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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9536068" data-attributes="member: 18">I feel like the crossover between those two genres was pretty damn high in the 1990s! Stuff like Forever Knight or even Highlander (the TV series) was pretty much in a juxtaposition between those, with a lot of romantic, emotional stuff that later irony-poisoned generations would have sneered at (I mean not that we didn't get irony-poisoned, but we weren't back then). The same player who willingly met the sunlight in a very emotional scene in one VtM Chronicle might be ripping hearts out with Daiklaive in a WtA one and so on. Hell, I once was in a VtM party with at least two characters who could be summed up as &quot;young Lestat with a katana&quot;.Only when Revised came in and tried to basically pour water on BOTH those subgenres in favour of &quot;pure&quot; body horror/existential horror did we really see people fighting about those subgenres existing. Let's be clear though - the people who wrote VtM Revised disliked &quot;hot/romantic&quot; vampires and &quot;trenchcoats and katanas&quot; vampires. Oddly enough as Revised developed, all evidence suggests they hated the hot vampires more, which seems crazy but there you are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9536068, member: 18"] I feel like the crossover between those two genres was pretty damn high in the 1990s! Stuff like Forever Knight or even Highlander (the TV series) was pretty much in a juxtaposition between those, with a lot of romantic, emotional stuff that later irony-poisoned generations would have sneered at (I mean not that we didn't get irony-poisoned, but we weren't back then). The same player who willingly met the sunlight in a very emotional scene in one VtM Chronicle might be ripping hearts out with Daiklaive in a WtA one and so on. Hell, I once was in a VtM party with at least two characters who could be summed up as "young Lestat with a katana". Only when Revised came in and tried to basically pour water on BOTH those subgenres in favour of "pure" body horror/existential horror did we really see people fighting about those subgenres existing. Let's be clear though - the people who wrote VtM Revised disliked "hot/romantic" vampires [I]and[/I] "trenchcoats and katanas" vampires. Oddly enough as Revised developed, all evidence suggests they hated the hot vampires more, which seems crazy but there you are. [/QUOTE]

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