The core was essentially taking shame as the means to gain supernal power (like how vamps drain vitae). It's hard to seperate character embarrassment from OOC - you wind up feeling it. You need that shame to be useful, the more genuine the more effective, and the more thoughts of revenge creep in

This wierd fuckin broken thing.

Somehow we Homebrewed the rules enough to make it work and the result was somehow this amazing synthesis of role play and system that made me realize how those things could feed into each other. Also how a game that wasn't 'fun' could still be very much fun.

I've always wondered about this too and would prefer the alternative most of the time, but I do feel like for many systems you need at least a few sessions before everyone is familiar with it enough to let it shine. Also people like gradual progression

Smoking Kills

youtu.be/HkgV_-nJOuE?...

See this one yet? What's one more hobby right?

Exactly. To some extent thats always been exaggerated for plot, but not that much, and we lived in a world where those stakes were believable just last year. Some Black Mirror come to mind. SCP foundation and Co. Random but what prompted this for me was the cover art for Jurassic 5's new album

I really enjoyed this. Even just reading it. Well done

I'm pretty sure it's more like 'the left likes this guy and wants him free, therefore we will do everything in our power to cause him pain'. They don't care if people think it was a mistake. The point is to show that resistance will be met with escalation and that the inciting cause doesn't matter