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>Whatever happened to Degenesis?
Boutique ttrpg, that was way more into form than substance. Production costs were so high that the whole project was constantly in red (according to Discord). The system was barely serviceable and required homebrew to make it work. Fluff is required to roleplay propely, but is written in cryptic, fragmented way that makes it hassle to look up or condense to new players, so large upfront cost to get into it (official statement from devs was to lookup youtube videos, if you want to understand metaplot). Lead developer and owner of company had Degenesis as his vanity project and is narcissistic as fuck, therefore any negative feedback caused him to resort to namecalling and sending his discord drones to flood online discussion. This triggered local retards to skim pdfs, and build their retorts on African fetishism and all discussion degraded into we wuz, kys shill and go back to discord. On the other hand, redditors call the game misogynistic and racist, because of rape and titties. After some flamewars, all online discussion stopped, and discord turned into echochamber, where they suck each other's cocks and no one is playing the game.

But production values are way above average, art is nice, some ideas are interesting, and if you treat modules as short stories with illustrations instead of ttrpgs resource, you can have a nice time reading them.

I played the game as a player, and as GM and it was quite fun for one shot with pimped chars, if you focused on social encounters instead of combat ones and used endgame stuff from start.

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Whatever happened to Degenesis? Did you ever play it? I always thought it looked cool but could never get a group together