>>5350138Vampire sorcery is truly accursed it is probably ok to hate it; it is the cause of altering the tone of my quests to unending cringedark lol. I literally cannot write happiness anymore nooo kek. Fun fact in the Usurper quest I was trying to do the opposite of the Golgotha Eternal Vampire Night City thing with the eternal daylight neverending noon city thing (on that day in the UK recently where we had recordbreaking sunshine and highest temperatures). I started off and realised, I do not have enough summer pictures in my huge fantasy trove... just 11 gigabytes of utter cringe darkness, sci fi steampunk cyberpunk post apocalyptic fantasy darkness, that is the only aesthetic look I can maintain in my games lol.
I think it is because I am influenced by the late 80s-90s happy Washington consensus economic era when the world was fake okay, and popular fantasy media was filled with goths, Conan, the HeroQuest board game art, good Ridley Scott films, good wh40k, what I mentioned before with how Batman is always the goth Tim Burton films to me etc. Now there are not as many goths, yet the world feels more unwell. All my visual and cultural references come from that cringe dark goth generation, whereas the tiktok maximalism of now is not about that (domestic cosy trend instead? What is the trend of today anymore? Lootbox costumes and GaaS?)
