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Nov. 27th, 2004 04:14 amOkay, even accepting that a bloodline founder must be a PC (something I still don't believe is 100% necessary, as I would rather promote the idea of such rather then require it), why must the PC be alive at the start of the chronicle?
Let's face it... out of the five bloodlines presented in the Requiem book, at least one of them (Malkovians) has already had their founder geeked, and it's within the realm of possibility that the Bruja founder is already a kipper on a cracker as well.
And yet... and yet, it is, for some reason, seen as less then desireable for a PC bloodline founder to have died in the backstory.
So let me ask this... is it any less "good" for the game if, mere moments upon entering their first game, a bloodline founder walks into a wandering gank-squad, becoming the latest victim of their combat cheese?
When is it acceptable for the bloodline founder to die? A week after entering game? A month? Is it somehow better that they die in play, no matter how they die, rather then actually having a backstory death?
I don't think so.
Sure, it's preferrable to have a founder come into play, last as long as the player has a story to tell, etc. and so forth. But that doesn't always happen. And yet, the tone I'm getting from some people is that it's preferrable (in the extreme case) for a PC founder to last minutes or hours rather then having been dead for a couple of decades.
This makes no sense to me.
Further, I despise the belief that having a bloodline founder "start" dead is somehow cheesy or ruining the game for others, or that "letting" people get around the cost of one of them making the founder themselves by having the founder start off the chronicle dead is likewise cheesy or ruining the game for others.
Personally, I hold it's the people who are that hyper-concerned about others "ruining" the game every time someone spots a flaw in the rules logic who are the real people who are doing more harm then good to the game.
But that's just my opinion, I'm just a bastard.
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bauglier, you can copy this over to your journal if you want.)
Let's face it... out of the five bloodlines presented in the Requiem book, at least one of them (Malkovians) has already had their founder geeked, and it's within the realm of possibility that the Bruja founder is already a kipper on a cracker as well.
And yet... and yet, it is, for some reason, seen as less then desireable for a PC bloodline founder to have died in the backstory.
So let me ask this... is it any less "good" for the game if, mere moments upon entering their first game, a bloodline founder walks into a wandering gank-squad, becoming the latest victim of their combat cheese?
When is it acceptable for the bloodline founder to die? A week after entering game? A month? Is it somehow better that they die in play, no matter how they die, rather then actually having a backstory death?
I don't think so.
Sure, it's preferrable to have a founder come into play, last as long as the player has a story to tell, etc. and so forth. But that doesn't always happen. And yet, the tone I'm getting from some people is that it's preferrable (in the extreme case) for a PC founder to last minutes or hours rather then having been dead for a couple of decades.
This makes no sense to me.
Further, I despise the belief that having a bloodline founder "start" dead is somehow cheesy or ruining the game for others, or that "letting" people get around the cost of one of them making the founder themselves by having the founder start off the chronicle dead is likewise cheesy or ruining the game for others.
Personally, I hold it's the people who are that hyper-concerned about others "ruining" the game every time someone spots a flaw in the rules logic who are the real people who are doing more harm then good to the game.
But that's just my opinion, I'm just a bastard.
(And yes,
bauglier, you can copy this over to your journal if you want.)