The metaplot is hot garbage for midwits. At my table, the Sabbat is still kickin' and there's no Gehenna War going on. Hell, the 2nd Inquisition is much smaller than in the metaplot. At Troika's table, Caine drives a cab in LA. It is basic GM/DM/Storyteller courtesy to appreciate when another does something cool with an RPG setting.There's a metaplot and that's canon.
Don't worry, Bloodlines 2 will undo this grave mistake.
Jack also probably wanted to diablerize whoever was inside.
I doubt that. Otherwise, Caine would not have found him intriguing.
Nothing about the plot of Bloodlines requires the MC to be Extra Special. Sure, we progress our skills quickly compared to the tabletop RPG, but it's a video game. That's how video games always worked. We never break the generational limits or manifest extra special powers or really do anything super duper vampiric that's crucial to the plot. And IMO, the plot is much more interesting if MC is just a random newbie vampire who happens to be mostly competent, than if the MC is the secret chosen one.
We do. Andrei all but spells it out to the MC, and LaCroix' Dominate ceases to work on the MC at some point, which is only possible if the MCs Generation became lower than that of LaCroix.
Good riddance. It should have died permanently back in 2004, but the cult success of Bloodlines is the only thing that saved it from vanishing into obscurity. Naturally, the dumb suits at Paradox had no idea why Troika was successful so they end up just prolonging the death throes. IPs are cheap. What's rare is good writing, or at least fun presentation. Bloodlines might not hold up to scrutiny and take a lot of liberties with canon (not that I care about that canon), but damn if Troika didn't capture something special.
We all know that's hollow hypocritical bullshit. If that was true, then the cybercrybullies wouldn't have their knickers in a twist over the release of V3 in 1998, Requiem in 2004 and V5 in 2018. The fandom is a dumpster fire of toxicity.
Because he'd rather create a brand new vampire and see if he will correct the millennia of dysfunction among Caine's brood. Which he (the protagonist) does at the scale of a single metropolis in the first few nights of his existence, and then goes off into the Final Nights to who knows what kind of future, depending on the ending.
In one of the Gehenna scenario endings, the PCs are cured of the curse of generation as a gift from God for surviving. So it is a thing that has been established as possible, according to some writers.
I think the VTM:B protagonist is of the second generation.
Or because LaCroix is losing his shit and his confidence, and is now losing the dice rolls to dominate us
Caine is the actual sire of MC and the entire plot of the game is about him testing his new protege
Domination in Bloodlines doesn't use dice rolls. It would be an absolutely cheat to make dice rolls affect an element of the plot when it's not an actual game mechanic.
He explicitly calls it a "theory." As in, the characters don't have confirmation it's true. Since his clan's whole shtick is intel, then we can assume he's a reliable source on this. We don't see any convincing evidence that it is true, either, beyond paying lip service to the tabletop due to contractual obligations. The power and status of vampires strongly correlates with their age, with elders being those vampires who are at least 1-2 centuries old (this is younger than how it works in tabletop btw). If generation was real, then you would expect to see plenty of exceptions. Instead, whoever wrote the lore wrote generations to closely correlate with age in a way that is unbelievably neat and tidy. The population distribution of generations has barely changed between the year 1200 and the year 2000, which would make way more sense with blood potency instead.
