Well it was either the biannual guiltfest known as Comic Relief, or Uwe Boll's spectacular eyeball stabbing aka Bloodrayne. In the end I could tolerate neither - even though Kristana Loken is hot and Udo Kier has an awesome voice.
However out of the misery I did wonder just how it would be possible to have a vampire faction/race/ as a protagonist choice in a fantasy setting.
Yeah I think its possible, I'd look to Japan and its fictions though for a source. They don't have Vampire legends per se, so their fictions such as: Castlevania, Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Princess Miyu, and Trinity Blood are spun from their on unique cloth, because of that they work better protagonists as their limitations and abilities can be created as needed to make them playable.
It is easy to have vamps as heroes in the WOD because humanity is such garbage, the vampiric struggle for virtue or to defeat really nasty supernatural evil is heroic, even if they do trample a few mere mortals along the way.
Did you see "Let the Right One In"?
Steal the Angel trope of "vampire cursed with a soul" for a fantasy setting.
In RQ/Glorantha there's a cult devoted to the vampire god, Vivamort. True devotees get to become vampires. That could be amusing.
In Dan Abnett's Fell Cargo (A warhammer novel) there's a vampire below decks on the boat. Very mysterious and secretive, but he tends to save peoples asses a lot of the time.
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;289433However out of the misery I did wonder just how it would be possible to have a vampire faction/race/ as a protagonist choice in a fantasy setting.
Yes, I see possible for a vampiric race and/or culture to be
a protagonist choice in a fantasy milieu, but not
the protagonist of the milieu. I hope that makes sense. I think it would be hard to justify a vampiric-centric race, or a vampiric-based culture, as the dominant protagonist of the setting. I think that it would then cross that thin line between protagonist and antagonist, and become the defacto antagonists of the milieu.
So, yes, I am able to envision a small society, enclaved and hidden, based on vampiric racial traits or vampiric cultural traits as being protagonists, in a limited sense, within a fantasy setting.
Quote from: Drohem;289575Yes, I see possible for a vampiric race and/or culture to be a protagonist choice in a fantasy milieu, but not the protagonist of the milieu. I hope that makes sense. I think it would be hard to justify a vampiric-centric race, or a vampiric-based culture, as the dominant protagonist of the setting. I think that it would then cross that thin line between protagonist and antagonist, and become the defacto antagonists of the milieu.
So, yes, I am able to envision a small society, enclaved and hidden, based on vampiric racial traits or vampiric cultural traits as being protagonists, in a limited sense, within a fantasy setting.
It's perfectly feasible. Check a novel by the name Empire of Fear, I think. Or the Anno Dragula novels.
Quote from: Garnfellow;289554Did you see "Let the Right One In"?
Yes I have. Now I have got two really great Vamp movies, the other being
Near Dark.
And here's the low down on
Empire of Fear :
http://freespace.virgin.net/diri.gini/empire.htm
and
Werewolves of Londonhttp://www.amazon.com/Werewolves-London-Brian-Stableford/dp/0881849162
Regards,
David R
You can play a vampire quite happily in my fantasy RPG Omnifray (http://www.omnifray.com) - just basically come to terms with being really evil, and you're sorted!! The many disadvantages of vampires more or less balance out their advantages, so you can play one as a starting (1st level) PC...