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Kenning isn't generally worth it
Consider the angle that your players aren't using Kenning because, well, Kenning isn't worth the cost; you spend an entire Willpower and the most your character gets is, "Yes, there is something supernatural within sensory range of me," without even the courtesy of learning distance, direction, or relative strength. The ...
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There are a few ways that come to mind.
First, if any of the characters has a "sense" merit that seems applicable, especially Common Sense, it can be used to drop hints.
Second is by having an NPC that points out how helpful this can be.
This could be by acting as a mentor and guiding them through like they are learning a new ability or possibly by making ...
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Resources, and equipment's resource requirement, represent permanent attachments to a character. These are things that are simply part of the character's existence and not just items that happen to be lying around. You don't have to have resources to have access to a weapon for a scene where you need it, you need to have resources to have access to that ...
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A fair balance between having the player earn the merit through experience (paying) and having the player earn the merit through play would be to have the play's experience count towards the merit itself. The player in question forfeits the experience he would've gained for the hunt and kill of the werewolf, instead converting it into the merit itself ...
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Attributes & Abilities
Dodge has been removed as a skill; its former functionality has been moved to Athletics.
Security has also been removed; its former functionality has been subsumed by the Larceny skill and the Technology knowledge.
Linguistics is no longer a skill; each language known is a 1-dot Merit instead. (p. 484)
Clans
The Tremere have ...
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I think I can say the major change is the undoing of the metaplot. In V20, Assamites are still cursed, Ravnos are alive and Gangrel dwell in the Camarilla. One of the design objective was to recover the original vampire flavour. It's unclear to me why some other revised changed hasn't been undone, as the Tremere antitribu extermination or the Ahrimanes ...
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It's bashing.
On the same page, in an earlier paragraph, the power of Telekinesis is described as letting a ghost do "basically anything a mortal could do with his hands." Since hand-to-hand fighting does bashing damage, that's what you get. It's only if you use the power to manipulate an object, like swinging an ax, that you might get access to lethal.
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