Review: Werewolf the Forsaken (part 1)

A review of one of my favorite games despite not having played it much.

Rather long so in 2 parts.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• RPG
• review
• captain
• machine
• werewolf
• forsaken
• white
• wolf
• world
• darkness

[malarky321]

for someone who loved the old rules you seem a little narrowminded in the idea of the tribes beings in various places. Get of Fenris or Black Furies.. or anything else being in New York is hardly a problem since America prides itself in its intake of every culture.

Silent Striders are Egyptian, so what are they doing outside Eygpt?..Easy...they're messengers!

The only difficult ones might be Uktena & Wendigo in Britain and that can be worked round by sending pups for Rite of Passage.

[cptmachine]

@malarky321 it isnt me being narrowminded but the strangeness of the games background in assigning Tribes to locations. Were told all the tribes were all around in ancient times but they appear to have all wandered off to seperate parts of the world around the time of the start of history. Its fine for a modern game but anything before that can cause issues or outright ban certain tribes as playable.

[johnrayordas]

is this a pc game or just an ol' dumb book

[cptmachine]

@johnrayordas its a PC game from 2009, you should be able to find it online.

[johnrayordas]

@cptmachine ur right!!

i bought mine in amazon

its a really great game!!!

[cptmachine]

@johnrayordas glad I could help :)

[HeathbrookBadhwar]

@YaoiHuntressEarth WTA is much better executed, and all around makes more sense to me in terms of setting and lore.

[HeathbrookBadhwar]

@johnrayordas This book is an "extension" of the old world of darkness game Werewolf the Apocalypse. I don't own this new one, but I can certainly tell you that Werewolf the Apocalypse is one of the top three most bloody brilliant roleplaying games I have ever played. The other 2 being Mage the Ascension and Vampire the Masquerade. (In no particular order) Please enjoy your intellectually engaging PCs games, and leave us role-players to our ol' dumb books. Trust me, we love them.<3

[YaoiHuntressEarth]

I was personally disappointed they got rid of Lupus-born Garou and Metis. And I kind of miss the old rich cultural roots of the original which played with different spiritualities.

[malarky321]

but to run something like Dark Ages then you know what your getting and going to be running, which means a game without Wendigo or Uktena. So therefore the point is moot (excuse the pun)

[malarky321]

As far as the new rules like forsaken or the vampire equivelant i will not get them.

To me it seems that White Wolf sold they where going to of the old rules and decided that instead of making new stuff they would just churn out a new version to milk money out of the hard of thinking!

[kicker930]

@johnrayordas Can you send me a link?

[latour64]

Men! I remember those times as my best. Playing role playing games around a circle table with candles and eating pizza. Banality coming all over christ sake...Take care o yerself bud.