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22 comments and none about “the real monster”?

I kinda wanna get this book for a future campaign.

If you are DMing and you have an action your players are "supposed" to take, you have made a grievous error.

Easy fix make the zoning committee super corrupt and the vampires willing to bribe more than you can.

Non-combat sessions can be great if everyone is on board. My fondest tabletop memory is a bottle episode where half the players didn't show, so the two players left pretended to be security consultants and scammed the nobleman whose manor we'd just robbed the previous session.

Id say it isn't over in this case. vampires have a charm ability, so I think it'd be fun to give the players a chance to play through the inspector went to check it out, let them know that they should be listening in so that the vamps don't just charm the guy into a passing inspection. if they don't play out that part, the inspector was charmed and passes them

In anarchy online there was a character class of bureaucrat that would wear suits, summon bots to fight for them, slow/snare with red tape nanos, and motivational/demotivating speech nanos for buffs and debuffs

I feel like there's an easy fix here, where the bureaucracy of a fantasy city could be either so slow or just non existent that this wouldn't matter.

"What is the purpose for the inspection? Yes, you're free to go inspect it if you have some business purpose... What do you mean, 'city inspectors'? What's that? Commercial zoning? What? Build whatever you want there. No no it's perfectly fine. If the last person contaminated the area... Well then build somewhere else or clean it up? That's not our responsibility. If you don't like the area, just don't open a business there. No, the drinking water is not contaminated, I'm telling you I just drank from the well this morning and it was perfectly clear and clean water. If it made you sick, well, that tends to happen now and then everywhere, doesn't it? We have no laws about water never making you sick. That's ridiculous."

Daredevil meets What We Do in the Shadows