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Hello everyone, Cinder here. Long story short, I love pretty much all the games written by White Wolf and Onyx Path. Speaking of World Of Darkness, my favorites are Apocalypse and Demon. For the Chronicles of Darkness, the honor goes to Forsaken and Promethean. There's also Scion.
My most beloved of them all, though, has to be Beast: The Primordial.
Can't say exactly why, at least not quickly, but its themes, aesthetics and narrative just clicked with me as I was reading the Kickstarter prewiew. Now, Beast is still a young gameline but it had a turbolent life. I loved it from the start, but I'm also one of those who agree that the changes made during the Kickstarter overall improved it a lot. Some of its aspects can be taken the wrong way, some are tricky to play with and the echo chamber of the Web made the game no favors, but I'm of the opinion the game's still solid and beautifully written, a start from which things can only improve.
By the time I'm writing this, I'm eagerly waiting for the Player's and Storyteller's guides, feeling from what we know they'll really open up the game. We Beast fans are passionate and loyal but, ironically enough, hunger for new content and hope more and more people will eventually come to love this little, beautiful and fearsome game as much as we do.
In the meantime though, I decided to write a series of post with the hope they'll show people the potential and greatness I see when I look at Beast. It's a self-appointed mission and one I'm aware I can be obnoxious about. When I say that I'm afraid people around here will eventually get annoyed by me not shutting up about Beast, especially since I'm just a random guy, I'm joking but not that much. Being deliberate and conscious about this is only a recent thing, the result of me dealing with some conflicts, ideas and turmoils I have with the game and turning them into a productive impulse. Still, I do believe that, within my rants, there's at least some good to find. Ideas, story hooks and perspectives that might persuade people to give a chance to the game. If that happens, I can live with the reputation of being a nuisance.
This thread is meant to be the hub thread for my Beast posts. Gonna put a link to this in my signature, hoping that some will click on it and look at what I wrote. I hope they'll join the discussion but, at the very least, they'll see a demonstration of my passion for the game.
Essays & Game Hacks:
- 0: About Lessons, Revelations and the Dark Mother. Not a part of my planned series of essays, but the first of the threads I made to rant about Beast. You can see traces of what would happen later here.
- 1: Beast & Primordial Gnosticism
- 2: Reconciliation with existence as a Begotten
- 3: Mythology
-4: Identity, Family and a little of chronicle building
-5: The Hero Essay
Other:
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Incursions from the Primordial Dream. Open thread about denizens and critters of the Primordial Dream. If you have some ideas and want to share them, you're welcome and encouraged to do so.
- New Family: Irkalla, Nightmare of the End.
- Klaus & Krampus. My silly Christmas bonus for 2017: the two characters statted as Beasts
Fiction:
I also write CoD fanfiction. It's not that good, but I aim to improve. Those I wrote so far are centered on Beast. I posted them around here as well, but the forum is not supposed to used be for fiction posting and makes it a little hard to read, so I personally suggest to check those here, if you're interested
My most beloved of them all, though, has to be Beast: The Primordial.
Can't say exactly why, at least not quickly, but its themes, aesthetics and narrative just clicked with me as I was reading the Kickstarter prewiew. Now, Beast is still a young gameline but it had a turbolent life. I loved it from the start, but I'm also one of those who agree that the changes made during the Kickstarter overall improved it a lot. Some of its aspects can be taken the wrong way, some are tricky to play with and the echo chamber of the Web made the game no favors, but I'm of the opinion the game's still solid and beautifully written, a start from which things can only improve.
By the time I'm writing this, I'm eagerly waiting for the Player's and Storyteller's guides, feeling from what we know they'll really open up the game. We Beast fans are passionate and loyal but, ironically enough, hunger for new content and hope more and more people will eventually come to love this little, beautiful and fearsome game as much as we do.
In the meantime though, I decided to write a series of post with the hope they'll show people the potential and greatness I see when I look at Beast. It's a self-appointed mission and one I'm aware I can be obnoxious about. When I say that I'm afraid people around here will eventually get annoyed by me not shutting up about Beast, especially since I'm just a random guy, I'm joking but not that much. Being deliberate and conscious about this is only a recent thing, the result of me dealing with some conflicts, ideas and turmoils I have with the game and turning them into a productive impulse. Still, I do believe that, within my rants, there's at least some good to find. Ideas, story hooks and perspectives that might persuade people to give a chance to the game. If that happens, I can live with the reputation of being a nuisance.
This thread is meant to be the hub thread for my Beast posts. Gonna put a link to this in my signature, hoping that some will click on it and look at what I wrote. I hope they'll join the discussion but, at the very least, they'll see a demonstration of my passion for the game.
Essays & Game Hacks:
- 0: About Lessons, Revelations and the Dark Mother. Not a part of my planned series of essays, but the first of the threads I made to rant about Beast. You can see traces of what would happen later here.
- 1: Beast & Primordial Gnosticism
- 2: Reconciliation with existence as a Begotten
- 3: Mythology
-4: Identity, Family and a little of chronicle building
-5: The Hero Essay
Other:
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Incursions from the Primordial Dream. Open thread about denizens and critters of the Primordial Dream. If you have some ideas and want to share them, you're welcome and encouraged to do so.
- New Family: Irkalla, Nightmare of the End.
- Klaus & Krampus. My silly Christmas bonus for 2017: the two characters statted as Beasts
Fiction:
I also write CoD fanfiction. It's not that good, but I aim to improve. Those I wrote so far are centered on Beast. I posted them around here as well, but the forum is not supposed to used be for fiction posting and makes it a little hard to read, so I personally suggest to check those here, if you're interested
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