It's just WAY better than anything the werewolves have in their arsenal.
Werewolf PCs have a couple of *really* killer tricks up their sleeves, unfortunately. It doesn't matter if the ghouls murder all the Kinfolk - they can't stop a werewolf with Sense Wyrm and Sense Of The Prey from following the master home, walking *right through* all his defenses without even noticing them by virtue of stepping sideways, and popping out instantly to smash the vampire with all kinds of incredible unsoakable aggravated damage before the vampire gets to throw Majesty or Entrancement or Dread Gaze.
Basically, if it comes to outright war, vampires can make werewolf kinfolk extinct, and they can kill all the wolves, but they have great trouble (mechanically) killing the werewolves themselves if the werewolves think like PCs, and, because of being written second and written badly, there are a LOT of Werewolf things that vampires simply cannot deal with in time - the werewolves might lose the war, but they win the battles by *killing the vampires dead* in a way that, mechanically, the vampires simply can't deal with. Every vampire the werewolves know about is either a Tremere who has later-written anti-werewolf thaum, or is ash, very fast.
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Date: 2008-09-28 01:05 am (UTC)Werewolf PCs have a couple of *really* killer tricks up their sleeves, unfortunately. It doesn't matter if the ghouls murder all the Kinfolk - they can't stop a werewolf with Sense Wyrm and Sense Of The Prey from following the master home, walking *right through* all his defenses without even noticing them by virtue of stepping sideways, and popping out instantly to smash the vampire with all kinds of incredible unsoakable aggravated damage before the vampire gets to throw Majesty or Entrancement or Dread Gaze.
Basically, if it comes to outright war, vampires can make werewolf kinfolk extinct, and they can kill all the wolves, but they have great trouble (mechanically) killing the werewolves themselves if the werewolves think like PCs, and, because of being written second and written badly, there are a LOT of Werewolf things that vampires simply cannot deal with in time - the werewolves might lose the war, but they win the battles by *killing the vampires dead* in a way that, mechanically, the vampires simply can't deal with. Every vampire the werewolves know about is either a Tremere who has later-written anti-werewolf thaum, or is ash, very fast.