[FaeLenx]

Pretty well put actually and thank you for clarifying some of your points here. I still hold contention with a lot of the weird sentiments other people have put through on this thread that in some way seem to be trying to influence the mechanical discussion, such as the bizarre insinuation that vampires get hunted down or are especially metagamed upon when literally everyone's build is subject to metagame and the only instances of vampires being hunted down to any actual consequence to the vampire would have to be a consensual storyline that the vampire endorses to make their character actually more engaging.

So to you, that's actually a really good point and there have been some good suggestions that you've put forward that would make vampires just a bit more amusing and fun that don't just involve axing their only compelling weaknesses that they have for all of their strengths.

I do disagree that we need some sort of power-scaling by race by-design, though. Let players make their own characters with their own builds. Nobody should want to make a character that's playing with a stacked deck in a game that can, even infrequently, become competitive.

To everyone else.

All of the talk of OOC bullying? Both hilariously bad and hilariously irrelevant and seemed directed at removing or negating vampire weaknesses because they're 'so easy to OOCly metagame' or some such tripe. It doesn't help balance discussion. Contact a GM if you're worried someone is doing something against the rules, and if they're not doing something against the rules but you don't want to deal with them, you can just walk away freely from them in almost every single given RP circumstance with no penalty to yourself.

I'll repeat this in case the implication was missed: If people are going after you OOC, it's not because you're a vampire. People just get salty and weird on this game all the time. You can just walk away from these people too, bar them from your property with the in game mechanic because they only prove that they're not there to actually RP as a storytelling companionship, or whatever else have you. As far as game balance goes, it's an entire non-issue.