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Ah, okay, thanks! I think it is fits into the line of decisions what makes sense from a purely business standpoint but controversial at best from a fan standpoint. People always quick to defend WotC's recent policy on not making CGs with pointing to the older material as "Why do stuff that is...

Sorry I don't understand that. Who do you mean by "they're not allowed"? As far as I'm aware CoS was the very first adventure that was done in-house, no?

Fine point, sure the most important is how you portrayed the caharcter. I'd still argue that in most cases the backstory is a fairly important chunk of that character's portrayal on the long run and could help a lot to the GM to portraying that character to the best effect. Also, i think RPGs...

That's... quite radical, should I say. I wouldn't say I'm surprised that this seems to be the majority's opinion there, it's a D&D forum after all and there is room for every style of play. I just like to handle characters, be them npcs or pcs as individuals. Would i expect bad things from a...

Hmm, i like the concept, I'd run with that in a campaign!

I always thought the Emperor in the old trilogy is... Not very fulfilling. He's just the evil boss, who suddenly appeared at the end, we know nothing about him and he's just comically evil. He's much better in the prequels, but still, i wanted to know his true motivations and story. What could I...

I think the main reasons of why we consider blood-drinking as such as an inhuman act is ultimately boils down to the taboo of cannibalism in the western culture, not because the vampire must kill to eat. We, humans are seeing themselves as something above the natural world, thus something that...

And yet... Spike, who is one of my favorite vampire characters with his sardonic humor. Angel is also fine, but he got a soul as a deus ex machnia. "We like to talk big... vampires do. "I'm going to destroy the world." That's just tough-guy talk. Strutting around with your friends over a pint...

That's of course assumed in the case that vampires must kill to eat. As far as I'm aware in D&D, they are not. In WoD they are not. In PF they are not. In most of the literature, they are not. I strongly recommend the recent Bloodbound Pathfinder novel from Wes Schneider. The vampires of...

However, illiithds are inhuman. True fey are inhuman. Vampires are inhuman, but they were human and a lot of them didn't want to be a vampire, so to me it's plausible that at least a small portion of them want to stay as human (or elf, whatever) as possible. That's just makes their slow descent...

I get where you're coming from. However, I'd argue back that a specific NPC's and especially an "end boss" and iconic NPCs performance in the story isn't just about his on-screen performance, since the players presumably learned a lot about him through the adventure prior to that point, thus a...

Oh, Lestat's evergreen quote from the end of Interview! :D Freckin' love it. I understand why they didn't do the setting, instead the retelling of the original module. WotC now has making nothing else, but the safest, most sure decisions and catering to nostalgy. Sadly it seems to be the trend...

As for me, i like both kind of vampires, the monstrous ones and the ones who struggle with their curse too. I like those kind of stories, but I also like characters and stories which got as far from humanity as possible. And i like every shade and nuance between the two and moral grays. Above...

So, the topic came up in the Volo's Guide to monsters thread, but it derailed the thread, so. How do you like your vampires? Pure evil monsters? Moral ambiguity? What do you think about the setting changes (or rather setting non-observance) between CoS and the 2e/3e Ravenloft setting? Things...

Ok, I'll create one! :)

And I don't agree with that. :) Or more acurately, I don't agree with the implementation and the end result. Strahd was a tragic figure, a hero, who succumbed to his darkest desires and worst emotions. He never was anything else than a villain in the game, but an interesting villain. A...

And I highly disliked it, when read it the first time. Vampires were 2 bit villains in the old stories. Then things happened. Anne Rice happened, Vampire the Masquerade happened, people started to asking the questions "What if there is a person behind the mask of the monster? What if the...

I don't have the time to read even the fraction of the material that's out there for PF, or Wod also. But I like that if I want to read more about Cheliax, or the Pathfinder Society, or Clan Nosferatu, or the Anarchs, I could buy in paper or download in pdf the material. i don't have to use it...

I'd call Golarion "half-living" because it has novels and some of the APs are taking into consideration and acknowledging prior ones. But yes, mostly it's supplements and even novels are more local and character/location-based, not revolving around big, world-spanning events. So it either takes...

I'm not sure, how "important" canon is for me. I like richly detailed, living, evolving worlds. I like the notio that the PCs are part of a bigger world and events are happening out there. I like to read stories from the worlds I like. I have no problem with the concept of metaplot, even if I...