OWBN Vampire Failure

[internofdoom]

I am still in love with that io9 article Kevin Schmidt posted the other day. I stole it and put it up yesterday...click back a bit to read it

Comments

[placesoulhere]

I have been sending the link to everyone I think hasn't seen it yet.

[gwydapllew]

That is one of the things I enjoy about CiD's game right now. There is a significant group of players who really are into the whole concept of "WTF is happening to me?" without it being overly emo.

Then again, I'm fighting with the Primogen Council over whether or not I'm too mean to be Harpy...but that has more to do (I think) with blunting me politically than any real concern over being not nice enough.

[ravenna_blue]

Yeah, Lydia is really hard for me. She's so new, it's really fun playing her going through this change from "I'm bookish and love flowers" to "Eff, I am going to have to cut throats to survive and I love blood."

It's a lot of fun though.

[joshuagd]

Well, when the need to acquire blood is taken out of the picture, people stop caring about that. We have so distanced ourselves as players from the concept of feeding that the horror prevalent in the act has become dismissible. With Herd 5, Health 5 and Blood Beads a PC can essentially have a nigh-unlimited supply of blood. But where does all that blood come from? We don't think about the fact that having more than a handful of kindred in a city even the size of Cincinatti, Indianapolis or Tampa would be a hardship as a means of blood supply if a Kindred is attempting to maintain the population and the Masquerade. Yet certain games simply handwave the problem and assume everyone feeds

[keyboardninja]

There are three ratios given. Cam and Anarch ratios are preferred to be 100,000:1, but can go to 50,000:1 in a pinch. The Sabbat tend to go 10,000:1.

I think these are in various tabletop books, but I don't recall which ones or where, only the numbers.

[joshuagd]

If so, that illustrates my point even further. Even going to the tightest blood usage (which would probably be just enough blood to sustain yourself without worrying about hunger-frenzy), that is twelve kindred able to survive in the domain. That number is dwarfed twenty-five times over by the amount of kindred at Midwinter, all of whom are completely FULL on blood. With no repercussions to any of them OR the kindred who remain behind.

I call bullshit.

[keiran_akuma]

Also, I don't believe a blood point has ever been firmly defined as a pint. I just think that is the easiest method of measurement.

[soulsight]

This is why I rather enjoy being a supervillain with fangs. >:D

[keyboardninja]

No, the worst part is that you're familiar enough with Twilight and Edward Cullen to make this comparison. :P