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You lucky bastard. Unless IGUK pull their finger out I won't be getting mine till September 30th.

This.

What?

I'm already excited enough about this book (Seriously...I haven't been this excited about an nwod release since the release of nwod)



You, Mr. "I have the book in my hands" have officially made me a jealous man.

But wasn't WoD: Inferno basically a one shot of Demon?

I'm actually glad you mentioned that. Strangely, I always envisioned Geist as an nwod representation of the short lived Mummy line from a few years back as opposed to a reimagined Wraith.



Point being, White Wolf has shown an ingenious method of dangling the obvious reboot in front of you only to later reveal it to be a reboot of a more obscure line.

BTW, just because I have to plug it, I released the sheet I made for the Origins Demo, which looks alot like the sheet from the book. My final versions may be different tho.



But, I have a thread for it, feel free to head over and check it out. [:D]

What's the Z-splat? The bloodline/lodge/entitlement/etc. equivalent?

There is not one. First thing I went looking for, no such thing to be found.



Krewes however are a bit more involved than I expected. They have three tiers, similar to hunters, and earning experience which can be spent towards merits that benefit the krewe.

Picture of the ad in question:



http://twitpic.com/dop1j

"DimCarcosa" wrote:

"DimCarcosa" wrote:

"Cleverest of Things" wrote:

He stated on another thread (I believe) that the preview says something like "Everything begins in darkness", with the words becoming a darker color as they went on.  As I said on that thread, it makes me think Demon.

Correct. "All Things Are Born of Darkness" fading out towards the end of the sentence. That's all.

Picture of the ad in question:

http://twitpic.com/dop1j

This is the least informative back page ad they've done yet. In Promethian, it just said Changeling. In Changeling, it said Light in Shadow and had the word search, which said Hunter in it. In Hunter, it had the picture with the word Geist on it. Now we get this ad and it doesn't really tell us anything.

I wish I had prepared Detect Sarcasm today. I can't tell whether or not you're dropping a hint of some sort.

Whilst all this speculation is lovely, I for one would like to hear more about the actual contents of the book. :P



Also, does anyone know when the pdf is being released?

Here's a break down of three types:



Tier 1 are Cults - these are pretty much your smaller city-level krewe with 3-10 members usually (a krewe requires 3 members minimum). Fairly informal and look at more like street gangs and the like.



Tier 2 are Factions - faction krewes span one or more cities are have several dozen members and are more formal and have more internal hierarchy, etc.



Tier 3 are Conspiracies - which have over 100 Sin-Eaters across two or more continents. Conspiracy krewes are pretty much legends and myths and there aren't any around any longer as far as any one is convinced. There are a few example dead conspiracies.



Depending on the Tier of your krewe you can get access to automatic benefits for being part of that tier krewe, access to special merits that can only be purchased by Bound in that size crew, or opt-in benefits that you can choose to take but usually have a drawback. Benefits are also based on whether you participated in the orginal binding ceremony (founding benefits), underwent the ceremony later (supernatural benefits) or are just in good standing with the krewe (temporal benefits).



Krewes are bound together by a Krewe Binding ceremony and all krewes an ethos that guides it and it is more than just ideals it actually fomrs a bond between the krewe and the Underworld. This is broken down into ban (what you shouldn't do), duty (what you must do) and destiny (prophecy about what following the ethos may lead to for the krewe).



There is also a new xp category called Krewe Experience which you use to buy benefits for being a krewe. You earn it by following your ethos, studying the nature of death and the Underworld, being loyal to your krewe, etc.



Overall the whole feel of krewes is way more secret society than I was originally picking up on in any material we'd gotten previously.

It's basically the means by which the Sin-Eaters communicate and keep abreast of what is going on in the world around them. They use it to pass on info, call gatherings, etc.  It plays a lot into the Charon ferrying the dead, and those who help upkeep the network are known as Charonites. There are several pages committed to it and pretty interesting overall.

Any chance in hell the ad is an anagram, or something? ._.

Tried looking at that text in the dark? Maybe glow-in-the-dark ink?



Makes more sense than looking at it under bright light, considering the text ;)

I think WOD revised/2nd edition can very clearly be read into that.  Note that reading into something and it being true are two different things, but I'm surprised I'm the first one to think of it.   

I would be very disappointed, if WW makes such a mystery of something like a revised version.

I can imagine its simply about Shadows.

Can't see White Wolf making itself redundant, really.

You have a point there.



Although one could argue...

a) that this was exactly what they did with the Hunters Dread Powers and Endowments (I know, they have fluff too)

b) that it would still be interesting (and buyable) to see what the pros are doing with these building kits, giving ground for future books

b) that if we are slowly reaching the end of the nWoD (a possibility I wouldn't exclude), it makes more sense. After all, Equinox Road gave the kit for the contracts, but only after Rites of Spring and Co. were published.



But like I said, you got a point. We'll see.

Reads like an appocolypse book. That would be awesome.

Maybe it's just me, but the last and first letters of "ARE BORN" are centered and clear, just popping the word Reborn out to me.  I'm just sayin'.



Also, this reminds me so much of the "Before there was a World of Darkness" teasers that came out for Exalted, but even more irritating.  :P

One more thing to point out with the Demon lovin' folk, as much as we've seen that having something somewhat similar come previously doesnt negate something new coming (a la Changing Breeds, Hunter, Promethean,ect) Inferno just came out. If it hadnt, I could see a possible, albeit improbable demon connection. But to come out with a Demon book when they just made one seems a tad...silly.

Here's an idea:



Someone, who loves to subjugate themselves to speculating over what isn't going to happen till a year from now, and might get 2 spoilers, the way they keep dwindling each year; Start a thread about this in the WoD forum, and let THIS thing be about the guy that wants to tell us about a game that is inevitable.



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So, what does it say about making a Geist? Their appearance, who are/were they? Their personalities?