The future of V:TES

Ashur wrote:

I´m not american, so I don´t understand this. The VEKN kan make a pdf of a bunch of new cards and declare they official VEKN cards. What has White Wolf/CCP and Wizards/Hasbro to do with this?

Hasbro/WW own the idea of "turning a card 90 degrees to signify its use" and calling it "tapping".
WW/CCP owns all of the fluff, names, disciplines, clans and so on.

So, we can't make the cards without getting permission from those two companies (which is part of why VTES is out of print). Even with permission, the deal giving us permission from those companies may say "We (the companies) want to review the cards you make with our IP before you release them".


Regarding people's time. Does your work have busy parts of the year? I know my work as a teacher does. I lose a number of weekends to examination marking and report writing at least twice a year. And so on.

Take an consulting accountant as an example. Most accountants have a reasonably busy working year, but could contribute time to volunteer to VEKN all of the year. However, at the end of financial year their workload goes far through the roof as they finalise accounts and details for the yearly reports. What happens if they were working on something for the VEKN that got delayed and then happens at the same time as the end of financial year? Are they supposed to do a bad job at work to do the VEKN stuff or should they put the VEKN matters on pause to do their job well and come back to the VEKN matters?

vtes doesnt pay the bills, so work would naturally take precedence over anything else.

drnlmza wrote:

Squidalot wrote:

Set wise:

Danse still needs a R5 test - the head of the test groups have all the information I currently have on when this is (and yes it's late but that's how things go when there is no pressing deadlines)

I'm intrigued by the "no pressing dealines" comment. On reading this, my first interpretation is that no firm dealine for Danse Macabre's release has been set yet. I can imagine numerous reasons not to set a date, so I'm not particularly bothered by that, but is that an accurate reading?

There's no release date - and it's still in discussion how/when it would be released and this takes a back seat to any POD discussions and it also directly dependent on these POD discussions. Johannes will update if and when there is any news on this front.

So yes no firm deadlines though we obviously prefer to keep things moving and produce a backlog of useable cards/other set ideas.

I'm waiting on proofreading, comments, etc. on my Designer's Diary draft entry. It'll be up in a day or two.