Go forth, and inherit the Earth

[adderslj]

There's a review of Time of Judgement up on Wolf Spoor. I wasn't involved in the book, but it does mark the end of two lines I was heavily involved with: Hunter: the Reckoning and Demon: the Fallen, so it's worthy of note here.

However, I'm beginning to understand better how eyebeams feels about some net commentary. Shannon W. Hennessy chooses to trot out the same old clichés about Hunter we've had to put up with for the last five years: "it wasn't Hunters Hunted Revised" and "hunters aren't people, they're supernaturals". Meh. Frankly, I'm disappointed that somebody who normally shows some thought and consideration in his work falls prey to these knee-jerk reactions.

Ah well, it's over now, and I know that a lot of people got a lot of fun out of Hunter. I've certainly enjoyed working with the likes of oldmotherchaos, lighthorse76, docredfern, ashamel, Greg Stolze, Chuck Wendig andinnocent_man on the line, I think there are some very, very strong books that gave a whole new aspect to the WoD out there and I think the game stayed 100% true to the vision of the core book, whatever Mr Hennessy chooses to opine. To those who enjoyed the line and my writing on it, thank you. To those who never looked at it with open eyes because you were too blinded by your perception of what it should have been: meh. Your loss.

Comments

[artbroken.livejournal.com]

Yep. The debate, as always, is whether 'human' is phenomenonologial or existential; whether it's something you are or something you do.

The imbued remain yoked to all the downsides (and occasional upsides) of the human condition, whether or not they can make baseball bats explode. That makes them 'normal people' and 'human', as far as I'm concerned.

[nerd-king.livejournal.com]

To my mind, Mages and Imbued are human but changelings (while they still go to school and pay bills) are less so because of what they are fundementally - i.e. a merging of a human and fae soul.