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marc17 wrote:
> If you're playing a hunter game with
> normal people, such a ploy may be perfectly alright since the
> characters will need an edge over the vampires and a little knowledge
> and tricks like this would help them and the flavor of the game.
> Having anarchs show up at court all wearing IR googles may be funny
> the first time, but later in the chronicle, may wear thin.

Good points.

As it is, we're playing a chronicle we nicknamed "The League of
Extraordinary Vampires", because every PC is a min-maxed monster. I
think the intent of our soryteller is to test us, as a playgroup,
really, because the all munchkin party was his idea.

So we're basically trying to act like responsible twinks. Which means
that we perform twinkery R&D, but we abstain from using it, most of the
time, because we don't want to break the story (too much .

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Francois Gombault <gombault.francois@BROKEN.ADDRESS.wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:<cb8o1h$rce$1@news-reader4.wanadoo.fr>...
> As it is, we're playing a chronicle we nicknamed "The League of
> Extraordinary Vampires", because every PC is a min-maxed monster. I
> think the intent of our soryteller is to test us, as a playgroup,
> really, because the all munchkin party was his idea.
>
> So we're basically trying to act like responsible twinks. Which means
> that we perform twinkery R&D, but we abstain from using it, most of the
> time, because we don't want to break the story (too much .

I like to reward characters with creativity and such and let them get
away with various things in a pinch when they need to. the main threat
against not doing such all the time is that it gives me free reign for
the NPCs to use such tricks also. one case in point, back when you
could divide dice pools and there was a merit called Charmed Existance
(that dropped a 1 out of each roll) then a character could split
everything up into lots of 1 die rolls without a chance of botching.

For twinkish R&D, we have a Giovanni for that. When they characters go
to him for something, he can provide it but usually what he requires
from the players is such a service. "Here, these bullets have been
made out of vampire fangs( werewolf bones, or other odd item) and I
need somebody to find a werewolf and/or vampire and shoot them to see
what sort of affect they have", ie do they cause aggravated damage.
Repeat with knives, possibly on other strange creatures.