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Even KotE seemed to agree with that, because the books started referring to them as Gui Ren (presumably 鬼人, not 貴人) and Hungry Dead, especially when they started putting more focus on India in Heresies of the Way and East Asian terms of any kind ended up being out of place altogether.



Fortunately, that's rather easily discarded and replaced, too. You just have to follow more or less the same line as the other WoD books and note that monsters take pains to keep themselves out of public view. If anyone sees them and doesn't say anything, then everyone can carry...

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The visceral nature of the game, characters, and setting. The built-in functions of being the monster in W:tA also go a long way toward establishing the feeling of it. There's not a fine progression of powers that you jump through in order to get a talisman or cut a deal; and it doesn't work by being bitten, all the bits are just there right from the beginning. Even Gifts tend to be taught with actions and feelings rather than some kind of lesson in arcane abstractions.

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I'm pretty sure that they said that they wanted to get someone "right" to handle the material, not that it was effectively gone....

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Less often since Possessed: A Player's Guide and Book of the Wyld. There's a quote in the former where Albrecht has a "Fuck! That's just great!" reaction to finding out the gorgons (and drones) are a thing, while the latter mechanically details what is basically the site of Pet Sematary as a Wyld Threshold....

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"Oh my god, JC! A bane!"

"A BANE!"...

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Your mukade may be a bit underpowered; the rules for materialization have it so their stats from Revised onward would be Strength 10, Dexterity 7, Stamina 7, and all other Attributes at 6 (no Abilities added or necessary to the roll because spirits are weird).

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Why would other WICs be less big bad evil corporations? Corporations can ramp up the evil pretty damned quickly, with or without some nebulous support from beyond that may or may not still even apply. Also, Werewolf has a kind of history with adding on new threats of this type. Shinzui, though dedicated to the Weaver, is arguably able to gut Pentex and its holdings. You need more corrupt asshole companies in the event that this occurs, so that the threat remains. Adding them to a video game just means that the old and new fans have something to shake them up a bit. It doesn't really dilute anything;...

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Uktena only manage it because they have some more significant numbers than other tribes. Also, they have a keen interest in keeping secrets within the tribe.



They'd like it, but it probably isn't happening nearly as often as they like for a number of different reasons, like how the Wendigo aren't really all that populous....

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One deep stab wound can be a long, agonizing death due to the tendency of deep stab wounds to host horrid infections. A number of deep stab wounds to the thoracic and abdominal regions means that you probably won't be able to treat yourself for any of them with said first aid kit, because you will be leaking out fluids and probably have a number of damaged organs.



And a kitchen knife can slip between the fourth and fifth ribs on the left side of the torso. That's a nearly instant death from a stab to the heart, and it goes through most common forms of modern body armor,...

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That's primarily only Europe, and possibly not even any more, given the way that things are going. Then again, they did say that they wanted to focus on Europe at ParaWW......

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I was talking about other WICs. There are many more commercialized threats that feed the Wyrm than just those subsidiaries under that one holding company, and it's entirely possible that some more ethically stringent corporations might have infections trying to climb the ladder. INTRIGUE!



Cyanide is, at this very moment, teasing their Call of Cthulhu game.



If you're focusing on corporations and having to do things other than hack and slash, it would probably be a good move to add in a varied range of corporate antagonists not all centered around...

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Energy is overrated and quick to drop off. There are a number of other important factors, such as momentum, the size of the object, and the center of gravity. You can't just drop this down to one variable; that's the terrible tendency of many, especially in rpg fandom, to bow down before guns as Totems of Instant Death. You'd need a much bigger gun to get that kind of effect....

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The second interview reveals that all frenzies are completely uncontrolled, no allowance for even packmates. Also, I have reservations against putting Pentex into such a central roll, especially when it's supposed to be ensconsed in corporate inscrutability, in addition to being far from the only game in town.

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They're anti-vikings and anti-northfolk. Anyone who worships or reveres Wotan and his Aesir lackies is going to get it when they roll through, no quarter given....

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"...So what do you call your act?"

"The Silver Fangs!"...

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Sure. It's just one of many shorthand terms....

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And the writers of the original DotFA Solar Charms could have been asked to rewrite them, but that's no guarantee that the busted, unoriginal Charms would have turned out much better. The writers in question did not see their effort as wanting for quality, and so likely couldn't have been bothered to do a proper ground-up redesign of the assignment. Someone would have to fundamentally change their outlook on the goals of said writing assignment for anything to change, or in other words, you;d need different people.

Besides, how much full redesigning can they manage to work in? They've...

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Onyx Path didn't consider the 20th anniversary editions to be numbered editions, but compilations. ParaWolf thought differently....

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Mage had a problem with too much far-flung gonzo stuff in the Umbra. Werewolf is extremely down to earth and visceral with its presentation. The effects of trying to close up avenues to the Umbra will be vastly different between the two games, especially since all Garou and Fera are half-spirit....

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They're presented as being potential sources of Glamour in C20, but if someone is just going through the motions or attempting to crush possibilities, it's not going to be very glamorous. And Etherites are former technocrats with many of the trappings of the seedy underbelly of academia, so if they get embroiled in competition like, say, the one you saw with Cope vs. Marsh, things can get rather Banal quickly....