Post originally by Nawara at 2003-09-14 22:12:27
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I agree completely. There was no need for the Hunters to have any powers other than The Sight.

As for whether Orpheus should have been a Wraith supplement, I think it most definitely should not have been. Wraith is a dead game (no pun intended). Orpheus, as near as I can tell, wasn't created as an alternate setting for Wraith so much as it was a Ghost Story roleplaying game. Making it a Wraith supplement, just to save the five hundred Wraith players left in the world five bucks each, would have increased the cost to anyone who doesn't currently own the book. Not only that, but it would deny White Wolf the chance to fully promote the game as a

I worry about the (VERY quickly) increasing trend among White Wolf gamers to want "Fatsplat" supplements over new core books. Yes, it saves you five bucks. It also greatly decreases the number of people who are going to play the game, and, therefore, the chances that good supplements will be released for the game.

I understand that in niche games like Exalted, there isn't a need for a new core book for every group. But in the World of Darkness (and the all-new World of Darkness as well), there is enough of a difference in target audience between "fatsplats" that it makes sense to release all of them with their own Corebook.

In other words, don't think of the book costing you $35 instead of $29. Think of the book costing new players $35 instead of $55.

-Nawara