Things that give you significant bonuses on dice rolls are not that difficult to get.
Just remembering to mention that you've lit incense and/or that you did the LBRP before you started occulty-stuff can give you +1 or +2 dice on rolls.
Also, honestly, unless you're a damn good shot you're probably better off throwing that gun at a werewolf or vampire. You might surprise them long enough to run away.
@FiranSurvivor said:
@The-Tree-of-Woe said:
...As I understand it the 'take back Ireland' movement was something of a plot-point.
Elves aren't smug, salad-munching racist hypocrites except they totally are.
It would be fun to play a Troll who styles himself a Formorian. WE WERE THERE FIRST.
Any chance you can point to a book or a link that explains Ireland and the Tir more?
http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Tír_na_nÓg
Try that?
Hear me out.
So you start with the Incursion event...
Only instead of a Justice League pastiche, the Inner Circle of the Legion of Doom from "Justice" steps through the gate to confront Stark and Richards et al.
You go from there.
@Coin You get the cool stuff by oathing to someone above you in turn. An Invictus prince, amusingly enough, gets few of the benefits of oathing because he's the point from which all oaths germinate--
But he gets to be prince, and he has inertia against being removed, because if he ceases to have title the whole oathing system might collapse.
It makes a world of difference to Vampire, but that's about it.
Hint: It will still be boring.
But it could be worse: Over in their V20 line, Onyx Path just published a new version of what was, if memory serves, the most hated book in the entire line.
That's right, it's a new TRUE BLACK HAND sourcebook. Because that's what the setting really needed.
...Just give Splinter the stats he ought to have. 
Adapting any merit not related to combat is... uh. Actually since the success resolution mechanic is pretty much unchanged, you don't really have to. You can just put it in and see if it can keep up.
@Huzuruth Rites of the Dragon was amazing. Remember, that book was also meant to be a LARP prop, the same way the Book of Nod/Canticle of Lilith was.
True, and werewolves are supposed to be killing machines, I suppose, while a vampire's more of an all-around "don't pick a fight with it" sort of dealie.
Near as I could tell from my blessedly brief interactions with him, he's a harem builder. Says what he has to say to gather a bunch of sympathetic women around him, and has to run off or subordinate other men.
Edit to add: And harem builders of either gender are a pain in the ass to dislodge, because they work hard to gather as many people who'll go to bat for them as possible.
On the other hand, HM Mage had Maclemus, who single-handedly almost redeems the whole game (I mean Mage), at least in my eyes.
@Arkandel Short form, based on my COMPLETELY SUBJECTIVE observation somehow staff always winds up inordinately favoring it and with its pledges and such everything always seems to wind up all kinds of the fuck about it.
You can be asked to make the attempt, and that's it. Nobody has the right to demand that a person completely emotionally disassociate themselves from something they do for fun. That is, to put it baldly, lunacy.
Subjective Thoughts:
Anyone who goes at you too hard for not being able to separate your emotions from a roleplaying event, especially if they are placing the goalposts for what that means and in relation to what or whom, should be assumed to be trying to take a dig at you. Also, since that invariably seems to come from a person in the power position, it has always struck me as a type of gloating, and largely contemptible.
HOWEVER:
The truth is that everybody involved has emotions, and it's easy enough to forget that when you're looking a person in the face. Having a computer barrier between you and the other person or persons is an additional complication.
It makes people shitty communicators, and it makes people shitty listeners, and when you add a raw emotion to that mix, you might as well jam a blasting cap into it and call it a bomb.
@Gilette Inches and degrees. Emotional reactions can be wholly unreasonable, for a variety of reasons. It cuts both ways, and I have seen (and on occasion BEEN) a person who needed to take a step back and take a deep breath, and didn't, at least not with the alacrity I should have. You live and you learn and on occasion, you err.
I have also seen people who viciously emotionally abused others by telling them they were too invested, when in fact it boiled down to them holding the other person by the wrists and making them slap themselves in the face, while chanting "Stop hitting yourself!"
Some people can be cool cucumbers. Some can't. The last time I lost a character, I actually found the experience liberating, like passing through a pitch-dark doorway and finding not a stone wall or a bottomless pit, but a multiplicity of choices on the other side.
But I can't really blame someone for not wanting to go through the door, especially not if there are other attached problems, which all too often there seem to be in these high-emotion instances.
@surreality I quit the recent Mage: the Ascension CYOA game because one of the first things that happens to you is that you run into a Cultist of Ecstasy who says "Let me teach you the ways of Ecstasy!" And gets handsy and mouthsy with you when your POV character is emotionally vulnerable and physically stressed due to an accidental use of Magick.
I noped right the fuck on out of that game. The vampire one may have had a controversial writer, but that bit was unconscionable to me. You have a point.
Actually I find that games are often too lenient with morality checks. Half of HM's mage genre should've been cackling and insane, and ALL of their Changeling genre should've been.