tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737809845612070971.post2067586426156245396..comments2024-03-16T19:49:10.749-07:00Comments on Elfmaids & Octopi: Vampire RPG How Not To SuckKonsumterrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18170560484656800416noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737809845612070971.post-15914039528717072382015-09-15T04:39:28.858-07:002015-09-15T04:39:28.858-07:0080s Batman does neogothic-noir better than crow fi...80s Batman does neogothic-noir better than crow filmsKonsumterrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170560484656800416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737809845612070971.post-89897812657278378282015-09-15T04:37:48.188-07:002015-09-15T04:37:48.188-07:00I prefer comics like xmen and blade and 70s dracul...I prefer comics like xmen and blade and 70s dracula and DR Strange and I like the Angst in those titles. The angst in indy comics is lonely young men in trench coats in the shadows of a city by night in the rain. The vamp wannabe of the 90s fits into the same mold. I suffer and am more hip than though holy hipness. I don't think that is really horror any more than a puffy shirt makes you a pirate. <br /><br />I believe there are Vampire games out there that are real horror and players are not aggressive story gamer's or vamp wannabes out there. It is within realms of possibility.<br /><br />. Konsumterrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170560484656800416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737809845612070971.post-82839436166071022582015-09-15T03:10:52.906-07:002015-09-15T03:10:52.906-07:00Vampirism just never felt right as the adolescent ...Vampirism just never felt right as the adolescent struggle its presented to be so much of the time. Yeah its transformative, that doesn't mean it has to ape survivng highschool and figuring out how to be an adult without losing whatis importat to your youger self. JDsivrajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674833512849495283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737809845612070971.post-20475336186313713362015-09-14T10:02:56.229-07:002015-09-14T10:02:56.229-07:00Of course im predjudiced - thats what opinion pret...Of course im predjudiced - thats what opinion pretty much is<br /><br />Vampire cannon universe old and new are rigid <br />I just dont like vampires being cool <br />should be a disappointment and uncool doom.<br />Humanity system is too tame<br />Just because they referenced some things i like doesn't mean i like what they did with it.<br /><br />They do have ok ideas to plunder but i would use for more for super hero than horror. Implicit magic-gnostic;western magic thing is really inherent in setting. <br /><br />Just because I have not learned a new game system for 25 years i dont really have beef with other gaming scenes but my vampire gaming friends overlap with larp and story gaming friends who have a whole script on how their games are more evolved and superior to my older games. <br /><br />I didnt draw a line in the sand about old and newschool. I just dislike cranking out revisionist editions for a buck and books full of padding in text and design not the games per say. I get abused online for preferring COC to Gumshoe regularly which is sad.Konsumterrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170560484656800416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737809845612070971.post-43562648908659089122015-09-14T09:12:03.206-07:002015-09-14T09:12:03.206-07:00In some cases you're describing the way the ga...In some cases you're describing the way the game is.<br /><br />This is a thing: "New gen vamps expose old clans heads as frauds stuck in past. Illuminatus trilogy but about vampires." Illuminatus Trilogy is in their appendix N. <br /><br />"Other vamp game is cthulhu vampires. You lose san when feeding till you get used to it. Vamp culture forces you to perform more SAN blasting acts of inhumanity." That's the humanity system. Very obviously inspired by CoCs SAN. <br /><br />"Meanwhile cthulhu is coming and 99% vamps busy fighting and too ignorant to care." Endtimes are coming and that's how they act. CoC also in their appendix N.<br /><br />"I want to chase vampire kids in trenchcoats and tears with a wooden steak and a leather satchel bag. Yet i was DJ in a goth/punk club for years. Evil Clown rpg would be more scary." Your prejudice is showing. This sort of thing killed this RPG which is actually one of the better ones...and not nearly as incompatible with the old school as people think. Wraith for example, had a megadungeon written into the setting. Werewolf has a realm with every war ever going on at once; what's that for if not frankengaming it with wargames? And the whole damn company is named after an appendix N character.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com