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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 61
Message ID: 55
#55, RE: The Psi Corp is your friend
Posted by NightmareButterfly on Aug-05-01 at 02:18 AM
In response to message #49
>Well, of course. It was the first edition of a FASA game. That meant
>two things were inevitable: the mechanics would be broken in
>interesting ways, and the binding would fall apart almost
>instantaneously.

The only RPG books I've ever found that fall apart faster than FASA's are Games Workshop's. I swear, about 6 pages of my Warhammer 40k rules book fell out by the time I got home from the store. Never, ever start playing Warhammer 40k, btw. It's a money devouring addiction worse than Magic: TG.

>The thing that ticks me off about all the White Wolf material I've
>seen, aside from the consistently excruciating pretention level, is
>the fact that they're all based on the central theme, "Your character
>is inevitably doomed.[1] Try and do stuff for as long as you can,
>but sooner or later, no matter how careful you are, you're going to
>have to start all over."

I've found that it all (of course) depends on who you're playing with. Even then, the sheer pretention level of Mage and especially Vampire turns me off. The gloom and doom can most easily be downplayed in Werewolf. I've played a couple of great Werewolf games... I think it's because it's the only White Wolf game where you actually play a hero, besides Hunter- which I haven't had a chance to look at much. Anyway, it's always fun to play a 9-foot slavering beast with huge claws. I like the nature theme in Werewolf, too.

-Nightmare Butterfly
I spent about $500 on my Tyranid army. Kill me.