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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5522117" data-attributes="member: 7006">Actually... all the fantasies you pointed out are just as moronic.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Hell, EVERY fantasy is moronic to a certain extent.  I have no wool over my eyes thinking that when sit around a dining table speaking in a funny voice and acting as though I'm a scion of a merchant house with a magical mark upon my face that allows me to affect the weather... that it isn't just slightly stupid in the grand scheme of things.  Most hobbies often are.  I'm not afraid to admit it.But that doesn't change the fact that *IF* you are going to do it... actually do it.  Take some time with it.  Consider it.  Think about it.  Use your brain, and your creativity, and your imagination and actually WORK at it.  Become a more productive member of our gaming community.And I know we hate to admit it to ourselves... but we ALL know those players who are giving our game and ourselves as gamers a bad name.  And if what I post here can affect even a single person to not reflexively want to play a Vampire for no other reason than "VAMPIRES KEWL ROXOR BADASS!", but choose to play a Vampire because of the interesting roleplaying challenge that being this kind of character represents... then I feel better about being a member of this community.I don't want my fellow gamers to be morons.  I want to help them learn.  This game is so much better when you actually understand it.  And if that makes me a bad guy that I don't want my fellow players to spend their lives sitting in the darkness of the mindless pop culture vacuum of space... then so be it.  I'll take my slings and arrows from you all.(Of course, let's be honest, I probably deserve those sling and arrows anyway, because the cynic in us all knows quite well that the people for which my posts apply will read them and say "Pff! That's not me!" and ignore it anyway.  So I'm basically peeing into the wind here.  But at least I realize it and can laugh it off as being a pointless exercise.  The important thing here is that it's keeping me from being bored at work.)</blockquote>

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