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Title: Background Travesty
Review: The game rules are not terrible. They are fairly streamlined and idiot-proof. However, WW apparently could only simplify the rules by simplifying the background material. They took a wonderfully open-ended and absolutely brilliant background world (the consensual reality) and stripped it down to a cartoonish and rather silly Atlantis myth. Terrible. Just Terrible.I also find it amusing that they cleared out all of the metaplot history in Vampire to make the game more open to interpretation and less confined by metalplot events, and then went and eviscerated the background of MAGE, the WOD game that was MOST open to interpretation. A pale and dumbed down version of MAGE for the WOW generation...
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