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[MoroseMorgan]

Didn't think about it being a threat, that's good.

"If you are good to us, we will be the greatest ally you can ever hope to have, but if you stray we will house an arcane hatred that cannot be extinguished."...

[MoroseMorgan]

Yeah, why waste words saying something doesn't stack if that isn't the default state?...

[MoroseMorgan]

I feel like this ignores a lot of context, both of when this setting was initially written, and when it was initially revised.

Written pre-9/11, and initially revised during the Obama administration makes for a very different environment to be writing than the last couple years.

That said, you have to make a decisive choice on how to handle one of the present world super powers- there are plenty of takes on it booming and busting, to the point that one of the few "fresh" takes left would be it quietly falling into apathy, mediocrity, and being slowly overtaken...

[MoroseMorgan]

Since there are extra-terrestrial and extra-dimensional beings cited as using Psi and Quantum, the origin of Vampires could be some extra-dimensional meddling by some malevolent being kinda like how the Doyen made Psions.

Yeah, it is kinda over-explain-y, and paint by numbers, but I think these kinds of things have a place.

Whatever the prime vampire creature kills or almost kills the target, using that opportunity to alter their noetic template to make them a vampire. So I guess that becomes halfway between 2 and 3?

I Am Legend is one of my favorite books,...

[MoroseMorgan]

I think this is one of those rules people expect because of conditioning from other games, that just gets glossed over here. Could stand to be more explicitly stated to ease people coming in from classic Storyteller and d20 games, but people coming in from most FATE and PbtA style games are accustomed to "you just have your stuff".

Closest thing to exact rules text I've found at the moment is the description of Paths-

Connected to those decisions
and experiences are people — coworkers, friends,
followers, family — and resources — lab space,...

[MoroseMorgan]

Not fillable, but they came bundled in the drivethru entry.