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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8792165" data-attributes="member: 7016699"><p>I feel as though I am a good deal less interesting than you are. Not only was I a pretty stereotypical 1980s-vintage nerd, but I grew up in a pretty stereotypical 1980s American suburb, and while I did read some Fantasy in high school it was mostly the typical-ish stuff for the time (Eddings and Kurtz and Donaldson) and while I did enjoy some of that it was really King (and Straub and Bradbury and Poe) that I fell harder for.</p><p></p><p>Comics and TV and movies were always ... things I knew a little about--more as I started to hang out with other nerds, later--but they were always things my parents kept a tight eye on; they let me read pretty much whatever (not-comics) I wanted to. So I read a fair amount of other fiction, and some non-fiction.</p><p></p><p>I wasn't ever drawn to Vampire or the related games, because looking through the player-facing material it was always clear to me that the PCs were going to be tools and agents and emphatically subjects of greater powers and weren't really going to be in charge of their own stories. I didn't have the knowledge and/or vocabulary then to put it that way, or to figure out what the locus of non-appeal was, but I think that was about right.</p><p></p><p>Thinking about your ending question some--presuming it is the point of your post--I gotta say there are remarkably few influences--consistently so--from authored fiction in the play I've most enjoyed. I get and appreciate and enjoy moral ambiguity, unreliable narrators, antiheroes, and all that stuff--in authored fiction; I don't care much for it in TRPGs, though. Thinking further, it's clear that things in TRPGs that lead to or point at no-win situations ... frustrate me, which turns into anger, which makes me more likely to tip into depression. Why I do not react so to them in authored fiction is probably a thing I could do with thinking about--but it's arguably beyond the scope of what belongs here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8792165, member: 7016699"] I feel as though I am a good deal less interesting than you are. Not only was I a pretty stereotypical 1980s-vintage nerd, but I grew up in a pretty stereotypical 1980s American suburb, and while I did read some Fantasy in high school it was mostly the typical-ish stuff for the time (Eddings and Kurtz and Donaldson) and while I did enjoy some of that it was really King (and Straub and Bradbury and Poe) that I fell harder for. Comics and TV and movies were always ... things I knew a little about--more as I started to hang out with other nerds, later--but they were always things my parents kept a tight eye on; they let me read pretty much whatever (not-comics) I wanted to. So I read a fair amount of other fiction, and some non-fiction. I wasn't ever drawn to Vampire or the related games, because looking through the player-facing material it was always clear to me that the PCs were going to be tools and agents and emphatically subjects of greater powers and weren't really going to be in charge of their own stories. I didn't have the knowledge and/or vocabulary then to put it that way, or to figure out what the locus of non-appeal was, but I think that was about right. Thinking about your ending question some--presuming it is the point of your post--I gotta say there are remarkably few influences--consistently so--from authored fiction in the play I've most enjoyed. I get and appreciate and enjoy moral ambiguity, unreliable narrators, antiheroes, and all that stuff--in authored fiction; I don't care much for it in TRPGs, though. Thinking further, it's clear that things in TRPGs that lead to or point at no-win situations ... frustrate me, which turns into anger, which makes me more likely to tip into depression. Why I do not react so to them in authored fiction is probably a thing I could do with thinking about--but it's arguably beyond the scope of what belongs here. [/QUOTE]
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