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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6818360" data-attributes="member: 98008">Douchbaggery can be funny and diet-coke-evil can be dramatic. I have actually played a character based on Captain Hammer before, funny you mention that. He was a favored soul, so figured he was good by birth and above all of the none-name nothings of this world. Because he was good by birth, then everything he did was good, right? I've played cynical, ruthless bastards before too, but played up their evil sides for either comedy or drama at any one time. They were all on the side of good though, in the end.There are groups out there though that will burn down towns, rape and pillage and make sacrifices to demon lords. These games come in two varieties, the beer and pretzels type where it plays a bit like a particularly sick game of "cards against humanity"where people just try and up the level of perversity and have a laugh about it. That's not my thing, but doesn't creep me out. The other variety seems to be made up of people acting out some dark fantasies, often all of the characters are diabolical rather than just insane murderhobos.In my limited experience, games like most of the White Wolf catalog tend to attract the latter, at least around here. I don't want to make dispersions about fans of the systems, I'm just saying locally. I can see how Vampire could be an interesting inter-house political drama, so its a shame it ends up so grim-dark.</blockquote>