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Are Vamps and Werewolves too overdone?

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Lord Nedd:

--- Quote from: samurphy on November 11, 2007, 01:45:37 AM ---Do they do take-out?

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Nah, they just rely on their friends at Ninja-Burger!
 
http://www.ninjaburger.com/

-LN

fivestyle:
Gillman gets no love ???

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: fivestyle on November 15, 2007, 02:47:05 PM ---Gillman gets no love ???



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Your Kink Is OK But It's Not My Kink.

13x13:
I always had an background idea where werewolves were extremely rare, and the ones who do exist tend to be very old and curmudgeony.  The first reason being that most people are more likely to not survive being mauled by a large anthropomorphic beast with superhuman strength and endurance, so passing on the curse is hard.  Secondly that younger werewolves have no control. The essentially turn during the full moon, lose humanity and sanity, and kill.  This tends to be a problem for humans as being eaten is a major downer. So young werewolves tend to be hunted and killed, that and the younger they are the more physically vulnerable they are to massive damage and silver.

However, as a werewolf ages (over 100's of years) they gain better control over their bestial side and increased invulnerability.  I always thought of playing werewolves off of vampires, in that vampires get front loaded with power in the beginning, but plateau fairly quickly.  That and making a vampire is essentially like falling off a log, any white trash inbred vampire moron can do it. 

I thought of a story where a young werewolf is on the run from just about everyone.  Vampires hunt him because killing young werewolves is sport (like boar hunting) and  mauled half eaten humans tend to bring bad attention.  Werewolves hunt him because he is to wild and dangerous.  In the past a werewolf could find an uninhabited area with a large enough territory and grow.  Now with modern society this isn't the case, they cause too much havoc and draw too much attention.  Humans hunt him because after eating a couple of people they started to get a wee upset.

I was planning to make Vampires not necessarily very angsty or goth.  They aren't also necessarily the brightest most productive bunch.  Since making a vamp is so easy most aren't proactively selected to be vamps.  In fact the ones who most likely get turned are the ones stupid enough to hang out in dangerous places, flirt with the supernatural, or drunk on the street.  There are vamps who tend to think things out, but Chester the hillbilly who was turned after passing out drunk in a gutter after drinking moonshine probably hasn't read Sun Tzu or Machiavelli.

Of course I fear that the vamp/werewolf thing is overdone so that tends to hold me off on writing anything.  You know what they say, "If you notice the trend, it's already dead."

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