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- Sat May 09, 2020 12:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tried to read Ars Magica for some reason
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3683
- Sat May 09, 2020 12:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tried to read Ars Magica for some reason
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3683
Current edition is 5th. They stopped publishing new stuff in 2016, because Atlas Games did not consider the game to be commercially viable* at that point. *If you were to put a gun to my head and force me to develop a commercially viable 6th edition... I would say, go print on demand on a site like ...
- Fri May 08, 2020 4:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tried to read Ars Magica for some reason
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3683
- Thu May 07, 2020 8:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What's the best d100-based fantasy game?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3718
Runequest and it's derivatives Are beloved classics of the genre, but that is mostly a triumph of interesting settings+a rules set that facilitates rules light play. Rolemaster It is a lot of work to make characters. These characters are very fragile and incompetent at low levels and when they do b...
- Thu May 07, 2020 8:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tried to read Ars Magica for some reason
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3683
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Urban Fantasy Mythic Resonance v Branding
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10838
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 11:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31418
They've produced a 100+ different Werewolf the Apocalypse books in about a decade of time. That suggests a consistent seller, but for all I know the line was kept afloat by syphoning of Vampire sales money the entire time. Was the Savage Horror tagline ever more than a marketing slogan? And those to...
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:47 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31418
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 6:06 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31418
The Fianna, Black Furies and Stargazers are New Age archetypes. Celtic spirituality, radical feminist collective and oriental spirituality. The ones that aren't, Silver Fangs, Glasswalkers, Shadow Lords, are there for traditional rpg players who would presumably also buy the game, or because they ne...
- Fri Oct 19, 2018 5:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31418
If you had Talbots becoming Lon Cheney wolfmen who could pass as strong hairy guys by wearing baggy clothes and Quists becoming giant wolf monsters with retrograde legs, and Kesslers becoming giant quadruped monsters that would be something to hang your hat on. Considering White Wolf's skill at gam...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 12:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31418
You are using perceive wrong. Actually doing magic is via a common set of rules*. What it looks like in setting follows the personal prejudices of the spellcaster. And if a spellcaster's personal prejudices weren't dominant in the area he got screwed, unless he was very discrete. *Well it was suppos...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31418
What the fuck? -Username17 I'm pretty certain WW never got beyond the 'this is a cool explanation why Gandalf, a magic Shaolin monk and a cyborg are using the same rules set' stage. Which is why they never even wrote an essay on the question, 'How do your player characters cause a paradigm to shift...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31418
(First of all sorry for derailing the thread) Having 5 forms gives your illustrators options. A big deal in a style over substance operation like White Wolf. Those 5 forms also all do show up in werewolf fiction. If you want to emulate different types of werewolf fiction you'll want them. I think in...
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31418
Traditional werewolves generally make for poor protagonists in a rpg. So naturally they made lots of stuff up. The real problem for werewolf was that goths wanted to play rpg's, Green Peace volunteers did not. As for building on the stuff they did dream up. I like for example the 5 shapes and the De...
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 6:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31418
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Demographics and Urban Fantasy
- Replies: 245
- Views: 31418
I have always liked the following 3 solutions. Werewolves reincarnate. There is actually a set number of them that eternally recycles through the ages. They think they are dying out, because nowadays there are more of everybody else around and they never bothered to do a proper head count. To surviv...
- Fri May 13, 2016 8:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica
- Replies: 164
- Views: 26558
Fuck your fun: it gets in the way of having a game everyone can get on the same page with, or even use parts of the rules effectively. :nonono: No Mask, I'll defend my right to have fun against you and Virgil and Frank and the rest of the micropenis brigade here on the Den. I believe in the having ...
- Fri May 13, 2016 4:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica
- Replies: 164
- Views: 26558
- Fri May 13, 2016 3:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica
- Replies: 164
- Views: 26558
It will just turn it into yet another fantasy rpg also ran. It already is and has been for years (decades?). If you look at it as a traditional fantasy with a couple of innovative ideas. It has been an also ran basically since the day it debuted. So yes, decades. The idea that improving the game in...
- Fri May 13, 2016 12:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica
- Replies: 164
- Views: 26558
Not all problems are of equal severity or frequency despite the fact that in the broadest sense they all have the same cause. -Username17 This. In over a decade of Ars Magica play I've never had to worry about the 6 rats vs. the knight problem, or the pink dot exception, or the medieval laws of nat...
- Fri May 13, 2016 8:39 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica
- Replies: 164
- Views: 26558
- Fri May 13, 2016 7:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica
- Replies: 164
- Views: 26558
Frank You sound like that philosopher who had an airtight case that movement is impossible. He lost the debate, because the other guy got up and walked away from him. You should be right, but out in the real world, I never ran into that problem. I've ran throughout my rpg years into other problems t...
- Fri May 13, 2016 7:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica
- Replies: 164
- Views: 26558
Chamomile Yes. I don't care, I don't own shares in Atlas Games. If I did, I would have told them years ago to produce a bestiary with nice pictures (those sell) and stop making new content thereafter. Move the whole thing to print on demand on Drivethrurpg. Ars Magica is niche game for connaisseurs/...
- Fri May 13, 2016 6:53 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica
- Replies: 164
- Views: 26558
For the record. I have no clue when it comes Aristotelian, Renaissance or even Newtonian* physics. I know maybe 12 things that worked different according to the medieval laws of nature. Part of my Ars Magica fun is spouting of those 12 things whenever a good possibility to do so arises. This is a ve...
- Fri May 13, 2016 6:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica
- Replies: 164
- Views: 26558