From: afj9838@rigel.tamu.edu (JOHNSON, AARON FLEMING)
Subject: Re: Vampire, The Masquerade
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:58:00 GMT

In article <BtI5Ew.6HB@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v076jy2p@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Cosmo Of The Cosmos) writes...
>>1. Are Lupines (Garou) *immune* to non-silver/vamp teeth damage,
>>   or is this damage simply non-aggravated. (The sourcebook is unclear,
>>   and the Werewolf book isn't out yet).
>Vamp Teeth are "Magical If you want to put it, are are claws from protean:2.
>So I'd say yes, but don't quote me.

	Gotta go with this one myself.  If Kindred teeth (and claws) cause 
aggravated to Kindred, then they should do it to Garou as well.



>>6. Celerity, Fortitude, and Potence.  There are two issues here.  Each of
>>   these adds to an Attribute (Dex, Sta, Str).  Is this *always* active,
>>   regardless of blood point expenditure?  There are several places in
>>   (e.g. Milwaukee by Night) that it claims "the character expends blood
>>   points to fully take advantage of her Fortitude" (or somesuch).  The
>>   sourcebook reads "always add Celerity" (to Dex rolls) ... but is this
>>   *active* Celerity (etc), or the latent rating?  If it's only that which
>>   has been "activated" by spending blood points, then why have it (since
>>   everyone can spend bp to increase physical stats)?
>>   The second issue is: "Wow! Is Celerity really that powerful?  Give someone
>>   an automatic weapon, Celerity 2, Dex 3, Firearms 4, and use rapid fire,
>>   and you've got a guy with a full dodge, plus 2 full dice pools to spray
>>   targets with... this could easily be a starting character.  The bonus
>>   actions can't be defended against effectively... how can anyone fight
>>   someone with a superior (say 2 points more than you) Celerity? (You could
>>   have a huge stamina and high dex, and they'll dilute your pool so that
>>   with firearms (and their auto-damage from hits) will still wound you).
>Blood points can increase physical stats up to 5 unless your 7th generation
>or better. All the dis that add to physical stats are always added.  No
>blood need be spent for this.  Foritude is counted alone vrs agravated wounds
>potence has nothing special and celarity is the god power.  A guy with celerty
>of 4 gets five actions.  The problem is spending the blood to go that fast.
>However, your right.  Give a vamp Celarity 2 and Protean 2 (for those claws)
>and time to spend his blood points, he'll mop the floor with anybody not
>going that fast.  First hand experance.

	I believe it's Stamina + Fortitude for aggravated wounds, but I could
be wrong.

>>8. "Movement of Mind" seems way to open to abuse.  Any experienced player
>>   can quickly conjure up nasty death traps with it, thus I suggest the
>>   following modification (based on Psychokinesis in the Hunters' Book):
>Yep it is, celarity is deadly too, what's yer point?

	"Movement of the Mind" deadly?  How?  It states in the path description
that you can't throw anything with any velocity with it.  The best you can do
is drop things on people with it.  

>>Your thoughts appreciated,
>you got 'em!
No prob!


>"Tell me about your embrace..."

	Well, it was a dark and stormy night.  No...that's been done.  It was
noon on a Sunday in spring.  No...that won't work.  The moon was in the seventh
hou...no, no, no!  Dammit, describing an Embrace is frustrating.  Wait a minute!
I'm not a Vampyre, I'm a Dragon!  Dragons don't get Embraced, ya idjit!  Now,
stop asking stupid questions and get outta here before I eat you!!!!

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