[Epic] Satans work OFF TOPIC

From: Brett Hollindale <agro_at_...>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:57:20 +0100 (MET)

>> The main game under fire in the U.S. right now is Vampire and its
>> ilk,
>
> Really? I haven't heard much in the way of RPG-bashing
>for years now... Although Vampire certainly seems like a ripe
>target.
>
>> I never liked Vampire anyway, and honestly it seems to
>> attract a different crowd than most other RPG's.
>
> From what I've seen, the Vampire players are generally
>more role-playing-oriented than, say, DnD players. That and
>the goths seems to like it...
>
>> There's a lot more
>> people taking it a lot more seriously than they really should, which is
>> fine until it gets out of control and into the news and any of us who
>> play any kind of game are painted as "nuts" - I don't appreciate it
>> when someone else's lack of maturity/control/brainpower/whatever screws
>> up things for me, whether it's driving drunk or getting my hobby smeared
>> as "evil."
>
> I wouldn't say that Vampire players are more nuts than
>other RPG players... Certainly they're not any more nuts than
>people heavily involved in the SCA.


Watch it... I'm "pretty heavily involved in the SCA" and I'm not nuts!!!
(I may think that E40K is a work of the devil, but I'm NOT nuts... :-)


>I kinda wonder if old-time RPGers regard Vamp players as odd or different
because of
>the heavy emphasis on role-playing over dice-rolling...


I kinda wonder if the KIND of role playing in Vampire games isn't the issue.

(All levity aside) Role playing can be a powerful psychological tool and I
wonder if it is healthy to be role playing sick, evil, twisted, depraved
monsters doomed to eventual damnation with no hope of salvation...

(For those who haven't seen the system, there is a "Humanity" stat which
denotes how far the character has sunk toward "damnation" - if the stat
reaches zero, the character is an irredemable monster and is retired from
the game or becomes a non player character. It is considered inevitable
that this reduction in humanity will occur, although in my experience I have
never seen it happen - the stat reaches a point where the character is able
to commit "all but the most unspeakable acts" and stabilises about there.)

(Levity returning) Naturally, I have played Vampires for years and I am
quite immune to any psychological damage...

Agro
Received on Thu Mar 26 1998 - 11:57:20 UTC