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[Damian May]

So your games are basically Hostel?...

[Damian May]

Um, how? V5 doesn't use pools so what did you do for Pathos/Angst etc. And based on our games of V5 how were you not falling into a Harrowing every ten rolls or so....

[Damian May]

One that stays at the top of the page. ...

[Damian May]

Anybody with the ability to use google and two functioning brain cells knew it. Stop excusing bad practice.

Its good to see they've cleared most of the dead wood out of the IP handlers, and I'm guessing Justin is not quite as abrasive as he used to be as a younger man. An encouraging sign that things may be looking up in White Wolf land....

[Damian May]

I'm pretty sure I referenced folkloric beings from 6 different continents including Europe so you can't be referring to me....

[Damian May]

I honestly can't think of anything more boring and homogenizing, but at least I know where your coming from. Yeah, we want very different things out of this hobby. But good to know I guess.

[Damian May]

Random. Based on common species in the region. Quoll fur. Spiders eyes. Snakes toungue. Crocodile scales. Flying fox pelt. Goanna claws.

[Damian May]

Wait.....WTF?....I "don't seem to be taking advantage of different types of vampires at all" but your the one who just outlined 6 different beings all with variant origins in folklore, variant reasons for being and you then removed their reasons for existing and most of their flavour in order to make them all into the same type of vampire.....

In my campaigns I have the viral model vampire, along with the vampire that spontaneously rises, along with the vampire that rises because the human it was made specific preparations before death, the vampire that offended the gods...

[Damian May]

I use all of them....when I use Traditions at all, most of my games are Craft games.

'Dreamspeakers' have a thousand different names because they're not really a Tradition they're just where the OoH shoved everyone who didn't fit into the other catergories they made up.

[Damian May]

Yeah. We're never going to agree on this. Its just smashing square pegs into round holes and losing too much of importance in the process for me....

[Damian May]

I guess we'll need to agree to disagree. I think the viral reproduction model and system of VtM badly serves the vast majority of vampire folklore and mythology and would prefer a wider variety of mechanical systems to represent to full variety....

[Damian May]

Right, but how do you square the fact that all of these need to be embraced which goes against the base concepts of every single one of them?

I mean they ape some concepts of the original being but utterly ignore vast swathes of what they are....

[Damian May]

Ok...coming back in because the snarky dismissive remark apparently wasn't? Honestly it really seemed thats what it was.

One of ( and certainly not the only) main issues is that I like folkloric vampires. VtM does movie, modern novel and tv vampires which spead by an infectious bloodborne viral effect. In 25 years of research the only folkloric vampire from anywhere in the world which does anything like this is the Yara-Ma-Yha-Who....and thats a much more involved process anyway.

Sure we could pretend that everyone else is wrong and the only one in thousands of cultures,...

[Damian May]

Fuck....why did I even bother......

[Damian May]

Isn't everything?

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[Damian May]

I think it really comes down to how you define 'vampire'. I mean the definition of ' returned dead that steal life from the living' handily covers the game concepts of both Kindred and Hungry Ghosts and easi;y covers a hundred different real world concepts from strigoi to pontianak to yara-ma-yha-who to yuki-onna to bean-sidhe.

I mean there are a ton of south east asian horror movies that I would consider 'vampire' movies because they feature kuntilanak, leyak, krasue, aswang.....others may not and may call them generic ' horror' movies because no one grows long canines or turns...

Sorry, still spinning from the news about Matt....have known about Shane for years. Re. 25YoVtM:- Nate or Bob? Please don't say Bob.....

Edit: Found the reddit post...............fuck...............why is literally everyone associated with these games a POS....

[Damian May]

Favourites:

1)Black Furies.

2) Older Brother.

3) Red Talons.

4) Bone Gnawers.

5) CoGs.

Least favs.

1) Silver Fangs.

2) Fianna.

3) Shadow Lords.

[Damian May]

Yeah. It was the word genocide that was the trip up, introduced species like cats/foxes etc. here in Oz have decimated native species but they don't draw up plans and specifically target individual communities to be exterminated.

[Damian May]

Ok. Sorry, I'll shut up....