| From: | IEngelmann@***.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Vampires or not vampires |
| Date: | Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:22:57 -0400 |
>> common sense, I didn't see it as likely. Second was game balance-I was
>> using a shapeshifter-mage at the time, and it just didn't seem fair.
>
>You were playing a shape-shifter mage!!!!!!! If I even thought about
>mentioning playing a shape-shifter I would get monkey-stomped by my
>entire group! I would love to do it though....play a shape-shifter that
>is...not get monkey stomped :)
>Although our current GM played a vampire PC once...he found that walking
>through 11 bursts from assault rifles in a round just got too boring :)
>
>
Oh my, my first post to this list.....oh, I'm so exited (sweat, sweat :) )
I'm playing in our SR-Campaign a vampire-mage. I think you must keep in mind
that even if a burst doesn't kill a vampire it still hurts a LOT (and after
11 bursts he will be most likely dead meat. He has to roll so many single D6
that the chance for a single 1 is quite fair. :) )
I think many of you think that a vampire as a PC might be unbalancing, but
with my roundabout 250 Karma he's at the lowest end of the ladder. The other
PCs especially Redbeard (our dwarven mage) is with his 400 to 500 karma our
state of the art mage.
After my experience my vampire is not unbalancing. His job is to hunt down
other vampires (he's quite good at that) and he has enough problems like the
sun, most spirits don't like him, holy places etc. (Ok, you could say that's
hard <grin>, but nobody in the group has any idea that he's a vampire and he
likes to keep it that way.)
BTW, in our campaign vampires do NOT regenerate stun damage.
Ok enough rambling for now...
Ilja Engelmann (Germany, male)
