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[Lioness]

I already did....

[Lioness]

Yeah, it was caught in the spam filter.

[Lioness]

If they're Infernal PCs, this is a bad plan. It's a feature that the entire coven can indulge in the same Act of Villainy (even if they don't need to) because there's already enough factors pulling them in wildly different directions, not to mention the repetition required is a recipe for Acts of Villainy to wear out their welcome....

[Lioness]

To echo what some othere people have been saying.
The illusion of threat is more important than the immediate danger everything posesses. As the Storyteller you control all offscreen variables and you need to find the sweetspot where you're trusted enough to not murder all their friends and loved ones in a temper tantrum but also able to exploit the disparity in knowledge when you know what the PCs can do but they don't know what your NPCs are capable of.

[Lioness]

The situation with MoEP: Abyssal Resonance isn't something you should seek to replicate with Infernals.

#1 Most people who used Resonance as-written hated it, there's a reason it got alternative rules.
#2 If you're in the minority on point #1 it's worth remembering that Acts of Villainy to reduce Limit are harder to perform than venting Resonance and paying some short-term cost like health levels. Do you really want Infernal PCs constantly marrying people?...

[Lioness]

To me it looked like a solution to a very specific problem that shouldn't return in 3rd edition anyway.

The way Abyssals functioned as antagonists back when they had Spectral perfect defences, they were basically encouraged to troll people by commiting atrocities and ultimately lure the PCs into shadowlands/underworld where they'd have the home field advantage. Back in the day it'd have been fun to skip one of those encounters by sending them a letter that tells them how pointless they are....

[Lioness]

Context is really important.
I have a live and let live approach to how people want their characters to look but I'm critical of how professional products sell themselves.