[SteveD]

Damn fine review. Thanks for the name check. And yeah, having the links to the greys (one that doesn't get made enough) and Lovecraftian stuff (one that never gets made enough) is lovely.

Could I perhaps offer some insight into the schizophrenia? It is in fact horribly true that the victims of trauma do, as you put it, hang out at Teddy Bear Junction. Abused kids grow up to be abusers or self-mutilators, or at very least like piercings. It's Stockholm Syndrome, basically. These ex Changelings hated their imprisonment but they know nothing else, they LOST the ability to be humans, to be normal because some fucker put them on a mantlepiece for twenty years and told them that courts and seasons and glamours were all that matters. Sometimes unconsciously and when not, often unwillingly, they'll have no choice but to recreate the world of their abusers when they escape the torment.

This is also one thing that WW games tend to focus on: games where getting what you want often means destroying everything you hold dear. It is the Werewolves' sense of tradition that is killing them and making them weak, it is the Vampire's lot to feed in order to not be a monster, for the Changelings to be truly free and human, they ultimately have to destroy the only safe ground they have, because it's keeping them tied to the past. But they can't just pretend it's not there either. It's a game about reconciling yourself to who you are when the abuse is over.

Or so it seems from the review. nMage aside, WW seems to be going from strength to strength.