I'm gonna be upfront and admit the things that had me squinting at Bite Me are entirely nitpicky (I also haven't read it more than once.) (content note for noncon)
1. The bit about how to never ever use the actual discipline names in game makes no sense to me - you're telling me vampire society which has been around since the fall of Rome at least, never ever came up with their OWN terms to call their superpowers? 2. That one bit about how Vampire is not and never will be a game about noncon irked me because first of all, noncon fantasies are a kink for some people, two, if you say your game has sex and violence as a theme, to try to prohibit the most common form of interplay of sex and violence seems like...I dunno, it made me squint. OF COURSE content like that should be opt in and everybody has the right to leave a table they aren't comfortable with but...well, it brings me to my next issue: 3. There seems to be a lowkey undertone of "this is how the game I worked on OUGHT TO BE PLAYED because I said so" and yes, I know there's tons of disclaimers of how these are all just suggestions and you can do what you want, but...I dunno, it bothered me. Like I said, I'm aware I'm nitpicking.
As for the book issue, I primarily use pdfs and play via roll20 anyway, so maybe you can try that route? I still haven't figured out how play by post ought to work with the ruleset or else I'd try my hand at that at some point.
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Date: 2019-01-19 09:11 am (UTC)From:1. The bit about how to never ever use the actual discipline names in game makes no sense to me - you're telling me vampire society which has been around since the fall of Rome at least, never ever came up with their OWN terms to call their superpowers?
2. That one bit about how Vampire is not and never will be a game about noncon irked me because first of all, noncon fantasies are a kink for some people, two, if you say your game has sex and violence as a theme, to try to prohibit the most common form of interplay of sex and violence seems like...I dunno, it made me squint. OF COURSE content like that should be opt in and everybody has the right to leave a table they aren't comfortable with but...well, it brings me to my next issue:
3. There seems to be a lowkey undertone of "this is how the game I worked on OUGHT TO BE PLAYED because I said so" and yes, I know there's tons of disclaimers of how these are all just suggestions and you can do what you want, but...I dunno, it bothered me. Like I said, I'm aware I'm nitpicking.
As for the book issue, I primarily use pdfs and play via roll20 anyway, so maybe you can try that route? I still haven't figured out how play by post ought to work with the ruleset or else I'd try my hand at that at some point.