After which you proceeded to massacre 3/4 of the LA vamp population with a fire axe.
tis an edge fantasy
Y U DISAGRE
That's why the big twist in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht is:
And most of its gangbangers too while at it. And honestly, you have to go out of the way to actually lose Humanity in VtMB, most of the time the best possible solutions to quests also gave you humanity points. It might as well have not been there, since all it really did was give you frowny-frowns if you were being a dick (though being a commando gear packin' two-fisted yojimbo is never against morality; and it would be absolutely terrible if it was).
After which you proceeded to massacre 3/4 of the LA vamp population with a fire axe.
I would say none at all, since power fantasy is important to make them fun and engaging. It's mostly just grating when WW tries to pretend VtM isn't about, to quote, "a power fantasy mixed with being emo pretending to have a curse that actually turns you into the coolest, sexiest, meanest motherfucking predator ever." It's okay to be a power fantasy. I mean, we'd all go insane without power fantasies.
And this is when I played PnP Vampire and Werewolf I didn't find any fun or purpose in playing Vampire. Werewolf on the other hand way fun. Now that is a real power fantasy game with no real negative.
How is this conveyed to a vampire?
You don't have to convey anything, you just have to truly believe that "salt is salty" and no vampire can hurt you.
This would suggest there is some higher power truly protecting certain people but not others, because it really gets off on people believing in something.
Why would it have to be a higher power in a universe with magic?
What a weird spell. "This will protect you, but only from vampires. A grizzly bear will still kill you just fine."
It protects everybody. If "true faith" can be believing in whatever, vampires can't hurt anyone because everybody "truly believes" stuff like "when I hold my breath, my lungs feel weird". YOU CANNOT HARM ME ABOMINATION
It is clearly a cop-out to be inclusive. I didn't even read the actual rules but my impression is they could have worded it much better. All they had to say was something like "whatever belief system is appropriate for your campaign"; they didn't have to do dumb shit like say all belief systems could work in every campaign.
Well the main thing the wording is trying to convey is that it is 1) not something caused by the religion itself or any other outside source, 2) but rather that it's a kind of mind over matter thing. True Faith isn't so much a power granted (unless one goes theorycrafting around the entire metasetting and interprets it as a rare function of the divine spark; and even then you run into places where it just makes no sense with that explanation like Ferox), but the power of an individual derived from unwavering and absolute conviction. It really isn't enough to just see supernatural or the like, heck even evidence of a religion being true wouldn't be enough to grant True Faith. True Faith is not based on either and cannot be affected by the opposite either. You can tell Ferox until you're blue in the face that he's a goddamn vampire and not a fallen angel, and he will never believe you no matter what evidence you present. Jesus himself could come down just to tell him that, and Ferox probably wouldn't change his mind. And if he did, he'd probably lose True Faith entirely, because it is not granted by an outside source but by unwavering inner conviction. Bach is also kind of a good example, since he comes off as unhinged (and someone with completely unshakeable conviction probably would), even if it's kinda murky if he's supposed to have True Faith or Hunter Edges.
yes, because true faith has consensus altering power
define:religion
! Also a lightsaber is a magical weapon so there is a connection. I don't see anything special about an Optimus Prime toy except maybe the vampire is so stunned, that he buys it to play with it and forgets about eating the collector 
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