General World of Darkness thread

ClockworkUniverse

It might just be that I'm used to D&D, whose core rules let characters blow up planets just fine.

Malkavian

I'd actually say Resilience is probably the best as it gives you extra health levels. It might not be worth that much at levels four and five, but that's true of all of them. Personally I think the worst in Requiem is Celerity what with constant needing to turn it on.

The point is less that it nullifies a discipline and more that you can reasonably one-hit kill almost any other PC with it.

All Nines

Isn't there a problem when those levels go away, though?

And I like Celerity because it helps to keep a distance if you wish, and you can feed on the guys you just stomped with your superspeed anyway; if you can afford the lack of discretion inherent in Celerity's zipping around, you can probably afford to drain some chumps. Wait, you can feed on someone who's "dying", right?

"The point is less that it nullifies a discipline and more that you can reasonably one-hit kill almost any other PC with it."

Okay. Fair enough.

Malkavian

Oh, celerity can be useful but in a straight-up fight to take someone else down it's not quite so great, especially since your two options then are guns or throwing knives, which aren't useful against a lot of things.

And yeah the health levels going away is a problem but at one vitae per scene, you can afford to keep it up before draining someone of blood to heal.

All Nines

"Oh, celerity can be useful but in a straight-up fight it's not quite so great."

Really? It struck me as being fairly optimized for a straight fight. Not that a straight fight should be a regular occurrence in this style of game, per se. I suppose the weapons issue is kinda big, but I feel like it could be fairly well-employed in melee with enough dots.

All Nines

I wonder if I'll be able to recruit for a game at Something Awful if I don't actually volunteer to ST.