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<blockquote data-quote="NoOneofConsequence" data-source="post: 293370" data-attributes="member: 5400">Having suffered through Australia's first bout of DnD = Devil worship in the early eighties, I'm not going to wade very far into that. Like a lot of us from that generation, I'm still fairly tight-lipped about my gaming with non-gamers. Basically, we were treated like members of a cult so we started behaving like it - we didn't discuss our practices with outsiders because they didn't understand. From what I can see, things are different these days (not completely different, but different).Anyway, on the issue of edgy? What edge are we talking about. When films like Blade II and Queen of the Damned are mainstream, you have to go a long way into the outer darkness to be &quot;edgy&quot;. This is one of the great ironies of the whole vampire/children of darkness shift in gaming in the nineties. Most of the passionate gamer-goths tended to look down on the rest of us PnP gamers as out of touch, like they were the &quot;edge&quot;, but they were more mainstream than any of the previous generation. They just took it a looong way. More people you bump into on the street will have read Anne Rice than Fritz Lieber.Anyhow, as far as the BoVD is concerned, I won't buy it (not my thing) but as someone else on this thread pointed out, it's Monte, it's probably going to be better than fair.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NoOneofConsequence, post: 293370, member: 5400"] Having suffered through Australia's first bout of DnD = Devil worship in the early eighties, I'm not going to wade very far into that. Like a lot of us from that generation, I'm still fairly tight-lipped about my gaming with non-gamers. Basically, we were treated like members of a cult so we started behaving like it - we didn't discuss our practices with outsiders because they didn't understand. From what I can see, things are different these days (not completely different, but different). Anyway, on the issue of edgy? What edge are we talking about. When films like Blade II and Queen of the Damned are mainstream, you have to go a long way into the outer darkness to be "edgy". This is one of the great ironies of the whole vampire/children of darkness shift in gaming in the nineties. Most of the passionate gamer-goths tended to look down on the rest of us PnP gamers as out of touch, like they were the "edge", but they were more mainstream than any of the previous generation. They just took it a looong way. More people you bump into on the street will have read Anne Rice than Fritz Lieber. Anyhow, as far as the BoVD is concerned, I won't buy it (not my thing) but as someone else on this thread pointed out, it's Monte, it's probably going to be better than fair. [/QUOTE]

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