Second- Scion has no structure and no clear goal. Maybe HAVING A CLEARLY DEFINED DIRECTION makes for lots of cookie cutter characters... but what's wrong with that? It's better than a bunch of no-goal no-direction characters. Empire had a clear, simple goal, and was highly structured. It seems to me that ALL cabals *except* Scion have a clearly defined goal-- something the characters that don't want to do nothing but scream for immortal interaction can do.