I suppose I should be grateful for the unity of the Crab boards. We were all pretty solidly behind the idea of crushing the Spider beneath our iron shod boots..
Although once they start up again I'm probably going to end up being a voice of distension. Those Onyx Edition fictions kind of sold me on the idea of coexisting with the non-Tainted Spider.
Ugh, my tolerance is getting in the way of my zealotry.
Ugh, my tolerance is getting in the way of my zealotry.
Filthy Progressive! =)
So the Phoenix - one of the clans most internally divided in-setting - had a divided fanbase. While one of the most unified clans, the Crab, had a unified fanbase. Interesting. I wonder if that pattern holds true for the other clans as well.
So the Phoenix - one of the clans most internally divided in-setting - had a divided fanbase. While one of the most unified clans, the Crab, had a unified fanbase. Interesting. I wonder if that pattern holds true for the other clans as well.
The Phoenix dysfunction was fairly unusual- the Shadowlands fanbase only started getting schismatic when the Spider/Horde binary choice started getting presented, and even then, it was mostly a question of what kind of evil they wanted to be. So where one was an fairly organic outgrowth of an essentially directionless clan (even in the CCG, the Phoenix quickly overtook the Dragon in terms of having the jack of all trades schtick), the other was an induced schism by specific events in the story- and also occurred relatively late in the game's history.
The Scorpion had two primary English-language fansites that I can recall (Did the Crane, as well?), so they might have been MORE schismatic- even at its worst, the Spider/Horde fanbase mostly hung their hats in Shinden Fu Leng. The Phoenix... well. We had one fansite to carry the water, and I walked away from it around the launch if Ivory, and I only really came back to it because it was the only venue where fan-submitted paths for Onyx were being tracked- but there was never any serious effort at promoting an alternative- particularly since Ivory Edition all but eliminated casual Phoenix fans.
Suffice to say, actual data on this sort of thing is pretty thin on the ground with a lot of the fan forums having closed up shop.