Post originally by flyingmice at 2004-08-09 10:29:18
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Hi John, Kester:

I don't think that was what Kester was refering to. My reading was that he thought it was familiar because he had already reviewed Unbidden, not that either was necessarily copying the other. Unbidden did indeed come out in 2003. It was recently up for the 2003 Indie RPG Awards. I don't know for sure, but I think you are right about WV being one of several sources of inspiration for Unbidden. I may be very wrong, though. Sometimes people just come up with similar ideas completely separately.

-mice

John McMullen wrote:
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By the ordering of your comments ("Sounds familiar? It did to me") there's a weak implication that Whispering Vault is copying Unbidden, which is unlikely, and I think unfair.

I know that the earliest reviews on Whispering Vault are 1997; I can't find a date on Unbidden before 2003, but I haven't looked very hard.

I think it's also unlikely that Unbidden copies Whispering Vault; it's more likely that WV is just part of the stew of games of personal horror that may have informed the creators of Unbidden.

I seem to recall that Whispering Vault came out at the same time as a release of Kult--both were part of a brief surge in modern horror roleplaying games.