I was with the Wrecking Crew a few years ago, dropped out because I moved out in the middle of nowhere with no transportation. I rejoined them a few months before GenCon.

Dawn

This is me being stupid, because I totally did not realize you were Wrecking Crew.

*smacks head*

Welcome to Terribleminds.

And, I’m glad you dig Geist. A lot of work went into it. It’s a shotgun blast of a game: lots to do, lots of options.

– c.

I am ashamed to report, that I love Geist even more than I love Vampire, and I’ve been a die-hard Vampire fan for many, many, many… okay, a couple of decades now.

It has a lot of the elements that I enjoy running: Death, dark, and spiritual. I love Vampire, but I miss the spiritual exploration (as in the Umbra in oWoD). I’m not a big fan of Werewolf but I loved the spiritual journey aspect. Geist just does it for me on a lot of levels.

My players though, are already asking me when I’ll go back to running the Vampire campaign, and my husband will always be a Werewolf fan.

I’m still finding my voice in Geist, and the story (game world) isn’t developed enough yet on the level that my players have come to expect from me. I’m also trying out my convention style games on them which they don’t particularly enjoy.

Even for all that, we have three new players in the form of our teen age children (mine, and the other main player’s kids). They are being introduced to White Wolf with Geist. I also have two new adult players who are pretty new to White Wolf cutting their teeth on my Geist game.

Of course, come to think of it, I might be a tad biased. Geist is the first book I have my name printed in – only as a play tester – but I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I hold my Geist book.

I’m hoping to shift my name over to the other column in the years to come. One step at a time.

And yeah, it’s 3am here – I’m rambling and should be in bed.

Dawn

And –

Scionic:

I am a big poopyhead. Can’t lie.

Brown as “fits the world!” is kind of goofy, as it makes it sound like the world they created was out of their hands. You can make dirty and grungy and still have color. Spots of it here and there. It would be fine if it was *just* Dragon Age. It’s not. It’s a video game problem. Brown, brown, gray, brown, black, white, brown, brown. I loved Fallout 3 like I love my own non-existent sonbrother, but… aaaaagh. Graybrown. It was soul-sucking, at times.

I never played Baldur’s Gate.

Bob –

Word. I will peek toward Borderlands when time allows. Oresome. Oh, and we need to get together for those Tullamores and valiums.

Amanda –

That’s true. KOTOR one was nice flip and switch.

Dawn –

Ooooh, lemme know how you like Geist.

– c.

I’d also say the woods areas, like around Haven, don’t have much brown to them. I think the storyline is pretty solid, with an insanely developed world. I’m solidly sold, and I love the gameplay. I really liked Baldur’s Gate, however.

I will agree there is a hell of a lot of dialogue and talky scenes, but I am enjoying them. There’s also usually an option to tell the person to shut the hell up if you don’t want to sit through it, also.

So, to summarize:
Brown: Motivated for this area.
Dialogue: Lots of it.
Wendig: Big poopy head.

The good news? They listened! The bad news? I work on casual games, so not many of my friends will see the results of my work. (NatGeo’s new game, Mystery of Cleopatra, is a good example.)

As to turning this thing on its ear, didn’t they sort of do that with the first Knights of the Old Replublic? You know, the whole Revan angle?

I’m reading up on the Underworld section for my Geist game as my players will likely be traveling there in the near future. Nice to see an author’s take on it though.

In Fallout, when I finally got to the weird side-mission with the people growing that Half-Tree Dude, I about stained my pants with joy. Color! Sweet, sweet color!

Bioshock, for all its underwater bleakness, is punctuated nicely with color — weird lights and neon signs and all that good stuff.

It actually speaks to part of what I wanted to do for the Underworld in Geist. The Underworld, by necessity, is a bleak place. Death is not alive (a-duh). But, you look at the Day of the Dead celebrations, and color is everpresent. So, the Underworld became this thing that’s all gray hoary shadow and bleakness, but it’s punctuated by sharp, bright bits of color: marigolds, red lanterns, neon signs, blood, beads, and so forth.

– c.