Is there a chance you’ll have more than just adventure hooks in the future? Like reviews? Articles? History bits on White Wolf? Interviews? Fiction? Mind’s Eye Theater? Or odd/supernatural stories of the like from secret frequencies?

War Against the Pure has templates and how to create your own changing breed. Blasphemies has a Jaguar changing breed you can use against players. But yeah… WOD 2.0 Changing Breeds had a lot of backlash towards it in the way it was presented and how the changing breeds were overpowered compared to the Forsaken. The hyena shapeshifter in there is a huge step backwards towards W:tA Revised’s Ajaba (Retcon from Bastet Breed Book). It sounds more like an evil stereotypical Gnoll than an actual hyena. Jane Goodall wrote Innocents Killers back in 1971, so I don’t know how that can excuse anyone from falling back to the Lion King for their depiction of hyenas. The Hyena Claimed in Skinchangers are way more interesting than Changing Breeds’ Riantes.

Most people seem to use Forsaken’s War Against the Pure instead of WOD 2.0 Changing Breeds.

But, I can’t wait for W20’s Changing Breeds: Ajaba, ajaba, ajaba!

Battle of the Planets is also known as Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. But it seems everyone tries to make WOD fanbooks on Death Note: But I haven’t seen anything inspired by Code Geass yet.

Tellus was a play on Sega. It’s in how you say it: Tell-us, Se-gaa. As a video gamer interested in video game history and politics: Hoo boy, this area is going to change a lot and they are going to need someone who knows their stuff here. Violent Video Games? Sooo 1995-1998… I expect Tellus to be in the big family-friendly “Causal” Game Market like the Nintendo Wii, putting out really bad cheap motion-wand shovel ware or App games (Angry Birds). Or to become like Electronics Arts: See the reaction over the Mass Effect 3 ending for a great example of that or Spoony’s review of Ultima 9. EA takes over other game companies in need of cash, firing most of their staff, making them push out a game in a small time seclude with little staff, doesn’t correct any of the bugs, and doesn’t give one iota of care towards the game’s fans. The game fans become outraged at the game, while EA rinses it’s hands and goes on to do a repeat on another game company. And Tellus can make games that are nothing but escort missions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6L7-yVp0s

Avalon and OmniTV can work together to make “My Little Wolves”, an animated show with tons of toys that spawns a big fandom known as “Brolves”.

Besides Print on Demand: What about “video” internet reviewers? Is Thatguywiththeglasses.com, Youtube, Blip.TV part of OmniTV? Do we need an evil Google’ish company to the list of Pentex companies?

Name for the Darker Days Mascot? Incus. Incus is part of the middle ear bones (Malleus, Incus and Stapes) and transmits sound waves or vibrations to the ear. The mascot appears as a skull wearing headphones, so I thought using one of the middle ear bones would be good for a name. And it would be great name relating to a radio show.

And apparently he was part of Mind Eye Theater Camarilla games, he has a whole video explaining what “Ghetto con: Chicago” was to other viewers as he made a passing reference to it in another video and viewers wanted to know.

I don’t understand the hate that John Cobb gets, I love his work in Werewolf: the Apocalypse. Really great to hear all the old artists from W:tA 2nd ed. coming back. I remember e-mailing Brain LeBlanc back in the day for one of my graphic design classes. I’m also glad hearing the whole Q & A from Rich Thomas. Certainly about telling story in art: I often had the opposite problem in my art classes. Some of the other students or some teachers didn’t get what I was trying to do with my art: Tell a story as I had grew up on a lot of illustrative art. They were more comfortable with still life, landscape, or plein air paintings. Not to mention the trouble I had with my subject matter: Fantasy, animals, monsters, and werewolves. Or had trouble trying to explain it, as I usually felt the art explained itself to the viewer. I think the only classes where this wasn’t a problem was my printmaking, silkscreening, ceramics, graphic design, and sculpting classes.

And yay, a return to fiction novels! The mention of the ice cream truck in the bloopers at the end reminded me there’s a Spirit Magath Enemy in Forsaken modeled on one “Rockies, I think”. And of course, the dreaded ghost ice cream truck in the video game, Toe Jam and Earl.

I personally only have Right of Princes - I own a lot more of the early VtDA books. That said, I do really enjoy the “crossover” nature of later dark ages books and wish there had been a bit more info on Dark Ages: Fae.

I do own Blasphemies but I haven’t read it. Seems like a solid book though.

The Circle of Red didn’t get much of a full writeup until the second hardcover Dark Ages: Werewolf and Devil’s Due. More on Dark Ages stuff: Did you pick up Right of Princes, Spoils of War, and British Isles? Because they have a lot of material and crossover material for other Dark Ages games other than just Vampire. I still wished Dark Ages: Italy came out.

Also interesting hearing the back story on Devil’s Due’s publication. I don’t think I had any of the more recent White Wolf catalogs at the time, so I didn’t know it was the last WOD to be put out.

Werewolf: the Forsaken cults? There was a whole book about that: Blasphemies. And then there’s Night Horrors: Wolfsbane, which was a great book. The two lodge books (Faithful and Splintered) can be also used as resources for inspiration for certain Forsaken/Pure cults.

I also really enjoyed the Werewolf Translation Guide.

Brian the doll…creepy!

Good stuff

-Mike

On Logarium’s tripod site, there used to be a “mage the ascension character creation summary” pdf, which has since disappeared. I wasn’t able to save it before I realized it was gone, and I’d like to be able to download a copy.

Thanks!

Bloodlines has nudity. Hollywood is chock full of strippers and such. And in one quest, they basically have fully build peepshow. I know,because I waited for it to stop to finish my quest.