The God-Machine Chronicle is a sourcebook for the World of Darkness. It serves as a rules revision of the core rules found in the World of Darkness: Storytelling System Rulebook. Many of the changes introduced here were carried over into the revision of the World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness game line and were incorporated into the Chronicles of Darkness Rulebook.
As of now, the product is no longer listed on DriveThruRPG.
Summary[]
From the Onyx Path catalog:
- "Here’s the question: Do you really want to know? Because it’s not like it’s a secret. It's just like your car - it doesn’t run by magic but it might as well, for all you know when you look under the hood."
- – Wesley Cote, AKA The Key
- What Has Risen May Fall
- What is the God-Machine? That question doesn't have a single, easy answer, but that doesn't stop people from asking. The World of Darkness is layer upon layer of mystery, but what is the mechanism that keeps it all moving? Is there a design in play? And what happens to those who think to use the Machine for their own ends?
- What Has Fallen May Rise Again
- A Chronicle Book for the World of Darkness©
- A "default" chronicle, a way to introduce new players to the World of Darkness and experience one of its greatest mysteries
- Choose the depth of madness that's right for your group, from local to cosmic!
- A modular approach to building a chronicle, 20 different stories that fit together to form "chronicle tracks"
- Revisions of many of the core rules from the World of Darkness Rulebook
Prologue: Dissemination[]
The fiction contains a number of suspicious references to the number sequence "273423-X".
Introduction[]
Chapter One: Cogs in the Machine[]
Chapter Two:Tales of the God-Machine[]
Chapter Three: Cogs in the Machine[]
Appendix: Rules Revisions[]
Background Information[]
The God-Machine Chronicle served as the first major rules revision for the Storytelling System. At the time, IP owners CCP weren't approving a formal 2nd Edition, so the GMC filled the position of updating the rules, while still technically being a supplement for the CofD: World of Darkness: Storytelling System Rulebook .
The major lines were originally being updated in kind, with Vampire: The Requiem gaining VTR: Blood & Smoke: The Strix Chronicle , Werewolf: The Forsaken gaining The Idigam Chronicle, etc. However, shortly after release, CCP cancelled the World of Darkness MMO and reversed their position on formal 2nd Editions.
Blood & Smoke was renamed to VTR: Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition , in-development books for Werewolf and Mage were reworked, and a new core rulebook was developed, incorporating the updated God-Machine rules. During this time, CCP sold the IP to Paradox Interactive, who wanted to further distinguish the two different World of Darkness settings. So the new name was announced simultaneous to the release of the new rulebook: CofD: Chronicles of Darkness: Revised Storytelling System Rulebook .
While the majority of the content of the GMC was incorporated into the new rulebook -- often word-for-word -- the Prelude fiction containing the repeated use of "273423-X" was not included.
Memorable Quotes[]
What has risen must fall, what has fallen may rise again.
— Voice of the Angel[1]
Characters[]
References[]
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