I was a bit disappointed with Wild Talents as a superhero game – but as a toolkit for building a supernatural game it could work nicely.

Since retro is never out of fashion, I’ve been thinking of going back to old-school VtM.

Vampire came out in 1991 and as an impressionable goth it captured my imagination for three reasons:

• it had really nice character sheets

• it de-emphasised combat in favour of roleplaying

• vampire myths had not yet saturated the rpg and spec fiction market

ORE is another buckets-of-dice system it could be fairly straightforward to drop-in a different system.

But why bother?

• Storyteller system sucks – especially when you do want to run combat

• System does affect the feel and presentation of a game

• White Wolf has rebooted the world with Vampire: the Requiem. I want to see what happens when you keep the world and reboot the system. Both approaches can challenge the players’ expectations and freshen up the game.

I’m going to write a series of posts for the reboot.

Here are a list of changes I would make if converting Vampire to Wild Talents:

• revised damage system (shifting away from the ORE damage silhouette)

• how to increase the number of attributes in ORE/WT from 6 to 9

• disciplines – how to apply the WT design rules to vampire powers

• how Passions can take the place of vampiric Virtues

• what to do with Willpower, Blood and Humanity

• tweaks to the ORE combat system

That’s it. Now what do I call this project – VampORE? Hmm.