Gaming

In an article that starts off a celebration of gender diversity in the upcoming MMO, Crowl later treads into the possible dark side that the kind of freedom might offer. Hopefully, he'll still have this gig as a blog-writer when it's all said and done
 
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Extra Credits Episodes on Race and Gender Diversity, respectively. good stuff. Look them up, in the unlikely event you haven't already. :)

Comments 7 Comments jlcrowl submitted 26 days ago


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How DARE you Enjoy Being a Vampire?!?!?!?!

V:tM’s primary theme is the struggle to maintain humanity in the face of the Beast’s overwhelming desire; to remain civilized and in control while being consumed from the inside by a ravenous urge to degenerate into a remorseless, mindless killing machine.  From a Storyteller’s perspective, the

Comments 18 Comments HfxTenor submitted 30 days ago


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