It’s been alleged that the role-playing game, “Vampire – The Masquerade”, is a tool of Satan. Is it, really ?
It’s been alleged that the role-playing game, “Vampire – The Masquerade”, is a tool of Satan. Is it, really?
Judge for yourself. Here is an actual excerpt from one of the books of “Vampire – The Masquerade”. Personally, I find it erotically romantic, but then, I found Poe’s “The Assignation” to be romantic, too.
Vampyress
It's three in the morning and I'm in the process of figuring out how good it feels to be dead. The streets are slick with rain, and the streetlights are reflecting off the pavement like God wants every manhole cover to have a halo. A block down Locust Street, I can see a car pulling out from a turn. I can read the license plate from here; I never could have done that when I was alive. At the end of the street I can see the trees in Rittenhouse fair, and I swear that I can count every bead of water on each one.
I can see it all, and it's so beautiful.
I can see Him, too. He's wearing a tan trenchcoat and carrying a rolled-up umbrella. I start walking toward the Square, timing my pace so that I'll bump into him at the crosswalk. Now I can see the grey in his hair, the lines on his face. He looks about forty, a little tired of life but still chugging along in his rut. His pace is steady, mechanical. I move faster.
He suddenly stops and looks up at the clearing sky. Maybe he's looking for an answer through the bare branches of the park's trees. Maybe he's just got the animal instinct that screams "Predator!" It doesn't matter. I'm closer now... 20th Street, 19th...
He turns from the sky and starts walking again. His eyes meet mine from a block away, and I think he knows. He doesn't stop again, though. He doesn't turn away. And I see the pain and the hope and the history written on his face, every last moment of a life that's about to end, and I fall in love with him.
I fall in love this way every night, and every evening I wake up with a broken heart again. There's no one to blame but me, though. No one to blame but me.
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June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Personal anecdote: When I was in high school, I was a devout Christian. In my later high school years and throughout college, I played Vampire: The Masquerade. Now I’m an atheist.
You do the math.
EDIT: Actually, in retrospect, it was probably Mage: The Ascension. Or my experience in higher education in general. It’s hard to say.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Hardly.
It’s more like Junior High School, revisited — with all the vampires divided up into little cliques and jockeying for popularity and influence with the "cool kids" who run the city.
Tedious — very, very tedious…
Incidentally — what the hell is so romantic about being a sodding CORPSE, anyway?
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
It’s just a game.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
No, religious people think it is though.. They’re not use to modern writing and are afraid of it.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I’m not sure why I know this, but White Wolf replaced their "Masquerade" product years ago with Vampire: The Requiem.
Satan seems like the kind of guy that could keep his stuff on the shelves.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Wouldn’t it be handy for everything to be labeled as a tool for satan that does not have the religion’s stamp of approval? This way people who follow that religion would not need to think for themselves.
Imagine what the price of obtaining that stamp could be. It could be so much as to alleviate church tithing entirely.
We need to think critically.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Satanic? No. Really stupid? Yes.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
It’s a book or a game? Or both? How do you "play"?
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Roll d20 to see if the devil gets your soul.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
My understanding of those types of stories about vampires etc is it is pulp fiction. Entertaining pulp fiction that for some peculiar reason people think is real.
People’s idiocy never ceases to amaze me. Especially when they are living their lives by a dodgy book about an unsubstantiated theory about a giant invisible sky fairy.
Practicing Shaman… quantum physics rocks.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Not satanist. Just a story. Not everything sci fi or fantasy has to do with satan. That is a totally outdated Christian thought process. Harry Potter isn’t satanist, neither is Twilight, neither is this.
It actually sounds like something I’d read. (and I’m a Christian)
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Bollocks !
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
It is a game that spotlights personal horror and storytelling skills. We played it a little in college when we were bored or broke. I’m a lovecraft fan, so I preferred COC. But both were great for a night in. It was more fun than Monopoly for the thousandth time. It was far more interesting than getting drunk or high with the party crowd and there was no hangover.
If anyone brings up Rod Ferrell, I can tell you I’ve met him. He was a joke. He and his friends were abused kids who formed a cult to make themselves feel empowered and loved and no other gamers would hang with them because they were such colossal trailer park losers. Games did not corrupt Rod. His mad as a hatter mother molesting him and his friends did.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Its about as Satanic as Harry Potter…<rolls eyes> No I do not believe that. I have heard for years that Dungeons and Dragons, White Wolf, pretty much *any* roll playing game was satanic. It’s all BS. I saw enjoy the book, enjoy the game if you can (I could never get into White Wolf) and don’t worry about it.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
When Bram Stoker invented the vampire Dracula, he embodied all of Satan’s qualities into a man as to "scare" the readers beyond measure, so anything affiliated with this be it a role playing game or a book, it all roots in evil, as that was Bram Stoker’s intent, sorry to bring light to your romanticism with vampires, that was Bram Stoker’s dealing with the sin of lust in Satan’s personality. Pride, Lust, Avarice, Gluttony, Murder, Lying, and looking at ones self as an eternal "god" in spite of the one true God.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Are the people alleging this the same ones who think that condoms are evil?
There’s your answer.
June 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Your better judgement should give you an answer.
Vampires did practise evil and attached themselves to victims. To some extent it was a downplayed event.
Some of the devices of the devil are obvious
. The blood is life of our being.
Your own judgemnent would tell you of the falseness and unholy aspect of asociating with unclean spirits that even the names acknowledge.
Many e-game shave some occult things within the game.
Your duscernemnt, acceptance or denial is up to you.
Haloween is not a holy day NoV1st is All Saints Day.
I prefer not even having count choculla cereal around.