Somebody posted this on the Unisystem LJ group as an interesting way to think about people's reactions to the supernatural in the Buffy setting:
As near as I can tell, half the Buffyverse knows there's supernatural stuff out there, they just don't talk about it.
I think I've come up with a good real-world analogy for the situation -- homosexuality in the 1950s.
It's out there, and there is a hell of a lot more of it than most people realize. Nobody talks about it though. Some people find it distasteful, some are in denial. Some will go their whole lives not knowing it exists, others will catch glimpses of it and not realize what they are seeing ("I thought they were just roommates").
Thoughts?
I want it. I've heard a lot of cool things about Dead Inside and sounds like the system will doing something truly original towards simulating the genre.
I'm currently in a Savage Worlds superhero game (the Necessary Evil setting). I'm enjoying the game, but higly random settings don't fit the superhero genre, a genre where everything happens for a reason.
This journal's been pretty quiet lately. Part of it has been that I have not been gaming much recently.
My Thursday night game met for a few more sessions of Terra Fae. Robin planned a swashbucking rescue operation to rescue the princess that Blue Beard had kidnapped, but sadly I missed the session where the rescue mission played out. I hear it was a complete success.
My Buffy game has only met once in the last couple of months and the game was less than successful. There were two plots that were introduced last episode. One really hooked the players, I believe. (Vamps gathering in Detroit....two rival groups of vamps.) The other....well it backfired and really disrupted the game. Must be more careful introducing plots. Some plots can turn out to be powder kegs. Also, the new version of the card initiative system I had come up with and posted on this blog turned out to be much more cumbersome than I was hoping for. I've come up with a more streamlined version that should work better for next session.
I'm in a Star Wars RPG group....in theory at least. It's a bunch of co-workers but we have been having scheduling problems and I have not been able to make it to any sessions yet.
The Amber Diceless campaign I'm in has not met for a few months.
I'm getting RPG withdrawal.
...have been announced.
Here are the nominees for the RPG categories with the winners bolded:
Best Role-Playing Game Nominees: (Role-Playing College)
Ars Magica 5th Edition - Atlas Games (Booth 612)
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game - Wizards of the Coast (Booth 501)
GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition - Steve Jackson Games (Booth 509)
The Authority Roleplaying Game and Resource Book - Guardians of Order (Booth 614)
World of Darkness Storytelling System Rulebook - White Wolf (Booth 106 and 109)
Best Role-Playing Game Supplement Nominees: (Role-Playing College)
Dark Champions - Hero Games (Booth 925)
Eberron Campaign Setting - Wizards of the Coast (Booth 501)
GURPS Dragons - Steve Jackson Games (Booth 509)
GURPS Fantasy - Steve Jackson Games (Booth 509)
Unearthed Arcana - Wizards of the Coast (Booth 501)
Vampire: The Requiem - White Wolf (Booth 106 and 109)
Notice a problem? How much of this is actually something new and not a new edition of something previously released? None of the game nominees were anything original. The Authority is just new trappings for the Tri_Stat system and everything else are new editions.
In the nominees category, we have retreads in Dark Champions, GURPS: Fantasy and the new Vampire. I'm not sure how original GURPS Dragons or Unearthed Arcana is. At least Eberron was something new. I was pretty excited about it too.....until it came out and I flipped through it. I never flipped through a more boring looking book. Such a cinematic-sounding setting and all I saw in the book was page after page of maps.
Although Vampire is a new setting (with several changes from Vampire: The Masquerade) and I hear that Dark Champions is more like Danger International than the original Dark Champions, I'd like to see a little more originality.