Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.
Nihil novi sub sole.

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Build a word without vampires. It is a fantasy after all.

>>97905150
Vampires don't run the world. They can't run, dumbass. Their legs are too stiff. They jump around.

>>97905150
>vampires
Nah, these guys are the renfields and wannabes desperately aping their masters/overlords. They do not have the required long-term planning skills to survive for centuries let alone millennia.

>>97906601
>required long-term planning skills to survive for centuries let alone millennia
Then why are they still making money from Waterloo?

>>97906610
Turns out that it's really easy to just pay minimums forever when the only entity that could possibly inherit your debt is "the one that destroyed you".

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Just say your setting has realism to it

>>97905150
Did you think vampires being the nobility was accidental and not social commentary?

>>97905150
>worldbuild
Ask /wbg/.
Worldbuilding is secondary to actual gameplay.

>>97905150
>diseno sin titulo

>>97906601
>They do not have the required long-term planning skills to survive for centuries let alone millennia.
they usually (i mean the rothschilds) get very long lifespans however, maybe due to adenochrome use, organ farms, blood cleanings or black magic. ANd they do it by stealing it from others, so they are functionally vampires.
There is a reason they hate Jesus

>>97906572
>Build a word without vampires. It is a fantasy after all.
That is what i mean. Its kinda mindbreaking that in order to make a fantasy setting you have to take out vampires from reality instead of adding them

>>97906572
lol

>>97906864
My nuts are secondary to your mouth.

>>97906789
At what point in Dracula's life do you think he stopped being a member of the high nobility and was nothing but an undead freak that was stuck squatting in his old ruins of a castle? Like do you think it was when history says Vlad died or did he try to keep his old human life going for a while even as a vampire?

>>97905150
>everything you can imagine looks banal in comparison to 2026s reality
Nah, it's the other way around, for exactly the same reason.

>>97906601
The parasites are not vampires, they're drones, very much akin to disposable UAVs in mechanics and tactics. Similarly disposable too, the parasites' creator doesn't give a smidgen of a fuck about the hosts' survival. "Go eat, bring profits, and if you die, there's 20 more losers waiting to take your place :^)"

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I think this is why WoD had its Zenith in the 90's and mostly disappeared after the 2000's. The actual world got so bad that it just wasn't appealing anymore to spend some time in a slightly worse version of it.

>>97905150
I dunno, ask >>>/pol/

>>97915537
Certainly by the time he invited Jonathon, his scheme was basically to get in with the english nobility and get back to making WAR

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>>97905150
Reminder that monotheism ruined everything. Everybody was doing fine on their own before the birth of Monotheism.

Immortality exists, you can live forever and these elites can also live forever that's why corporations never die. Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Amazon/etc. they will always own you all because you will breed and die and feed the system, meanwhile the owners don't die and can live as much as they want.

>>97917353
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.

This thread went down to page 9, got a bunch of 1-3 world non-cotent posts and is now held up by random /pol/ posting and /lit/ speculation.

>>97917038
I still don't know why we're playing games with these people. If anyone was actually serious about demolishing the Epstein ring, your Maxwells and such and their lawyers too would not be being tried, but tortured for intelligence. No one has secrets from fire.

>>97917666
>satan is in league with da joos
hmmm

>>97905229
Yeah they totally had tabletop RPGs in 3,000 BCE. The great pyramids were constructed full of traps and undead monsters and mysterious curses because that's just what you do with pyramids.

>>97915537
He didn't stop being nobility. The entire point of the Dracula mythos is that the profane parasitism and rot of corruption inherent in the entire concept of nobility is horrific. He's an undead vampire because he's nobility.
They're the same thing. Fantasy is when the metaphorical is presented as literal. The Dracula mythos is stating directly and bluntly that nobles are unholy monstrous parasites. That's the explicit point of the story. It could not be more obvious, anon. And they LITERALLY explain and describe this thesis in the stories...

>>97906789
>>97915537
>>97918015

Dracula was a gestalt monster. He was a fusion of Noble/Aristocrat, Vampire, Sorcerer and Werewolf. Vampires were for the most part a commoner monster with Elizabeth Bathory being one of the rare exceptions before Varney.

It is also important to note the nobility or high status isn't part of what makes him evil. The 5 heroes who oppose him in the novel are a Lawyer/Solicitor (Jonathan Hawker), Professor (Abraham Van Helsing), Doctor (John Seward), Cattle Baron (Quincey Morris) and English Lord (Arthur Holmwood) all high status professions at the time.

>>97918174
Don't forget "foreigner from lesser stock," contrasted to the "foreigner from good stock" in Quincey Morris.

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>>97918002
>Yeah they totally had tabletop RPGs in 3,000 BCE
Wouldn't surprise me, gaming and performing are among the most ancient human traditions.

>>97918203
>Thrice Rabiah's die of alabaster provided her with a face showing twenty.
>And lo, Anebos accused Rabiah of breaking the honor-code of the quest, and he upturned the table.

>>97917993
What is the etymological root of "satan" again?

>>97917038
>pic
Those tits ain't half bad.

>>97917038
Plot twist: It has been that godawful and rotten for decades if not centuries, it's just that public awareness due to the information age plus living standards plummeting low enough make the "darkness" of WoD rather quaint by comparison.

>>97918346
Gjilsaine is oddly very fuckable.

>>97905150
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

>>97905150
>looks banal in comparison to 2026s reality.
wait until ALL schizo theories will be validated, not only fringe one that cannibal pedo elites ruling you (and pedo part was pretty obvious)

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>>97929557
>wait until ALL schizo theories will be validated

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>>97905150
Lol, Ivan.
Lmao even.

>>97905150
Because vampires wouldn't run the real world
Vampires-as-the-elite makes sense in the 1800s, in the world of eurocentrism and high brow nobility and gas lamps
But in 2026, in the world of mass surveillance, someone who's hundreds of years old but has no identification and does not appear in video surveillance would throw up all sorts of red flags
Modern vampires would live like backwoods preppers, or as homeless bums in skid row
What were once perks are now huge detriments to their integration into modern society

>>97931830
Power does not need to equal celebrity status and wanting to be seen in media. In humans it often does. But a vampire could easily reign by proxy, especially when vampire has supernatural power to enforce absolute loyalty of that proxy - vampire reigns not as the king, president, or CEO, but as the proverbial power behind the throne.

>>97929557
>Aliens are real and would like the History Channel to unfuck itself now
>This shit is depressing.