RE: [BNW] New game for me

[Scott Raby <sraby@asymtek.com>]

>And again, this is pretty standard for RPG "meta-plots."  Heck there's
stuff 
>in Deadlands/HoE that we still don't know, and that's been going on for 3 
>years.

I don't play any WW games except Aeon/trinity and well it has a meta plot
that only really deals with the high up story characters, and they have
excellent details on daily life, including stories, examples etc...
Deadlands, well I have a lot of the books but have not played it at all,
also it is more removed and in a simpler time so it is kind of easy (for me
at least) to figure out what sort of stuff happens in daily life.

>i would have less of a problem with this if i thought there might be some
>surprise in store, but as the game is set-up: kennedy and DP bad, defiants
>good. pretty cut and dry.

>Triumph, somewhere in-between.  There's also nothing to really say that
your 
>characters have to be "good" types.  What about criminals?  Particularly of

>the Robin hood variety?  You don't have to run _anything_ using the
Defiance 
>as your PC group of choice.

True, I don't think it is "cut and dry". Russia could force the DP and
Defiance together and Jack may have to change the law. Russia (or any group
for that matter) could kill Jack and who knows what direction the story
would go then. Perhaps new Alphas would appear, or the original ones make it
back somehow (maybe they were not blown up, so much as blow away).

>As far as secrets, it strikes me that there are a few.  Will the Alphas 
>return?  Is there more to Kennedy than folks seem to be assuming about
"King 
>Jack"?  What supernatural forces are trying to manipulate this earth via 
>supplying Covenant and Vampire-type "powers" and loaning stuff to 
>Bargainers?

This is the part that really has me guessing. The whole
deaders/vamps/covenant/bargainers thing as they don't really fit the norm
(unless you count DL as the norm) of the "registration act" setting (which
is one more thing that makes BNW different). Which brings up a question
(this may be in the RP book I don't recall) but what if a Delta joins the
Covenant, do his powers change? does he gain more powers? does he loose his
original powers?