[Cam] Another thought

[karohemd]

Just had a thought that there will certainly be people being pissed off with the End Times/reset:
People with long standing characters with loads of XP are one thing (they might get some sort of compensation, anyway) but I can imagine new games who have just joined or are currently thinking about joining having far more to lose because a game background is far more complex and work intensive than a single character's. The whole story, NPCs and things that might have needed approval, the work of several months at least.
Games who might have considered joining won't do so now.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

As far as Changeling is concerned, there are a number of people who said they'd continue independently if there won't be any ling after the Big Bang.
Maybe the Garou players think similar?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

An option, of course, would be to launch MM as an ongoing rival org :)

Now *that* gives me a terrible idea :)

Excellent!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*strokes cat*

[astatine210.livejournal.com]

Garou differs from 'Ling in terms of "overall plot & feel" because of its defining focus: The world is about to end, probably within a generation. The Garou Nation knows this, and is (infighting aside) trying to avert the Apocalypse or (if they ever figure out how) "win" it. If "their world" wasn't actually doomed, there'd be something wrong. Might as well bring on the doom at some point.

Changeling is slightly different. Although the Fae do have a "world" that's grinding towards a flat, grey demise, it's not obsessed with that end. The characters and the peculiarities of their society are usually the focus of attention. Because of their banality-limited life, 'Ling characters are 'fragile' enough for STs to prevent a buildup of übercharacters, and the whole setting could keep going as long as people enjoy it. Also, like Vampire, it can "exist in a vacuum". If you took the Changeling setting and put it in a world with no supernatural beings beside Dreaming/Autumn ones, it'd still work just fine.