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Re: WHITE WOLF - CONTINUED FROM LAST POST

[(Anonymous)]

Just a quick caution from someone who is completely canonblind to White Wolf, while it's great that you love your setting and source, be careful about overloading players with lore. I know it seems tempting to lay out everything in an effort to help players fit into the world as well as to make it authentic to what you're adapting... but remember to adapt. Abridging is a necessity when you're bringing something this lore heavy to DWRP.

Gloss over some specific events, tweak settings if you need them to be more flexible, simplify mechanics as much as possible because tabletop is way more mechanics heavy than what this particular medium is used to or needs. I know there's the stigma that DWRPers don't read or are too lazy to engage with heavier lore/worldbuilding, but keep in mind that any non-OC players (who are still the majority) are already dealing with the lore of their canon, even in an AU. Piling even more lore on will have a progressively discouraging effect.

That being said, you could always gradually introduce more things as the game and players settle in and get established. Think about mechanics and plots for doing that, and I think it will help the game thrive better than an infodump at the start.

Re: WHITE WOLF - CONTINUED FROM LAST POST

[(Anonymous)]

+10000 from a different anon.

I think that this anon's idea of introducing more things via mechanics and plots will be a massive help. Especially with plots, which can very much ease information in as digestible chunks, rather than a massive feast.

What you probably need to do is have a few people look over what you come up with as far as lore goes, both from people who are unfamiliar with White Wolf and those who are. The former will be especially important, as they'll likely be the largest chunk of your player base. I know I'd be happy to help beta test.

As far as bringing characters together at the start (the invites), something I recommend you consider is how this will connect to your application cycle. If you're going to have intro mingle logs for your app cycle, you'll need to some up with something like this every time. If you're going to have rolling apps until you hit a cap, then you'll need to have something else in place.

I'm super excited to see what comes of your work, nonnie.