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[Holy Shit] Monte Cooke's World of Darkness

Started by KrakaJak, November 17, 2006, 06:16:36 PM

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ColonelHardisson

#15
November 17, 2006, 10:44:09 PM
I very much doubt it'll be d20, by the way. Monte has done more than d20 in his career. I can't imagine he'd want to change WoD into a whole other system.
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ColonelHardisson

#16
November 17, 2006, 10:45:58 PM
Quote from: StuartI thought he announced he was finished with RPGs and Ptolus was his last RPG book?  Is he back already?

He said that after Ptolus, there was one more RPG project he'd been offered that was simply too cool for him to pass up.
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4e definitely has an Old School feel. If you disagree, cool. I won\'t throw any hyperbole out to prove the point.

RPGObjects_chuck

#17
November 17, 2006, 11:06:14 PM
Best exchange:

"Who's Monte Cook"

Reply "He designed Planescape"

Boy, their hat of d20 really runs deep over in them parts. I guess after a brilliant career doing Rolemaster and 2e D&D Monte Cook disappeared. Who knew.

Chuck

RPGPundit

#18
November 17, 2006, 11:28:46 PM
Interesting.

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Settembrini

#19
November 18, 2006, 01:13:06 AM
Can´t you all see it?
It´s a major win for us!

Monte did bring greatness to pretentious Cthulhu, and he´ll make the WoD into an Adventure Gamers paradise!

Rock on, Monte!

Finally, even I will be able to play a Mage or Changeling.
Finally there will be real scheming and plotting in Vampire instead of hollow phrases.

At least that´s what I hope.
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Pelorus

#20
November 18, 2006, 03:07:32 AM
Quote from: David ROkay, I'm very interested in seeing how this works out. Monte Cooke and WoD...

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Levi Kornelsen

#21
November 18, 2006, 03:38:10 AM
Quote from: Settembrinipretentious Cthulhu

This is the part where I slap Settembrini silly, right?

Anyone?

J Arcane

#22
November 18, 2006, 03:46:11 AM
Quote from: Levi KornelsenThis is the part where I slap Settembrini silly, right?

Anyone?
If I strain my brain really, really hard, I can kind of understand how one might brand CoC pretentious.  But in order to do so, you have to also brand Lovecraft himself pretentious, as well as his stories, because CoC get's everything from it's daddy.

I think you'd have a long hard road ahead of you to sell that one.  It could be done but, it's a stretch.
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Settembrini

#23
November 18, 2006, 04:03:46 AM
Oh, well  I forgot, you guys already had a functional CoC. German Cthulhu is special.  Here it´s  not a regular RPG, it´s a conspicious consumption jeux d´ambiance. Candlelight & lavish Handouts.Rolling dice is poo-poo´d here with most cthulhu fans. D20 Cthulhu was outrightly fought, as being the evil incarnate.
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mearls

#24
November 18, 2006, 04:17:29 AM
Huh. This is really, really interesting on about 20 different levels, especially when you mix it with CCP's purchase of White Wolf. Until we know more, we can't really say what's going on. It could be a d20-derived version of the WoD, or it could be a WoD game simply written by Monte.

In any case, this is really, really interesting on a business and creative level, and I mean that in the Chinese proverb sort of interesting.
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Sosthenes

#25
November 18, 2006, 04:22:46 AM
Hmm, maybe this is the first in a series of Mix-and-Match WoD collections. They've got a generic ruleset and several supplements. Now you could design a setting (a World of Darkness, so to speak) that combines and changes those elements. Now get some authors with known names and let them make those setting books. A pinch of Promethean, Werewolfs with a different agenda, Predator-like aliens, some bits of Chtulhu.

Sadly it's to late for David Hargrave's WoD...
 

fonkaygarry

#26
November 18, 2006, 04:23:33 AM
Quote from: J ArcaneThe fury of the flamewars over this will boil the entire internet into vapor.
I am salivating at that possibility.  Forums will burn; entire servers will collapse from the strain.  Scattered cadres of RPG raiders will scour what remains of the online community in search of reviews and photoshop threads.

It'll be more fun than wrassling a greased hog.
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fonkaygarry

#27
November 18, 2006, 04:25:06 AM
Quote from: SosthenesHmm, maybe this is the first in a series of Mix-and-Match WoD collections. They've got a generic ruleset and several supplements. Now you could design a setting (a World of Darkness, so to speak) that combines and changes those elements. Now get some authors with known names and let them make those setting books. A pinch of Promethean, Werewolfs with a different agenda, Predator-like aliens, some bits of Chtulhu.
That makes so much sense it's actually a little scary. :)  It'd be cool, fershure, and be a built-in safety valve against setting creep.
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David R

#28
November 18, 2006, 04:49:22 AM
Quote from: Pelorus"You can see she is barely breathing....one more sip of her lifeblood and she will succumb to death and only the precious vitae in your veins will save her....and curse her to worship the night and be bound to you forever.... A simple choice to make - do you want a l33t henchman or should you just kill her and take her stuff?"

:D

but what I meant was what this :

QuoteOriginally Posted by Sosthenes

Hmm, maybe this is the first in a series of Mix-and-Match WoD collections. They've got a generic ruleset and several supplements. Now you could design a setting (a World of Darkness, so to speak) that combines and changes those elements. Now get some authors with known names and let them make those setting books. A pinch of Promethean, Werewolfs with a different agenda, Predator-like aliens, some bits of Chtulhu.

Sadly it's to late for David Hargrave's WoD...

Which sounds way cool.

Regards,
David R

RedFox

#29
November 18, 2006, 05:27:03 AM
Quote from: ColonelHardissonI can't imagine he'd want to change WoD into a whole other system.

Yeah, that would be...

...wait, what?  Why the fuck else would he do "Monte Cooke's World of Darkness" if not to have it be another system, or at the very least a complete overhaul of the ST system (ala Arcana Unearthed)?

What do you expect, them to ship the WoD book with Monte Cooke's name on the cover and nothing changed?

Anywho, I could give less of a shit about the WoD, but a D20 version by Monte would certainly be amusing.  I wonder if there'll be a monster manual.
 
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