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[Shawarbaaz]

These are the poseurs, examples include Velvet Velour from Bloodlines and Veronica Abbey-Roth from the Revised corebook...

[Shawarbaaz]

Well there have to be an excuse for why certain vampires act in a certain way, most if not all Ventrue should be "Lords over the damned" otherwise the clan loses its defining schtick. What matters is how they do it, there's multitudes of roads to gaining power, and that's where it gets interesting.

Same thing with the Toreador, every Toreador have their specialized art, but whether it's fashion design, woodcarving or jerking the strings of influential Kindred in a twisted puppet show. The same thing goes for every other clan....

[Shawarbaaz]

That's even better, maybe every Clan has it's own Beast, maybe the Malkavians have an insane, unpredictable Beast, maybe the Ventrue's Beast beckons them to dominating their enemies and gaining power, interesting....

[Shawarbaaz]

You are inquisitive are you -_-

My first and only complete play through was Toreador (who are my fave even in tabletop)...

[Shawarbaaz]

Yeah it's a good idea to dress to fit in (Jeanette from Bloodlines managed to pull the school girl act because of her profession)...

[Shawarbaaz]

Poor guy......

[Shawarbaaz]

Well walking into the club all Presence and style is different from wearing totally improper clothes and looking like a kawaii goth lolita. Any Toreador with self-respect would dress to stand out, not stick out....

[Shawarbaaz]

Think of what your characters wanted as humans, it would probably carry on after their Embrace. Those with no ambition would probably find themselves entrenched into other vampires' plots. Remember, manipulation and backstabbing is the name of the game in the All-Night Society, and even the characters who think they are fulfilling their own goals are unknowingly doing someone else's dirty work. Always.

[Shawarbaaz]

I'd disagree, a person without sufficient biological knowledge doesn't know how his digestive system works, but it works anyway. Disciplines are just another property of Vitae, it's innate, subconscious, Kindred work their powers without knowing if they relate to each other or not, it's a subconscious effort. This is why forceful Ventrue find themsleves relying on a very developed Dominate with barely any talent for Presence, while their more charismatic counterparts would find better use for Presence, and little for Dominate.

In fact even refering to these abilities as Auspex, Presence...

[Shawarbaaz]

This is why I don't usually bring matters of Clan in play as tangible and mechanical. Many Ancilla and some Elders don't know all the Clan weaknesses in detail, and there's always misconceptions and bias, some might think that Ventrue are only picky eaters and nothing else, others don't even know what exactly is the Toreador weakness, this applies to disciplines too, you can bet many Kindred think animal Telepathy (Animalism) and animal shapeshifting (Protean) are the same thing.

Also keep in mind that Kindred don't even recognize their disciplines as separate abilities ("I look...

[Shawarbaaz]

How do you differentiate a Malkavian from a Ventrue with megalomania?...

[Shawarbaaz]

Antoine Savoy (my favorite in the book) could be a Toreador or a Duchagne, though I have a bias against Bloodlines since most of them are prolly written (though I do like Taifa, Khaibit, Erzsebet and the Architects of the Monolith)

[Shawarbaaz]

It's evident, it's not a frenzy thing, Brujah are emotionally intense because the Beast is constantly clawing at their chest, threatening to lash out. This is why the Brujah are never meek, mild or shy. Every other Clan has a different kind of Beast, only responding to base desires and only concerned about feeding, killing and surviving. The Brujah's Beast is rooted on a deeper emotional level....

[Shawarbaaz]

But isn't the very point of being Caitiff is not having a Clan weakness, thus there's no distinguishing whether or not you actually belong to that Clan...

[Shawarbaaz]

Prostitution. Why pay money for lunch when lunch pays you money?

[Shawarbaaz]

Dress to your heart's content but always remember the Masquerade, over the top clothing tend to be noticed. And smart Kindred don't want to be noticed. I'm looking at you, the Toreador in the back with the lace skirt and tophat! However this doesn't mean we should all dress in plain jeans and t-shirts, but keep it realistic, blood stains are hard to get rid off and brand stores don't open up this late at night.

So, what is your character's usual dressing style?

Oh and for those who think fashion is irrelevant, there's a murder of Harpies in Elysium waiting for you...

[Shawarbaaz]

I'd worry about the unnecessary attention more than the heat tbh....

[Shawarbaaz]

Well many Brujah are the opposite of rapey or homophobic (really, this Clan probably boast the biggest number of radical and not-so radical feminists) though just as much are bigoted. I'd like to assume thath the quotes are either the opinion of one member or the cultivation of different opinions, not the Clan's complete hive mind thinking....

[Shawarbaaz]

Not sure if this counts but my Toreador psychoanalyst has the Addiction flaw, so he always keeps a bottle of alcohol handy: wine, vodka, absinthe, whatever hits his fancy that day, not that he drinks it himself, but with a combination of Presence and his high Subterfuge he could always convince any potential vessel to take a few (or more than a few) shots.

[Shawarbaaz]

There are vampires who learn Thaumaturgy and get away with it. But now one in three Anarchs are Thaumaturgists, like why?...