Changeling rant, mostly
Oct. 22nd, 2003 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishJesus Tarot: really has to be seen to be believed.
Fairly nondescript Game Day on Satyrday. Got my eyes checked before; discovered to my surprise that they do in fact make cheap disposable contacts in my prescription, so I went ahead and ordered a trial pair. Maybe I'll go back to contacts after all. Played Changeling that evening, which was fun. Bits of plot started to leak out around the edges of events, which is nice. ("Russians!") And they have a new NPC tocause problems interact with.
Book of Glamour may actually be released as an ebook sometime next year. This irritates me all out of proportion. When Wraith died, it died with some dignity; Wraith players got a complete set of splatbooks, guides to the trickier parts of their system (I'm told the Shadow Player's Guide is a fantastic piece of work), and then a Big Ending Book. Changeling, on the other hand, has been on life support for years. There've been no releases since Book of Lost Houses in 2001, only empty promises. "Book of Glamour!" "Kithbook Boggan!" "Keys to the Kingdom!" "Dark Ages: Fae! This time fer sure!" But White Wolf won't come out and say that Changeling is dead. The company line is that it's because there are Top Men who looooove Changeling and want to bring it back Any Day Now. My cynical self says that they know if they kill kill Changeling they'll alienate all the Changeling fans, some of whom may stop buying other lines as well. So they keep us hanging on. Bastards.
BoG is "essentially complete;" according to one of the writers all it lacks is some layout. (No, I don't know how much "some" is, only that it's less than "all.") Rumour has it that it may be released electronically to a fansite sometime after the whole Time of Judgement thing is over. Sounds like more of the WhiteMan's Wolf's lies to me; it's trivial to lose this in the shuffle of launching the ALL-NEW WORLD OF INSUFFICIENT LIGHT and then tell the Changeling players to go buy sourcebooks for TEH BEST-EVAR CHANGELING-TYPE GAME in the ALL-NEW. . . oh, forget it. (Much like WW will; I fully expect any new Changeling-type game to suffer the same life-support fate of the current one. As much as I love my game it's not got the goth-market appeal of Vamp, the ecoguerrila appeal of Werewolf, or the power-gamer / wannabe wizard appeal of Mage.)
I'll be buying the Time of Judgement book for the thirty thousand words it'll give me on my game. Should Dark Ages: Fae actually see the light of day I'll buy that. Should they release BoG as a genuine eight-buck e-book I'll buy it, too. It'll take an awful lot of convincing to get me to buy into the new WW games, though.
Fuck 'em. That's what they've said to Changeling fans, and that's what this Changeling fan is saying to them.
Fairly nondescript Game Day on Satyrday. Got my eyes checked before; discovered to my surprise that they do in fact make cheap disposable contacts in my prescription, so I went ahead and ordered a trial pair. Maybe I'll go back to contacts after all. Played Changeling that evening, which was fun. Bits of plot started to leak out around the edges of events, which is nice. ("Russians!") And they have a new NPC to
Book of Glamour may actually be released as an ebook sometime next year. This irritates me all out of proportion. When Wraith died, it died with some dignity; Wraith players got a complete set of splatbooks, guides to the trickier parts of their system (I'm told the Shadow Player's Guide is a fantastic piece of work), and then a Big Ending Book. Changeling, on the other hand, has been on life support for years. There've been no releases since Book of Lost Houses in 2001, only empty promises. "Book of Glamour!" "Kithbook Boggan!" "Keys to the Kingdom!" "Dark Ages: Fae! This time fer sure!" But White Wolf won't come out and say that Changeling is dead. The company line is that it's because there are Top Men who looooove Changeling and want to bring it back Any Day Now. My cynical self says that they know if they kill kill Changeling they'll alienate all the Changeling fans, some of whom may stop buying other lines as well. So they keep us hanging on. Bastards.
BoG is "essentially complete;" according to one of the writers all it lacks is some layout. (No, I don't know how much "some" is, only that it's less than "all.") Rumour has it that it may be released electronically to a fansite sometime after the whole Time of Judgement thing is over. Sounds like more of the White
I'll be buying the Time of Judgement book for the thirty thousand words it'll give me on my game. Should Dark Ages: Fae actually see the light of day I'll buy that. Should they release BoG as a genuine eight-buck e-book I'll buy it, too. It'll take an awful lot of convincing to get me to buy into the new WW games, though.
Fuck 'em. That's what they've said to Changeling fans, and that's what this Changeling fan is saying to them.
