I've read it once all the way through and then patchily again while referencing it. And this isn't me saying YOUR NITPICKS ARE WRONG AND YOU ARE WRONG ALSO or anything weird like that.
1) Probably thought of 'em, forgot 'em, made up new ones that were more with the times, and so on. V5's set of three or four nicknames for the Discipline probably did a better job of it. I think she wanted to avoid that thing where people put game terms in the fiction they wrote for the line, over and over again, and went a bit too hard on preventing it. (A couple of days ago, Rose tweeted about how she overexplained and overemphasised some things because she was trying to preempt certain kinds of response, and I wonder if this isn't an example of that tendency in action?)
2) I'm somewhat wary of this one because - yeah, noncon fantasies are a valid kink, and I think there's always something inherently dubconny about vampires in general, but I've been proper crucified in some communities for advancing that viewpoint and - OK, Rose claims Bite Me was written in retrospect and I think it's easy to make claims about what you never allowed in retrospect when on the job you were probably making more judgement calls on an "if in doubt say no" kind of basis? Maybe?
3) Yeah. But I don't mind that. I don't have to listen to the developers but I do like them to tell me outright how they think things should work. And also: it is a guide to writing Vampire rather than playing it, and I think saying THE ONYX PATH PARTY LINE ON MY WATCH WAS LIKE THIS is a bit different.
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Date: 2019-01-19 09:39 am (UTC)From:1) Probably thought of 'em, forgot 'em, made up new ones that were more with the times, and so on. V5's set of three or four nicknames for the Discipline probably did a better job of it. I think she wanted to avoid that thing where people put game terms in the fiction they wrote for the line, over and over again, and went a bit too hard on preventing it. (A couple of days ago, Rose tweeted about how she overexplained and overemphasised some things because she was trying to preempt certain kinds of response, and I wonder if this isn't an example of that tendency in action?)
2) I'm somewhat wary of this one because - yeah, noncon fantasies are a valid kink, and I think there's always something inherently dubconny about vampires in general, but I've been proper crucified in some communities for advancing that viewpoint and - OK, Rose claims Bite Me was written in retrospect and I think it's easy to make claims about what you never allowed in retrospect when on the job you were probably making more judgement calls on an "if in doubt say no" kind of basis? Maybe?
3) Yeah. But I don't mind that. I don't have to listen to the developers but I do like them to tell me outright how they think things should work. And also: it is a guide to writing Vampire rather than playing it, and I think saying THE ONYX PATH PARTY LINE ON MY WATCH WAS LIKE THIS is a bit different.
Book issue? I... don't think I mentioned one.