WoD The Heck: Demon the Fallen
Added 2016-08-21 04:28:46 +0000 UTCDemon the Fallen was one of the last games in the Old World of Darkness and boy is it a game. Play a fallen angel returned to earth and do...things? First read 80 pages of in-game fiction to get a sense of the very detailed history of the setting that totally contradicts a lot of the other games in the Old World of Darkness, then we can talk.
Also read this promo comic actually produced by White Wolf to promote the game.
Comments
Huh, they recycled at least some of the Demon houses for the Infernal Exalted in Exalted. Also I love the way that whenever Exalted comes up, even Shaun thinks it was just too much. (He's not wrong.) I really enjoyed the Stolze writing in Demon - he did a trilogy of novels that went with the game, too. Those were pretty solid (at least when I read them ~10 years ago) but I never got into the game itself. It does sound like ... the oWoDest of the oWod in many ways. Running the thing sounds like an absolute nightmare with the low and high torment versions of the different powers. It really seems like starting Demons would have the world around them explode into low-gravity hellfire immediately or they'd be afraid to use any powers ever. As for that Chick tract, I would not have guessed it was viral marketing at all. It seems like a real tract without a trace of self-awareness.
Ken Ringwald
2016-09-09 21:20:57 +0000 UTCEdgy as FUCK
Ross Payton
2016-08-24 23:16:42 +0000 UTCWhite Wolf not marketing their game well??? What madness is this?
Ross Payton
2016-08-24 23:16:17 +0000 UTCNot really surprised but that is a bit discouraging.
Ross Payton
2016-08-24 23:15:53 +0000 UTCbest way to play a slayer? You're a Mel Gibson/Lethal Weapon cop who's 'worshiped' by the police for being best ultraviolence cop
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2016-08-23 05:58:57 +0000 UTCHear hear.
Scribbleykins
2016-08-22 19:01:53 +0000 UTCSo that's going to be the next actual play for WoD the Heck ? Right. Because I want me some "Demon Powered Skoopy Gagn (tm)"
Fridrik Bjarnason
2016-08-22 12:49:03 +0000 UTCI haven't finished listening to the episode but I loved Faust's description of the gameplay as "a road trip with your bros to fight demons" because that's pretty much the premise of Supernatural and therefore (I assume) the Supernatural RPG.
Matt
2016-08-21 20:20:06 +0000 UTCGood stuff this episode. Following up on Ross' comments, nWoD is not actually free from the same issues brought up here. There's some mechanical issues, like most starting vampires needing to resort to mind control or obfuscate (or whatever it's called, it's been years) to not get pulped by a few muscular street thugs with baseball bats, Promethean is the most flavorful game you'll never play because it is a chore to run, Geist is completely hosed mechanically, etc.
TRNSHMN
2016-08-21 18:27:22 +0000 UTCWow that comic is something else.
Scott Henderson
2016-08-21 17:25:43 +0000 UTCI was expecting the comic to end differently than a ham fisted attempt at promotion via condemnation.
Robin Gonzales
2016-08-21 16:37:44 +0000 UTCWow, these guys think they're so cool and edgy. They made a fake chic track to promote their game. It's post edgey. WoD the Heck...
William F Schar
2016-08-21 16:01:42 +0000 UTC
