Twilight
The Silver Kiss of the Magical Twilight of the Full Moon – Review
Silver Kiss of the Magical Twilight of the Full Moon (Silver Kiss or SKMTFM for short) is a roleplaying game poking gentle fun at the myriad of young adult supernatural romance novels that have gained a lot of popularity in recent years.
It’s set up is pretty simple. You get 5 people in a room (sense of humor and ability to poke fun essential). One person will GM the other 4 will be two groups of best friends, one supernatural and the other human. Add a large dash of angsty teenage romance, shake vigorously and serve.
Modern vampires – the neutering.
I recently finished George R. R. Martin’s Fevre Dream – a vampire novel set on steamboats in the Pre-Civil War South of the US (some spoilers follow). I recently watched season 1 of True Blood. I’ve read a bit about, and heard people discussing, the Twilight series. And I was always a big fan of Angel.
So it was with some interest that I read this article about how vampires have lost their bite, as it were. Because all of these examples feature vampires who are trying to redeem themselves, especially through their lack of human blood-letting.
Largely due to goths and Anne Rice, I’ve always found vampires sort of annoying. But last year I made a vampire the big bad of a WFRP campaign I ran and I’d happily use them again. But the article’s right – vampires are far more interesting as charming but powerful and diabolical monsters than as safe but sexy wimps.
Let’s make vamps a threat again – no friendly vampires looking to reunite with humanity. No sexy vampire boyfriends. No animal blood drinking softies. Let’s get vampires in our games and our fiction who rip out throats, seduce and then slay and do all the nasty vampire things we know and love.
As a side note, I’d really recommend Fevre Dream as well – it’s very well written and having read so much of Martin’s work through A Song of Ice & Fire, it was interesting to see him tackle something quite different.
Holy crap – 16% of all book sales were for Stephanie Myer
Or that’s what it says here. Of course it’s worth noting that these are probably jsut US sales figures, but still…