Mysterious Mysteries

First posts can be so difficult sometimes. I was actually wondering what there was that I could write about as an introduction to my new blog. While hopping around some of the indie RPG blogs, the perfect topic struck me, and I was immediately surprised that I had overlooked it: the merger between CCP and White Wolf.

I say that it is surprising for me to overlook such a seemingly perfect subject because it’s a mixture of the two subjects I expect to dominate this blog: Eve Online and pen-and-paper roleplaying games (my guides for the first and my own plans to design and publish the second).

You can read his full blog entry here, but Matt is basically worrying that this merger will result in the eventual downfall of White Wolf’s pen-and-paper lines due to concentration on the computer game side of things.

I personally find the news of the merger to be exciting; an Eve tabletop RPG and a World of Darkness MMO? Yes, they’re both in the works (see the press release here), and yes I’m loving the idea of both.

Also, though I cannot argue the lack of there being good money in writing for tabletop RPGs (freelancing anyway, which I am told is always a pain) compared to the high volume of cash that MMO players bring in, I do not believe that in this case any brain drain is going to be experienced. CCP and White Wolf do very different things and have members with technical expertise in their fields; I highly doubt that there will be very many computer programmers moving from America to Iceland because of this merger. White Wolf will keep on going as always, but with a line of Eve products. CCP will carry on with both Eve and make a World of Darkness MMO for us all to enjoy (come on, Eve-level player politics + vampires, it’s perfect).

So eat, drink, and be merry my friends, for tomorrow we shall roll up a dice pool to see if our pilots stay awake while gate camping, and get to see our trenchcoat-wearing katana-packing vampires in full 3D. ^_^