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Originally Posted by Guyin Cognito
Is the concept unique? As far as I can tell it is.
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Having a diabolical monster for your character? To the best of my knowledge that's not exactly unheard of even in
D&D, not to mention such possibilities in other games as playing a follower of the Dark Path in
Kult, a Nephandus in
Mage, a servant of Hell in
Nobilis... The notion might have broken new ground back in the earliest nineties, but these days it would in all likelihood prove more difficult to find an RPG that
didn't allow for such character concepts.
EoS, on the other hand, offers more restricted options than those others in that it is
only intended for "evil" PCs (and the quotation marks are very much necessarily since this is the "evil" of heavy metal album covers that we are talking about rather than any more plausible atrocities). It's on the opposite side of the same coin as
DragonRaid, if you will, and suffers from the same limitations while simultaneously professing to advocate a system of ethics that decidedly isn't as accessible to the general public as that of its counterpart.
(Also, as it bears repeating, the setting is
not Lovecraftian.)