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How Much Trouble Would Playing Jesus As A Vampire Cause?

Started by Greentongue, April 03, 2021, 08:50:09 PM

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Kyle Aaron

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April 05, 2021, 10:54:10 PM
It's more of an extended, Rolling Stone-style article than a book, it really could be fleshed out into a lot more, but yes, it's very good. I've spoken to other ex-military guys and it rings true for all.

The same would apply for police, paramedics and so on, I would expect. That couple of years after retiring from uniformed service is a dangerous time, mentally. Of course it is for other retirees, too, but...
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ThatChrisGuy

#61
April 05, 2021, 11:52:13 PM
Quote from: This Guy on April 05, 2021, 10:05:15 PM
You generally offend whatever the absent outgroup is instead, which can result in stuff like piss christ and Vampire Jesus and whatever.

How is Tribe, any good?

Good?  Who cares?  It's an unalterable fact of human nature.  People form cliques/clans/tribes/packs and it cannot be stopped.
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This Guy

#62
April 06, 2021, 01:59:26 AM
Quote from: ThatChrisGuy on April 05, 2021, 11:52:13 PM
Good?  Who cares?  It's an unalterable fact of human nature.  People form cliques/clans/tribes/packs and it cannot be stopped.

You're right, it's entirely unremarkable and uninteresting, and therefore not worthy of further comment. This is in keeping with the OP.
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Reckall

#63
April 06, 2021, 05:07:55 AM
Quote from: Mishihari on April 05, 2021, 09:13:10 PM
Quote from: Reckall on April 05, 2021, 01:17:03 PM
It depends from the kind of experience the game wants to offer. A game about soldiers in a warzone can have rules for either "romanticised" (John Wayne) or "realistic" (Saving Private Ryan, Fury...) portrayals.

Ugh.  No offense, but I find that particular phrasing of types of games really irritating.  It implies that if characters don't come out of combat emotional wrecks then the game is unrealistic.  PSTD is real and it's awful, sure, but a vast majority of the combat vets I know personally are just fine with regard to their sanity and emotional wellbeing.
No offense taken, but I didn't imply that the characters must come out as emotional wrecks, only that the possibility does exist. And not even uniformly: maybe one of them will come down with PTSD, due to personality and circumstances. Maybe the characters see NPCs losing it in the middle of a battle (notice how, in the two movies I mentioned, Fury and SPR, not everybody is a wreck). The important thing is that the rules reflect the possibility - if you want to play that kind of game.
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wlake.gmtn

#64
April 06, 2021, 09:16:12 AM
muhammad and jesus are the new blade, like my avatar of miles davis. the coolest idea would be to run a shadowrun game where the stem-cell parts of jesus lived infinitely in a world where his bones would be used as money. light-slicked streets of NYC leave the cross on people's necks, unless they get stomped on like chauvin. the eiderdown is superior to the gun as we've always said and it means all the homeless jesuses have their i love jesus hats.

crkrueger

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April 06, 2021, 11:56:04 AM
Quote from: wlake.gmtn on April 06, 2021, 09:16:12 AM
muhammad and jesus are the new blade, like my avatar of miles davis. the coolest idea would be to run a shadowrun game where the stem-cell parts of jesus lived infinitely in a world where his bones would be used as money. light-slicked streets of NYC leave the cross on people's necks, unless they get stomped on like chauvin. the eiderdown is superior to the gun as we've always said and it means all the homeless jesuses have their i love jesus hats.

Way too many meds or not nearly enough.  :D
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Stephen Tannhauser

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April 06, 2021, 02:53:01 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger on April 06, 2021, 11:56:04 AM
Quote from: wlake.gmtn on April 06, 2021, 09:16:12 AM
muhammad and jesus are the new blade, like my avatar of miles davis. the coolest idea would be to run a shadowrun game where the stem-cell parts of jesus lived infinitely in a world where his bones would be used as money. light-slicked streets of NYC leave the cross on people's necks, unless they get stomped on like chauvin. the eiderdown is superior to the gun as we've always said and it means all the homeless jesuses have their i love jesus hats.

Way too many meds or not nearly enough.  :D

The Canadian horror author Garfield Reeves-Stevens wrote a book in the '80s called Children of the Shroud, which was based on the gag of managing to clone the DNA extracted from the Shroud of Turin.  Never read it myself so I don't know exactly how offensive it was -- or exactly how it was offensive, for that matter -- but the idea's been used before.
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