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Everybody knows the big three of the World of Darkness, but what about some of the other family members? Has anyone ever played them?

Wraith the Oblivion, Changeling the Dreaming, Demon the Fallen, Hunter the Reckoning, Mummy the Resurrection (or as I like to call it, "I can't die. Ever. Seriously, stop trying to kill me, it won't work.").

sadly, I have never heard of those! OMG! I didn't even know that they exicted. maybe someone could send me some more info about them and maybe i could check them out! thanks....

Mika Kyoko

Yeah, I've got the Wraith book, but I've never played. I've read Changling, but again, never played.

Demon I've paged through the book in a store once, and I'd really like to play if I can get my hands on it, because it looks awsome, but I've yet to find a copy of the book.
I suppose I could go onto Amazon if I decided that it was worth the money.

Mummy is just ridiculous.
As is Hunter, in my opinion. I don't like the idea of mortals that "just happen" to have uber powers.

See, all the games except Hunter have their own myths. I think the inspiration for Hunter might have come partially from Dracula, with Dr. Van Helsing, but he didn't have uber powers.

With Hunter you're just a completely munchkined and misguided mortal. There's no mythology, no culture to speak of, and not brains.

The one time I played Hunter I said "screw this" halfway though, and the ST had me play their prey, a stranded werewolf.

As it happens, I ended up killing them all, one at a time, but it was damn tricky. Hunters can do to werewolves what werewolves generally do to everyone else, so I couldn't just pop up and rip his head off.

Wraith is bad, evil, wrong fun if you like that sort of thing. Since the Tempest contains literally hundreds, if not thousands of various, realms, underworlds, and afterlives, there's no telling where your Wraith could end up. The Shadow also makes for all sorts of interesting play, considering that, unlike the Beast, Rage, and Paradox, the Shadow is an independent consciousness that wants to take your Wraith and turn it into a slave of Oblivion and works diligently to weaken you enough to take control. But I'm just a Wraith fan who thinks it suffered from too much of its own greatness.

Changeling I never played because I never really understood the point of the game. Play make-believe or fall victim to Banality and cease to exist.

I love and hate Hunter. White Wolf returned to their non-PC roots with much of the Hunter setting material, like deranged Hunters who murder people in broad daylight, racial and national conflict among Hunters, idealogical conflict among Hunters because someone isn't doing it "right", etc. I disliked Hunter because they seemed to know everyone's business inside of five years. Yes, there are Vampires who pretend to be humans and have Clans. Yes, Werewolves are big engines of death that worship nature and have human relatives. Yes, Mages exist and can practice magic, but not if there are people watching. I'm just sitting here thinking, "How the hell did they get all of this info?" The INTARWEB? Hunter-Net?

Hunter becomes much more interesting when you use the setting option that Hunters aren't divinely inspired at all, but powerful psychics who were used by the government to kill supernaturals and implanted with a psychic trigger (The Heralds) before being released back into society.

And the two most powerful Hunters in the world, God_45 and Alleyman222, were a homicidal lunatic and a half-Indian white supremacist respectively. Just trying to stop those two from upping their body counts accounts for more than half of my Hunter experience.

Hi Folks. I am one of the newest members of the guild.

Just wanted to make myself known. I used to be the Head Storyteller of the Darqness Sabbat Chronicals on white-wolf.com So as the HST, I have been able to utlitize ALL of the other factors of the WoD. After the end of the Masquerade era, the game went south cause White Wolf wanted to focus on the new material rather than the older game. So as a form of protest, I havent even opened any of the new WoD books.. lol

Anyway, just letting you know, I am at least familiar with all the distant games of WoD. My expertise remains with Vampire and Werewolf though. Since they are best in crossover stories. But wraith and mage make things terribly interesting from a player perspective, if your playing a vampire (enter evil laugh here, "I am all powerful and nothing else in the universe is as strong as m... what.. mummies cant die? Damn....") Hunter? Gotta love em... fun fun fun to play, even liked the novels.

Ummm yeah lol I guess that is enough for tooting my own horn. Let me know if any of these others games start to get a following. Would be very interested.

I forgot to mention this, but the best supplements White Wolf produced were for some of their lesser known gamelines. Demon's books were almost all well-written (nobody had time read them as WW killed off the universe a few months after DtF's release), Kindred of the East had the supplement before which all other supplements bow, Dharmabook: Devil-Tigers, and it's close second, The 1000 Hells, and Charnel Houses of Europe was, by far, the most disturbing book White Wolf (Black Dog) ever published.

Is this just a huge bookstore, or a giant geekery (slang: game store)?

Aww, who doesn't like Mummy?

I swear, I never get tired of a Hunter chopping of my head, burning my body. Scattering my ashes to the wind... and the next night I only respond by giving him a sample of my home brewn english tea...

But seriously, Demon had a sweet book. I enjoyed all 2 months of reading it at Hastings before it disapeered. Poor Lucian and his angels... they never had a fighting chance.

Changling...eww. I agree with the Banality bit. I mean whats the point if you can't cross over games... other wise you die? Pitiful.

Wraith and Orpheous are both cherished treasures. But yes, I do think you need a good player base otherwise the game will break itself.

Kindred of the East...1000 Hells, Devil Tigers... zomg. More of a BoneFlower myself or Centipede, but yes, lovely. The court system is so amazing and you toss in the sentai and the Hengokai, you got yourself a great game.

Werewolf is a favorite among many. Who doesn't want to go Crinos and pop some formori's head off for the wrym. The tastes of victory and the spoils of war, just watch the elders with the battle scars. The brain damage is starting to catch up with them.

Hunter is wrong... while all other games have their mythos and stories. Hunter is like DnD on crack... lets kill everything. The only good hunter is a dead hunter, besides most get derangements and go rouge anyways. Now who needs to be hunted? (Rogue hunter for those of you who don't know are Hunters who start killing mortals, etc. In order to save them)

Mage. House of Hermes... hehehe. Not my best know system, I actually know little about it. But I always wanted to play.

And Vampire, the orginal...the classic. So many clans, so much fun. I just can't wait to do another Gehenna chronicle... bring it. I will go out in a blaze of glory!