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Holy shit. At this point, your straw grasping has gone straight on to pathetic. Step Five gives you one dot of Blood Potency for free. You can buy further ones with Merit Points. You don't have Merit points until step six. [br]The author of the other WW gamelines disagree\. In all cases, the Super ...

# Step Five is adding the Vampiric Template. At this point you choose your disciplines. You can choose one "bloodline discipline" at this point in the process.[br][br]# Step Six is assigning Merits. One of the Merits is "blood potency". You must spend Merit points to raise your ...

FrankTrollman wrote:It's an ordered list, you do it in a specific order.

Fucking White Wolf.

Read Frank's explanation

Or read the last time I called him on this. Note how he doesn't say anything in response to the "unable to be learned" quote.

At Blood Potency 2, a character may "activate" his sire’s bloodline, becoming a part of it. Doing so allows him access to that bloodline’s Discipline (which thereafter counts as a fourth "clan Discipline") [br]Why would they say 'allows him access' if he could already have it? N...

And? It does not say "And this overrides the standards rules where you cannot learn a bloodline discipline unless you are a part of a bloodline". You can start in a bloodline at char gen, so if you happen to be in one, you can spend one of your dots on a bloodline discipline.

As a starting character you can have 1 dot in a Bloodline discipline from a bloodline that you aren't even part of [br] A bloodline has four favored Disciplines. Of them, three almost always remain the same as the parent clan’s. The fourth is either unique to the bloodline — unable to be learned by...

Don't know about that. They make a bit too much off having a dedicated campaign setting that they actually update. [br]I don't know about that. I think the reason they make so many is that they're so cheap to crank out. You can hammer out pages and pages of fiction in no time flat. Then you might h...

My guess is that there is that they're ditching the entire idea of a 'campaign setting'. There wont be a book about "The Kingdom of Narth, the kingdom of the north", there will be "The Kingdom of Narth, generic northern kingdom you can slip into your campaign setting anywhere there's ...

Training + Skill focus makes every other modifier pretty much irrelevant. Its almost an auto-pass, depending on how much the DM screws with the DCs on skill checks, and it also means you never have to actually care about skills. [br]That's deliberate. If you require a substantial feat investment fo...

Its a Monte creation, which implies some wackiness (and the occassional bad bit of editing that seems to haunt every single RP product nowadays because, apparently, people just can't be bothered). [br][br]Monte's wife is one of the best editors working in the RPG industry today. Suffice it to say, ...

1185071020[/unixtime]]I'm tempted to run a Shadowrun (4th edition) campaign for my players, and I was seeking advice/opinions on whether I should try this out. [br]Even moreso than in D&D, the players MUST communicate with the GM and each other if anyone is to have fun.[br][br]GM A expects EXTR...

HERO's an excellent system. It's also a VERY complex system, but it's still a system that's worth looking into.

Count_Arioch_the_28th at [unixtime wrote:1183203341[/unixtime]]
I voted democrat last election. And despite winning, we're still killing brown people for fun and profit, we're still heading towards ecological apocalypse, literally nothing has happened.

Off-topic - I thought you were a global warming skeptic?

The current court is kinda sucky because it's just making shit up that's counter to prior rulings. [br]THE JEW$ WERE BEHIND 9/11 BU$H = HITLER RETHUGLICANS ARE EVIL REPTILIAN KITTEN EATERS FROM ANOTHER PLANET AND ARE IN LEAGUE WITH THE SHAPESHIFTING CHILD-MOLESTING SATAN-WORSHIPPING LIZARDS FROM OU...

The point of the federal courts is that they aren't held accountable to anyone. They can just do what's right without having to worry about what The People will think. The lack of amendments to the constitution is a nice demonstration of how little people are actually annoyed by supreme court ruling...

If we're serious about this, we should establish what ELA this is for. I personally vote for one of two:[br][br]A. About 4-5. This is low enough that a lot of people will run it, yet has room to slip in some real nastiness. If we go much lower than that, we just don't have enough abilities to work w...

I have finally found something that tops the Melissidae bloodline for brokenness: The spells Gain Skill and Skill Mastery from Free Council. You need Gnosis 3, Mind 3, and 32 experience(24 for Mind 4, 8 for the Skill Mastery rote).[br][br]In Mage, you can cast any Instant-action spell as an extended...

While looking up an answer to Guest's question - I seemed to remember that "clan discipline" was always in quotes - I found this quote on page 259.[br][br]"A bloodline has four favored Disciplines. Of them, three almost always remain the same as the parent clan’s. The fourth is either...

Activating a Bloodline requires the expenditure of a Willpower dot, something that you cannot do during character generation. [br]There is absolutely no rule that says you can't spend a willpower dot during char gen. There's also no mechanical problem with it. You cross off a dot of willpower and m...

...And since you can't be a member of a bloodline on character creation... [br]Which is where your argument falls apart. We've spent a lot of time on page 92, so let's check out the preceding page.[br][br]"When choosing a clan, you might wish to choose a specific bloodline that deviates slight...

The more important bit is on page 256. [br][br]"At Blood Potency 2, a character may “activate” his sire's bloodline, becoming a part of it. Doing so allows him access to that bloodline’s Discipline (which thereafter counts as a fourth “clan Discipline”) but also saddles him with that bloodline'...

You can't win in combat. Seriously, you just can't. No matter how hard core a axeman you are (axes and chainsaws are the only melee weapons worth a crap), there's still no way you can compete with two or three enemies of marginal skill. [br]This only applies if you don't have access to Armory. If y...

Looks like someone forgot to pay their domain renewal fee.

Uh... no. [br]I just went through the entire core Vampire book searching for the part where mortals forget vampire encounters. Apparently, it doesn't exist. This concept should definitely be imported from Werewolf and Mage: Low willpower people completely blank on the supernatural, medium willpower...