cjbowser Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Chaosium has added After The Vampire Wars to their catalog. It can be yours for the low price of $100,000,000.00! If only it wasn't out of stock...http://www.chaosium.com/after-the-vampire-wars/Yes, I realize it's only a place holder with an outrageous price tag to prevent people from ordering it before it's available. But, if you really want to see Chaosium publish more BRP titles, all it will take is one purchase at this price to move BRP out of the less than 10% of sales bucket. 2 Quote Various RPGs I've worked on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexelis Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I want this pretty bad, but not that bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auyl Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Maybe i'll start a go fund me page just to buy this at that price .... hmm Quote Get all our products at our website: www.devotedpublishing.com Check Solace Games out on Facebook here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexelis Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Dark ages 2 is also up for a much more reasonable $33.95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seneschal Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 (edited) Well, a $100 million sale might ease their cash flow problems ....Where is Donald Trump now that we need him? Edited August 17, 2015 by seneschal Add comment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjbowser Posted August 18, 2015 Author Share Posted August 18, 2015 And they took it down... I almost had the mortgage refinance paperwork done! 2 Quote Various RPGs I've worked on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsanford Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 And they took it down... I almost had the mortgage refinance paperwork done! You must have a heck of a house! ? Quote Check out our homebrew rules for freeform magic in BRP -> No reason for Ars Magica players to have all the fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunwolfe Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 I got a couple of screen shots of it if you need it for reference! Quote Present home-port: home-brew BRP/OQ SRD variant; past ports-of-call: SB '81, RQIII '84, BGB '08, RQIV(Mythras) '12, MW '15, and OQ '17 BGB BRP: 0 edition: 20/420; .pdf edition: 06/11/08; 1st edition: 06/13/08 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 If it had been $99,999,999.99 then I might have been interested. 2 Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjbowser Posted August 18, 2015 Author Share Posted August 18, 2015 If it had been $99,999,999.99 then I might have been interested. At that point, they're practically giving it away. 2 Quote Various RPGs I've worked on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooley1chris Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Wonder if it included delivery.... Quote Author QUASAR space opera system: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/459723/QUASAR?affiliate_id=810507 My Magic World projects page: Tooleys Underwhelming Projects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auyl Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 At that point, they're practically giving it away.Can't do that they wouldn't make any money Quote Get all our products at our website: www.devotedpublishing.com Check Solace Games out on Facebook here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjbowser Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 It now has a more reasonable price tag of $24.http://www.chaosium.com/after-the-vampire-wars/ 1 Quote Various RPGs I've worked on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simlasa Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 That cover would kinda put me off, a kind of Shadowrun with monsters vibe... but I like a lot of Mr. Snead's ideas so that brings me back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickMiddleton Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 That cover would kinda put me off, a kind of Shadowrun with monsters vibe... but I like a lot of Mr. Snead's ideas so that brings me back. As opposed to Shadowrun's entirely not off putting "cyberpunk with Dwarves, Elves and Orcs"?As you alluded to, John Snead has an impressive and diverse list of writing credits in RPG's over the years, so I'm sure it will be worth a look: whatever the quality of the cover art, the subject and composition seems to capture the thumbnail details of the setting as he has previously described it pretty well.cheers,Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simlasa Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 As opposed to Shadowrun's entirely not off putting "cyberpunk with Dwarves, Elves and Orcs"? Yeah, I wasn't very clear.I never did much care for the overt fantasy aspects of Shadowrun... I'd have preferred something less out in the open, like the Night Watch/Day Watch books or GURPS Cabal. Shadowrun ended up feeling like cyberpunk D&D to me in actual play.Still, I do plan on buying After the Vampire Wars to see how Mr. Snead works it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrippyHippy Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 John Snead is a pretty good writer for this sort of thing, and it should chime in well with his Enlightened Magic supplement too. I do see the connection with Shadowrun, but my immediate connection was with Vampire: The Masquerade - albeit with the True Blood conceit of vampires being ‘outed’ in society at large. It could make for a great dark urban fantasy campaign. For me, I’m going to hold out for PDF releases, however. With all the recent announcements made by Chaosium/Moon Design/Design Mechanism about the futures of BRP/RQ I’m in a bit of a spin. So I’m generally putting a freeze on all physical purchases till I know how each line is going to be approached in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auyl Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 I know I'll be getting this at some point. Personally I like the Shadowrun setting, just don't care for the system. IF AtVW is as good a setting, I'll be very happy with it. 1 Quote Get all our products at our website: www.devotedpublishing.com Check Solace Games out on Facebook here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjbowser Posted August 21, 2015 Author Share Posted August 21, 2015 I'm with Trippy Hippy on this one. It strikes me more as True Blood turned up to 11 rather than Shadowrun. Maybe, when coupled with Enlightened Magic, it'll be BRP's answer to The Dresden Files. Personally I would have preferred early Hellblazer with the forces of magic still being secret and only known to those with power.Granted, all this is based purely on the cover, what the web-site blurb says, and flipping through a copy at GenCon. Quote Various RPGs I've worked on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auyl Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I'm with Trippy Hippy on this one. It strikes me more as True Blood turned up to 11 rather than Shadowrun. Maybe, when coupled with Enlightened Magic, it'll be BRP's answer to The Dresden Files. Personally I would have preferred early Hellblazer with the forces of magic still being secret and only known to those with power.Granted, all this is based purely on the cover, what the web-site blurb says, and flipping through a copy at GenCon.I'm not going to make any assumptions just based on the cover, a Shadowrun like world wouldn't disappointment me. But in the light of this discussion, there are a few different vampire settings out there where vampires are known to the general populace and they are either accepted or hunted, unlike the sickening love-fest that is True Blood. This could be something entirely different altogether or it could like others have said a remake of something else. Hard to say. With True Blood being so mainstream I wouldn't be surprised if it borrowed elements from that, but for my own respect towards Chaosium, I surely hope not. For all we know it could be very nWOD with the vampires known instead of trying to hide. THAT I'd be very okay with. Quote Get all our products at our website: www.devotedpublishing.com Check Solace Games out on Facebook here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjbowser Posted August 23, 2015 Author Share Posted August 23, 2015 I guess you miss the part where I said I skimmed a copy at GenCon? Quote Various RPGs I've worked on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auyl Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 No I didn't but skimmed doesn't mean you've read it. I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong but until someone on here has actually read the whole book and comments then saying the book "is" this or that isn't a fair assesment. Quote Get all our products at our website: www.devotedpublishing.com Check Solace Games out on Facebook here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simlasa Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 (edited) I'd only given my impression based on the cover, not purporting that I actually believe it's like Shadowrun or anything in particular, yet.Being as it's for BRP of course I'm going to give it a deeper look... doubly so because I'm fond of the guy's other writing... and regardless I'm going to look at it for resources I can steal for other settings. Edited August 23, 2015 by Simlasa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auyl Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I'd only given my impression based on the cover, not purporting that I actually believe it's like Shadowrun or anything in particular, yet.Being as it's for BRP of course I'm going to give it a deeper look... doubly so because I'm fond of the guy's other writing... and regardless I'm going to look at it for resources I can steal for other settings. With what's on the Chaosium page and the cover, it's really hard to say what the book is or isn't about. Being a d100 book from a major company, I'm going to pick it up and see for myself what it's about and go from there. You never know what it will truly be like until you have it with time to read it.In some ways I tire of the vampire thing, but there are still sub-genres of vampire folklore that will interest me (like nWoD type stuff), but I won't know until I have it. Quote Get all our products at our website: www.devotedpublishing.com Check Solace Games out on Facebook here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simlasa Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I'm long past done with the sexy vampire elites, they're just cranky elves... but something more along the lines of the brutal ones in 30 Days of Night, unredeemable monsters, I'm still fond of that sort.I do like the suggestion of 'wolfman with a gun' though... in a kitchen sink sort of way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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