moon knight
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What the fuck are they doing?
Celerity would have been more interesting if it increased your movement speed and jumping distance (of course, the levels would have needed to be redesigned around this increase in mobility).
What the fuck are they doing?
big daddy of the vamps
Bullshit. The disciplines in Bloodlines were all vampire-themed and made me feel cool, dark, and better than human, with weird effects completely appropriate to the genre. Punching the ground as a combat technique to battle people with earthquakes is comic book silliness, on par with stretching powers or turning into a car.C'mon dudes, most of the active disciplines in the original felt really trashy to use. Passive effects or poorly designed projectile stuff. What we've seen so far looks to be an upgrade on that tbh
"I know! I'll encase him in a sphere of pure sound!"
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Empowering the player and reinforcing the idea of playing a supernatural monster masquerading as a human rather than just a guy walking around with a gun.
I almost feel like they want to turn you into a superhero.
I won't argue about balance, but I don't accept that the flavor of the Bloodlines powers was off.Anyway, joking aside, the point is real. Disciplines of original Bloodlines as mentioned before are very poorly balanced, and most of them don't really measure up. Truth is, majority of them (you know, since it's VtM) are not really even that vampire themed (Malkcoughmalk).
In VTM? Wow, that's news to me. I never played the PnP. I still think it's dumb.PS: Earthshock has been around for a long time
It's a 6+ tier ability originally (seven dots to be specific, so all the way NPCs only bs, like ZA WARUDO and almost every Vicissitude card in Eternal Snuggle), debuted in Guide to the Camarilla IIRC. V5 adds it as the other five dot for Potence (as mentioned, Potence and Fortitude now have abilities instead of only a passive effect now, and Celerity also has additional abilities instead of just a scaling active; this is a very welcome change IMO), it doesn't deal damage like the old version used to and honestly the other five dot for Potence is better since that's the Aggravated damage melee now instead of Protean claws (again, welcome change, even if even at five-dot I'll have my reservations about aggravated being available). In vidya its different because vidya is not PnP and can never be so it needs to concern itself with being vidya.In VTM? Wow, that's news to me. I never played the PnP. I still think it's dumb.
Absolutely. I guess what it comes down to is Bloodlines established a mood and this power feels wacky in a way that breaks the mood.In vidya its different because vidya is not PnP and can never be so it needs to concern itself with being vidya.
Actually I think using Melpominee levels in a creative combination it IS possible to encase someone in a sphere of pure sound.
Anyway, joking aside, the point is real. Disciplines of original Bloodlines as mentioned before are very poorly balanced, and most of them don't really measure up. Truth is, majority of them (you know, since it's VtM) are not really even that vampire themed (Malkcoughmalk). The only one that had a genuinely distinct, powerful, and unusual effect was high-level Celerity. In terms of what would be absolutely genuinely vampire themed, it isn't exactly that long either, at most you could say it's Dominate (which as mentioned isn't even that good or interesting in its execution), Animalism (assuming you can get over the fooken magic presentation), and Potence. The disciplines were not what made Bloodlines good.
PS: Earthshock has been around for a long time, the primary change is that Potence (and other previously passive disciplines) now also have active abilities on lower levels as well. However it was part of the rather ass concept of "NPC powers", discipline levels made purely for NPCs to use (which I think is stupid both in terms of existing since it's mostly just condescending towards players, and secondly because any GM should strive to invent their own strange elder powers instead of taking some cookie cutter premade).
You are just begging for them to make Lenny into a woke sensitive New Age cuck sjw, aren't you?I'm much more worried about the potential of a super duper woke narrative, but I gotta say the concept model for that Brujah is hella awesome. Lenny from Motörhead is the gold standard for oldschool brujah
Muh oppresshun.I still don't get it about a thinblood joining a clan, how it is possible. And why you should retain your thinblood powers and get new clan powers. And why thinblood powers are so cool, even if you are supposed to be a 'lesser' vampire.