I still have a lot of affection for Hunter: the Reckoning, including the bizarrely prescient detail of the Hunters spending all their time on their special secret website called http://hunter-net.org arguing with each other But it hits too close to home these dayshttps://twitter.com/BradMichaelElm1/status/1327053224155566080 …
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The writers of Hunter: the Reckoning, to their credit, Went There, and said that even if there were real vampires who were a real threat and really needed to be hunted, a HUUUUGE portion of the "vampire hunter community" would be straight-up Nazis
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Wow. That’s wild. Never heard of this game honestly.
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White Wolf, makers of Vampire: the Masquerade, finally deciding to make a whole game that was straight up about the "other side" of the vampires-vs-humans conflict Very controversial
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Since the point kind of is just like Vampire: the Masquerade was an RPG about playing vampires as bloodsucking monsters who are, nonetheless, people too Hunter was a game about how hunters are just regular people trying to stand up for themselves but are also often fucking awful
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One of the signature characters of Hunter was Crusader17/Wendell Delburton Who is a deliberate pastiche of Michael Douglas from Falling Down Raving fundie Christian whose previous obsession before killing vampires was threatening abortion providers
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Nerdy paunchy middle-aged white guy in a short-sleeved dress shirt and tie, still sporting his military high-and-tight from before he was kicked out of the Marines, driving around in his beat-up sedan with a rocket launcher in the trunk
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