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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7625295" data-attributes="member: 19675">Of course, sometimes what “everybody knows” is wrong or missing a few details.&nbsp; And, IMHO, it’s perfectly fine to alter a critter from its published version to make things more challenging for the players...so the world’s mythologies- and thus, the PCs- can be just as wrong.Take Being Human for example.&nbsp; Mitchell (and all the other vampires) can walk around in broad daylight.&nbsp; And the only time he cringed from the presentation of a cross in his whole existence was when it was brandished by someone whose faith was actually genuine.&nbsp; Nonbelievers got no protection.In another piece of modern vampire fiction (a movie whose name escapes me), the protagonists had done their homework and found an old legend about how vampires had to count grains of rice or seed that had been scattered* before doing anything else. To this end, they had equipped their vampire capture facility with huge drop bags of rice: hit the alarm button, and the bags would empty, scattering thousands of pounds of rice everywhere.&nbsp; When the vampire they captured began to bust out of his shackles, someone hit the button, and the system worked as intended.The vampire paused for a brief moment as he looked around, then uttered a line like (I paraphrase), “2,475,032,632 grains of rice.”The legend was right, but it lacked the detail of how fast a vampire could actually count...* Probably part of the inspiration behind Sesame Street’s The Count.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7625295, member: 19675"] Of course, sometimes what “everybody knows” is wrong or missing a few details. And, IMHO, it’s perfectly fine to alter a critter from its published version to make things more challenging for the players...so the world’s mythologies- and thus, the PCs- can be just as wrong. Take [I]Being Human[/I] for example. Mitchell (and all the other vampires) can walk around in broad daylight. And the only time he cringed from the presentation of a cross in his whole existence was when it was brandished by someone whose faith was actually genuine. Nonbelievers got no protection. In another piece of modern vampire fiction (a movie whose name escapes me), the protagonists had done their homework and found an old legend about how vampires had to count grains of rice or seed that had been scattered* before doing anything else. To this end, they had equipped their vampire capture facility with huge drop bags of rice: hit the alarm button, and the bags would empty, scattering thousands of pounds of rice everywhere. When the vampire they captured began to bust out of his shackles, someone hit the button, and the system worked as intended. The vampire paused for a brief moment as he looked around, then uttered a line like (I paraphrase), “2,475,032,632 grains of rice.” The legend was right, but it lacked the detail of how fast a vampire could actually count... * Probably part of the inspiration behind [I]Sesame Street[/I]’s The Count. [/QUOTE]

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