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[Ragged Robin]

if they were so smart how come I bound one with prime and spirit?...

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Yeah.....I think I'll pass. Paying for a game you already own pretending to be another game which you already own is absurd. I'm gonna spend it on beer instead.

Late stage capitalism man....we can't keep this up, especially on current pay levels....

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I'm trying to think of a way of asking "isn't this just hunter the vigil again?" While not seeming dismissive.

......I've got nothing. Which is probably what I'll be giving to them because I already own hunter the vigil corebook.

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The ventrue one is alright but the rest are the bad the brujah look like eurotrash visiting a gay club they're not welcome at.
The nosfertu one looked this fashion show trash chique. They wernt even ugly....

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Prior to v5 most of them dressed proffesional with a few occult references. I can't recall how they dress now but I recall the costume sketches in core were pretty distinctive....

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Most players I know are opting out to wait until WoD 6th under the 4th ed D&D vs 5th mindset. Which isnt unreasonableable after you waste 40 bucks on v5 anarch. Should be interesting to see if it affects W5 sales, once bitten as they say. But without market data it's all speculation...

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Looking at designer notes for anarch indicate its being played straight.

To jump back to the Sabbat book did anyone else notice it contradicted itself......sometimes mid paragraph, for example saying the sabbat doesnt have territory then explaining how it's territories work?...

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There's a lot to unpack with recent depictions but I'll say I have my....concerns about how recent authors view sexually confident women....

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One my proudest achievements in game was pushing through a minor reforms to protect kinfolk from abusive spouses (slightly)....

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Theirs something to be said of mad bastard game design, I mean phils made career out it. A lot of the more compelling settings are a product of thinking outside the box rather than carefully considered game design. It's arguable wod itself if a product of that in the context of the early 90s. I doubt you could make something as edgy and devil may care now. Although that's partly due to the sheer range now.

You could make an anarch faction but I'd be very careful how you proceed. For a start I'd avoid simply poisoning the well with the garou nation like they did with the Sabbat or...

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It occurs to me that a constant pressure to modify everything into the context of period American insectionalist criteria is not only going be incredibly difficult to produce and still be compelling with broad appeal but is probably going to result in increasingly drastic backslashes at not only contested points of intersectional praxis but also out of raw frustration and exasperation at attempting to have fun in a hyper sanitised way with a layer of strong social ettitequte on top?

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see it's already beginning, we're already seeing divides on decisions as niche as incest baby bullying making it okay to sanitise a major plot point . Give it a year and the split will be incredably bitter.....again.

Then again I'm okay with the metis tabboo thing because it discourages furry fetish shit so maybe I'm guilty of niche thinking as well.

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fun little roleplay questionaire I fill out as a prelude to roleplaying, is to create a short questionaire and answer it IC. It allows me to get into their mindset and flesh them out. I hope you'll enjoy answering them and hopefully build a little bit on who your pc's are.

1)How do you feel about your clan
2)How do you feel about other sects
3)How loyal are you to your sect?
4)How do you actually feel about being a vampire?
5)Do you have a feeding preferance?
6)Do you consider yourself human?
7)What you actually want?
8)Do you have any meaningful...

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Yeah, that's part of the deeper issues here. It's also really emphasised by the fact the Anarchs don't really have a plan going forward to moderte the hierachy of kindred which intrisically sets in because they're inherantly in competition with each other. and get more powerful with age....

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That's a very paradox tier move considering their tendacy to brick their own content with buggy patches and dlc....

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The tricky part is trying to figure out who this is designed to appeal to, It's quite reductionist in it's outlook and doesnt really enhance the game in any discernable ways. New players won't really benifit from it and it's just going to annoy established player were it might even escalate to fandom splits ala v5 vs v20. Cui Bono? as they say.

Also I'm slightly bemused at the removal of metis as though it was a tabboo subject, the subtext of metis was incest closed breeding genetic issues and that's genrally tabboo unless i missed that contigency at the last pride march I attended....

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I'm not convinced they are. The online scene seems (ish it's worth noting the that a some of what we see online is native advertising )supportive but my IRL experiance people tend to nudge toward ivory tower games for v5 or simply not running v5 full stop. It's also going to be developing problem going forward if they want to keep selling books since if they won't flesh out the anarchs
I must admit this is partly speculative or anecdotal since we've only done this cycle once before but we're already seeing trends emerging circa 93, the sabbat and carmarilla are still better written despite...

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Which from historical trends we know leads to games gravitating away from the anarchs to sects with actual fluff and crunch since homebrews arnt practical for such a large part of the game. Books cost money....

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No, I want depth from a major sect which is apparently the settings primary protagonist group. Something the anarchs fundemently lack because they're incredibly underwritten....

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This Is certainly correct sabbat eldars are vile, but again this leads away from my point-sabbat and carmarilla politics have a depth the anarchs don't and this is going to be detrimental moving forward unless addressed...