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Author and game designer Lucien Soulban tells us a bit about working on the Orpheus RPG and a few other projects with White Wolf Publishing.
He also mentions a few new projects on the horizon that we should all keep an eye out for.
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In this interview we talk to the artist about his work on Obsidian: the Age of Judgement and other RPGs. Mr. Post also gives a little break-down of the art development process that goes into books he has worked on.
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I woke for no reason from strangely blissful dreams, my eyes adjusting quickly to the dark of our room. Michael slept against me, his huge arm around my waist, one hand splayed across my belly. He should have woken to any disturbance before I did. Yet of the two of us, I woke, not to sound or movement or anything I could understand, but more to a pressure in the air. A feeling, growing from my abdomen under Michael’s palm and spreading up my veins with the shock of the purest Liquid Silver, disturbed my dreams and lifted my head. The feeling told of an unwelcome darkness.
Written by 2003 Fiction Contest Winner, Elizabeth Petersen
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In this interview Ari Marmell tells us about his work on various World of Darkness RPGs, especially Vampire: the Masquerade.
He also answers a question or two about his novel, Gehenna: Final Night and other upcoming projects.
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Have you ever noticed how some types of characters seem to lend themselves naturally to stereotype? In Vampire you can easily find multiple-personality Malkavians, limp-wristed über-goth Toreador, street-punk Brujah, and so on; in Changeling (which I play the most often) there’s big, dumb trolls and horny satyrs, and so on. Every clan or kith or tradition or group has a stereotype.
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