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Examples of kidnap victims who survived months or years with their abductor says that they accept their status and stop trying to escape. Some end up identifying with them, but many don't. Of course. one reason they survived for a long time with their captors is because they stopped trying to escape...

Does the vampire population need to be sustainable? I mean, yeah, it needs to have been sustained up until now, but if there are too many vampires nowdays and the masquerade is about to break, that can be either a plot point, or something that happens after the campaign ends. The vampires (etc) tha...

You could probably factor in "missing persons" statistics as well. They're estimated around 800 000 every year in the US. These are not the same as people permanently and mysteriously disappearing. Most are not missing very long. For example, there are a lot of missing teens who run away ...

There was also the vampire interactions in Stross's Laundry books, where they immediately set out to kill them if they learn of another's existence. Perhaps not ideal for RPG play, as the neonate getting hunted by the 300+ year old vampire and his friends almost universally ends poorly for the neona...

So a lot of vampire stories that people want to tell are pretty much incompatible with the world being vaguely recognizable and there being more than a dozen vampires running around at the same time. But a lot of vampire stories could have tens or even hundreds of thousands of vampires fit easily i...

Camp C) There's nothing supernatural about vampirism and its existence just represents a current knowledge gap akin to not knowing how stars work. Not knowing how stars work didn't make them magic and not knowing how vampirism works doesn't make it magic. It needs to be studied and also Vampire Gra...

A joint NSA/CIA Special Access Program called FIRSTLIGHT coordinates aware agents all over the Western world, liaises when possible with the Brujah-hunting Eighth Direction of the GRU, and funnels arms and support to the Entity, the secret service of the Vatican. The traffic in intelligence does no...

I also question whether or not appealing to Twilight fans is a particularly good move for a vampire game made in 2018. The last movie came out in 2012 and the franchise was already seriously waning in relevance by then, people who like vampires in general are not generally fans of that series, so t...

If feeding were declared as an absolute fact to require hurting or killing someone, I'm pretty sure the vampion gameplay style would evaporate, but WW very consistently continued to add alternate means of feeding that kept pushing their vampires further and further from actually draining the lifebl...

This guy really gets it. If you have decent players, they'll do a total buy-in to the setting and, if you're anywhere near a competent GM, you'll totally condone them screwing each other over if it serves their interests. That works fine if you like having to replace all the characters, and quite p...

You trying to whine about how communism needs to be viewed as evil because of the USSR is basically identical to me railing about how democracy is bad because North Korea is bad. Well, sure. We have all the examples of Communist states that didn't produce mass murder. Like the USSR, China, Cambodia...

The critical difference between the various ideologies of mass murder is you can't find very many people who will say in all seriousness that "Well, you know that true Nazism hasn't actually ever been tried."

I've seen it done where you have people sit in order of initiative/action. You ask the first guy what his character does. He's got 5 seconds. If he asks a question you say "you observe blah"and go onto the next guy. You roll the to hit and damage dice all at once. GM does the same. But yes...

"Might" In 1921, 15 years before "The Shadow over Innsmouth" was published in 1936, this happened: Greenwood is a historic freedom colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th cen...

However interesting you make any part of the character's lives, if it's less interesting than whatever the most interesting thing they do, the players are going to want to ignore it. In any game that is "inspired by the Mythos" the Mythos crap is probably going to be the most interesting ...

yeah, it was just how detectable they are. (using a somewhat different telescope than used in the example below) http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect.php An example from there: "A Russian Oscar submarine has a mass of about 15,000 metric tons. Say it was accelerating at a...

The pretty obvious response is that if you approach within X distance of something someone cares about at a velocity and vector they they don't like they will try very damn hard to kill you and convert your ship to a cloud of ionized gas, or at least to a cloud of debris that isn't on a Constant Bea...

If you have fusion reactors that can drive ships to Saturn in weeks energy is a solved problem for the society. Your fuel factory can build your water out of an appropriate mix of tritium and deuterium. Though you might be better off using separate tanks for heavy water and super heavy water, depend...

Also, liquid hydrogen is actually super bulky to carry, taking up over 14 times as much space as the same weight of water, so any even interplanetary ship would have to be mostly a giant fuel can. Substantially less of a giant fuel can than our current spacecraft, but not enough less. If you have a...

My point, is that there is still some familiarity involved and someone who has managed to gain a reasonable amount of experience with a rifle is not going to suddenly be so utterly useless in the event that they have to pick up a pistol, that they might as well not bother. Not being issued a pistol...

I have never heard of any modern police or military force that trains individuals with "assault rifles", yet ignores pistol training and doesn't have some sort of regular qualification. Depends what you mean by "ignores". Most British soldiers aren't issued pistols, so aren't tr...

No no, we don't want KZT to stop being frustrated, because frustrated rants are one of the best things on the internets. :rofl: Yes, this is all very much pink mohawk and completely incompatible with the usual black trenchcoat and sunglasses style of things, but this is what the game is missing! Th...

I will argue that armed melee should inflict much more damage than it does. Hitting someone with a sword or a mace is really likely to ruin their entire weekend. I'm talking shattered bones or removed limbs. I'd rather get shot with a 22 in the head than get hit with a mace in the head, or get shot ...

Merging all firearms skills: I've heard the arguments here about how this gimps combat characters, how it's unnecessary, and was a change forced more by gun nuts than anything else. I agree that basic firearms should have the same skill, but for more exotic weapons (Heavy Weapons, Magic, Alien, may...

The saddest thing is that oftentimes it really is just a matter of removing obstacles and letting people go about their business. I've seen many a SR fan waste a lot of time and energy trying to figure out ways to encourage people to use different types of guns when in reality all you usually have ...