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Sir_Psycho
post Jan 10 2007, 01:54 PM
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An invisible way adept I GM bores the shit out of me. The only interesting thing is his dependant flaw of a girlfriend. I recently had him screwed over and left unpaid and bleeding in the water off a downtown seattle pier and he's looking to track the johnson down.

I've decided for shits and giggles to make this johnson a Vampire or Nosferatu, and the two adepts he has doing his dirty work Vampiric Pawns. I'll keep this a secret for a while, as I have the character going after this guy.

Once Vaziel (the character) doesn't get the point. I'm thinking of having the vampire seduce his girlfriend, and in the process make her a vampiric pawn, dependant on his blood enzymes.

The only way to deal with this and the vampire to get vaziel to leave him alone after a while without his girlfriend dying from lack of vampire blood will be for Vaziel to take on HMHVV to uphold his dependant flaw, and ultimately make roleplaying this character a little more fun due to the aversion to sunlight and of course, nightly need for blood.

Edit: Also, are Vampires dual natured? I know ghouls are, but does HMHVV have the same effect astrally?

However my problem is this, Vaziel is not a muncher, and I don't want to super power him. Obviously I want perks to be added, and he will be more powerful and i'll raise the difficulty and power level of his opposition accordingly. But regeneration? you can nail him with an S wound and next phase it's GONE? Mist form? he's a stealthy guy, mist form will just make his job ridiculously easy, popping through cracks in doors and such. Nosferatu thankfully have no mist form, but they also don't get nailed by the wood allergy, and have a bunch of psychic powers like compulsion, fear and influence.

So what do I do? Vampire or Nosferatu? tone down regeneration to one box of damage per phase maybe? Throw in a silver allergy to boot (even though it's not canon)? Smack him with some flaws?

Has anyone got any slightly balanced house rules on this they can give me?
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- Sir_Psycho   Vampires   Jan 10 2007, 01:54 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   ...I also had a GM toy with turning my character L...   Jan 10 2007, 04:14 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   QUOTE (Kyoto Kid) ...I also had a GM toy with turn...   Jan 11 2007, 01:32 AM
- - hyzmarca   So you want to have a vampire PC? Being a vampi...   Jan 11 2007, 02:25 AM
- - Kyoto Kid   ...Death by combat, that's one thing. Had it ...   Jan 11 2007, 02:26 AM
- - hyzmarca   Well, as the follow-up GM you could have Leela hir...   Jan 11 2007, 02:32 AM
- - Glyph   Bull has a set of house rules for vampire PCs. Va...   Jan 11 2007, 07:31 AM
- - Kyoto Kid   QUOTE (hyzmarca)Being a vampire isn't a death ...   Jan 11 2007, 04:03 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   QUOTE (Kyoto Kid) In Leela's case it would ...   Jan 12 2007, 01:23 AM
- - Sir_Psycho   Holy crap. I just read Bull's rules. 12 power ...   Jan 12 2007, 03:29 AM
- - tisoz   QUOTE (Sir_Psycho) I don't understand how PC v...   Jan 12 2007, 04:55 AM
- - Glyph   The "extra power points when you are over 6 E...   Jan 12 2007, 07:20 AM
- - hyzmarca   QUOTE (Kyoto Kid) QUOTE (hyzmarca)Well, as the fo...   Jan 12 2007, 07:53 AM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (hyzmarca) Psycotrope provides more informat...   Jan 12 2007, 08:18 AM
- - Angelone   Near-death-experience-haver?   Jan 12 2007, 02:23 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) Um. Intelligent female 12 ye...   Jan 12 2007, 04:05 PM
- - X-Kalibur   Psychotrope was probably one of the most interesti...   Jan 12 2007, 06:03 PM
- - Moirdryd   HMHVV. Whatever the need, we have the strain..... ...   Jan 13 2007, 12:14 AM
- - Sir_Psycho   So what's with the Vulnerability to wood? It s...   Jan 14 2007, 10:48 PM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Sir_Psycho) So what's with the Vulnerab...   Jan 14 2007, 10:53 PM
- - Sir_Psycho   The odd thing is that the specific example is if a...   Jan 15 2007, 12:00 AM
- - SL James   Well, the 2L is a physical wound, so you could pre...   Jan 15 2007, 01:02 AM
- - Sir_Psycho   Clubs do stun damage unless you're specificall...   Jan 15 2007, 01:32 AM
- - hyzmarca   It's a magical vulnerability.   Jan 15 2007, 01:34 AM
- - Sir_Psycho   A unicorn did it.   Jan 15 2007, 01:36 AM


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