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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1107167" data-attributes="member: 177">Hm, a scan of my Vampire book doesn't reaveal that.  It might be something from your GM, specifically.  My rulebook in a number of places puts an emphasis on the fact that animal blood is an option.The issue of animal blood isn't taste or sensation.  It's that animals generaly aren't as nourishing to vampires.  For all it's mass, a whole cow has a whopping 5 Blood Points, where an adult human has 10.  Cows are the celery of the vampire world <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Plus, sucking the blood out of a cow, dog, or rat is just demeaning.  And all those vampires who have chucked human morality aside will pooint and laugh at you and call you names and give you all the respect they'd give a turnip. Beware generalizations.  In Vampire, the question of what will stop a stake is not so much an issue of the weapon itself as it is of who is holding it.  Many things in the White Wolf universe are capable of packing a lot of whallop behind that stake.However, this isn't Buffy.  There aren't critical hit locations.  Your opponent generally has to beat you into submission before he can drive a stake in your heart.  It's presumed that until you are Incapacitated, you're can generally manage to not have the pointy thing hit you where it really hurts.</blockquote>

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