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Re: [RPG]: Vampire: The Requiem, reviewed by James Gillen (4/3)

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Originally Posted by Destriarch View Post
Thanks for the review.

I own this book already, and have never really gotten around to reading it all, mostly because I have never been able to persuade anyone to play it. I don't know why, but everyone I talk to seems to think that nWoD isn't a very good system, but I'm not at all sure why they think that any more. I mean, there are certain aspects of nWoD that I don't like (mostly that everything seems to be ten times as angsty) but I've no real qualms with the system. Any ideas as to why this particular opinion seems to proliferate?

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It doesn't.

I mean, most of the folks I've played nWoD with (a fairly large sample, really, once you start counting con games and the like), say they prefer it. It's faster, especially where combat is concerned, and I think that it irons out a lot of the wrinkles.

Now, it's a game system, which means that there are always things it doesn't do well. The issue is whether it does what it's supposed to do. I think it does.

I must, however, ask you to quantify the "ten times as angsty" comment.
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