Any chance this could be brought back to life someday?
Can I ask what happened with it?
Cheers
Dave K
Well I have all the old documents and the most reecnt copy of the database, but I suspect most people don’t really want to play it again, except maybe as a one-off for old times sake.
Basically it went through several hands until it got to me, and I managed to run one game and then it sort of fizzled At the time I thought it was my fault but it had really reached it’s use by date and most people wanted to play a different sort of game by then.
It did act as a sort of crucible for the other games that happened since, a large number of the LARPers round Wellington can trace their first meetings back to that game
No, they aren’t even interested in that. Remember I wanted to run a one-off with the same characters, set about 10-years later.
I would say that WbN is dead and buried and best left that way. I think there was a Camarilla game running for a while but I think that fizzled too. Having read the disaster that a friend of mine is in running a Cam game in London I think it would be something best steered clear of. The main problem is that you have hundreds of games all around the world linked together. It is more society and club than roleplaying, and every little niggly rules thing comes out. You kind of lose story and character in situations like that.
I have considered running a big LARP, 20-30 people, and I was considering Vampire the Requiem as the game. I wanted to run something with a small coterie focus, so each player would be in a group with 3-4 others and they would form a coterie of Requiem characters. Each game would then have 3-4 scenes where only about 1 or 2 coteries were present. The rest of the players would play characters in that scene.
Example. Bar Scene. Coterie 1 is there to feed and learn a little about the city from an ‘unknown’ benefactor. Coterie 2 is there trying to set up some kind of dodgy deal of some kind. Everyone else is playing patrons in the bar who will probably have their own interlinked stories as well as a few of them being heavily involved in the two coterie stories.
I figued that each scene would run about an hour.
Of course this is quite a daunting concept and apart from initial ideas for story and scenes I haven’t done much more. It is obviously a rather large commitment.
It wouldn’t be set in Wellington by the way. It is better to set these things in a non-descript large city, or small isolated town.
Well, if you’re still keen on running that Coterie game idea in a years time, put my name down, as I’d certainly be keen. Willing to help out if need be too.
I played in general independent Vamp Masquerade games in the UK for a few years before moving city and then playing in the Camarilla UK society Vamp games for a fair few years more … and for the most part, very very much enjoyed both types of game. However, I could see the limits of being the sole Cam game in a country (such as NZ) … as the traveling players coming to local games and then the potential for playing my own character elsewhere, was a major plus side to the Cam games for me.
After a year long break from RP in general now, I’ll be heading back into the Camarilla UK game within the next few weeks, to see whether the new Requiem system is as good as some people say it is (or as bad as some others say it is).
Who’s your friend running a Cam game in London? Robin or Marc?
Cheers
Dave
Or possibly Jon?
He’s fairly senior in the uk Cam now … and a Wellington lad too.
(and my old flat mate)
Definitely Jon.
Cam games don’t really appeal to me. I mean I’m sure I would probably enjoy some of the roleplaying, but games with different centres and multiple people just have inherent problems. I see roleplaying as a cooperative activity and I guess big games like that seem both conflictive (in an uncooperative way) and destructive.
I used to play in Wellington by Night, and while I enjoyed it at the time, ultimately it just became both a cheesefest and a bitchfest.