Eight years ago today, Vampire: the Requiem and the World of Darkness was unleashed upon the gaming world. I wasn't involved in the game at the time, but it has since changed my gaming. Now, Vampire didn't change my life, or have me meet my beloved the way that some testimonials claimed (which are touching, as any passionate gamer might agree), but Vampire had a profound effect on my gaming life. So I guess insofar as gaming is a part of my life, I guess it did change my life... No beloved, though.
Anyway, here's what I typed, ad hoc, on the White Wolf forums. It's a short birthday wish to one of my favorite games of all time.
I was a huge D&D player in the '90s, but an even huger CCGer.
Vampire: the Eternal Struggle still occupies a top 3 spot for my
favorite CCGs of all time. I never got into Vampire: the Masquerade
because I always thought there was too much there, and it would be too
huge a jump (I was also in my teens in the late '90s/early '00s so the
idea of a role-playing game with gothic imagery was out of my comfort
zone). So it went largely ignored.
In 2006 I began working for a
game shop and we stocked the White Wolf role-playing games. It wasn't
until a year afterwards that I thought I'd just give the World of
Darkness a try. I had played every other RPG I could get my hands on,
except this one, and thought I'd give it a shot.
I can surely say
that Vampire: the Requiem changed the way I feel about role-playing
games. It was refreshing to be free of plot, and given ultimate reign in
a role-playing game. Not to say that others are constrictive, but
Vampire told me I could be as free as I want. It was the first game I'd
seen that suggested I use certain rules in the main body of the text instead of in a sidebar.
Ever since 2007 I've "embraced"
the other WoD lines, and even went back and gave the Masquerade a shot.
Nothing has replaced the joy and the excitement I feel for the Requiem,
though.
Today it sits on my top 3 role-playing game list just
like its card game cousin sits on my top 3 CCG list. Thanks a ton, White
Wolf (Onyx Path), and Happy Birthday to VtR!
So that's that. Just something short, sweet, and fanged for today's post. There's been a lot of news coming out of GenCon (natch'!) and I'm not going to comment on all of it, but I will comment on Onyx Path Publishing in Wednesday's post, because the World of Darkness is so near and dear to my heart. So come back tomorrow, (blood)suckers!
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