[quote=@Billsomething]
[@Raineh Daze] Exactly what you think
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But... cosmic horror is very much 'things man was not meant to know', any resistance is futile in the end, and despair.
Dracula is just a sex metaphor.
And the World of Darkness is more about 'what makes a monster?' and morality, amongst the more normal 'inhuman creatures walk amongst us' and the fact normal people are rather like bugs to the older things.

Then there's, say, Ravenloft. It's utterly hopeless, evil is everywhere, you can't trust anything... but it's a D&D campaign setting so 9/10 you'll end up with people beating the crap out of the hellish stuff one way or another. XD

Basically: I don't know what you think I think.

[quote=@Joegreenbeen]
So, the question I should be asking is how much do we want to adhere to expectation. I think it depends on how long we want to be going at this. The farther we stray, the longer it'll take, which is perfectly fine, that's what we are here for. 
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I'd say just get the genre in general, and we adhere to expectations as closely or as little as we randomly chance it.