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Hi there. I know I don't post too much on here, but I enjoy reading your guys' opinions on things. I've come into a slight predicament, and I honestly belive that this is the best place to come for for help. The problem is this: I run a role-playing game(World of Darkness, for those of you who're curious), and I eventually want to have my players come up against the human embodiments of the 7 Deadly Sins(tm). I've come up with some ideas about who to use, but I want to know if you all have some better ones, which I'm sure you do. Here's what I have so far.

Greed=Hernado Cortes
Pride=Napolean Bonaparte
Wrath=Adolf Hitler
Sloth=Pontius Pilate
Envy=Prince John
Lust=Caligula
Gluttony=eheh...I couldn't really come up with someone for this one.

Well, there you have it. Please, unleash your criticism. I welcome it, as it can only make my game better. Thanks in advance.

Gluttony = Mao Tse Tung, or some American fatso president, like, umm, the one with the moustache and the belly, what's-his-name. Maybe even Churchill.

Isn't Wrath essentially revenge? Is Hitler realy the best source for that one?

Oh, Mitigation ~ Brujah btw hehe

Gluttony = Mao Tse Tung, or some American fatso president, like, umm, the one with the moustache and the belly, what's-his-name. Maybe even Churchill.
Taft, but I am finding it hard to believe that he would make a very convincing villain, as getting stuck in the Bath tub is hardly an effective combat technique.
Unless your group are all Uber-Libertarians, he was the guy knocking about in the White House when the Income Tax got started, I believe.

To make a good glutton, you'd probably have to find some crazy cannibal warlord or something. I'm sure that at least one of those made some mark somewhere in the world. Or you could just say "fuck this shit" and have them do battle with the Cookie Monster as Gluttony and the Hamburgler as Greed.

Isn't Wrath essentially revenge? Is Hitler realy the best source for that one?
Part of his campaign was supposed to be revenge for the Treaty of Versailles.

I think Alexander the Great might be a better candidate for pride. He went as far as to have himself declared a God.
Josef Stalin might be a good candidate for Wrath.

Gluttony, could be pretty much any king from the 17th or 18th century.

Isn't Wrath essentially revenge? Is Hitler realy the best source for that one?


Wrath is excessive anger... Hitler is more greed, wanting his own ideal of the world and all

Gluttony = Mao Tse Tung, or some American fatso president, like, umm, the one with the moustache and the belly, what's-his-name. Maybe even Churchill.

That would either be Cleveland or Taft. Taft weighed more but Cleveland had more fat jokes.....

I think Alexander the Great might be a better candidate for pride. He went as far as to have himself declared a God.
Josef Stalin might be a good candidate for Wrath.

Gluttony, could be pretty much any king from the 17th or 18th century.

Henry the Eighth. He was all about the sins and was overweight to boot.

Henry the Eighth. He was all about the sins and was overweight to boot.
Agreed. Taft was fat with a capital ginormous, but no one will know who he is. Pretty much everyone recognizes Henry VIII.

Henry the 8th of England or Louis the 14th of France for gluttony
I'm surprised at you people

Cortes is alright for Greed... but I think Crassus would be an even better candidate (considering the irony how how he died).

didn't the parthians pour gold down his mouth

Henry VIII or Marie Antoinette for gluttony.

its the middle of the day don't you people have jobs???

didn't the parthians pour gold down his mouth
Yus, he was also the richest man in the empire, maybe all off the area around the meditaranian, I can't remember. But he went off to capture the trade routes from east and the wealth of the Partian kings and ends up getting it poured down his throat.

Henry the Eighth. He was all about the sins and was overweight to boot.

wasn't it that Henry the VIII wasn't actually as fat and unfit as he is made out to be and was actually a quite well built and fit man?

The entire holocaust was Hitler's revenge for being born Jewish...

its the middle of the day don't you people have jobs???

different time periods my friend, its 18.41 here definately not the middle of the day

wasn't it that Henry the VIII wasn't actually as fat and unfit as he is made out to be and was actually a quite well built and fit man?

No, he really was a fat guy. Watch the History channel ;)

different time periods my friend, its 18.41 here definately not the middle of the day

And some of us work nights...

its the middle of the day don't you people have jobs???It isn't the middle of the day, it's early evening.
Well, here at least. Not everyone lives in a 1000 miles radius of you, you know..:rolleyes:

Gluttony?


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No, he really was a fat guy. Watch the History channel ;)

i can't remember where i heard it, but i am sure that was the case, unfortunately i have no proof and you have this so called "history" channel, so i will not argue, but if i did i'd win :p

And some of us work nights...

another excellent point

i can't remember where i heard it, but i am sure that was the case, unfortunately i have no proof and you have this so called "history" channel, so i will not argue, but if i did i'd win :p

lol...

Ironically, it was a British program being shown on the History channel. Apparently, Henry increased in size enough that there are quite a few suits of his armor that display it quite well...

And some of us work nights...
And some of us post at work.

lol...

Ironically, it was a British program being shown on the History channel. Apparently, Henry increased in size enough that there are quite a few suits of his armor that display it quite well...

no comment :mp5:

what WOD game are you running, out of curiosity? Vampire? Mage? One of the new ones? (is old school, don't know your new-fangles systems)

Does Christianity's God count as a human embodiment?

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Henry the 8th of England or Louis the 14th of France for gluttony
I'm surprised at you people
those were the first two that came to mind for me too. I would say Louis was worse than Henry, but either of them were pretty damn gluttonous

what WOD game are you running, out of curiosity? Vampire? Mage? One of the new ones? (is old school, don't know your new-fangles systems)

Actually, all of the old-school ones. My main party is composed of a satyr, a ravnos, a bastet, and a technocrat. It's certainly...interesting.

As for Gluttony, I will probably end up using Henry VIII, unless I can find that cannibal warlord...

Actually, all of the old-school ones. My main party is composed of a satyr, a ravnos, a bastet, and a technocrat. It's certainly...interesting.

Nice. Now that's something I never tried. Did a vamp/mage thing once, one of the Gehanna lead-ups.