<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=98122.msg4267027#msg4267027">Quote from: HairyHeretic on 16-02-2011, 17:36:30</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I've never encountered any WoD type vampires, and I've never played it (aside from playtesting a couple of con scenarios) so wouldn't be overly familiar with either. It's quite possible there would be vampires, but in terms of power levels they'd probably be relatively low level opponents as a rule of thumb, suitable for a Hero level game, but a demigod would likely go through them for a shortcut. :)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I'm not really familiar with them either - I've mostly encountered them through 'secondary sources:' other WoD lines that mention vampires and discuss them in the barest detail needed to address interaction with them, how they are antagonists to the splat, and so on. And I'm really quite fine with them being a relatively low level threat. The basic thing I'd like is to put boot to face on some nocturnal parasites who are feeding off of people's blood, who die if they go out into the sun, have a vested interest in exploiting those lost to despair, and die when you stick them either with a sharp wooden stake to the chest or take their heads off. I mean, if you take a higher-end gangster, the suit-wearing type who's rocking 500$ silk shirts and has mooks who rock 200$ silk shirts as his personal entourage, made them all really pale and on all plasma diet, I'd be happy.<br/><br/>I mean, in this kind of scenario, I imagine the challenge for my character is to survive being swarmed by a dozen vampires, taking them out, and then putting down their sinister, potentially centuries old master (for me, it's totally 'Blade': my dude is Wesley Snipes straight up suplexing a bad guy). Then the challenge for a social character'd be to help the victims so that they don't just end up being chattel to someone else ready to exploit them, e.g. pimps, drug-dealers, etc. Or maybe we get to realize, later on, that we've messed them all over: our involvement's fatebound all the humans into the role of victims to be saved.<br/><br/>I want to play a character who can fight and solve the problems that can be solved by smashing someone's face with a big hammer. I want to save people from monsters and be a big goddamn hero. I'm happy to have puzzle solving be there, but honestly I'd leave it to someone with eIntelligence to work out how to align the seven sigils of [alliterative name here] so that we can retrieve the golden tablets that contain the knowledge we need to . . . I dunno, ensure that the prison for a particularly nasty titanspawn stays in place. While the puzzle-solver's hurriedly trying to translate the ancient language, discovering on the fly that it's mathematics using [higher math concepts than I know of] to deliver meaning, my character could be holding off a bunch of lesser titanspawn and their pawns who desperately want to see their master freed, and to do unspeakable things to our still-warm bodies before and after we die. A dragon's probably above our pay-grade as Hero-level Scions, but darned if I don't want to fight one to save a princess, avenge someone, to protect a quaint little village, or whatever.<br/><br/>Having my character get manipulated by more socially savvy antagonists is probably something I'd expect to see happen too, because someone with eManipulation can make you go all backwards and getting tricked is something that happened to Thor a fair bit . . . so why would Fate let one of his kids off easy? Having to atone for a misdeed my character was misled to committing seems like a fairly neat plot seed that could grow into something nice. It'd be a fairly easy way, I think, to engender emotional investment in the fighting I want my character to do, although I do want him to be a hero for heroism's sake. He's got the will and the means to make people's lives better, and I want him to be able to.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=98122.msg4268489#msg4268489">Quote from: HairyHeretic on 16-02-2011, 23:12:22</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">If everyone is happy with Legend 3, and my points break on the boons we can go from there.<br/><br/>Do people want more BP to start, or are you happy with what there is?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Legend 3's good. We can have some nice things but still grow, and with the point break on boons it'll be easy to pick up other nice things as we go along.<br/><br/>I will always want more BP. I will never refuse extra points. @_@