j0ekerr: It just dawned on me that the best thing Skyrim has to offer is its in-game literature.
The lusty Argonian maid. Hrrmmm...
Now allow me to reminisce about old times and state absolute truths which bear no discussion.
The 90's sucked, there's no denying that.
But among the abundance of emo kids, grunge whining away about how it still mattered and the total collapse of the WWF into a boring as hell snore-fest with no interesting characters and cookie cutter bodybuilders with factory made personalities. There was one point of pride and light for the pen&paper roleplaying community (who also got their own troubles when some kids muscled in their turf with an obnoxious card game about magic and coastal wizards).
That good thing was White Wolf's old World of Darkness.
That is not to say that these games weren't afflicted by the same malaise that infected the rest of the decade. The games had their share of WANGST by the truckload, and it featured bargeloads of emo kids brooding about the horrors of eternal life. But it was offset by happy-go-lucky sociopaths, modern berserker warriors, and just so much plain awesome, that you didn't care. Sometimes that wangst was justified (Nosferatu) and treated accordingly. Others, it wasn't and they took all that that existential anguish way too seriously, but here's the trick, the games often suggested you use those wangster players as a butt-monkey if they got too much into it.
I used to narrate for Werewolf, and my main problem was trying to keep my players from. "Let's transform and just rush forward stomping everything in our path, like Godzilla". Which considering what a raging werewolf warrior was capable of doing, is an apt comparison.
My friends were a tad on the violent side.
So yes I'm an Old World of Darkness fan (also nostalgia).
And all of this is simply because I've noticed that Vampire Bloodlines, which I think is known as the GOOD vampire game is currently on sale and I have never played it.
How great should my shame be?
The beauty of Black Dog Game Factory - the developers actively making fun of such players, even while those players have presumably paid money for the books in which they're made fun of. =)
Would check to see how moddable that version is, first and foremost. Without those mods (which amount to an ongoing multi-gig unofficial patch for all the broken crap), the game is a clusterfucked mess.