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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8871331" data-attributes="member: 4534">Context certainly matters.  You likely wouldn't get a lot of people to sign up for Addict:  The RPG of Emotional and Physical Abuse, but Vampire the Masquerade has had a lot of success over the years.  The game has predator types, which is the primary method of how they get their blood.  Some examples of predator types includes Alleycats who are brutes beating people up (mugging them) and drains them, a Cleaver is someone who feesd from their mortal family or friends, a Sandman sneaks up to people who are sleeping to drain them, and a Siren is someone who feeds almost exclusively on someone during or while feigning sex.  Any player who picks Siren, needs to come to grips with the fact that their character is a serial rapist.  Hell, my players were directly involved in human trafficking and all the horrors that surround that.  But the game doesn't treat the player characters as if they're the good guys, and that's really important.  You're a monster who has to survive by doing bad things.  Even if you manage to avoid doing those bad things for a while, there's a good chance you'll lose control and hurt someone you love.  How do you hold on to a shred of your humanity while surviving?  I can certainly understand why you feel that way.  Like I said, that's perfectly okay.</blockquote>