No problem, at least I got it for Russian price, but still I feel ripped-off. Just one example - look at the one of the main villian's dialogue examples:Thanks for taking the bullet for all of us.
V_K I officially admit that you were right and I was in the wrong.Who'd have thought...
Nope! Guess again.
I guess Malkavian BECAUSE HE IS SO WACKY TOBACKY!Nope! Guess again.
Nope! Wrong again!I guess Malkavian BECAUSE HE IS SO WACKY TOBACKY!Nope! Guess again.
Ooookay. The Malkavian was the only "reasonable" I had for such speech pattern (not counting 200 year old fact). Shit... I don't know... Let's go for the oddball here. Tremere? Gangrel? Nosferatu?Nope! Wrong again!I guess Malkavian BECAUSE HE IS SO WACKY TOBACKY!Nope! Guess again.
Also they *all* talk like that in that """game""". I'm not even exaggerating, all the characters sound like 20-something SoCal college dropout being all edgy and trying to portray a psychopath without understanding the condition.
Bingo! It's taking place in Tremere Chantry, and that Marco is a 200 year old revenant/ghoul (I don't think the writers knew mechanics) turned vampire is a fucking TREMERE. Oh, and character's mother, she of pain slut fame, is a Tremere too.Ooookay. The Malkavian was the only "reasonable" I had for such speech pattern (not counting 200 year old fact). Shit... I don't know... Let's go for the oddball here. Tremere? Gangrel? Nosferatu?Nope! Wrong again!I guess Malkavian BECAUSE HE IS SO WACKY TOBACKY!Nope! Guess again.
Also they *all* talk like that in that """game""". I'm not even exaggerating, all the characters sound like 20-something SoCal college dropout being all edgy and trying to portray a psychopath without understanding the condition.
Still, even in their edgy first years, I don't quite remember the setting being chock-full of trannies and Californians. Although some of the adventures, especially involving the earlier version of Sabbath, were p. retarded, and overall setting back than was often tryhardian as fuck.It is WW returning to its early 90s edgebro traditions, though, so no harm done.
Still, even in their edgy first years, I don't quite remember the setting being chock-full of trannies and Californians. Although some of the adventures, especially involving the earlier version of Sabbath, were p. retarded, and overall setting back than was often tryhardian as fuck.It is WW returning to its early 90s edgebro traditions, though, so no harm done.
Dude, Sasсha Vykos cut off his dick and refered to himself as it, not xe, zhe or some shit like that. Also nowhere in their clanbook there was written that Tzimisce were trannies, what are you smoking, ffs. Path of Metamorphosis has in its goal a transcendence, of both mortal left-over shit like morals and so on, and Cainite bits. And to become something greater, and not just a mockery of a mortal woman. Alter your body in every possible way to find a way to fundamentally alter the soul doesn't mean "CUT OFF YOUR DICK AND MAKE A VAGINA WITH VICISSITUDE DURR".Still, even in their edgy first years, I don't quite remember the setting being chock-full of trannies and Californians. Although some of the adventures, especially involving the earlier version of Sabbath, were p. retarded, and overall setting back than was often tryhardian as fuck.It is WW returning to its early 90s edgebro traditions, though, so no harm done.
There's a whole tranny clan with their own unique tranny discipline... just saying.
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Changeling was for mentally challenged people, gays, pedophiles, and psychopaths.1st and 2nd edition Vampire were full of 90s era progressive politics and contemporary gender issues. It's right there in the art. Trans*.* was not on the agenda, but rampant gender ambiguity and LGB stuff? That was a key part of the draw. 200-years-old vampires talking like edgy teens in black clothing and torn fishnets, smelling of nicotine and clove cigarettes? Also completely V:tM. Then there was Werewoof, the "I am an angry grunge fan with confused eco-politics and straight outta soap" game. I suppose Mage was for the grad students, Wraith - in St. Rein*Hagen's own words - "for burned-out nihilists", and Changeling... probably pedophiles, never seen anyone play it. But all of these games were for fashionable, edgy lefties, and boy, did WW pander to them as hard as they could.
(Of course, I never played it, we ran a clean, wholesome AD&D table and didn't mingle.
And that was years after VtM's heyday.
Our Tolkien LARPers roughly consisted of two distinct groups - those who wanted to fuck shit up and beat people with сomposite epoxy material swords, and those who thought themselves to be a True and Honest incarnations of Tolkien's elves, mostly Feanorings. Oh, and we had a very popular wangsty fanfic with Melcor as a main character. Characters from it were very popular too. The second group had some of the ugliest and most batshit female larpers ever, and an occasional gay male. They all were crazy, and their LARPing gear often consisted of headband and a curtain worn as a cloak. Hence the name - "zanovesochniki". Also "tolkienutye" and just "tolchki", the later also being a slang term for a toilet.The composition of fans changed a lot with revised, or people just grew up. 1st and 2nd ed, though - oh man. I remember going to the university RPG club in Autumn 2000 with my brand new D&D 3.0 rulebooks. Some razor-thin, black-clad freak we never even knew walked straight up to our table out of nowhere, looked at us with an expression full of contempt, declared "This game has no future", then turned around and left without a further word.
I have heard the Russian Tolkienists were batshit crazy, but don't know the details. Was it that bad?
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