Sometimes you really have to love those ramped-up power level games on steroids, and as long as you were having fun - and it sounds like you were - then that's the important thing. A 24d melee attack pool is awesome. Also, your poor Retainers. Bless their darling little hearts.
You are reminding me of my Elder Lasombra who was an abbess' companion, who had one point in Obtenebration and all her other default Discipline points in Dominate, and most of her XP soaked up in Backgrounds, because in the Dark Ages, it's all about Generation and Backgrounds. She was always the abbess' boon companion, and had, in fact, been every single abbess' boon companion for the entire time that the abbey had existed, and no one ever seemed to remember that about her, because, well, all her points were in Dominate.
You don't really need more than your four basic Discipline points if you buy enough Backgrounds in Dark Ages and you surround yourself with nuns.
I wish that game had lasted, but we had a couple of min-maxers who wanted to kill everything we encountered, and didn't understand that Humanity was a legit mechanic, not a thing that everyone ignored so that they could play superheroes with fangs, and we had a Ventrue who wanted his feeding weakness to be only women with five dots in Appearance (ew), so we fell apart after a couple games.
But I loved my Background-heavy Lasombra on the Road of Heaven. I'm keeping her off to the side so I can use her again if I ever need to.
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Date: 2019-01-13 06:47 pm (UTC)From:You are reminding me of my Elder Lasombra who was an abbess' companion, who had one point in Obtenebration and all her other default Discipline points in Dominate, and most of her XP soaked up in Backgrounds, because in the Dark Ages, it's all about Generation and Backgrounds. She was always the abbess' boon companion, and had, in fact, been every single abbess' boon companion for the entire time that the abbey had existed, and no one ever seemed to remember that about her, because, well, all her points were in Dominate.
You don't really need more than your four basic Discipline points if you buy enough Backgrounds in Dark Ages and you surround yourself with nuns.
I wish that game had lasted, but we had a couple of min-maxers who wanted to kill everything we encountered, and didn't understand that Humanity was a legit mechanic, not a thing that everyone ignored so that they could play superheroes with fangs, and we had a Ventrue who wanted his feeding weakness to be only women with five dots in Appearance (ew), so we fell apart after a couple games.
But I loved my Background-heavy Lasombra on the Road of Heaven. I'm keeping her off to the side so I can use her again if I ever need to.