Damn it, Toby!

[teakay]

No, self, you do not, in fact, need Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. You don't even really want it. The amount of dying a player who's actually good at that kind of game does would leave you in tears. This is what the Let's Play is for (or at least part of what it's for in this case): all the pretty (for a given value of pretty) with none of the stress or, for that matter, the expense.

And when do you think you're going to have time to play it, huh? Look at what you're already juggling. Also, take a good long look at Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment and Neverwinter Nights, moldering away to this day.

And think of all the bugs!

Stick to Sims, when you have time. Give those Sims names like Heather and Alistair if you must (doesn't Camarilla sound like a nice and froofy name for a girl?), turn those Sims into Simly vampires if you must, but step away from the Steam website (and what if it asplodes at some point after you plunk down those twenty bucks, huh? Where'll you be then?).

At least give it a month, self. Then we'll see if we can discuss things in civilized fashion.

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[liam-sensei.livejournal.com]

Believe me that can happen very very easily. Let's just say Vhaeraunite drow and the Sabbat do have a lot of things in common which was one thing that made me really like the Vhaeraunites. My signature character in college was Louis St. Vincent, a Toreador antitribu, obnoxious British rock start and serial killer. I had an idea of putting him with the Cormanthor drow but that never happened though Louis is the original inspiration for Fielder from HH. Fielder is a lot less sophisticated, though his name does come from Louis' backstory: Louis is from Sheffield and Fielder was his nickname in London.

The old sourcebooks should not be that hard to find if you look online. They're out of print obviously but a lot of people still have them (I'd guess mostly because of how quickly they folded the universe).

VtM just lends itself to dark humor, especially how the guidebooks are written. The tone of even the rule descriptions is very snarky (Health Level: Dead- Tag em, bag em, notify next of kin)

I though making L a Malkavian was just too appropriate. Probably the best resource on Malkavians is Clanbook: Malkavian, where they have one Malkavian in there who is also an obsessive researcher but as a hematologist. The relationship with Watari is slowly getting brainstormed and I might play with some backstory of those two in the early 1900's or something.

The daytime body double explanation was pretty much the only way I could get away with those few scenes of him being outside during daylight as VtM is very restrictive with that one rule (and sparkling is not an option XD). I know it is kind of a bummer for scenes like that, though it was a necessary evil.

Things like how L gets his body doubles and the rules regarding vampires and the Death Note will all unfold gradually, likely in the next chapter of Rules whenever I get around to writing it. Actually this little convo is making my gears turn for that plot a little more, hmmm.