u/Melodic-Piccolo-2073

Been thinking about this since our last exercise. We have great telemetry for the technical side of an incident: logs, timelines, forensic artifacts. We have almost nothing for the human side: which analyst hesitated on a call they should've made fast, where the escalation stalled because someone didn't know who to loop in, whether the person running comms actually had the information they needed when they needed it.

Post-exercise "debriefs" tend to be a group discussion where the loudest opinion wins, not data. Is anyone working on ways to actually instrument this: decision timestamps, communication logs, something more rigorous than a vibes-based retro?

Despite launching buggy two decades ago, Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines wrote the blueprint for how dark urban fantasy RPGs should be made. The dialogue branching, the gritty 2000s Los Angeles atmosphere and iconic characters like Jeanette/Theresa Void or the Ocean House Hotel hauntings are pure narrative genius. The fact that fans still patch and play it today proves how criminally ahead of its time the storytelling and world-building were. It remains a legendary narrative RPG that put most modern AAA titles to shame.