Setting Sunday: Share an intriguing detail from a game setting you enjoy.
The Succubus Club in Vampire: The Masquerade, the archetypal vampire-friendly alternative nightclub in the setting, is so prominent in-universe that there have been fights over using the name after the original owner was killed in a sourcebook, it became a travelling megaclub brand for a while, and there’s not a franchise option. (And out of character, the name is sometimes used for the big party night at World Of Darkness conventions, so I can say I’ve been there.)
Also, it has nothing to do with the actual Succubus who appears in the sourcebook where it was first referenced.
And licenced games often add to their settings, and sometimes it sticks. D6 Star Wars did a lot to codify the setting and its books were used as Expanded Universe references, the Twi’Lek species was one named there, and the Rebels episode about the origin of the B-Wing directly references the adventure Strike Force Shantipole. The Andorian sourcebook for Decipher’s Star Trek introduced a traditional weapon later used in Enterprise. And Faith not having a surname on screen in Buffy led to the RPG creators asking Whedon’s team and Lehane becoming her canon surname ever since. (Kendra got one too even though she purposely didn’t use it.)
Dave Chapman with a very secret secret for Conspiracy X.
Runeslinger on a detail that could change everything in Blue Planet.
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