Gosh, it's been a bit since we had a WoD tagging thread, huh? As per today's announcement, the game lines formerly known as the New World of Darkness 2nd Edition are now being collectively called the Chronicles of Darkness.
http://theonyxpath.com/announcing-chronicles-of-darkness/
Reasons why are in the link. What's the best way to go forward? (I mean, aside from updating the tag wiki and such.)
One way forward:
old-world-of-darkness goes to world-of-darkness — the way it was all the way back.
new-world-of-darkness-2e goes to chronicles-of-darkness.
new-world-of-darkness stays new-world-of-darkness, since those books won't be rebranded and people will be searching for them under that name. The fact that these books are the historical antecedents of the CofD books remains a hiccup.
old-world-of-darkness goes to world-of-darkness — the way it was all the way back. (Jadasc's answer)
We really should make new-world-of-darkness an alias for chronicles-of-darkness. The Onyx Path forums have entirely renamed what was the New World of Darkness to Chronicles of Darkness. They don't yet seem to have a distinction between first edition and second edition, but I think we will want that distinction.
I propose chronicles-of-darkness-1e and chronicles-of-darkness-2e as well (with relevant short aliases).
It should be noted that the official stance of Onyx Path (and by virtue of being the only mouthpiece I can find for the new White Wolf, presumably White Wolf), that 'New World of Darkness' branding is being retroactively sunset.
Minor request when you have a chance, can you clarify the naming conventions on the Chronicles as far as how they relate to the nWoD versions? Is it only nWoD 2 that is the Chronicles and the old version is still nWoD, is it Chronicles 1 and 2nd Ed, or is it something else all together?
To which Rich Thomas (richt), head of Onyx, replied
All of the stuff we have previously or would call nWoD is now Chronicles of Darkness.
By official naming, all the new-world-of-darkness and similarly named tags should be transitioned to chronicles-of-darkness and similarly named tags if we are going to encourage following the official product names - which is admittedly complicated by not being the name on some of the book covers.
The following merger and rearrangement has been performed:
new-world-of-darkness → chronicles-of-darkness-1e
Synonyms are new-world-of-darkness-1e, storytelling-system, nwod-1e
new-world-of-darkness-2e → chronicles-of-darkness-2e
Synonyms are new-world-of-darkness-2e, nwod-god-machine
The few questions previously tagged chronicles-of-darkness were also merged into chronicles-of-darkness-2e to preserve their correct edition tagging.
old-world-of-darkness → world-of-darkness
Synonyms are old-world-of-darkness, storyteller-system, owod, wod-20th-anniversary, cwod, classic-world-of-darkness, wod
There are now no new-world-of-darkness or nwod tags, nor a chronicles-of-darkness tag. They are also not tag synonyms, as that would encourage inaccurate tagging (i.e., when different askers assume the lack of edition marker means “current” and others assume it means 1st edition). Askers typing any will be presented with the CoD 1e and 2e tags and under normal circumstances will be prompted to make the choice between them. (If the tags get recreated and question clarification fails to keep them non-existent, we may need to revisit this.)
The tag wikis have been minimally updated to reflect the changes.
One notable wiki change: the tag wikis no longer recommend a “setting” tag be used for pan-edition questions — such questions were formerly officially advised to use world-of-darkness, but that was never actually done in practice and the tag was empty before the rearrangement was done. There is now currently no “setting” tag for the old or new WoD — setting questions should use the game being played instead, or multiple where overlap is involved. (This is consistent with our tagging practices for games with tight binding between setting and rules editions.)
On that note, our major *(W)oD tagging guidance on meta is now obsolete (formerly contained in Lets get a clear consensus on the use of [nwod] vs [nwod-god-machine]). Tagging guidance should either be redone in a meta post or (more ideally) be clearly presented in the three tags' wikis. Minimal guidance has been added in a Related tags section of the three tags' wikis.
