Re: OOC thread
This might seem long-winded but hopefully it will tackle all of your problems and even some future ones that come up.
Discipline powers go way above your normal senses and natural strengths. All vampires seem to be stronger, faster, tougher, more sensitive, smoother, etc. In reality they aren't any better at these things than a normal human, they seem better because their body is dead and therefore does not react like a humans.
For example a human and a vampire are lifting weights together in a gym, they can both lift the same amount. Since the vampire's undead body doesn't get tired he can keep lifting that same weight all night long while the human will eventually slow down as he tires. Their senses are much the same way being dead vampires don't breath, blink, etc, etc. It seems as though they have better senses when in truth they just don't suffer from the distractions a human would.
Now disciplines as I said go way above and beyond these norms, while they are often referred to as gifts of the blood they also work as curses in a way. Potence is a great tool it makes you far stronger than any mortal could ever be, however you can never turn it off. It is a part of god's curse on Caine and his ilk because it removes the capacity to be gentle, the entire world becomes fragile and easily broken.
Auspex makes you more sensitive to your surroundings able to see and hear things that no mortal could. Anybody can look at a painting and see many various details, if you used heightened senses to look at said painting though you would be able to see every little brush stroke and nuance. Any mortal could hear someone walking through a dry lawn if they tried, heightened senses you would be able to hear individual blades of grass breaking while said person walked. Any mortal could smell a perfume, heightened senses you could pick out the individual components in said perfume. Now if heightened senses were always on, imagine what would happen if there was a sudden gunshot, lightning strike, etc. You would lose that sense for a time if such a thing a happened.
Does it make more sense now, or did I explain too much as I have a tendency to do?