Monte Cooks World of Darkness

[Roth]

Anybody out there have this book or seen it for real yet? I want to buy it, and that's the first time in a long time I want actively buy a d20 book. Well I wanted to buy Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords, but I have a copy now.

So any body have it. hate it love it or indifferent to it?

[jtelson]

I picked up a copy and it's impressive. He takes the rough concepts behind the World of Darkness and remakes them completely, turning it into a post-apocalyptic world where ancient gods tried to take over the , failed and the result is the very recent creation of all maner of beasties (Vampires, Werewolfs, demons etc). Great stuff!

[eternal_sage]

although some of the translations aren't fantastic. personally, i like the new setting, but i'd play it with the d10 mechanic.

then again, i really like the d10 mechanic, so...who knows...-_-;

[Michael Hopcroft]

To make it fit the OGL core (otherwise known as the d20 core, which nobody is daring to call d20 anymore with D&D 4 on the horizon at last), each creature type players can be (incluidng "Awakened" humans, known as Hunters in the OWoD) is a class. I am not sure if you can multi or cross-class, at least effectively. The classes are about as broad as the core classes of d20 Modern, with a lot of room to customize the skill set and the like.

Still, it is a class-and-level system, with the imbalance issues that implies. If you should happen to run into the Prince of New York and you're 2nd Level, you're lunch if you make a wrong move. Of course, it's a guiding principle of the World of Darkness is that no mater how big a badass you are, there's a bigger one just around the corner who doesn't like you very much. Traditional games reward intrigue and plotting over combat, and I'm still not sure how well that trope works here.

[Roth]

Thanks all. I picked up a copy of it and It's an interesting read. The magic system is much better put together than the original Mage one in my opinion. And he's dropped the whole Paradox thing. Course for this setting Paradox isn't that appropriate