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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4007723" data-attributes="member: 3087">Varied Discipline Die PoolsBlood,Edited the character post slightly to make it clearer. The fastest, and possibly the most efficient way to increase your dominate pool for the first two powers is to raise your intelligence (which is your mental power stat).In VtR (as opposed to earlier versions of the game) disciplines with dice pools are varied according to the power levels. While it's a bit frustrating for players I prefer this way because it means the pools are more varied.I can have, for example, a vampire who's really good at affecting memories, but doesn't necessarily have an extremely powerful command for instance.Also, it gives certain interesting effects, a vampire with a high intimidate, for instance, is still going to find command, if they have it, attractive, because their command takes advantage of their intimidate skill.Also, to a certain degree, it decreases the "magic" nature of things. It's not like there are vampire wizards who are really good at vampire magic, but vampires have "magic" that is tied to their personalities.Of course, some people are good at everything, but that means they've spent a lot of time practicing all the different skills and attributes related to that discipline.It also makes buying up normal attributes (instead of physical disciplines) somewhat more attractive than they would ordinarily be.</blockquote>