Yeah. I tried browsing their fourms to get the gist but most of the topics assumed you sat through all the videos. It sounds like they are doing something similar to DDI with the WoD....
For a Cam-specific thing, they're bringing back oWoD in troupe format.
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For a Cam-specific thing, they're bringing back oWoD in troupe format.
Wait wait wait, what?
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Individual domains are, if they wish, allowed to set up oWoD games in troupe play. (For the non-Cammies: most games run as part of the global chronicle; troupe play is for venues that aren't supported globally but can be set up in a local domain). Addendums for troupe play (like the one for Hunter: the Vigil) will be coming down from on high soon, and I believe a partial one for Masquerade is already posted to the Cam-Wiki.
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As was I. (Still in Atlanta; flying home this afternoon.) ICC = the International Camarilla Conclave, the big annual WW LARP con.
The closing ceremonies of the con included a seminar on "The Future of White Wolf Publishing" that wouldn't have been out of place at GTS. Stripping out the club-specific stuff, what was said:
1. They're convinced that the future of WW games is in e-Publishing, with live updates and errata and portable reader-tailored PDFs. (Or whatever the appropriate format is.) They'll still put out paper books as long as there are game stores to support, but Ryan Dancey — yeah, him — called the games retail business "slowly dying."
2. They're working with Lone Wolf on creating chronicle management software. The Cam is likely to get it first, but it will be available for sale to the public.
3. They're hosting a vampire fandom convention (that's small-v) in New Orleans in Fall of 2010.
4. Somewhere down the road, "a new world waits to be born." That's your teaser, folks.
5. The MMO is a big part of their future, but they are committed (as much as a commitment can be made) to supporting LARP. Called upon Cam members to be the vanguard of WW fandom.
To further explain the oWoD stuff, the Camarilla switched to doing nWoD LARPing exclusively when the setting launched. They've since lost quite a few players who weren't interested in the new game, mainly because they'd have to start from scratch and lose characters that they've spent years playing. As such, there's been independent oWoD larps that have arisen to scratch the itch for Masquerade play. So the Camarilla is just opening the doors for oWoD games to be run under their umbrella, rather than supporting two ongoing international campaigns.
Basically, "Wait, people are still interested in playing oWoD LARP? Well, let's let them do it! More dues for us from players who didn't make the switch!"
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The World of Darkness is bigger than this artificial nWoD/oWoD split.
It's not Demon.
Electronic and other alternative publishing. It's where we're going. There are some details we know and some we don't, but it's a direction we've been planning for years now. This isn't just "switching to PDF" and doing the same old thing we've always done.
We want to help you tell your stories, and we hope you'll still want to hear some of ours along the way.
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