While I'd like to keep the many of the rule and setting changes minimal, I have a couple problems with some disciplines and how Dark Ages: Vampire presents some of the clans. The major one on the list though, is Serpentis and the Setites.
Obviously the Followers of Set (or Typhon-Set as the case might be), are going to be one of the potential factions in Alexandria, but their write up and discipline are a little lacking. Looking at the discipline, it isn't really clear how it might augment an influence, unlike just about every other discipline (barring the physical trio of fortitude, celerity, and potence and also Quietus from the Dark Ages: Vampire book). I think the Setites also suffer a little from their earlier incarnation where they were given this strange Serpentis discipline, and the later interpretations which didn't change the fact that their most powerful discipline level is a bizarre ritual which can only be preformed once a month.
The fix? Obviously a few key thing setting elements will need a slight update, so I'm going to do a bit of a rewrite to fit some other setting material about the Setites a bit better and not portray them as one-dimensional manipulators. A couple other clans might need a little attention too, but I'm not sure if a simple paragraph is best or to do a cut-and-paste job with some alterations from the book. A couple of the roads might need a little work too (Heaven seems clearly Abrahamic and I want it to include Neoplatonism, the Cult of Isis, and other Greco-Roman and Egyptian pagan cults).
Obviously the Followers of Set (or Typhon-Set as the case might be), are going to be one of the potential factions in Alexandria, but their write up and discipline are a little lacking. Looking at the discipline, it isn't really clear how it might augment an influence, unlike just about every other discipline (barring the physical trio of fortitude, celerity, and potence and also Quietus from the Dark Ages: Vampire book). I think the Setites also suffer a little from their earlier incarnation where they were given this strange Serpentis discipline, and the later interpretations which didn't change the fact that their most powerful discipline level is a bizarre ritual which can only be preformed once a month.
The fix? Obviously a few key thing setting elements will need a slight update, so I'm going to do a bit of a rewrite to fit some other setting material about the Setites a bit better and not portray them as one-dimensional manipulators. A couple other clans might need a little attention too, but I'm not sure if a simple paragraph is best or to do a cut-and-paste job with some alterations from the book. A couple of the roads might need a little work too (Heaven seems clearly Abrahamic and I want it to include Neoplatonism, the Cult of Isis, and other Greco-Roman and Egyptian pagan cults).
