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Faith can hurt sometimes (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Godric@lemmy.world to c/vamp_tm@ttrpg.network

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[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 69 points 1 year ago (28 children)

I liked the Dresden Files approach to this, it is having faith in something that repels vampires, not the things people have faith in. So the main character repels vampires with a pentagram necklace and his faith in magic.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Blindsight/Echopraxia by Peter Watts had a good "science" based version. Vampires are an obligate carnivore/cannibal hominid that went extinct (after giving humans their "uncanny valley" fear btw as a survival trait to detect them) and had a heriditary fear of right angles due to a quirk in their visual cortex.

The idea being "right angles don't occur in nature" and such. The problem with that idea is that they do, but still a decent series with some interesting ideas.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hold on, Blindsight has a sequel? This could be fun...

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