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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Galloglaich" data-source="post: 4990356" data-attributes="member: 77019">I had a kind of similar experience in high school except my friends were mostly punk rockers, some heavy metal kids too, and our girlfriends were a mix of punks, goths, etc... but there was a shift after high school into games with a more role playing and dramatic orientation, and this is what kept the girls into it.  I think the guys liked the horror movie aspect of the games we played, the girls liked the drama.  I've always had girls in my gaming groups and a broad mix of types of people, I think you really need that for the game to remain fun.  Not too many hard core gamers, at least some people who have never played before or only played a little.Vampire wasn't around when I got out of high school but we made up our own game systems, and ripped settings off of various pop-culture themes, especially films.  Mad Max and the Road Warrior were a big influence, Clockwork Orange, Return of the Living Dead, the Thing, Re-Animator, the Howling, Blade Runner, Alien, The Terminator etc., also the Spaghetti Westerns and some of the Samurai movies like Yojimbo, Sanjuro, the Seven Samurai etc.  Of the games in production then, I think Call of Cthulhu was real fun to explore for us which had all the elements everyone liked, danger and horror for the guys, drama and mystery for the girls.  We never did the live action thing but had some great nights around the table with a couple bottles of wine.  I miss those games we had a lot of fun back then...  G.</blockquote>

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