Hi Dark, Yeah, I've noticed that some authors have made the modern day vampires so wimpy and easy to kill. One reason why I want to go back to a traditional story where a vampire must be staked, decapitated, and/or preferably exposed to sunlight. If I'm going to fight one in a game then it should be pretty darn hard to kill since they are suppose to be stronger, faster, and in some cases more intelligent than a mortal human being.
As for the entire vampire romance thing I'm so turned off on that myself. I've read my fair share of romance novels where vampires are suppose to be sexy, cool, whatever and instead of being blood sucking evil monsters the authors represent them as romantic perhaps tragic figures. I don't hate those kind of books but I do find them a bit weird and obviously it isn't something I'd base a game on. :D Cheers! On 9/4/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > if we are talking about modernizing myths and current social trends, then to > > be honest vampires are really! getting on my nerves these days, ---- before > > I go on, this has nothing to do with your rpg suggestion directly, sinse I > just intrinsically enjoy rpgs well written or not whatever their subject > matter, ---- heck I've played one humerous Eamon adventure where the > principle villain was the author's computer science teacher! and fully > enjoyed it for the surreal romp it was. > > But with vampires, I'm getting rather sick of them to be honest. Books, > films, radio dramas, the dam things are everywhere! two traits that > especially irritate me, is the hole romantic tragic thing, and the way > vampires are so dam easy to kill these days! > > "ooooh no, I'm immortal, and must spend the rest of eternity with this > attractive member of the opposite sex" --- well poor you! your undeath must > > be so horrible. And what the hell is supposed to be romantic about being a > human mosquito? are flees, leaches and various other nasties that suck blood > > romantic? > > Then there is the hole easy to kill thing, indeed in the Dresden novels I > was quite amused by the explanation that the black court vampires, who were > > traditional walking corpse, dracula style vampires had been nearly wiped out > > because the white counsel had got Bram stoker to publish Dracula which > served as a handbook of easy ways to despatch black court vamps! > > Still, these days it seems nearly anything can do in a vampire. Sunlight or > > even in some instances ultra violet light, running water, dropping seeds, > any garlic or similar aromatic substance, mirrors (which in several books > and games I've seen to actually hurt vampires rather than just not show > their reflection). Then there is the hole symbols question. There's a > great, ---- if commical scene in the film dusk till dawn where a priest > repells a hole room of vampires by crossing a rifle and a baseball bat over > > each other to form a cross. I'm also getting more than sick of the "belief" > > mallarchy, ---- sinse these days it seems belief in any dam thing can work > (I once heard of a vampire book where a businessman repelled a vamp with his > > wallet and his belief in money!). > > > Then there is of course physical distruction, sinse these days forget the > steaking or decapitation, sinse various forms of disintigration, crushing or > > even burning seem to be effective, who needs the steaks or the decapitation > > anyway? > > Of course, a creative author can always do new things with an old idea. i > did rahter appreciate the way in the Dresden books the vampire types were > distinguished, ---- the red court being large humanoid bats under skin suits > > were probably the most unique I thought. > > The being human series as well represents vampires as very ordinary, gritty > > people, indeed they come across far more like a gang of drug users and > crooks. Interestingly enough in that series, the oldest vampire in the world > > is revealed to be 400 years old, sinse it's implied vampires just don't have > > the mental staminer to live a totally self centered existance for that > long, ---- indeed the main vampire character in the series michel, is a > hundred year old vampire who died originally in the first world war, and > realizes that unless he can find something better to do in his life than > drink blood he's going to give up and commit suicide pretty soon, hence the > > title "being human" > > (if you can find an audio described copy sinse it was audio described, I'd > highly! recommend it). > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
