"Hello darkness my old friend"
Hello dreamers, About a lifetime ago me and a friend walked into a local game store. For reasons I don't recall we both had a mind to pick up a new roleplaying. My experience of the hobby was more interest than practical experience. Sadly that remains the case: I own more product than I play. I'm willing to bet that isn't uncommon. Finding players is never easy, especially in the antediluvian age that was 1991. In the end my friend picked up something called Shadowrun while I picked up a weird green book called Vampire. No idea why those are the choices we made. If anything I should have been the one going for Shadowrun being a fan of Cyberpunk (at least). I've never really been into horror movies or stories, and, with few exceptions, that remains the case. But Vampire proved compelling. There was something about the urban sprawl that wasn't a million miles from cyberpunk. Plus you got to play an urban anti-hero (or so I thought) - after a fashion. A bit like the o...