Malkavian for a first time run through, if it HAS to be a choice bewteen the two clans. Max out your obfuscate just as quick as you can, use it to leave and enter combat at will, use it to stealth kill a person in front of 5 other people without becoming visable... Use it Use it Use it!! Don't ever stop if you can help it!!...
You'll suffer latter in game when things like bosses and such show you a hard time because you lack the raw physical power of some of the other clans, but the times bewteen these instances can become a cake walk if you focus on not being seen ever by anyone.
Malkavian or Tremere?
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first time through I went with Brujah and played tremere and malk later on. malk is challenging and so is tremere, but I prefer the arcane style of a tremere - gangrel's blood-sucking bats are better than the tremere blood salvo, but blood-boil is very handy for fighting groups of humans.
a demented (malk) vampire in VTM is fun, but it can 'lighten' the game too much - I prefer my vamps to be in control of their un-lives and to work to make themselves more powerful. for that - tremere is a good clan.
a demented (malk) vampire in VTM is fun, but it can 'lighten' the game too much - I prefer my vamps to be in control of their un-lives and to work to make themselves more powerful. for that - tremere is a good clan.
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Just cutting back to the rants:
I agree. I was more then a little dissapointed that the Malkavian clan was portrayed as "Hilarious" in Bloodlines. As all the books and good players will tell you "Insane people are NOT funny!"
The insane guy on the street who runs at you, screaming at you like he's acusing you of something with a wild look in his eye.. What do you think? "He he he, that guy thinks elephants steal his thoughts". No, you think: "Holy hell, this guy seems to think -I- stole his thoughts and I have NO idea what he's going to do"... He could knife you. He could just scream at you. Maybe he'll burst into tears. Maybe he'll cut his own wrists and blame you. Maybe he's diseased. Maybe he'll stalk you and kill your family. Maybe he just wants change for the bus...
Ravnos are better suited to be the jokers and light hearted clan, thou it's a deadly, sinister and vicious joke that they share amoung them. Never forget that even a clan like Clan Ravnos are laughing AT you, not WITH you. To them, you're just a bit of meat that lost it's way on the Dharmic wheel of life and death and it's their job to lead you back to the earth that you came from, no goods, no money, no hope, no life, no death... Just oblivion... And you should go seeing their smiling face in their last minutes: "Thanks for the car, pal. I hope you paied extra outta your blood money for a cushy boot, cos you're gonna see the inside till the cops pop it open in the morning. The inflight movie will be "Sunrise over New York"... Exits are nowhere, enjoy the ride".
The problem is, "purists" like myself and numerrik have seen too many: "I'm a 9 year old girl trapped in a 22 year olds body and I wear fluffy bunny slippers and like lollie pop" Malkavians that utterly destory the feeling of a game by saying "I suck my thumb and pout" when the Prince orders them to destory all their ghouls or some such thing. When I heard White Wolf were putting together a game with an ACTUAL story line I just assumed they would try and get things a close to the original idea as possable... But I spose if there wasn't at least one funny character in the game, people who never played the PnP would prolly pass it off as "Some emo blood drinking game". le Sigh, I think I'll go cut myself.... Nah, maybe I'll just have a glass of OJ. Ahhh, juice!
I agree. I was more then a little dissapointed that the Malkavian clan was portrayed as "Hilarious" in Bloodlines. As all the books and good players will tell you "Insane people are NOT funny!"
The insane guy on the street who runs at you, screaming at you like he's acusing you of something with a wild look in his eye.. What do you think? "He he he, that guy thinks elephants steal his thoughts". No, you think: "Holy hell, this guy seems to think -I- stole his thoughts and I have NO idea what he's going to do"... He could knife you. He could just scream at you. Maybe he'll burst into tears. Maybe he'll cut his own wrists and blame you. Maybe he's diseased. Maybe he'll stalk you and kill your family. Maybe he just wants change for the bus...
Ravnos are better suited to be the jokers and light hearted clan, thou it's a deadly, sinister and vicious joke that they share amoung them. Never forget that even a clan like Clan Ravnos are laughing AT you, not WITH you. To them, you're just a bit of meat that lost it's way on the Dharmic wheel of life and death and it's their job to lead you back to the earth that you came from, no goods, no money, no hope, no life, no death... Just oblivion... And you should go seeing their smiling face in their last minutes: "Thanks for the car, pal. I hope you paied extra outta your blood money for a cushy boot, cos you're gonna see the inside till the cops pop it open in the morning. The inflight movie will be "Sunrise over New York"... Exits are nowhere, enjoy the ride".
The problem is, "purists" like myself and numerrik have seen too many: "I'm a 9 year old girl trapped in a 22 year olds body and I wear fluffy bunny slippers and like lollie pop" Malkavians that utterly destory the feeling of a game by saying "I suck my thumb and pout" when the Prince orders them to destory all their ghouls or some such thing. When I heard White Wolf were putting together a game with an ACTUAL story line I just assumed they would try and get things a close to the original idea as possable... But I spose if there wasn't at least one funny character in the game, people who never played the PnP would prolly pass it off as "Some emo blood drinking game". le Sigh, I think I'll go cut myself.... Nah, maybe I'll just have a glass of OJ. Ahhh, juice!
I was Diablorised once. I got better.