And yet I managed to run more than a few Nightbane campaigns where they did just that.runebeo wrote:they will not last long against most foes in that world.
How long a character survives against an enemy isn't just determined by how their stats appear on paper in terms of a stand-up fight. It's also determined by how the player makes use of what abilities their character does have. How well they plan. How well they prepare. And, very importantly, what sort of game your Gamemaster decides to run. You're playing resistance fighters against an invader--the Viet Cong of the game's setting, if you will. Do you think the Viet Cong would have stood a chance against the American forces in Vietnam if they only ever stood up toe-to-toe and only thought in terms of stand-up fights? Same principles very easily apply to Nightbane, considering their hold on Earth is actually more one of social and political control and subversion rather than just marching Hounds down the streets in open displays of brute force.
To be frank, if every thing the players could use as characters could whoop Hound and Nightlord ass with ease, the idea of a secret invasion of Earth would become totally implausible because there'd be little in the way of an actual threat, no?
