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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 1646268" data-attributes="member: 18549">I don't see how that is supposed to work, considering that from the demo PDF, you still have Humanity.&nbsp; If you have Humanity, you can't just kick the butt of anyone you don't like, kill indiscriminately, or otherwise behave like a vampire, because you'll end up a raving lunatic.&nbsp; While I like Humanity as a story concept (and a powergamer's worst nightmare), I was kind of hoping that they'd have a less angsty game mechanic to replace it.&nbsp; It seemed to generate only melodrama of the weepy kind.I was hoping that WOD2 would be more gritty and vulgar than WOD1, which was &quot;dark&quot; in the &quot;my parents let me paint my room black so long as I keep a B average at school&quot; sense of the word.&nbsp; I like my vampire fiction tragic, violent, and ultimately inhuman.&nbsp; While the downward spiral was a nifty idea, I'd like to give that puppy a rest.&nbsp; Not that I liked the Sabbat and their &quot;omgwtf I |2 so 3v1L&quot; shtick much better.I'd rather see vampires portrayed as normal people who have been given the power to kill, and have had the normal aversion to doing so removed in the process, and explore how they deal with this very vicious and consequence-laden reality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 1646268, member: 18549"] I don't see how that is supposed to work, considering that from the demo PDF, you still have Humanity. If you have Humanity, you can't just kick the butt of anyone you don't like, kill indiscriminately, or otherwise behave like a vampire, because you'll end up a raving lunatic. While I like Humanity as a story concept (and a powergamer's worst nightmare), I was kind of hoping that they'd have a less angsty game mechanic to replace it. It seemed to generate only melodrama of the weepy kind. I was hoping that WOD2 would be more gritty and vulgar than WOD1, which was "dark" in the "my parents let me paint my room black so long as I keep a B average at school" sense of the word. I like my vampire fiction tragic, violent, and ultimately inhuman. While the downward spiral was a nifty idea, I'd like to give that puppy a rest. Not that I liked the Sabbat and their "omgwtf I |2 so 3v1L" shtick much better. I'd rather see vampires portrayed as normal people who have been given the power to kill, and have had the normal aversion to doing so removed in the process, and explore how they deal with this very vicious and consequence-laden reality. [/QUOTE]

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