Dwemer Puzzle Box
Arcane
inb4 we'll get activities - "kill 100 ghouls!", "sabbat rampage!", "ventrue tower jumping!".
Man, I was waiting for a game to finally implement proper updrafts. I mean I can barely keep my dog from floating away because of all the updrafts in my town. I'm sure those updrafts will be implemented organically during level design and not include giant floor fans for no reason.
inb4 we'll get activities - "kill 100 ghouls!", "sabbat rampage!", "ventrue tower jumping!".
I am more curious to see whether Paradox can keep the hype train going for an entire year before the game actually comes out.
They don't even need to, the hardcore fans of VTMB are already in a permanent state of hype until the game comes out.
They don't even need to, the hardcore fans of VTMB are already in a permanent state of hype until the game comes out.
You exaggerate. I basically worship VTMB, but I am definitely not hyped about VTMB2. Esp since the Thinblood "Clan" reveal. Ugh.
Also kind of important Caitiff are not defined by Generation and are not necessarily thin-bloods.Thinbloods are not a clan are they??
Not really, of course. They just tend strongly to be Caitiff because no one will have them, so they're sort of, unofficially, their own clan. In game terms, anyway, not in-world.
Well yes and no really, Thin-Bloods have less of a bad time with the sun but conversily they have a much worse time with bullets without a merit, and while they can temporarily gain disciplines via Blood Resonance they cannot learn disciplines at all (and with a merit they can learn *one* discipline). Thin-Bloods also have to take additional flaws compared to others (aforementioned two merits require this, Thin-Bloods take additional flaws specific to them, and for each up to three an additional merit specific to them). Basically as a whole it's part of the overall shift to try and move Vampire to a more lower level of perspective, cutting down on the number of superpowerful NPCs around while trying to make Thin-Bloods and 13th Generation more useful and viable instead of basically NPCs-Only stuff (because let's be honest, nobody would NOT have Generation 5 in their background if they weren't making some bullshit RPing excuse for themselves; come to think of it, Generation is also removed from background options).Love how thinbloods get abilities that Clan kindred would kill to get. It seems that being a thinblood in wokeVamp is better than being part of a Clan. Must be the "muh oppreshun" factor.
Mist is a level 5 Protean ability and you can't even get to that level unless you are 8th gen or something like that. A thinblood getting it off the bat? Woke oppreshun factor.From a narrative persective making the PC at least start off as a Thin-Blood makes a lot of sense, it's probably the most natural way of giving that "grand tour" of things in the setting from bottom up and give a clear sense of character progression.
I'm more curious that they seem to have dug up Kineticism from some attic it was left buried in.
Also kind of important Caitiff are not defined by Generation and are not necessarily thin-bloods.Thinbloods are not a clan are they??
Not really, of course. They just tend strongly to be Caitiff because no one will have them, so they're sort of, unofficially, their own clan. In game terms, anyway, not in-world.
Well yes and no really, Thin-Bloods have less of a bad time with the sun but conversily they have a much worse time with bullets without a merit, and while they can temporarily gain disciplines via Blood Resonance they cannot learn disciplines at all (and with a merit they can learn *one* discipline). Thin-Bloods also have to take additional flaws compared to others (aforementioned two merits require this, Thin-Bloods take additional flaws specific to them, and for each up to three an additional merit specific to them). Basically as a whole it's part of the overall shift to try and move Vampire to a more lower level of perspective, cutting down on the number of superpowerful NPCs around while trying to make Thin-Bloods and 13th Generation more useful and viable instead of basically NPCs-Only stuff (because let's be honest, nobody would NOT have Generation 5 in their background if they weren't making some bullshit RPing excuse for themselves; come to think of it, Generation is also removed from background options).Love how thinbloods get abilities that Clan kindred would kill to get. It seems that being a thinblood in wokeVamp is better than being part of a Clan. Must be the "muh oppreshun" factor.
Blood Alchemy is basically an example of why nobody should ever be allowed to come up with ritual systems because they'll come up with silly shit like three years to research a formula. I personally don't like this potion shit much, but they wanted a vampire meth lab so they gots them a vampire meth lab. I still like it more than the sort of bullshit they cook up for how old characters are (Neonates in 2019, embraced in nineteen-fucking-forty? This sort of bullshit of passage of time being utterly irrelevant was always dumb with Vampire).
I'm more curious that they seem to have dug up Kineticism from some attic it was left buried in.
Don't be mean, we like some good things once in a whileI don't mean the people here.
Celerity and Obfuscate were way better than all other disciplines combined
Then again, in Bloodlines Strauss calls LaCroix (embraced in 1815) a neonate, just so your head can explode.
Nah they're out and about. It isn't that hard to work Animalism around the bat thing, and as mentioned Protean could do a lot better for five-dot than Mist Form.I'm not an expert on wod faggotry and shit but doesn't this mean two of the classic clans are out ? Nossie and gangrel probably ?
Tertiary I would say (since even Celerity takes secondary priority to the top requirement in Bloodlines: Persuasion, Lockpicking and Hacking). Auspex provides a handy increase to Hacking for much of the game to help you conserve XP, and it can provide a benefit at endgame due to Perception bonus, but it isn't anything compared to Celerity (and in fact, it too is better seen as a subsidiary of Celerity in combat due to the way Celerity amplifies basically everything else). Presence is neat, but again doesn't really compare to Obfuscate, but it does work as the alternative to Fortitude but has more efficiency at low levels than most disciplines since the speed debuff is there from get-go, the dialogue use added in Plus Patch isn't really enough of a carrot IMO considering how you are naturally funneled to using Persuade due to skill books and occult items. The thing with Celerity is really just that it's by far the most multi-purpose discipline, with highest amount of mayhem per blood point used, and the one that can act as a force multiplier. Main drawback it has is that it is a slow burner, you need to get it up to 4 before it reveals just how strong it is.Celerity and Obfuscate were way better than all other disciplines combined
In my opinion Presence and Auspex are better than either of these.
Can be seen as either way. It's either a gross oversight, or poor form
considering that Gary was embraced in 1957 (which btw is IMO doing it right).
the older nossies got lost in the sewersIii don't know. Age and cainite society ranks are messed up in the PnP, but 50 years of unlife to become the Primogen of your clan? Even for a city as young as LA, this is stretching it. Ideally, the city's Elders should be connected to the gold rush of the 1850s, excepting obviously imported cases such as LaCroix and Strauss.
No wonder you spend your time on the codex and not with a man....phew that sense of fashion.Ugh is anybody else disappointed with the fashion we've seen so far? It's all suits, or old dresses??? Where's the cool lewks!
Like dude is dressed like Captain America in his casual clothes here:
Not to be totally biased, but vampires should lewk more like this:
At least let me dress in an oversized puffer jacket and slay a sporty lewk underneath!!!!!!
One thing I loved about Bloodlines was how stylish things were, like everything came from a UNIF lewkbook! (Hopefully I'm wrong and they'll be totally stunning outfits in the final game!!!)
No wonder you spend your time on the codex and not with a man....phew that sense of fashion.