Is there a reason we have so few games with a Gothic or Victorian inspired setting but a trillion rehashes of medieval fantasy, science-fiction or some eastern setting with katanas?
>>97388146yes
>>97388146What even is a gothic inspired setting? Like, gothic cathedrals? I have a feeling you don't mean VtM.
>>97388308VtM is a good example of a gothic setting (they have different time periods) but is sadly dead thanks to paradox.
>>97388325It's funny that people cry "dead game" about V5 when it's probably the best supported ttrpg out there right now.
I don't think I know a single person interested in the victorian era. Classical period, yes. Middle Ages, yes. Victorian era, maybe some people suspiciously interested in the american civil war, but that's not what most people think about when they say victorian.
>>97388146Role-playing a child laborer who dies of lung disease by 15 isn't riveting, also it's stuck with one culture while fantasy/sci-fi can mash a million cultures together, and frankenstein vampire stuff has been done better elsewhere
>>97388146>is there a reason people keep making things people want instead of things they don'tMaybe.
>>97388349bait or retarded. call it
>>97388379>some people suspiciously interested in the american civil warAHH THIS GUY LIKE THAT PERIOD , HE MUST BE RACIST !!!
>>97388379You need to get out of your echo chamber. There's a lot of interest in victorian fashion, subcultures, literature and personalities which you can find in reenactment channels on youtube
>>97388146It's harder and isn't a world. The Victorian period is really a specific class in a specific place. It requires familiarity with a lot of social mores you've never experienced, and relies on specific technologies and politics. It's harder to understand and has less room for adventure.Also they're not anywhere close to the same thing. I assume you mean the gothic literary period, which starts in the century prior to the Victorian period and is more Romantic. You probably misinterpret it as being based on authors like Poe, but it's not. It's based on authors like Walpole and Ratcliff, who you've probably never read. Who the hell even knows Romance of the Forest or the Italian, which are the two greatest works of gothic fiction and possibly two of the best English-language novels ever written? They've completely fallen outa public consciousness.But who hasn't seen robin hood and king arthur cartoons? You grew up knowing what a medieval fantasy romp looks like. You've never even heard of the best gothic novels ever written.
>>97388508They keep putting out printings of the core book and it's gotten 2 to 3 books released per year since in launched in 2018. You might not like the game, but somebody is playing it, and it's incredibly well supported.
>>97388146Steampunk co-opted most of the public interest in the Victorian era then imploded in a critical mass of cringe
>>97388146>>97388308>>97388325>>97388379>Gothic SettingWhy do people who have never read Gothic Literature pretend they know anything about it?The "Gothic" from Gothic literature comes from the middle ages. The first ever gothic novel, the castle of otranto, was called a gothic novel because it was set in the middle ages at the time of the crusades, written by horace walpole, who built himself a castle and was obessed with the middle ages. Virtually all of the great pieces of gothic fiction written in the Gothic Golden age (1760 to 1820) were set in the middle ages/renaissance. Gothic Literature is inherently medieval.>b-but frankenstein and draculaBoth of which were written after the Gothic Golden age had ended and one of which (frankenstein) only uses gothic elements.>>97388653 is the only one in this thread who actually knows what Gothic means and isn't just a retarded secondary.
