
Needless to say I was pretty stoked about a Werewolf the Apocalypse kickstarter. WtA was pretty goofy in some ways, but I liked it a lot more than WtF. Previews of art didn't so much make me want to buy the game as want to paint like Steve Prescott, which I can't quite pull off.
Lots of WtA art shows klaives, but there's maybe one piece which shows a Fang Dagger - which I thought was an awesome idea, a chunk of evil spirit scale torn off and made into a nasty magical knife. So hey, here's one.
Lots of WtA art shows klaives, but there's maybe one piece which shows a Fang Dagger - which I thought was an awesome idea, a chunk of evil spirit scale torn off and made into a nasty magical knife. So hey, here's one.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Wolf
Size 850 x 925px
File Size 150.3 kB
Ah man, this is really cool! Even though I like your black and white art a ton I find your shading and colouring to be really pleasant as well. I really like the particular mixture of greys and browns that you have with the fur here.
As for both WtF and WtA, I feel kind of mixed about both of those settings. WtA really was pretty silly (and I suppose a lot of the quality of the game depends on the storyteller) but it really didn't click for me like White Wolf's other settings did. I really hate that I wasn't able to love it too, since I'm so obsessed with lycanthropes and transformation! It's not that it's bad or anything though, I never never enjoyed it as much as Mage/Vampire/Changeling. My general dislike for WtA made me super excited for WtF to come out, but then the actual setting, story and mechanics were somehow worse across the board. WtF seems sort of like a recipe for making weres as uncool as possible. Congratulations! You're a werewolf! Enjoy your domestic adventures and cosmic/spiritual janitorial duties!
As for both WtF and WtA, I feel kind of mixed about both of those settings. WtA really was pretty silly (and I suppose a lot of the quality of the game depends on the storyteller) but it really didn't click for me like White Wolf's other settings did. I really hate that I wasn't able to love it too, since I'm so obsessed with lycanthropes and transformation! It's not that it's bad or anything though, I never never enjoyed it as much as Mage/Vampire/Changeling. My general dislike for WtA made me super excited for WtF to come out, but then the actual setting, story and mechanics were somehow worse across the board. WtF seems sort of like a recipe for making weres as uncool as possible. Congratulations! You're a werewolf! Enjoy your domestic adventures and cosmic/spiritual janitorial duties!
I loved WtA, even though my experience with it is primarily freeform RP via Furcadia. Yeah I have char sheets... somewhere... but I think it's an awesome base from which to build apon. As for janitorial stuff, that is, unfortunately, one of the things that happens most of the time whenever I RP. So what, my char is a Metis Gnawer, he can still go out in society! I mean, he's just abnormally large, digitigrade in all forms, musky in all forms, almost always is driving some sort of Frankenstein of a vehicle, and has no Homid form... but he can still get groceries! Sort of. XD Then there's my other char, who.. well, he has issues. Chief among them, he's a cyborg Garou with no memory of his purpose, and random systems keep malfunctioning or crashing.
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I definitely preferred WtA. I wish I could say I preferred WtA in every respect. WtF got some stuff very right - I really liked the way the Tribes were rooted more in mindset than vague ethnic stereotypes (all First Nations are basically Lakota with a little bit of Cherokee thrown in 'cause White Wolf's in Georgia, the entire Celtic world is basically Ireland, and other fun stuff headed for trouble at top speeds). I liked the mechanic of the Lodges, that now your character not only had something beyond tribal affiliation but it actually did something for her in-game. I really liked the Pure as adversaries - that you have no idea who these guys are or what they want, aside from that they hate you and will kill you and seem to control all the wolf packs.
But... I definitely liked the big picture, weird theology framework of the Apocalypse and the fight against the Wyrm. Everything fits into that - making fetishes, taking and defending a territory, dealing with spirit incursions, everything. Suddenly having to know a completely different lexicon and theology for WtF really soured me on the whole experience. And the worst thing about WtF imho was a rules thing - you couldn't stay in Gauru, the big war form, for more rounds than you had Rage points. Where's the joy of playing a monster if it's for a tiny limited time? That's like a kaiju movie where Gojira shows up, throws a couple of punches, goes back into the sea, and the rest is the social implications.
I definitely preferred WtA. I wish I could say I preferred WtA in every respect. WtF got some stuff very right - I really liked the way the Tribes were rooted more in mindset than vague ethnic stereotypes (all First Nations are basically Lakota with a little bit of Cherokee thrown in 'cause White Wolf's in Georgia, the entire Celtic world is basically Ireland, and other fun stuff headed for trouble at top speeds). I liked the mechanic of the Lodges, that now your character not only had something beyond tribal affiliation but it actually did something for her in-game. I really liked the Pure as adversaries - that you have no idea who these guys are or what they want, aside from that they hate you and will kill you and seem to control all the wolf packs.
But... I definitely liked the big picture, weird theology framework of the Apocalypse and the fight against the Wyrm. Everything fits into that - making fetishes, taking and defending a territory, dealing with spirit incursions, everything. Suddenly having to know a completely different lexicon and theology for WtF really soured me on the whole experience. And the worst thing about WtF imho was a rules thing - you couldn't stay in Gauru, the big war form, for more rounds than you had Rage points. Where's the joy of playing a monster if it's for a tiny limited time? That's like a kaiju movie where Gojira shows up, throws a couple of punches, goes back into the sea, and the rest is the social implications.
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