oligopsoneia:

imo the horror of Vampire is very much bound up with RPGs being a first-person medium, so idk that it can really be translated into media other than (1) lit or (2) other games

i mean, this is an obvious exagerration - there’s poliitcs, there’s sex, there’s violence, all of those translate well to third person media, @brazenautomaton is deffo right on all this - but i think the core of what makes the premise uniquely gripping is wrapped up in the attendant choices and internal monologues

One thing is in the 90s Vampire was THE mass-market LARP, to the point where Web 1.5 geek webcomics would assume your familiarity with “use of Obsfucate is represented by crossing your arms across your chest and goths posing with their arms crossed pretending you can’t see them gets at something”