Paradox has bought White Wolf, plans on giving "some fresh blood" to the WoD/Vampire IPs

[Excidium II]

edgy

nice meme.

 

[Lucky]

Exalted looks like a suyper shit japanese-animation Saturday cartoon

If you like this shit, seriously consider killing yourself.

Anime was a mistake.



Now this is not a horrible idea. Particularly since we will be freed from Ulmicati terrible event ideas.

It's a good setting when the designers are drawing inspiration from mythology and books like the Gods of Pegāna - that’s when the titular Exalted are classical heroes and there’s interesting mixes of weird shit going on. The setting is trash, however, when they instead start taking cues from American-style comic books and cheap Japanese animation. The latter has gotten more and more influential over time, resulting in a shift towards making the Exalted more and more like super heroes and all the stupidity which that entails. You can see this in how the Solars, who are poster-boys of the setting, have changed over time. Their theme of perfection used to be more heavily focused on the impossibility of that and how their flaws led to tragedy, while eventually their flaws practically disappeared and they became superior to everyone.
The artwork has also always been fairly cheap and done by people who love the comic-style, so it’s terrible looking and actively detracts from the setting with the whole ‘awesomeness’ aesthetic - that picture you found is nowhere near how bad it gets. I actually read about the setting before I ever saw any of the artwork and much preferred it that way.

 

[Irenaeus II]

Good post.

 

[likaq]

WoD crpg powered by silent storm engine...

 

[Excidium II]

They should make digital version of VTES. Jump on the CCG bandwagon with something that isn't a shallow MTG clone.

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

Is there are any precedent in history for a video game publisher owning its own full-scale pen-and-paper roleplaying game?

Yes there is, Paradox already had one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakar_och_Demoner

 

[Space Satan]

It will be real time with pause.

 

[Excidium II]

Yes there is, Paradox already had one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakar_och_Demoner

Also the pen and paper stuff is licensed to Onyx Path which is where WW people moved when CCP dismantled the company, I don't think pdox will also take over the tabletop developments inhouse.

 

[lightbane]

Oh my gosh, great news! Perhaps we'll eventually get another WW game at fucking last! Granted, nowadays I doubt stuff like Wraith, ODemon or OWerewolf and the others could work due the dreaded political correctness, but it's a good start anyway.

 

[Excidium II]

inb4 mobile games

I don't think this IP has much potential for mobile shovelware stuff. Since paradox is full of those historical games what would be cool is using that expertise for a Dark Ages WoD CRPG. At least brooding goths with trenchcoat and katanas would be ruled out from the start.

 

[Somberlain]

"Vampire is particularly exciting as it is “the world’s second best-selling role-playing and is special because half of all players are women.”

Star Stable: Bloodlines incoming.

 

[Excidium II]

lmao nice made up statistic.

 

[Ninjerk]

WoD crpg powered by silent storm engine...

WoD crpg powered by Underrail engine with an actual art team

 

[Jaesun]

I'm not sure what to think now, so I am just going to do this

 

[pippin]

lmao nice made up statistic.

WoD's manuals are full of SJWspeak though...

 

[Excidium II]

WoD's manuals are full of SJWspeak though...

I don't see how that makes half the audience female. The subject matter does attract more women than usual but I think half is stretching.

 

[Neanderthal]

Never particularly cared for WoD rule system, not really good at what it says it's doing, but Bloodlines were good and Redemption tolerable so I suppose it's all in implementation.

 

[Excidium II]

Never particularly cared for WoD rule system, not really good at what it says it's doing

You're not one of those people who want the rules to be some numenera-tier garbage, are you?

 

[Jaesun]

We have TimCain on Obsidian team

Bloodlines was Boyarsky's project. Such a shame his talent is wasted at Blizzard.

 

[Space Satan]

 

[Azalin]

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Pretty much confirmed. Curious if it will be crowdsourced or funded by Paradox. I guess it will be crowdsourced.

 

[garren]

My memory is hazy on this one but didn't Obsidian once try to get a license to make a WoD game? Can't remember.

 

[Excidium II]

Pretty much confirmed. Curious if it will be crowdsourced or funded by Paradox. I guess it will be crowdsourced.

lol how does that confirm anything.

 

[garren]

Well Obsidian and Paradox have history and Obsidian has more experience making RPGs than them, so can't see why that wouldn't work.