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This Shit Has Been Done to Death

Started by RPGPundit, January 30, 2009, 08:35:30 PM

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Spike

#90
February 10, 2009, 04:35:56 PM
Easier to kill... didn't you read?
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Bradford C. Walker

#91
February 10, 2009, 05:08:00 PM
Yeah, I could do with less sympathetic vampires.  The problem, however, is that the attempts to make them back into monsters leaves them a few steps short of Romero zombiedom and I would like some differentiation of a more obvious sort between the two types of monstrous undead.

The Shaman

#92
February 10, 2009, 05:34:28 PM
Quote from: Bradford C. Walker;283006Yeah, I could do with less sympathetic vampires.  The problem, however, is that the attempts to make them back into monsters leaves them a few steps short of Romero zombiedom and I would like some differentiation of a more obvious sort between the two types of monstrous undead.
The 30DoN are smart and devious and unquestionably evil - they didn't strike me as zombie-like at all, nor do they come off as 28DL ghouls.
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Pseudoephedrine

#93
February 10, 2009, 06:18:46 PM
Quote from: Bradford C. Walker;283006Yeah, I could do with less sympathetic vampires.  The problem, however, is that the attempts to make them back into monsters leaves them a few steps short of Romero zombiedom and I would like some differentiation of a more obvious sort between the two types of monstrous undead.

I've often felt similar, so here's my take on vampires in my Dawnlands setting. YMMV if you're looking for non-fantasy versions, of course.
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Kevin

#94
February 11, 2009, 11:23:06 AM
When the shit has been done to death... it really just means we've all been playing for awhile. It's still as new to somebody else as it was the first time you heard it, and those guys have just as much right to get sick of this shit as we did.

Stupid good-guy vampires.
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#95
February 12, 2009, 10:38:20 PM
Quote from: Cranewings;281409Any scientific explanation for magic is horrible to me.

This.  Larry Niven's "Warlock" stories give me wind.
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Sigmund

#96
February 13, 2009, 08:01:41 PM
Quote from: Kevin;283067When the shit has been done to death... it really just means we've all been playing for awhile. It's still as new to somebody else as it was the first time you heard it, and those guys have just as much right to get sick of this shit as we did.

Stupid good-guy vampires.

My prob with the good-guy vamps is, while they were new back in the day I still hated them. Now I hate them and I'm sick of them too. Otherwise, I agree with you, new folks should have a chance to hate them too, just please keep them the hell away from me.
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#97
February 14, 2009, 01:03:08 AM
Quote from: Old Geezer;283316This.  Larry Niven's "Warlock" stories give me wind.

Well, and Christopher Schasheff's Warlock novels to a greater extent.  In fact, while Niven's magic certainly follows rules and has limitations that the Warlock enjoys exploiting it's still clearly magical.

Well, to be fair, the Warlock really enjoys exploiting the way the presence of magic makes people oblivious to the obvious non-magical solutions.
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jeff37923

#98
February 14, 2009, 12:32:52 PM
Quote from: David Johansen;283480Well, to be fair, the Warlock really enjoys exploiting the way the presence of magic makes people oblivious to the obvious non-magical solutions.

That's what I got out of Niven's stories as well.

Plus, I see this a lot in fantasy gaming too.
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