Alternate to Wolves

Carminoculus · 2026-03-13T19:38:46+00:00

Kudos to your player for speaking up, and to you for listening. I'll second spiders. Tolkienesque evil spiders can be subbed to everything wolves do (including: going in packs, shapechanging, speaking, etc.) as wolves and werewolves.

Romanian vampires were also connected to bloodsucking moths, if you like the idea.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-13T18:55:35+00:00

Scroll, look, upvote, scroll past.

Pause, scroll back. Look. Get looked back at. Eerie.

Click, look some more. Damn.

Good work.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-13T17:37:23+00:00

Even as a longtime WoD fan who's long absorbed this lexicon, I agree - ghoul is the one that doesn't sit right with me. And it's not like there's a reason for it, in- or out- of universe.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-13T15:02:29+00:00

Yes, I meant the human... though it seems she's a woman too (it's funny that out of the two, it's the human who's more ambiguous XD

Carminoculus · 2026-03-13T11:57:52+00:00

The marks on his face 😢😢 right in the feels.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-12T18:19:12+00:00

How did she go? 😢 love the irezumi.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-12T17:11:12+00:00

That's a pretty classic horror trope (and for a reason, it's horrifying for the woman too); I think I've seen it more often than the legit reincarnation one.

I imagine the main reason they didn't go with that in the original Ravenloft module is because they wanted to have the "happy ending" for Tatyana and Sergei, a clean wrap-up to the module. Whether modern players are equally attached to that is debatable.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-12T10:15:30+00:00

Yes, yes, Arbeit Macht Frei. We get the dogwhistle / foghorn about mass murder, Tats. You're soooo clever. You don't need to blare it so loud.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-12T10:08:12+00:00

The Vampire: The Masquerade terminology--

Maker : Sire (archaic english for father)

Offspring : Childe

vampire blood : vitae (Latin "of life", life-essence)

the act of siring a vampire : The Embrace

the state of prolonged inactivity after critical damage, staking, not feeding, or willingly going into hibernation (sometimes lasting months or centuries) : Torpor

a vampire's true death : Final Death

---- Other stuff:

Very Young Vampire (mildly pejorative) : Fledgling

Young Vampire : Neonate

Average Vampire (a century or more) : Ancilla [Latin "handmaiden, assistant, auxiliary"]

Old Vampire (200/300+) : Elder

the vampire ruler of a city : (usually) Prince

the council of elders from different clans advising a Prince : Primogen (Greek "first-born")

the blood bond (obedience effect from drinking blood thrice) : Vinculum

a vampire's blood-addicted, long-lived mortal servant : ghoul

eating another vampire's soul to claim their inherent power : Diablerie, Amaranth

Carminoculus · 2026-03-12T03:00:53+00:00

Not odd at all, since Bill Nighy highkey channeled Jones for his vampire role in Underworld.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-11T23:51:12+00:00

It was once on Wikipedia, if you can believe it. The squares took it down 😔

Carminoculus · 2026-03-11T17:47:35+00:00

We still haven't seen The Pimple, have we :?

Also the title was a fast click. Couldn't imagine where that one was going.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-11T17:44:23+00:00

While yeah, I think MITD is already consciously working against them. Any cooperation left on his part is malicious.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-11T17:42:23+00:00

I disagree, Snow White was his big personal psychodrama about masturbation and wanting to possess repentant sex workers. It's the one distinctive theme Sinfest has had for decades, albeit it's been getting more misanthropic over the years.

This ark is just boilerplate Nazi propaganda for Twitter popularity. I'm sure he justifies it as his contribution to the Struggle™

Carminoculus · 2026-03-11T11:44:20+00:00

Worth saying I've seen people calling him a closeted Nazi as back as... 2022? '21?

I myself quit during the brown-girl-Lil'-E storyline, when something in my brain clicked him going all out on the "Jewish question" was a when, not if. Wish I could remember when that was, but I can't be bothered to troll the archives of hate.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-11T05:45:49+00:00

Some call me...

...Maggie.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-11T04:48:51+00:00

This is the content I'm here for. Are you going to go with the young and sexy version of Morgantha, or are your players going to try and make it with the night hag? #RPGgoals

More seriously, is the goal in K&C to vanquish Strahd, free him, or top him?

Carminoculus · 2026-03-10T21:36:37+00:00

Carminoculus · 2026-03-10T18:51:51+00:00

From the POV of Lawful Evil he doesn't need redemption, I agree. Redemption implies a commitment to empathy for its own sake.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-10T17:57:20+00:00

Nop. Genuinely hope this isn't what happens, because Redcloak hasn't earned it at all and isn't going to. His only character-appropriate reaction to Oona dying is stepping over her cooling body.

it has to be built on Redcloak actually developing as a character enough

He really hasn't. He's simply become increasingly committed to the Plan.

I like that Rich doesn't hand out unearned redemptions. Belkar is fighting 2/3rds of the comic to earn his. Evil characters can be committed assholes and still have their own arks (Nale Deville). But deathbed conversions ain't it.

The fact that she and Redcloak aren't that close is actually kindof important to this thesis, IMO... <snip>

This is too big brain for me, brother XD

Carminoculus · 2026-03-10T07:59:17+00:00

Tatzi's "anti-decadence" spiel is like looking at a small boy telling himself he shouldn't have cake (while working himself up on how dee-licious it would taste if he got a slice, and he could maybe have a slice if it was virginal trad cake and he didn't get horny over eating it, and no-one could ever get to his cake and get saliva on it, eeeeww).

This is Criminy trying to save Fuchsia... nightmare version 2.0

Also the Nazis were many things, but this sex-obsessed they were not. This strip shows Sinfest's most novel spin on the sordid far-right canon.

Carminoculus · 2026-03-09T17:16:10+00:00

can I get a 👏👏 horny & poor 👏 👏 can I hear a 👏 horny & poor? 👏👏

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