Uncensored version is up FOR FREE on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WilliamSRD

(not a direct link to the video, in compliance with YouTube's rules about linking age restricted content)

A reupload...?
THE CURSE OF WRAITH: THE OBLIVION STRIKES AGAIN!

Oddly fitting that this video was killed and then brought back.

"[...] you're complicit, aren't you? What did you think those coins were made of? Didnt you wonder; why they weep ?"
As a relative newcomer to the Wraith mythos / lore,  this writing gave me absolute chills! <3

Quick note, Wraith like most of its contemporaries did get a 20th-anniversary edition RPG book which was Kickstarted for nearly $300,000 which blew past it's 50,000 dollar goal and a couple of Wraith 20th sourcebooks to go with it. As well as a 20th-anniversary short story compilation, there is a small devoted fandom even now.

Thank you everyone for your support after the original video got age restricted. The wave of affirmation and patreon sign ups really helped me get through the worst of it.

I originally said I wouldn't censor the video, but further analysis from a few viewers suggested it was probably one SPECIFIC thing that did it. So here's the adjusted video, with some alteration, but the core of the video intact.

Thanks once again to all of you, I couldn't keep doing this without my amazing community.

I once saw Wraith described as "a suicide note with game mechanics" and I think that summed up the mood perfectly. I adore Wraith, especially the Risen sourcebook but in 30 years of playing World of Darkness I've never run or played in a Wraith chronicle.

I always did wonder what the fuck Wraith could be about beyond being sad and haunting a house, but I wasn't ready for the shadow-Roman emperor fighting Godzilla

What I think makes wraith so interesting is the fact that it has the highest chance of happening to people within its world.

You have to get bit by a vampire to become one, you have got to be born with lycan ancestry to become a Garou... but to become a Wraith?

Live with enough regrets that you can't rest in peace.

I know the Youtube system can be really difficult to get over when you reupload a video, so here is a like and a comment from me as I know interactions help with the algorithm.

You gotta love how every World/Chronicles of Darkness setting is bonkers if you think on it too hard and delve too deep into the lore. Wraith just commits more than many can handle.

It's interesting to note that the latest edition of Vampire integrated one core feature of Wraith : the touchstones are functionally fetters

6:54 "Hall of Cost," would be a great name for a Wraith the Oblivion book.

The fact that you had to censor the word holocaust is so upsetting. I'm sorry YouTube's leash tightened on your ability to respect the topics you're presenting

I love wraith the oblivion and I think its one of the strongest of world of darkness's old line games. The shadow system that everyone complains about as too evil and creating fights is only that way if everyone at the table are dicks and if the gm just lets people be overly cruel with them. When the shadow is working as intended its like having a devil on your shoulder that can give all sorts of buffs and use its set of thorns to actually help in scenes.
The underworld itself is such an amazing local, with the shadowlands mirroring the living world and when places are forgotten or destroyed their dark counterparts literally sink into the ocean of emotion and memory below for a metaphysical high sea adventure and even a massive silent hill style dungeon crawl below that in the very depths of the underworld the Labyrinth. Wraith the oblivion afterlife I think is actually an incredibly narrow and limited scope of what it is actually like to be a ghost in wraith. A game set in Stygia or the shadowlands would be weird rather than pure scary in the same sort of way as Sunken city!
I hope wraith gets tons more people actually interested in the game now that your video is out on it :)

Great video and I'm glad its back up Will!

This video helps me realize about wraith. Learning its lore and it troubled publication. And it giving me ideas for my writing.
Thanks for acknowledging and bringing attention WoD franchise, even this specific series, to youtube. Since it has a tough time getting attention

Rewatching Wraith Video, but it got me thinking:  what’s the most challenging game or book you’ve experienced?  Not the hardest, mind.  But the one most determined to make you feel terrible: your “Spec Ops: The Line”s, your Sinclair’s “The Jungle”s.

For me, it’s “Meltwater: A Game of Tactical Starvation”.  The Cold War has ended in near mutual annihilation, and the only source of water exists in Antarctica, where the remaining Americans and Russian survivors continue to fight.  Radioactive winds blow, polluting the ice sheet little by little until only one player remains.

Brazilian fan here! Commenting and liking for the algorithm sacrifice demands. This vid is a masterpiece!

This game came out about the same time as The Crow and therefore we ended up playing it as such.  It such a cool idea.

"An unplayable madterpiece" is the best way to sum up Wraith! I forgot how much I liked the background & you did a great job summarizing it!