These Are the Questions That Make History Come Alive!

[jimhenley]

I missed the Vampire phenomenon because I was out of the hobby when it was new and cool. So I'm curious: in terms of "illusionism" and GM as auteur and such, how much of that was really new to the hobby? How much of it was not already in, say, the James Bond 007 RPG, Dragonlance modules, the GM advice in Prince Valiant? Again, I was not around, so

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[eyebeams]

Vampire contributed the following

[eyebeams]

To extend this thought, I guess the "auteur" is the guy who gets to decide that template. Vampire did encourage that. Recent games make the "auteur" the game designer. In old tournament D&D, it's the module designer.