Honestly a pretty good breakdown of World of Darkness! Also it's from the same folks behind Hunter the Parenting which is nice
Also it’s from the same folks behind Hunter the Parenting which is nice
I was about to recommend Hunter: The Parenting as a fun introduction to the setting, but you already did. :angery:
Always great to see World of Darkness getting more love. Changeling and Mage are big time personal favorites.
Great intro!
I like that he carefully talked around edition wars. I have my preference as well, but I agree with him that really, any of the editions are playable and interesting.
Personally, I got my start with Chronicles (New WoD at the time), and I still strongly prefer the newer stuff (Changeling: the Lost being my favorite gameline by far). But I still like Old World of Darkness; I just find that the systems comparative messiness and built-in Meta-plot are downsides for me. But the meta-plot is definitely cool to read about, and the 'messy' rules are definitely a feature to some people, and I can see the appeal.
Also, side shout-out to the fan made line of Genius: the Transgression. Sort of a "play as the technocracy" but in Chronicles of Darkness (and also you're not the villain, by default), its probably in my top 5 favorites Storyteller games.
I've yet to try out CtL but I've heard cool things about it, I just recently started WoD via just the basic chronicles core rulebook and find it really cool (it really is horror/gothic punk in how it presents our gritty reality), the closest it feels comparable to is Delta Green though even then that gameline never truly captures a lot of the social aspects I feel WoD does better
