Oh, and because I never posted it:

[alexmegami]

The Chocolate Scale

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[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

I think my preferred range is 2-5. I like to have serious stuff happening, but I prefer when things work out well in the end. I also have a very strong preference for playing characters who are basically good-aligned, although I'm okay with them having some flaws or a tendency to do "bad" things for good reasons (*coughlikediablerizingpeoplewhorapetheirsisterscough*). I prefer Mage and Changeling to Vampire because I see them as about 5 where Vampire is 6, and it's hard to play a genuinely good character in Vampire.

[alexmegami]

I guess it somewhat depends on your definition of "genuinely good" is. I think that Vampire played too high on the scale becomes superheroes with fangs, but it's not impossible to play someone that stays in the 7 Humanity range - just really hard and requires a lot of work on the characters' part.

I think the point of the WoD is that it -should- be hard to be genuinely good, though, so...

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is true. I started Kaye at Humanity 5 because of her past, but bought her Humanity up to 6 after she used all her social merits to single-handedly get Toronto's homeless population off the street when Belial's Brood would otherwise have used them for food.

[alexmegami]

Az went from 7 to 2 in the span of about three storylines and then dragged herself forcibly up to 6, dropped again to 5 (oh man was *that* aggravating), and hauled back up to 6 by the end.