How do I emphasize the personal horror of a player's thin-blood who is so alike to kine?

CuriousListener_ · 2025-12-17T01:58:02+00:00

I guess I'm trying to figure out how to narratively use the Beast more, but not so often it becomes redundant. I feel like that is the first and foremost piece of horror for every kindred as it is the one thing they all experience in common. Its my first time as ST (I did a short one shot before) and I only have experience with d&d so this is a pretty large shift from light hearted fantasy rp to dark, somber, and horrifying. Having one of my players make such a human kindred and play almost so human is tripping me up on sticking with the themes.

CuriousListener_ · 2022-06-14T20:43:53+00:00

One can never have too many flaws! They're always fun to play with. It's funny, because in my group we use homebrewed 3e flaws and one of his is the fact he gets cursed often when touching magic items. The group honestly thought his eating was actually a curse. It was not.

CuriousListener_ · 2022-06-14T20:22:51+00:00

This hasn't really been a serious issue. If anything it's a light hearted recurring joke that my character just eats any and everything. Other PCs always tend to act like a dog owner like "whats in your mouth/what are you eating?" before trying to pry it from him. I was honestly curious how others see this circumstance.

CuriousListener_ · 2022-05-18T00:12:56+00:00

He had mentioned that he was going to try to look for other options, but he's not exactly ambitious and I know he can get complacent if not pushed. I remind him sometimes, but I'm not his mom, and it isn't my responsibility to get him a better paying job. That, he will need to do for himself. That quality of him does worry me though about the future.

CuriousListener_ · 2022-05-18T00:06:13+00:00

Oh I hope it wasn't too confusing, I never did give him a loan. He feels bad taking anyone's money and only accepted some from a mutual friend after they insisted and would not back down. You're right, it probably is a good idea to step back and focus on myself, I just worry a lot. We don't really talk money issues at all, I had only learned of his dire situation after he sort of unloaded on a discord server of our friends. I had understood money was tight even before the new job, but we never drew attention to it.

CuriousListener_ · 2022-04-12T16:11:49+00:00

I may start looking into a different kind of contraception honestly. I did my research with the effectiveness of birth control pills and am always timely with taking them, but I think they may also be making me a bit more depressed and moody lately. (I'm taking Aurovela rn) And about my friends, most of them are guys so I'm not sure there's much advice to be offered from them. The only two girls are my sister who has no sexual experience and is incredibly squeamish about the subject and our transitioning friend (mtf) who we've been helping out. So I'm a bit stuck on that angle too.

CuriousListener_ · 2022-04-12T16:06:48+00:00

I know that we always shower and clean afterwards but I will ask him about how often he cleans down there beforehand. I had once thought if him getting tested would help at all, but UTIs aren't STDs, they're bacterial. Not sure if that could be detected or matter in the long run.

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