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Mr Ed and Lothar -
guess why I quit? the entire open-but-not, dynamic-but-not thing was a fucking headache, and as a researcher with an accuracy/authenticity complex it was a bit crap to watch a pseudo-gothy, pseudo-fatbeard writers wank a bunch of intensely Western meanings onto everything I gave them. On the other hand, their very crude forcing of the "it's the journey, not the prize" thing was utterly spastic/ No you can't have a rollicking adventure, because the world is Doomed. (weep, paint fingernails black, listen to Bauhaus, or that one bit from Boris Godanov].
When they started their Slanty-eyed Munckin: the Orientalist Fantasy line, I walked, unable to decide whether it was more disgusting that their product line now featured supercharged [East] Asians kung-fu-gripping everything to death or that the entirity of White Wolf is in denial over their niche as a super-hero wish-fulfilment industry.
Not that there's anything wrong with super-hero wish fulfilment. 
P.S. as two people who know the occult independent of RPGs, plz remember that your average gamer doesn't...hence the need to provide templates. and please recall that the majority of the history of magic is a shitfight, first between individuals, then groups, one the right way to do things...sort of Meistersinger von Nuremburg[/] meets [i]Hard-Boiled.
That being said, mr. ed - Dreamspeakers was a letdown in its final, published form. But you didn't see the pseudo-Cataneda tripe those nonces tried to pass along....
In the end I had to acqueisce to their easily digestible archetypes and geographic limitations...giving the public what they want...so all of my scary, morally-ambiguous, non-fluffy-bunny examples of shamanism, like in the Jali, the Navantes, or the Yanomamo, got thrown to the curb.
[ 07-03-2002: Message edited by: [monkey - greatest sage of all] ] |
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