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White Wolf Withdraws Pay-To-Play Policy
WorselWorsel writes "After almost two weeks of fan outrage White Wolf has canceled plans to implement their Pay-to-Play policy. In a forum post, Philippe R. Boulle writes 'Based on all your feedback, it's obvious that the policy as currently worded is not going to accomplish these goals. So, we are pulling it off the table as a blanket policy. I realize that the proverbial genie can't be shoved back in the bottle, but the guidelines I handed to a few people at ORIGINS and posted here last week clearly need to be reworked and rethought, so please consider them withdrawn.' The withdrawal of the policy can be read in full on the forums."
From: The Collective Internet
To: White Wolf
told u so, kthxbai
p.s. i r0ll 20's
There is truth in humor.
The jokes about half-naked fugly chicks and annorexic retarded looking pasty boys pretending to be vampires at your local WOC/WW LARP Shari's event at 2am practically write themselves
Seriously, D&D nerds make fun of LARPers... Do you realize how lame you have to be for a D&D nerd to make fun of you?!
(Former minor-D&D nerd)
This policy was touched upon by today's Something Positive: http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp07142005.shtml
White Wolf: Alright, we need some quick cash, so let's charge people for using the books we've already sold them. We should at least make some effort to pretend we have justification for this. Let's say that all the volunteers spending their time and effort to write and run the games that make our product worth owning should either eat the costs out of pocket or join our "fan club" along with all their players to get a "license".
Storyteller: You're going to need to make a diplomacy check to get the players to agree to that.
WW: Why? We own this stuff.
Storyteller: Roll the dice.
WW: Oh, alright. *rolls die* Uh... what does "critical fumble" mean?