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Where are the ethical limits in Role-Playing? There are different challenges in different games. In D&D, Vampires are a creature of evil, nicely clean cut and lined up for your party to slaughter without a second thought. On the other hand, Vampire: The Requiem and Vampire: The Masquerade set you up as the vampire, having to [...] This month’s RPG Carnival, hosted by Campaign Mastery is about mistakes made during role-play. I’d be the first to admit that there are a few flaws in my roleplay. The one which I’m currently trying to eliminate is the use of out-of-character knowledge and out-of-character deductions. I’ll illustrate this with an example. The last mission in the [...] Since January, I’ve been asked to join a three or four RPG groups. I passed on one of them because it focuses on Vampire and takes it seriously. I joined one to play Dark Heresy and had such a good time that I’m commuting from Edinburgh to Glasgow to play Rogue Trader with them. The thing is, [...] Due to various factors, I missed out of spending my youth enacting grand battles with Space Marines and Orks and such like. It’s a bit of shame, because while the Warhammer 40k universe is a bit straight forward, it seems to be very good fun to mess about it. You can have all sorts of [...] Fantasy, sci-fi, steam-punk, cyber-punk, vampire gothic…genres which tend to repeat themselves based on a few sources of legendary status. These hallowed texts are, of course, works like Tolkien’s Middle Earth saga, Star Trek and Star Wars, Larry Niven’s Ringworld William Gibson’s Neuromancer and the works of Anne Rice – undoubtedly all great works of fiction, [...] |
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