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I saw a recent video on Monstrum youtube briefly arguing that the zeitgeist of modern urban fantasy is all these monsters—werewolves, vampires, fairies, etc—learning to live together, reflecting the increasing diversity of modern society. What do you think?

I'm currently doing some conversions of Nightlife to Feed on my blog: Ramblings on Vampire Fiction

I'm currently working on a homebrew for werewolves. While it should be easy to represent Nightlife-style werewolves in Feed as is (and I plan to do a Nightlife conversion one of these days), I am devising special rules for representing werewolves as uniquely as vampires are. You can find my...

Feed is a self-described "vampire mythos" RPG, funded thru kickstarter and released in 2013/2014, that provides groups with guidelines for inventing their own strains of vampirism. It has a humanity mechanic not unlike 90s urban fantasy games, but this works more like a lightside/darkside...

I was under the impression that the "nobody dies" rule was macabre. As in, you're still alive and conscious even if your body is dismembered, melted, turned to sand, burned to ash, etc. For example, the Tin Man's original severed head was still alive and able to talk in one book.

Neither fits, yeah. The Americana influence was most obvious in basic D&D with its emphasis on frontier settings (e.g. Keep on the Borderlands). But the PC races were mostly Tolkien (e.g. humans, elves, halflings, dwarves). D&D was initially a strange mishmash of influences from Americana...

I tried reading it years ago. I couldn't get past the first few chapters because of all the repulsive sexual stuff it immediately throws in your face. If this is what passes for adult published fanfiction, then I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Go watch the musical that sanitizes it for a...

It's one of the weirdest published fanfics because it's not remotely in continuity with the canon books (which, to be fair, have accumulated their fair share of inconsistencies) and it's about a minor villain who dies halfway thru the first book and never appears again. The inclusion of creepy...

Yeah, that is weird. There have been numerous attempts to "reimagine" Oz as darker and grittier or to make original sequels, but never any attempts to faithfully adapt the books. The MGM and Disney movies took huge liberties with the source material. It's especially odd considering that there...

I don’t think 5e is appropriate for Oz (or, well, anything that isn’t designed for it from the ground up; we’re running in the same problem we did under 3.x where everybody jumps on the bandwagon). It’s a very Americana fantasy setting, and the standard Tolkienesque races and classes don’t fit...

Well, originally the question was what to use as a go-to antagonist. So I suggested the Dungeons & Delvers-style orcs, which were created specifically as go-to antagonists. Are [insert monster here] just monsters? The real answer is that they don't exist and these semantic arguments are inane...

Tell that to Goblin Slayer, which sold 7 million copies.

Orcs are whatever people want them to be at the time. Always chaotic evil, walking fungus, an oppressed minority... We can do whatever we want in our games, and "people" can go cry badwrongfun in the timeout corner forever. I couldn't care less what "people" think, and neither should you. I...

Do you want an exotic theme park or a setting with consistent world building? You can’t have nice peasants and a pseudo-medieval hellscape full of bandits and monsters with a bazillion horrible modus operandi centered on killing and eating said peasants. Realistically, the peasants should all...

I think Dungeons & Delvers-style orcs can work fine. They avoid issues like “what do we do with the baby orcs?” by being a form of self-replicating demonic possession rather than an actual race. After they sacrifice their victims to Orcus, they summon more orcs to inhabit the remains. So there’s...

I found a cheat to this in my worldbuilding. My “beastmen” are human tribes that invoke animal totems, giving them animal features.

Trying to grimderp everything. I know the hobby is fundamentally a violent crime fantasy (read Powerkill and Violence sometime), but there’s been so many edgelords thru the years and especially in the post-HBO Game of Thrones era. It’s not enough for monsters to engage in unspecified “bad...

I'm working on a werewolf spin-off for Feed. Feed is already flexible enough that you could play Nightlife-style werewolves, but I thought of adapting the mechanics to represent a different metaphor with werewolves. Where vampirism is depicted as having negative consequences for becoming more...

I doubt they'd try to stop WotC. I imagine they probably want a license to reference the original materials.

I wish WotC would re-release the alternity ebooks they took down during their 2008 freakout.