I don't know why people like the vampire romance novels they don't
interest me the twilight/ trueblood novels do interest my aunt, its
modern sure but the same stories as there ever was.
vampires, the church, evil villins girls that will get killed and
boys spoiling for a fight.
Its more of the same trash and sadly we seem to just get more of it
as the years go on.
To be brutally honest I blame all the reality tv shows, cooking
shows etc replacing honest to god good tv programs.
Its mostly is poor trashy crap and sadly its getting more and more.
the stories are the same, everything is the same, I do think we are
being conditionalised to low quality programming.
However with the loads of internet based content I feel that the tv
previders are struggling to get viewers.
At 11:26 PM 3/21/2013, you wrote:
Hi Tom.
Modern day vampires do give a lot of scope for things it is true,
though I do confess I'm finding that genre being rather sucked dry
too with books like salems lot, not to mention twilight and it's
many clones as well as vampires turning up in other modern day
fantasies like the Harry dresden books. Again, while I've not read
the patricia brigs stories you mention, it sounds like there it's
Stephan's character that is the thing that holds, which is my point,
and indeed one of the things that I was so impressed in particularly
in being human. For example, one vampire we meet in the third series
is Adam, who has been 14 for about the past 20 years and has
survived by draining small amounts of blood from his dad, however
his dad, now being incredibly old comes into hospital dying of blood
poisoning, leaving the main cast of the series a problem.
Another modern issue is what to do with the boddies. in the first
series of being human, heric, the head of the local vampires in
Bristal is killed, however heric was a policeman, meaning that
whenever a vampire goes tonto and kills, he was in a perfect
position to cover it up. With heric gone however, the system falls
apart, especially because in the being human world, vampires get off
just as much on the killing as the blood, ----
indeed this is why michel, the main character of the series
struggles even though he's a hospital porter who is sneaking blood
from the hospitals local bloodbank.
As to vampires and killing I also agree that the more invincible
they are, the less interesting, again this was where being human
introduced a nice mechanic, that a vampire could be killed by
steaking not necessarily in the heartbut in any part of the back or
torso, and to count as a steak something had to enter the skin and
stay there. a vamp if shot up could! recover, but only after some
time, that is why the order of watchers in the second series used
rail guns to slay vampires quite effectively.
also, in Being human warewolves had no supernatural powers at all
accept at the full moon, when they really! grew extreme, but also
totally lost control of themselves and would pretty much attack
anyone they came across, indeed part of the plot concerning george,
the main wolf is him finding ways of transforming without harming people.
Another nice point about being human was that there were no big
mystic organizations. The religious order in the second series was a
set of scientists and zealous priests setup by a vicar after his
family were killed by vampires, while the local vampire clan of
bristal was at most a small outfit with only about 30 vampires in
it, and there were many lone ones like adam who had nothing to do
with them. also, the oldest vampire in the series you ever met was
an elder vampire of 500 years, most of the oldest vamps were at most
200 (michel himself, the main vampire character was a soldier from
the first world war).
Warewolves were even less common in the series, and indeed part of
the plot of two wolves in the second series was a man who infected a
boy with lykanthropy because he was tired of being alone.
So, to bring this back to games, an interesting idea might be to
actually have a mechanic where the more you killed, the more likely
you'd be discovered, indeed this could be tied to a power thing,
perhaps with small amounts of blood needed to survive, but actually
killing giving massive boosts, however then presenting you with the
problem of hiding boddies afterwards.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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