On The Thirsts Of The Damned or whatever (one week post-Take A Load Off)

[extrasaltypotato]

In my searching through the Stacks I had a thought about how to use my understanding of their filing system for fun and profit and I found a rare treasure.

While it’s not quite the set of On The Thirsts Of The Damned, the Rage of the Garou, the Hubris of Sorcerers, and the rest of the On the Foo of Bar games, nor my native Dungeoncrawlers, I found the next best thing from two tales to the left: the substantially similar games Vampire: The Masquerade and Dungeons And Dragons Fifth Edition, Revised, in the form of finished manuscripts with placeholder art and full of references to Page XX, on which presumably is found all wisdom.

I’ve half a mind to run both. If anyone has interest in a tabletop roleplaying game about being in the contemporary vampire mafia, or of renaissance derring do in a Free Company (doesn’t that seem familiar), you know how to reach me.

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Hikaru

Comments

[angel_of_baal]

Are these strategy games? [He's always interested in learning more strategy and how various cultures won battles.]

[extrasaltypotato]

Dungeons and Dragons more obviously so with it's greater focus on combat and escaping 'dungeons' - here a term of art meaning any kind of ruin or complex full of hostiles and treasure - with the loot.

VtM is... more subtly a game about politics and the exercise of soft power. It's not not a strategy game, but I ran the game it reminds me of to tend more to the dramatic than the tactical.

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Hikaru