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Post by Piper on Aug 19, 2024 22:12:05 GMT -6
Ok here is where I draw the line. Vampires were always cool AF! 😅 I’m with Finarvyn on this. Vampires were scary monsters that would breed like cockroaches if left unchecked. Stamp them out!
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Post by Bruce The Black on Oct 23, 2024 7:09:28 GMT -6
I read this product and liked it a lot. I disliked the authors take at the back just as much. At first I was offended. Then after thinking about it a while I had to admit that it was at least partially because it hit close to the mark. Our games are often violent and often result in a bit of Colonialism type behavior. That is only part of the story though. Often our games depict the best in human nature! Self sacrifice for those weaker than yourself. Building for the greater good and working towards something greater than yourself as a team even if it isn't going to work. Doing the right thing even if it's after doing the wrong thing many times over isn't pointless. I enjoyed this product in the end. I just wish it's author had taken a broader view of this game we love and instead of focusing on some of the more negative aspects that do exist. Had focused in a more balanced way and at least showcased it's many positive aspects.
Edited to add this last bit.- I think anyone who has used the rules for this game to run a game or even just play it for very long that the rules themselves lead towards those healthy styles of play. It seems to me that the game itself pushes the learning players of it towards those more positive aspects of the game.
For sure the darker aspects can be embraced and unhealthy game play can happen but in my close to 50 years of playing I can't think of one time such has happened in our games that it didn't lead to ruin and a cautionary tale!
In short I think it's creators intended this! It's not like they didn't see what happened at the game table! Players should be free to experience the game and free to make horrible choices in it and free to learn from those choices and what they bring. How many kids growing up playing D&D learned valuable lessons about how to treat people hired to work for you and the results of you do not? I know of more than a few lol.
How many of us practiced might makes right on the battle-mat and saw the results of that and carried those lessons into actual war? More than a few.
To see this games very real faults and talk about it in such a pointed way is fine but to ignore the very real positive aspects?
What a pity.
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