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Perhaps a reason could be that none of the supernatural groups want the other groups getting too powerful. When one group becomes stronger than the others, the only responses are either to capitulate to whatever they want, which none of them want to do, or gain more power for themselves. The latter ...

In a world with a thousand actors moving behind the scenes, does it really matter if a few of them have fangs?

From myth to Pickman's Model, changelings are a great concept for horror. I'm not familiar with White Wolf's Changeling games, but it seems like a bad idea to leave them out just because they've been done poorly before.

I definitely agree about not splitting up combat skills. Just have guns (which also applies to crossbows, supersoakers, and whatever) and melee (which applies to monster attacks, weapons, and maybe throwing a chair at someone.) Also, I'm not all that familiar with Shadowrun, but I imagine it has a g...

I'm sorry, but I wasn't clear. I don't care about race. I meant to say that I think having players turn into white tigers and the like could be a bad idea, since those animals are not traditionally associate with horror.

Here is the link to the top 8 decks from Pro-Tour Kyoto.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/A ... /top8decks

Two BW Tokens, one RW Kithkin, two RW Reveillark, one Dark Bant, one 5-Color Control, and one UB Faeries.

This is probably a stupid comment, but if this ever becomes a pdf, you may want to include a sidebar about animal forms. For example, someone who wants to play a white werewolf has a slight chance of creating an inappropriate character. Someone who wants to play a white weretiger or werelion has a p...

This is less iconic, but Dracula could control the weather. This, plus the ability to into mist enhances the water trait Ventrue could have. I see the vampire types as being "The Hideous Stealthy Ones" "The Good Looking Social Ones" and "The Aristocratic Mind-Controlling One...

I really hate bringing this up, but I think that dhampirs need mentioning. On the one hand, you have a good bit of folklore to support this, as well as Blade. On the other hand, you have... I don't think I need to bring up the negatives of having half-vampires. However, if a player wants to play one...

Vampire bat saliva is an anticoagulant, while snake venom (at least cobra venom, which I think is what we should go with) is a neurotoxin. I'd also like to point that a snake can easily bite you without injecting any venom. Snakes almost never use their venom on prey, but save it for threats. I don'...

Prak_Anima wrote:how about "you're a horrible monster that preys on society, deal with it, there is no humanity stat"?

that seems the way the rest of this is going, anyway.

That's fine, as long as all the races are equally lacking in the humanity stat.

Also, if you want a Ventrue trait from Indian myth, you can always look at Vikram and the Vampire. The vampire in it tells true stories, has immense knowledge of mortals, and asks riddles. This would make Ventrues the "smart ones" of vampire society.

Cold skin is pretty common in most vampire fiction, since vampires are undead. That and fangs should be present in all the vampires, because it is so iconic. Ventrue may be the only ones who are able to dislocate their jaws, revealing canines that are unusually long for vampires, however. The main r...

For the Ventrue, one idea could be to borrow an idea from the Twilight series (a terrible initial sentence, but let me continue) and replace their body fluids with venom. Also, there is a South American monster called the Peuchen which would gaze upon a victim, paralyzing him or her, and then suck t...