A love letter to Werewolf: the Apocalypse

[tenzil]

I loved Werewolf: the Apocalypse. I’m not ashamed to say so, but it’s funny how hard that is hard to write. I really did adore the game, but the cynicism that my generation got so good at during its collective twenties still kind of nips at me. It still feels sort of dorky to have unabashed affection for something. I admit that the game had

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[rosindust]

I was never able to form a good opinion about Werewolf the RPG, since I discovered Jyhad before table-top games in eighth-grade, and therefore assumed that all horror RPGs were intensely political and everyone dressed like Gucci models. When someone showed me the Rage card game in high school, all I saw were geysers of blood, so I assumed it was for power gamers.

[valancymay]

I have not much enjoyed the Werewolf larps I have played (I have a whole rant about this if you want to hear) but I actually have loved all the werewolf tabletops I have played.

We ran the full Chicago by night scenario, so I was able to play both a vampire and werewolf in that setting. And yes, my poor wee Toreador did, in fact, just beg a whole lot.