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<blockquote data-quote="Fallen Seraph" data-source="post: 4798136" data-attributes="member: 57894">Vampires as Romantic:I would say a large part of it is the idea of mystery, running away from a old life and being &quot;young&quot; for all eternity. It is the idea that one could as a vampire be with someone forever, and never grow old. Also the concept of being swept off your feet by some exotic stranger.In a more sexual manner, there is two sides the initial seductive side of the vampire. Then the carnal, primal side: feeding. It certainly isn't coincidence that the neck is a iconic place for the bite.Personally I am all about the monster-esque vampire.Shadowrun:Dystopian is part and parcel of lots of cyberpunk. It is you vs. the machine, the idea that the majority of the population is run down and the upper class in-control of technology is ruling over them. So you are sticking it to the corporations, it is very anarchistic. Generally speaking cyberpunk is out of date, it is a child of the 80's. You may be more interested in looking into Post-Cyberpunk.As for the planning, it tends to play a strong role in a fair amount of Shadowrun. Shadowrun has a nasty death spiral so it is good to plan around it. Plus the concept of a &quot;run&quot; is based around having a plan, trying to do the plan and then the real fun kicks in when it screws up and you got to improvise. It is quite similar to joy of watching say Ocean 11 film.Pondering: I am trying to think of my own one to ask but coming up short. Plenty of things I don't like, but I still get why people like it. *grumbles* <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fallen Seraph, post: 4798136, member: 57894"] [B]Vampires as Romantic:[/B] I would say a large part of it is the idea of mystery, running away from a old life and being "young" for all eternity. It is the idea that one could as a vampire be with someone forever, and never grow old. Also the concept of being swept off your feet by some exotic stranger. In a more sexual manner, there is two sides the initial seductive side of the vampire. Then the carnal, primal side: feeding. It certainly isn't coincidence that the neck is a iconic place for the bite. Personally I am all about the monster-esque vampire. [B]Shadowrun: [/B] Dystopian is part and parcel of lots of cyberpunk. It is you vs. the machine, the idea that the majority of the population is run down and the upper class in-control of technology is ruling over them. So you are sticking it to the corporations, it is very anarchistic. Generally speaking cyberpunk is out of date, it is a child of the 80's. You may be more interested in looking into Post-Cyberpunk. As for the planning, it tends to play a strong role in a fair amount of Shadowrun. Shadowrun has a nasty death spiral so it is good to plan around it. Plus the concept of a "run" is based around having a plan, trying to do the plan and then the real fun kicks in when it screws up and you got to improvise. It is quite similar to joy of watching say Ocean 11 film. Pondering: I am trying to think of my own one to ask but coming up short. Plenty of things I don't like, but I still get why people like it. *grumbles* :p [/QUOTE]

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