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( This part snipped for some discussion of Bulletproof Monk. )
That's the point at which I found myself thinking about cliches. I've spent huge chunks of my gaming life (active since 1992-1993) avoiding cliche characters, because they annoy the hell out of me. More specifically, because they swarm in packs and annoy the hell out of me. It's one thing to have the best soccer player in the world and the most gorgeous woman on the eastern seaboard in a given city; it's something else entirely when every bloody woman in town is either striking or gorgeous, and when every man around is over six feet tall and has perfect teeth and hair. It's like the old Ars Magica game: you knew any lepers you met were mages, because Leper was an eight-point flaw and only mages could take more than seven flaw points. If you ran into anyone who was less than gorgeous or who was not particularly bright stat-wise, it had to have been a super, probably either a Nosferatu (for the uglies) or a Get of Fenris/Brujah type (for the not bright).
( More snippage, 'cos I'm rambling. With any luck this is enough space to avoid spoilers above. )
That's the point at which I found myself thinking about cliches. I've spent huge chunks of my gaming life (active since 1992-1993) avoiding cliche characters, because they annoy the hell out of me. More specifically, because they swarm in packs and annoy the hell out of me. It's one thing to have the best soccer player in the world and the most gorgeous woman on the eastern seaboard in a given city; it's something else entirely when every bloody woman in town is either striking or gorgeous, and when every man around is over six feet tall and has perfect teeth and hair. It's like the old Ars Magica game: you knew any lepers you met were mages, because Leper was an eight-point flaw and only mages could take more than seven flaw points. If you ran into anyone who was less than gorgeous or who was not particularly bright stat-wise, it had to have been a super, probably either a Nosferatu (for the uglies) or a Get of Fenris/Brujah type (for the not bright).
( More snippage, 'cos I'm rambling. With any luck this is enough space to avoid spoilers above. )
