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Emotional Vampire; Benefits?

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surarrin:
Specifically, without Feeding Dependency.

What would the ability do for a character that can be put down into game mechanics?

luminos:
It lets you make mental attacks against an opponent when they have the right emotion, and clears your physical stress and removes a minor consequence when you kill with it.

JosephKell:
Without Incite Emotion it is pretty weak for a power.

Feeding Touch basically sets you up for a situation where success using the Incite Emotion power begets more success (if you succeeded once, now you are rolling with an extra +1).

Taste of Death is basically a "Ding, round 2!"  With Inhuman Recovery, this ability even lets you get back a Moderate Physical Consequence (since all consequences are downgraded by 1 for recovery period).  I assume the unstated part of Taste of Death is that it removes all Hunger Consequences.

But since Taste of Death doesn't actually give a way to emotionally attack, it also requires Incite Emotion.

Emotional Vampire should probably have a must of "Incite Emotion" just to ease confusion.

luminos:

--- Quote from: JosephKell on May 09, 2010, 10:44:06 PM ---
But since Taste of Death doesn't actually give a way to emotionally attack, it also requires Incite Emotion.

Emotional Vampire should probably have a must of "Incite Emotion" just to ease confusion.

--- End quote ---

Feeding touch gives a way to emotionally attack.  "When a victim is in the throes of an eligible emotion, you may draw some of his life force out of him to sustain you.  This is done as a psychological attack with the appropriate skill."

surarrin:

--- Quote ---As a baseline, whenever you’re near an
“eligible” strong emotion, you may draw in mild
sustenance from it.
--- End quote ---

This is what I was refering to guys.

How does THIS benefit your character, if the character doesn't kill?

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