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News Digest: White Wolf Dissolved, MORE New D&D Releases Announced, RPG Now Closing (kinda), and mor
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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7766420" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>As a Christian, I've always personally found almost all of VtM and White Wolf's content morally offensive and often outright blasphemous appropriation of my Faith (see 'Cainite', etc.). It always felt to me less like a game that took seriously that your character was a monster, which might be interesting, than one that celebrated the monstrosities and tried to normalize them and tried to pretend you could be a monster without actually being monstrous. It always was a game that on one hand celebrated itself for being edgy and offensive, and on the other hand did everything it could to shield it's players from the evil that they were supposedly a part of. Here you are playing the supernatural embodiment of the horror of rape, degradation and disease, and no rape, degradation or disease really ever got treated seriously by the text. Instead it was treated as fashionable and sexy. I have always opposed how the company trivialized evil in the name of being edgy and dark or what have you. I've never particularly liked the appropriation of real figures as vampires to create a history where every historical event was basically about vampires, and you had this global conspiracy where vampires rule the world, and were all conflicts are basically about one supernatural group fighting another supernatural group. Good riddance is I think the appropriate response here. I hope the IP dies permanently and becomes relegated to the dust bin of history. The whole 'monsters are the heroes' thing from Buffy to Twilight and everything in between just needs to die.</p><p></p><p>Let's go after 'In Nomine' next. Please.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7766420, member: 4937"] As a Christian, I've always personally found almost all of VtM and White Wolf's content morally offensive and often outright blasphemous appropriation of my Faith (see 'Cainite', etc.). It always felt to me less like a game that took seriously that your character was a monster, which might be interesting, than one that celebrated the monstrosities and tried to normalize them and tried to pretend you could be a monster without actually being monstrous. It always was a game that on one hand celebrated itself for being edgy and offensive, and on the other hand did everything it could to shield it's players from the evil that they were supposedly a part of. Here you are playing the supernatural embodiment of the horror of rape, degradation and disease, and no rape, degradation or disease really ever got treated seriously by the text. Instead it was treated as fashionable and sexy. I have always opposed how the company trivialized evil in the name of being edgy and dark or what have you. I've never particularly liked the appropriation of real figures as vampires to create a history where every historical event was basically about vampires, and you had this global conspiracy where vampires rule the world, and were all conflicts are basically about one supernatural group fighting another supernatural group. Good riddance is I think the appropriate response here. I hope the IP dies permanently and becomes relegated to the dust bin of history. The whole 'monsters are the heroes' thing from Buffy to Twilight and everything in between just needs to die. Let's go after 'In Nomine' next. Please. [/QUOTE]
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