Heroism & Horror

My first real post on this blog, almost a year after I made it... And just in time for Halloween.   I love vampires, but I'm not a fan of the vampire as it's presented in Dungeons & Dragons.    It's a fairly decent representation of a specific sort of a vampire, specifically Bram Stoker's Dracula (and likely, even more specifically Bela Lugosi's portrayal).  While that's an iconic vision, vampires have evolved past that interruption;  we now have the literary works like those Anne Rice, other role-playing games like Vampire: the Masquerade, and even in Japanese media like Vampire Hunter D and Castlevania.  Then there's the infamous mechanic of energy drain. I don't like it.  At all.   For one, it doesn't feel something all that vampiric. I suppose if you think hard enough, you could make the argument that it's the act of a vampire draining their victims blood but it still feels sort of wrong. I also feel that it's largely an unfair mecha

Well, I made this blog a year ago and forgot about it. It was originally intended to post stuff for my personal OSR game, Heroism & Horror, which was going to be a RPG of gothic horror and heroic fantasy....  But I've since fallen in love with Old School Essentials , so the rules I'm going to be writing will largely be for that game. Let's hope I don't forget about it.