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Characters being unique is something that I’ve rarely seen in urban fantasy, but I think it’s really neat idea. The unpredictability keeps things fresh. For comparison: In the shows From Dusk Till Dawn and What We Do In The Shadows, every vampire apparently has a unique talent. The splatterpunk...

So I've been reading my Night Shift and Esoteric Enterprises lately. (To be honest I don't see the appeal of using OSR's level-based mechanics, but whatever.) EE's page on vampires is pretty funny because it treats vampirism as a niche occupied by multiple beings with wildly different origins...

I started watching the Fillipino cartoon Trese. It is definitely giving me Nightlife vibes.

Ok then. It honestly frustrating not to have examples for a more detailed analysis. Urban fantasy is a popular fiction genre, but certain concepts only work in an RPG format. Yet we don’t have many games to work with.

And in Chronicles of Darkness you have vampires speculating on wildly different origins even though they all run on the same rules. At certain points different writers try to suggest that the bloodlines really do have separate origins but never commit to anything because toolbox. The old...

my point is that bigots don’t distinguish. also: https://www.presenttensejournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tumblr_mx3a40uWuE1rfwfq9o1_1280.jpg

I didn’t say it did. Drag queens have always been a thing

If we’re being pedantic, then I think he’s probably homophobic rather than merely transphobic. Bigots don’t make a distinction

Or he’s so hopelessly radicalized that he thinks he was having a political message forced on him.

Did Ernie ever say that women shouldn’t play RPGs?

Social media attracts crazy people like this potential school shooter I suspect they’re more likely to be homophobic than merely transphobic. Most straights don’t make a distinction between the two.

I’m honestly annoyed with myself for even asking this, but was he was calling her “disgusting” for being trans or for demanding he repeat her words exactly? More gasoline for the fire. He’s an idiot.

I wish I could say I was surprised. This is exactly the sort of maladjusted social misfit who uses Twitter

Twitter is a complete cesspool anyway and sane people don’t give it any credence. It’s an open secret that marketing departments are constantly surprised that it doesn’t actually reflect their customer base. The sorts of maladjusted social misfits who engage in this high school melodrama Garbage...

I’m not necessarily disagreeing. I just don’t understand your point. Do you have practical examples to illustrate that there is a meaningful difference?

We live in a world where China is flagrantly committing genocide and you think this nobody is a jerk? #firstworldproblems I wish to any and all gods that may or may not exist that all these horrible exhausting cesspools end as quickly as possible. The United States is not Nazi Germany...

As a trans person myself, I am not remotely hurt by random comments on the cesspool that is twitter.

Matters or doesn’t matter? I don’t think superpowers origins matter unless it’s used as a plot point in adventures, particularly if characters use a universal set of rules to represent their powers regardless of origin. Vampires and wizards are going to have different social concerns...

Nephilim has both those things, they just run on different magical elements. It's still kitchen sink-ish, it's just that all paranormal phenomena is explained using the same metaphysics. EDIT: I don't think you understood my explanation. It wasn't about splats, it was about metaphysics.

I think you make some good points. I blame this on poor execution. Semantics don't enter into it IMO. The Major Arcana sourcebook for Nephilim has over 50 plot hooks using its unified magic premise. These get pretty weird sometimes, such as the PCs gradually discovering that they've woken up in...