To die, to sleep; to sleep: perchance to dream. Today we're talking about Guildbook: Sandmen for Wraith: the Oblivion, a deep dive into the phantasm-ghosts who make natural antagonists (or allies?) for the fae. It's a surprisingly rich read with lots of ideas, so if you want to introduce some spoopiness—and some Drama—into your fae chronicle, look no further. 🎭

The curtain rises: https://changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/episode-108-guildbook-sandmen/

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We saw that Paradox Interactive advertised the position of Creative Director for World of Darkness as being open, and though we’re unqualified by their standards, we did send in an application.

Less in the hopes of getting the job (hah, could you imagine?!), and more in the (most likely vain) hope that a human being at Paradox will see the cover letter, which calls out Paradox’s intention of using generative AI for “efficiency and innovation” for what it really is: a move that is set to spell the beginning of the end for World of Darkness, as it currently stands, in the hands of Paradox.

We don’t expect that most WoD fans are going to want to spend their increasingly hard-earned money on AI slop “writing” and “artwork”, which amount to nothing more than stolen labor.

We’ll for sure not buy any more source books, and instead write our own material.

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Which one of these did you most identify with?

I had the books for Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Mummy, and Changeling. A friend of mine had Wraith.
I never bought the Demon or Hunter books.
I also was no longer playing when they did the 2004 reboot so that's why I'm talking about these old ass books.

I always went back to Vampire. It had everything my sexually repressed, gender dysphoric teenage self could want.

Werewolf never appealed to me. I was in a abusive household, so "rage" wasn't high on my list of things to get out of my gaming. I only read it for the Wyrmlore.

Mage had an interest way of explaining magick. All the various traditions worked because their practitioners believed they worked. There was no "one right way" to do magick. And in order to not break the universe, you had to try for "coincidental magic" like maybe a random storm cloud just happens to strike that guy with lightning instead of it firing out of your fingertips. That was clever.

I really like the Mummy rules and lore, but I didn't want to play as one. How they differentiated themselves from Vampires was quite a cool little dip into Egyptian mythology.

I was too religious at the time to even consider buying a book about how to play a Demon. That didn't stop me from buying "The Book of the Wyrm" for Werewolf, though. That book was pretty bleak. I literally hid it in a drawer to keep it from "influencing" me.

Changeling was definitely interesting but, honestly, it didn't seem to fit in with any of the other books. It felt like it was written for a completely different universe.

And Wraith didn't appeal to me enough to buy the book after one of my friends bought it instead. I liked some of the concepts that were expanded upon like what the Lasombra are actually connecting to when they use their shadow abilities.

Why not Hunter? Well, who wants to play a non-supernatural character in a universe filled with them? It would be very difficult to make that feel "worth it". I know, Hunters can have faith-based powers, but that's not the same. Also, the Hunters were often just wrong about things or kind of close enough. I had all the books. I knew the "truth" in universe and trying to pretend I didn't would just feel silly.

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One more prompt that will bring regret as soon as I hit publish. There are so many well written games it is impossible to do them justice. Not only games, but authors whose work is always on point and it is hard to single out a book from their opus.

Wraith: the Oblivion

A local, I think at the time the only, comic book store carried some Warhammer 40K miniatures, and a few White Wolf books. I remember looking at the Wraith sitting on that bottom shelf for months. When I managed to save up the money I ran after school to get it. Once home I started reading it and it gripped me like no other game I read up to that point. I remember just flipping the pages until I was done.

Years later I was in a personal and gaming funk and sold a bunch of my books. Wraith was one of them, and I regret it to this day.

Apocalypse World

As mentioned yesterday, Apocalypse World is a work of art. The whole text work so well on multiple levels. It is punchy, direct, evocative, and yet carries the information it needs effortlessly.

Ironforged and Starforged

Ironforged was the first RPG book I read in one sitting, cover to cover, in a long time. Starforged has the same easy, light, caring about the reader style of writing that I had to include it as well.

https://www.svantevid.com/en/2024/rpg-with-great-writing/

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