Editing Path of Enlightenment (section)

==What the Creators Intended==
Vampires have to be monsters to exist, and realistically it’s very fucking hard not to adapt to circumstance. Paths were a way to codify what happens when Vampires find some stability that doesn’t involve being the kind of faggot who weeps tears of blood over the hunter that just tried to torch you and the apartment building your haven’s in. Where a lot of paths are looser in the realms of: killing, stealing, property damage, torture, etc., what is put in it’s place is something that is stricter in the hierarchy of sins.

A Path of Beast Vamp isn’t going to be bothered by accidentally killing someone during feeding, such things happen to prey after all. However cold blooded murder is still a problem, according to the path it isn’t natural. And that’s the key thing: '''''ACCORDING TO THE PATH.'''''

Rather than the loosey goosey moral greys of humanity the Paths have far more specific prohibitions, some that are even harder to avoid. Like not frenzying, something that is likely to occur in any tense situation, and there are disciplines that can induce it. Or Path of Power and the Inner Voice and it's level 1 Sin "Turning Down an Oppourtunity for Power," I can easily see how a good ST can exploit this. Paths don't just let PCs do what they want, you are literally trading which sins drive you nuts.  

Furthermore, paths are meant to be built from the ground up. and your XP had better go to boosting your path every so often because unless your ST is merciful you’re starting much much lower on your path of enlightenment than the folks still on humanity, and you might have to buy up brand new virtues from scratch. (Remember how you got a free dot of each virtue? If you switch Concience with Conviction or Self-Control with Instinct that free dot is gone and you’re just a little bit easier to fuck over by the ST…unless you spend your freebies boosting those virtues instead of disciplines or backgrounds<sub>...not fucking likely.</sub>)

On the other hand. If you can keep players to their hierarchy of sins with the same zeal that a [[Rules_lawyer|Rules Lawyer]] cares about circumstance bonuses, some really facinating RP can happen and you might actually see something cool.