I always liked Paths, or Roads, or whatever because I thought they were interesting. I also thought that, done right, they really underscore the inhumanity of a certain character but at the same time, if we consider Humanity to be all embracing, then we also must acknowledge that what we're being asked to accept as human is both rooted in a certain culture.
Roads from, say, Dark Ages like Road of Kings and Road of Heaven are both paths of morality that an individual mortal might take up. In fact, a mortal might take any of those, and seem odd or fanatical, but stranger things have happened. All vampires started with Humanity, as far as I can tell,* since I assume they've been stricken with a Judeo-Christian curse, they've all been stricken with a Judeo-Christian morality system.**
Anyhow, I think Path of Whatever I Was Going to Do Anyhow is really more of a dig at how players tended to treat Paths as opposed to what they were good for. Even vamps with a Path didn't tend to have high ones (demonstrating that kind of zeal is fantastically difficult) and most vamps bottomed out around 4 Humanity, with 6 being the upper average, and a couple hanging around 2 or 3. So that dude or lady with an 8 (Humanity or anything, really) is really going to stand out as exceptional.
* Can anyone refute that? It's been a while. ** Even if it's not the only game in town, as far as other splats assume, it's the curse they're stuck with.
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Roads from, say, Dark Ages like Road of Kings and Road of Heaven are both paths of morality that an individual mortal might take up. In fact, a mortal might take any of those, and seem odd or fanatical, but stranger things have happened. All vampires started with Humanity, as far as I can tell,* since I assume they've been stricken with a Judeo-Christian curse, they've all been stricken with a Judeo-Christian morality system.**
Anyhow, I think Path of Whatever I Was Going to Do Anyhow is really more of a dig at how players tended to treat Paths as opposed to what they were good for. Even vamps with a Path didn't tend to have high ones (demonstrating that kind of zeal is fantastically difficult) and most vamps bottomed out around 4 Humanity, with 6 being the upper average, and a couple hanging around 2 or 3. So that dude or lady with an 8 (Humanity or anything, really) is really going to stand out as exceptional.
* Can anyone refute that? It's been a while.
** Even if it's not the only game in town, as far as other splats assume, it's the curse they're stuck with.