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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9703780" data-attributes="member: 4534">It is a problem.  It's probably why comic publishers like Marvel and DC need to reboot every once in a while.  You get to the point where you have a mentally unstable, gut-toting septuagenarian veteran of a war that ended 50 years ago running around looking like a dude in his late 30s or early 40s.  A bigger problem is that the audience changes.  In 1991, Vampire was something new, exciting, and different.  It's tough to be new, exciting, and different when you've been around for more than thirty years.  If you change the setting too much you risk losing people, but if you don't change it at all you risk stagnation and losing people.  I know we were free to mix and match settings as we saw fit, but I never played in a unified World of Darkness game.  i.e.  In my Vampire games, werewolves certainly existed, but there wasn't a whole lot of crossover.  I didn't import the entirety of Werewolf into my Vampire games and vice versa.  The greater Little Rock area would support about 7 vampires under the 100,000 ratio.  One of the things I like about the ratio is it supports a setting where you pretty much know all the vampires in your area.  You might not know everyone particularly well, but you've seen their faces at Elysium over the years.  It's like going to a small high school.  You might not talk to that weird kid, but you recognize him and probably know someone who does talk to him.  I'm more than happy to have vampires take advantage and even exacerbate the evils men perpetrate on one another.  It's always a mistake to have those evils originate with the supernatural.  Sounds like the editor really dropped the ball.</blockquote>

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