Re: [HOE] Father Ramos site

["Kai Tave" <kaitave@harborside.com>]

>Be willing to bet as well that given a couple of years' time, someone does
a
>cost-benefit analysis on the Demon line and cancels it, but that's my own
>personal opinion. Still don't quite understand why they decided to do this
>book when they've got a good thing like Exalted going well, but then again,
>I'm not their development department or marketing department.


Well, I don't think the Wolf actually expected Exalted to do as well as it
did.  I mean, it beat VAMPIRE sales records.  It pretty much came out of
nowhere.

That said, Exalted is getting more source material faster that most game
lines I know of.  Look at what's come out for it so far; four of the Solar
castebooks, the Book of Three Circles, Scavenger Sons, the GM
screen/Storyteller guide, Games of Divinity, Savage Seas, the Dragon-Blooded
hardback...Exalted is doing pretty well.  Demon, as far as I understand
White Wolf's development policy, shouldn't affect the production of Exalted
in the least.  Exalted feeds its own line and only its own line.  Demon will
be made to do the same.

How many games has White Wolf really "cancelled"?  Wraith, Changeling,
Trinity, Aberrant...okay, so there's four, but they each lasted for quite
some time.

As for why Demons?  Hell, why not?

>We know what's said isn't true and that we're not Satan
>worshippers, but, if you're like me, you'd rather that someone else not do
>something that slants people against you, simply because "you play those
>roleplaying games like that Demon don't you?"

No, it'll be "you play those roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons,
don't you?"  Seriously, look at the latest sod being thrown over the D.C.
sniper.  They had "experts" claiming that the guy could have trained using
computer games, and what was the game that people kept bringing up?  DOOM.
Kee-rist, that game is HOW old now?  Doom PALES in comparison to most
computer games on the market these days, but I've yet to hear anybody
mention Half-Life or Deus Ex or NOLF or System Shock.  Nope, it's always fuc
king DOOM.

In many ways, I expect Demon to get the same treatment; the poster child for
RPG satanism always has been, and always will be, D&D, no matter what other
games get published.  Some guy rounds up a bunch of dogs and puts'em through
a wood-chipper, draws pentagrams with the blood, and tries to call upon the
dark lord and are folks gonna blame Kill Puppies For Satan (it's an actual
game, folks!)?  Nope.  Gotta be D&D.

--Kai Tave