Free Cog posted:

The game can be a bit weird when it's played, especially if your players aren't really into the idea of reskinning the intentionally broad, mostly material based set of "powers" H5 Hunters have. You are indeed fighting ghosts with grim determination and rock salt...you know, as long as you consistently roll that required Difficulty 4 test to have access to your cool custom sawed-off from scene to scene. Or the required Difficulty 4 to get your drone in the air, or roll enough successes to spend a day off-screen researching worthwhile, or to use some of the three supernatural-focused Edges available.

That's being a bit harsh to the Edge system, and in theory this should be where Hunters can tap into their Desperation and their Willpower and also where the Storyteller should step up and offer Wins at a Cost should neither of those be available, but that might not be something you easily pick up on if this is your very first WoD game, which H5 is often brought up as an option for. The book does let you know the high Difficulties (at least, high for the pools of most starting characters who didn't use the Specialist skill spread to hyper focus for their preferred Edge pools) are intentional and suggests having players tap into Desperation, but that's where the Fields can potentially hinder the game. They're broad, but I wouldn't say they're all as equally effective as the other.