Demon: the Fallen (oWoD)

[Cataclysmic Archangel]

As you might have guessed from the name, I'm a big fan of Angels, Demons, and things in between.  Back during the era of White Wolf's first World of Darkness, there was a game system called Demon: the Fallen, using their Storyteller system.  I have no idea if it was ever 'resurrected' (pun not intended) with their reboots, but I'd be interested in a game if anyone is familiar and would like to run something.

If you're not familiar, but curious anyway, here's the short version:

Angels were real.  God created them, and then set them to tasks in creating the world.  That whole '7 days' thing was on one metaphysical plane, while the angels worked for millennia on another making it all happen.  Once humanity was created, the Angels were given two cardinal rules:

1.  Never reveal yourself to the humans.
2.  Love the humans as they would love their Father.

This of course became a huge contradiction; how could they love them if they couldn't interact, shower them with gifts and knowledge?  In the end, the Angels were divided, and Lucifer, greatest of them, chosen to break the decree in order to Awaken them to the wonders of paradise.

Well, most people know how that went.  War in Heaven, yadda yadda.  In the end, the Rebels were Conquered, and thrown into prison, an abyss of nothingness.  Ages pass.  Some of the Fallen start to go mad.  They blame Lucifer.  They blame Humanity.  They blame God. Pick your poison.  Worse, Lucifer was never imprisoned with them.  Why not?  Did he betray them?  No one knew.

As humanity began to learn how to be civilized, rituals started to be made.  Some Fallen were torn from prison, but often had to be bound in idols, shrines, etc.  The more powerful, the more corrupted their influence.

Finally, in a major Event that effected all of the World of Darkness game settings at once, a supernatural quake created cracks in the prison.  Too small for the greatest of Fallen, but some of the lesser ones could escape, to the modern day.  There they were able to take over the bodies of those with no will to live, the dying, the defeated.  Many were tasked to find ways to bring back their superiors.  Others wish to bring down the world.  Find Lucifer.  Etc etc.

That's the short version of the storyline.  There are 7 houses of fallen with different powers (lucifer, for instance, was what's now called a Fiend... fire and charisma powers).  There were political factions amongst the Fallen as well.


I should throw out there that while I *can* Storytell, I prefer to be a player.  But if there's interest, who knows?

[SithLordOfSnark]

I loved Demon: the Fallen, so count me in as a player.

[RubySlippers]

I never played it much but demons are fun. 

I got the rules on a PDF I'm sure somewhere in my computer.

[wander]

I have the corebook as a dead tree format and the player's guide as a pdf.

I am super in as a player and have a Demon more or less ready to go to boot.

Whilst it's admittedly skub to the wod player-base, the lore from the game is interesting and Lucifer and his place in it all is so good come the 'Time of Judgement' book and the in-character 'Days of Fire' book written by the original rebel himself (or was he even a rebel to begin with?).



To answer about a reboot, it was yes as Demon:the Descent, which has more of a Matrix feel, as the PCs are Demons, who were formally Angels serving the God-Machine, this time Angels are AI quantum constructs named after religious figures to make humanity more pliable to their demands. The PCs are those who break from servitude usually as their programming hits a block where their main purpose is unable to be fulfilled for whatever reason, which causes a logic feed-back loop and crashes them out of the System. They then red-pill out of the system of the God-Machine and are forever on the run from the System as it tries to delete/reintegrate them. It's described as being 'Tech-Gnostic' in feel.

[Cataclysmic Archangel]

I have them all in pdf format if anyone would need.

And yes, Days of Fire was awesome.  he was also in the trilogy that they wrote, and was amazing there too.  They go into a lot of his motivations and such.

I would like to see if someone is eager to volunteer to run a game... but I'm glad to see there's some interest. :)




As for 'the Descent'....

No.  Just no.  I'm going to pretend I didn't hear you say that.

[PixelatedPixie]

I'd be interested as a player

[wander]

Managed to get the missing Demon:the Fallen books I needed, so I'm back into looking for others who'd play this with me. :)

[Cataclysmic Archangel]

Absolutely all for it, but I don't think we ever found a Storyteller.

[Pumpkin Seeds]

Please me.  I love...LOVE..Demon.

[wander]

After watching Devilman Crybaby it just put me more in the mood for a Demon game, especially one set around the Time of Judgement stories.

[Cataclysmic Archangel]

Please me.  I love...LOVE..Demon.

Are you volunteering to run?  Because frankly you just have to say 'who's playing' and I think you win. :)

[Pumpkin Seeds]

Would take me a long time to set up a game.   So I have no problem getting started but Santa might get here first.

[wander]

Jus' sayin'... I'd be happy for my character to be taken through a pregen adventure, any of them. :)

[Rook Seidhr]

Thought long and hard about whether I could step up as a GM for this. Decided now was not the time.

If a GM does turn up, though, mark me as an interested player.

[wander]

Gah, I got excited spotting the bump here!

Still excited to play if something ever happens from this.