Vnonymous wrote:Yeah, this is where I think we're going to have a problem.
Dracula is going to want to put holy water, silver, alcohol, grains, iron, earth from other countries over his holy-ground situated over a river.
And the werewolf is going to do the same thing except replace silver with garlic or sunroofs. You're going to want to weaken everyone who isn't you, which results in a huge clusterfuck of weakness causing substances.
At this point it looks like you might just be better off making weaknesses drawn from power source or the individual monsters as suggested earlier.
It's basically the problem Superman's got. Everyone's got fucking kryptonite. Some of them have even been able to create islands laced with the stuff. Eventually some vampire or mage or someone is going to accumulate enough of whatever werewolves are vulnerable to and build his place with floors of the shit, if possible, if it's a liquid, like alcohol, he'll probably have a fire sprinkler like set up with the stuff.
Hell, I've heard OWoD stories of people tricking werewolves into eating silver by putting it on fries (though it shouldn't have worked because it was silver nitrate, or something, not pure silver). Eventually someone's going to do this with whatever werewolves are vulnerable to (alcohol in the batter, I guess.)
And unlike Superman, it's kinda unlikely that anyone's going to be able to team up with a Child of Aether that dresses like a bat to track down every piece of whatever they're vulnerable to and destroy it. Though it is classic for vampires to try and destroy/blot out the sun, werewolves advocating prohibition or trying to find every single piece of silver is kinda... weird. And ratfolk trying to get rid of or pollute every single molecule of water is... futile and bad for life everywhere.
Alright, that said, there are interesting story possibilities if you've got people going around trying to destroy weakness materials, and there are interesting story possibilities in people going around trying to accumulate enough weakness materials to make their lairs inhospitable to their enemies.
I guess, regardless of what the weakness material is, people are going to try and accumulate a bunch of their enemies' material and destroy their own on sight.