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Dirty Secrets of the "Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand"

Started by GrumpyReviews, November 08, 2013, 02:09:12 PM

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Omega

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November 09, 2013, 11:09:00 AM
Quote from: GrumpyReviews;706575Then they need to unwad their panties

I suspect it was the "anything" part that bugged some. Who knows.
I've bumped into at least two while scouting for a CCG/RPG project who were disgruntled and two others who were fine. The rest never met.

The folk working on the Arcadia game though were not too thrilled with being cancelled. But that was more disagreeing with the higher ups view that the game wasn't doing well.

It is a-lot like talking to anyone who has worked for Palladium. Jekyll/Hyde.

James Gillen

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November 10, 2013, 12:55:08 AM
Quote from: GrumpyReviews;706575Further, while there are some interesting idea in the work they are few and separated by bad ideas. Vissicitude as a monster would be revisited in the Gehenna book, where all of Vissicitude turned out to be some aspect of the Tzimisce founder rather than a simple discipline it created. However, Vissicitude never had any business being an actual alien monster from beyond space and time. Further, vampires with time travel powers are pure bullshit anywhere except maybe in a Doctor Who game, and then only maybe.

I always thought Vicissitude was an attempt to simulate vampirism in the Coppola version of Bram Stoker's Dracula (given that the Tzimisce are considered of Balkan origin and Dracula is unofficially a Tzimisce).  Because while that movie was an otherwise accurate retelling of the novel, it was marred by a. the exhuming of the "reincarnation of my lost love" cliche and b. the fact that Gary Oldman would at various times shapechange into a werewolf, a giant man-bat, and Montgomery Burns.  :D

JG
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