Post by Username17 ยป Fri Nov 06, pm. Skip to content. Quick links. But it is a reimagining of the World of Darkness. And a fancier typeface version Here. Let's face it: the World of Darkness is cluttered. With each group having their own sub-groups and politics and multiple groups of antagonist supernaturals it gets explosively, exponentially more complicated with the addition of every book, and no one knows how it works.
That's not good for a political game. The players need to know at least enough of what's going on that they can advance agendas and make plans โ otherwise there aren't any political maneuverings; it all devolves rapidly into hack-n-slash or just plain slash.
The concept is that you are a classic Universal Studios Monster and you engage in narrative driven dramatic role playing of both horror and intrigue. This is essentially impossible when there are too many world running conspiracies to keep track of or when people are going all Dragon Ball Z on things right next to you.
So we're paring things down. A lot. We don't have, need, or even want a bajillion clans of vampires, or fifteen tribes of werewolves. There should be few enough flavors of things that all the players can remember what the differences between them are. Ideally, people should be able to play whatever supernatural guys they want, sort of like the League of Extraordinary Gentleman ; but in practice you have to put explicit limitations on what is part of the story or things get all weird.
Like with Martian invasions and stuff. A story that doesn't have specific exclusions does not truly have any specific inclusions. It's not really a story at all at that point, it's a mess. It is important to note that you can't take everything from myth and legend and cram it into a story. I'm not saying that your story will be completely incoherent, although of course it will be. I'm saying that you are literally incapable of doing that. The Vampire Book is an encyclopedia of just vampire lore from various cultures and it is literally over nine hundred pages long.
