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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8775945" data-attributes="member: 82524">See, that's the deal and why I know it's bad writing:The titular Masquerade of Vampire: the Masquerade is fine. There's a reason it's in place in-universe that makes sense and also incentivizes the player character to play ball.Paradox is just an arbitrary punishment there to act as sad duct tape for the plot holes the writers couldn't be assed to actually close up. Just a sharp stick to poke the players with if they get out of line.This just gets worse when you make that loadbearing concept into a person and then make the world treat them like the ultimate badass who gets to tell you what you can and can't do with no recourse, no slapping them in their smug faces, now throwing them down and reveling in their ruin, not even flipping them off and calling them a few choice names -- the world just says 'no, you lose and they win forever, lol'.</blockquote>