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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 4457509" data-attributes="member: 40522">Not at all. I'm glad that I've started a discussion that might not turn into a flame war within five posts. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Seriously though, Werewolf chronicles just never really jibed with me. I can get into a savage horror setting where the characters fight for control over a dual existence within their own bodies and fight a ceaseless battle against a cosmic force of evil. What I can't get into is a game where it's basically a dungeon crawl set in a modern industrial complex with players bragging about their cool magic weapons and body counts. I can play a beer-and-pretzels D&D game for violence without consequences.  Garou society is violent, yes, but it's just one dimension of their existence and their struggles. What really disappointed me about Werewolf is all the potential for storytelling that was ignored. What would it be like to have a wolf under your skin that you can't always control? To be charged with saving people from their own self-destructive habits? To be seperate from wolf and man, but forbidden to love other Garou? I can imagine Werewolf as being really, really cool. There's so much drama and conflict built into the setting that it'd be difficult to keep it from being evocative.  But I sorta gave up on it when I tried playing, because I got the impression that the type of chronicle that I'd like to run wouldn't be enjoyed by the players I met. I had this idea for an old sept leader who wnated to abdicate his position, but required that his successor be accepted by the caern's spirits. I wanted to have this play out as a classic quest to earn the spirits favor combined with the constant politicking that would occur, similar to the Akira Kurosawa film Ran. But alas... I don't think that Shakespearean themes of loyalty and betrayal and wasted potential would interest many of those players.</blockquote>

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