#white wolf games

[queer-folk-abroad]

Holy shit, they sound awesome.

[themainspoon]

If you are a WoD fan and you aren’t aware of how fucking wild White Wolf’s strategy for marketing Demon: the Fallen was, that changes right fucking now, get ready.

So, the year is 2002, American Culture is still moving past the Satanic Panic, and your job is to market a Table Top Role Playing Game where you play as literal demons who were aligned with the Biblical figure of Lucifer. The book has a big ass pentagram on its cover, and is filled with information on fictional demons and their demonic powers.

How do you market this?

Well, isn’t it obvious?

You satirise Chick Tracks by making a fake one about how the game you’re supposed to be promoting is satanic. I’ve linked it below, it’s only 23 pages long;

But you may be thinking: “Ok, that’s a funny concept, but why is this such a big deal to you?” Well, buckle the fuck up kiddo’s, because I want you to look at that last panel again:

Do you notice anything about it that could prompt further inquiry? What about that URL?

You see, the chick track was only one part of this little marketing stunt.

And so, I ask again, how do you market Demon: the Fallen?

You create an entire fake Evangelical church website called the Eternal Grace Evangelical Church, and write a fake sermon in which you claim that the brand that hired you is producing games that turn children into drug addicts and sexual predators, also claiming that Vampire: the Masquerade was involved in real world murders including the fucking Columbine School Shooting.

Below is a link to the site from the Internet Archives Wayback machine, the main bulk of the interesting stuff is in the sermons section.

Quick note, they used EVERY part of the evangelical bullshit playbook to make this site look legit, they went hard on this. So, the site is satire, but it still feels like it would be a good idea to mention that they satirise everything about Evangelicals, including their homophobic, transphobic, anti-catholic, and anti-pagan beliefs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20031205191032/http://www.father-ramos.com:80/

If you don’t want to read it yourself, here are some actual quotes from this fake Evangelical site that was, and I can’t stress this enough, MADE BY WHITE WOLF TO PROMOTE DEMON: THE FALLEN: (above disclaimer applies here too)

“Eternal Grace Congregation Church is a community of Christians who seek to love, worship and praise Him and to communicate the Word of the Gospel to the world around us while exposing the lifestyles and and recruiting prctices of those deviants who would make this world a place of horrors. Among these are homosexuals, gamblers, drug addicts and role-players.”

“You may find it useful to tell role-players about the Dallas youths who were burned to death in the steam tunnels of Southern Methodist University (of course it was the Methodists) while exploring them for treasure. Tell them about the syphilis-related insanity of Jimmy Cox, a Tennessee teenager who used role-playing games to build around him a coven of homosexuals. Tell them about Michelle Sikes, the Montana role-player who had a sex-change operation. The more perversion you can ascribe to involvement with role-playing the better. You may even wish to fabricate some of your own, to better illustrate the point to your specific at-risk individual.”

“Listening to accounts of the role-players’ games is either the height of tedium (it must be said, pardon my air of judgment) or evinces strong feelings of pity, […] Invitations to participate, if accepted, place the individual in a precarious position himself, and will probably expose him to the scourges of drugs, fornication, homosexuality and Catholicism/paganism in many cases.”

“point out to them that the activity borders on delusion (“You are not an elf, Tommy!”) and heresy (“If God intended for you to act like a demon, he would have made you a demon, Jenny”).”

“In addition, rumors (which is why I relegate this to a side note instead of including it in the main body of my discourse) link the activities of the Columbine high-school “trenchcoat mafia” with Vampires Masquerade.”

“As good Christians, it is obviously our duty to prevent our youth from learning the corrupt ways these books and games teach. Sex, suicide, drug abuse, homosexuality, “golden showers” and many other behaviors proscribed by the Lord and the Good Book come as a result of players taking their games too far. In particular, the moral execration contained with the Demon book takes these aberrations to new levels by openly encouraging players to act in the interests of Satan (or Lucifer, as he is depicted herein).”

“Additionally, role-playing games teach that violence is an acceptable and even admirable way of solving problems. Significant portions of their rules are devoted to combat and weaponry. Demon, for example, also contains systems by which the satanic characters can attack or use magic upon their enemies, with dark arts spawned from Hell itself. These are not unlike the gay community’s reactionary “straight bashing” in response to the more physical efforts of their loving fellows (but loving in the Lord’s intended way) to bring them back into the fold.”

“This Week: Pastor "Father" Ramos discusses the Catholic Church and the 68 Million deaths its evil has caused throughout the world! You won't read this in the history books! Father Ramos also discusses why he has chosen to reclaim the Holy tile"Father" from Catholocism.”

White Wolf was frequently quite edgy, and often wasn’t great at dealing with social issues (you could argue this is still true of the modern World of Darkness in some cases). But honestly I think this is a fun stunt. It mocks evangelicals for all their insane bigoted beliefs, and for basically giving all the stuff they call satanic free advertising. No matter what though this is an unhinged marketing stunt, and it is so wild that they actually did this.

[gamertales]

Art trading cards i made for an Exalted Dragonblood school campaign that never quite got past all my bloody prep.

Anyways. This is Lin, she was to be the groups Team Leader. She is awesome. An almost precognitive swordsperson, Lin utilizes the same Earth sensing in dance as in battle.

An exuberant party goer, she tells a different story about she lost her hand, each time shes asked. Only her oldest friend Ragara Dae knows the true story, and no one has ever pried it from, nor plied it from her.

[theuncrucified]

The Righteous Devil form isn't merely a martial art, but a spiritual reckoning.  When you draw on this art, you're pulling from that turmoil deep down, from all the sins you've ever committed, and all the sinners you've ever reckoned with.  All that roiling guilt and anger and painful understanding refined and channeled into the flame of your soul, of your weapons.

It took me years to even begin to master it...and it almost destroyed me.  Only one who can understand their own sins can channel what it means to be not only a Devil, but a Righteous one.

- Memoirs of Kalara Vadras, The Uncrucified, RY 800.

Painted in Procreate. 

Read the full write-up here.

[wylfhelm]

v:tm clans, explained

- diet werewolves 

- dark academia lesbians, all of them, i don’t make the rules 

- darker academia lesbians 

- welcome to The Void, enjoy your stay 

- smooth brain but it’s okay bc they’re sexy 

- monsters with hearts of gold 

- ANGERY. ANGERY TIME. PUNKS NOT DED 

- [REDACTED] 

- what is it precious? NO! NO! we likes the filthy vampireses! gollum gollum 

- this isnt a cult what do you mean 

- business meetings, but at night, and also ominously 

- darker academia lesbians but the mafia 

- this is my chair :)) he is made out of a live person :)) yes that is him screaming how could you tell :)) 

- lmao they all died in the Week of Nightmares 

- OHFUCK i didnt see you there

[abouttogetdicey]

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What We Do In The Shadows is basically the best White Wolf LARP game ever.

[angelasasserart]

A sketch card commission for Uncle Taco of his Solar Exalted character, Infant Sorrow, who was active during the First Age. He's a powerful and eccentric Solar artist who is rumored to have fashioned the foundations of the prison of Malfeas. This character was a mix of so many fun elements, from hip-hop to tribal to Bowie and Kanye West. Gotta love Exalted!

Exalted is a setting created by @theonyxpath . 2.5x3.5 inches, graphite on paper.