Real talk... FUCK THE REAL WORLD. Strangereal is perfectly serviceable and allows you to depict your world in ways other than our cyberpunk hellscape, a planet without rising fascism and dictators that put babies in cages or abolish the division of powers. My Mage heartbreaker specifies from the beginning it's a world with cars and buildings and Kardashev near 1 tech, but NOT OUR WORLD.deaddmwalking wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:24 pmYes, having the monsters exist somewhere other than the real world would be different than a masquerade.
As for masquerades, though, my heartbreaker handles it with reality covering all unusual stuff with "normie filters" because normies don't want to see the strange and unusual. The goblin looks like a genetic dwarf, everyone remembers (and video shows) the werewolf massacre as a terrorist incident, etc. Only supernatural beings see through this filter and, while magic can make for some really hard to justify scenarios, the Paradox-with-serials-filed-off is a big deterrent not to push your luck.
