Yeah the game I am making I am pretty much ditching the secret society, or if there must be a secret society it is so deep in the background it really doesn't matter.  So your hunter who is part of a secret order of demon hunters with access to supernatural powers will be mostly alone when on mission, but the normal FBI agent only needs to make a few phone calls to be really scary.  Then again it actually evens out as the hunter has more personal power while the agent has social clout to make things happen.  So one for combat and the other to tangle any social warzone.

So like Dark*Matter? :cool:

Yeah I don't think I have unique ideas to be fairly honest.  At some point I am just going with a setting I made because it has the things I like.

Quote from: Snowman0147;1090785Yeah I don't think I have unique ideas to be fairly honest.  At some point I am just going with a setting I made because it has the things I like.

I was more joking really. Alot of RPGs have been inspired by various media.
The Haunting (original)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (original)
Spectre
X-Files
Ghost Busters (original Filmation and all other versions)
Scooby Doo (original)

And others. Paranormal investigation as a theme can take a-lot of different routes. Mix it in with "the hidden" and you can really go wild. Alot of recent and not so recent TV series seem to have locked onto that theme.

Well it is still the truth.  I mean a lot of these ideas in my setting are older ideas made by other people in the past.  It is ground already treaded.  Now mind you that I plan to add twists to them, but in general there isn't a lot of new stuff.  It is recycled ideas given new life to a new audience that hopefully won't become toxic like the World of Darkness community has become.  Which is really what drove me out of the those games.

Quote from: Darrin Kelley;1090052Kinfolk: Unsung Heroes is the name of the book in which it is all laid out. I owned said book. And many of the people here who are still WtA fans still own that book. It was the most graphic and reprehensible illustration of how the Garou treated their kin that I had ever seen hit print. They had literal rape camps.

I'm not calling anyone bad for liking that game. I used to. But that book? Sort of burnt the bridges for me. I like to RP happy things. Not get mired in aspects of real life I game to escape.

Bad, nasty, depressing, and icky doesn't mean a game is mature. In my opinion. And I believe that White Wolf/Onyx Path is full of anything but maturity.

Ah!  Thanks for the clarification.  I never read it.  Probably after my time in the WOD, which was generally at the 1st edition/2nd edition transfer.  I remember there were several Vampire supplements towards the end of my WOD playing that went really "edgelord" with the whole thing.

Quote from: Chris24601;1090509Further, magic wasn't vulgar or coincidental because of what humanity believed, but because of the rules established by the Exarchs; super mages who ascended into the supernal realms and re-arranged the cosmos to keep anyone else from doing it so they'd never have to share... and the best way to do that is make mankind forget magic is even possible.

I know it was not your intent... but you actually made Awakening sound cool. The Exarchs sound like awesome villains.

I could never figure out what Awakening was supposed to be about. Probably since every time I tried to read the corebook I fell asleep.

Quote from: Darrin Kelley;1090018You see. I grew up around certain ethnic supremesist groups. That expoused forcing relatives into forced breeding camps. To keep their family lines "pure".

I have not heard of this, but I've been playing Far Cry 5, is that close?

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1091292I have not heard of this, but I've been playing Far Cry 5, is that close?

Never played the Far Cry franchise. So I don't understand the reference.

Religious cultists take over a chunk of Montana and kidnap and forcibly convert people, nailing up any dissenters.

What's the story, Darrin?

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1091367Religious cultists take over a chunk of Montana and kidnap and forcibly convert people, nailing up any dissenters.

What's the story, Darrin?

It's an RPG sourcebook. Not a novel.

It an aspect by aspect showing of what the life of Kinfolk is actually like. There are small pieces of fiction. But not one unified story.

No. Your story.

QuoteI grew up around certain ethnic supremesist groups. That expoused forcing relatives into forced breeding camps. To keep their family lines "pure".

I have never heard of any place with forced breeding camps.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1091396I have never heard of any place with forced breeding camps.

Well, not for humans...

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1091396No. Your story.

I spent my teenage years in rural Northern California. In a section of the state the locals called Jefferson. Extremists dominated there during the 80's. And it's an area I consider my personal version of hell on earth.

I was lucky to get out of there alive. And I never want to go back.

Racist ideology was a common topic in the junior/senior high I went to in that area. Everything from discussion of breeding pogroms, to date rape. And if you were a minority? Forget it. Your life was treated worth less than anyone the ruling families could exploit.

There are three type of people there. The ruling families. The illegal aliens they exploit. And the poor. The poor were everybody else's whipping boys. Guess what I was?

There is no law in that area. The only police presence are members of the ruling families. if you were a member of the poor? Your life meant nothing at all.

I don't consider that area a part of the United States. The only people who had rights and even have their personhood recognized are those of the ruling families.

I recently found out that most of the school bullies of my class level there are now dead. All statistics of that area's ridiculous murder rate.

So... you don't want WoD to be sold anymore? Not sure where we're going with this?