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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PMárk" data-source="post: 7701560" data-attributes="member: 6804619">And I highly disliked it, when read it the first time. Vampires were 2 bit villains in the old stories. Then things happened. Anne Rice happened, Vampire the Masquerade happened, people started to asking the questions "What if there is a person behind the mask of the monster? What if the monsters have feelings? What if they don't want to be a monster, but they have to?". Note that i also highly dislike the latest trends which made the vampires not a monster, but cute guys (yes, I say guys, because most of those books are written like that) with emphasis on sexuality and superpowers, without the drawbacks, or making those drawbacks inconsequential. My preferred vampires are monsters, yes, but monsters with personality, with potentially redeeming qualities, who struggle with their inner beast and some lose the fight, some doesn't even want to fight, but some are. What to say? I'm a really big fan of Masquerade. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I like moralizing and grey areas beside the black and white.I liked Strahd had good sides, but warped to a monster because of fear, lust and envy. I liked there was a "good" vampire in The Vampire of Mists who put up a fight against Strahd. I never thought of Strahd as a poor, misunderstood antihero. He was a villain through and through, but a more interesting and plausible villain.Edit: actually that's one of the things I like more in FR than Golarion, namely the handling of the drow. In fact I like how FR drow became more nuanced, not a "they are eeeeeviiiil, you can't play them, they are eeeeeeeevil!!!!!!" thing. Golarion drow have a lot of good ideas, I like the backstory, i like a lot of their concepts, like fleshwarping, but i also like how FR drow became plausible people, not 2 bit villains. Oh and i like the spider-y aesthetics better than the Golarion version of "grinning demon faces on everything".</blockquote>

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