well it wouldn't take god or cain to achieve clan status. diablerie is one option.
assuming diablerie I think its down to the plotline we know nothing about. the easiest solution I can imagine is a meta-choice, where you are diablerizing your sire and you've 'chosen' to be a tremere by discovering that your sire was tremere. it wouldn't be a buffet, you'd be retaliating against whoever did the mass embrace that turned you thinblooded. that would also take care of any animosity between your new clan and you. you'd be eating someone who really went out of line. but thats a lot of speculation.
Just as in your first playthrough you could kill Roger the NPC and help him in your second playthrough, the game can canonically show that only the clan you joined has a member sentenced to diablerie.
Oh but that's sort of what I meant.
I don’t think the rules should be followed, since I like watching lorefags throw hissy fits. The fifth edition wars have been absolutely hilarious. But at that point it does raise the question of why you bothered to buy the IP at all if you’re just gonna turn it into a skinsuit for your original ideas as Paradox has been doing. You’ve invalidated the brand recognition by alienating the existing fans (not that the tabletop fandom has any spine to abandon you and pull a Rippaverse, they still eat up any shit you publish) and you’ve spent millions of dollars that you could’ve spent on making an original IP from the get go. Did you buy it to avoid being sued for copyright infringement? Because there’s a ton of public domain stuff you could use as a resource to approximate what ideas you liked.
I think J1M has a point: it's good to have some sort of introduction, rather than force people to make blind choices. The blood hunts would also be a good opportunity to learn about the laws (before or after breaking them) and it'd keep you on the edge. CP77 background choices are shitty, but they are the reverse of this idea and you literally can't get anymore shitty than that (other than, maybe, having your background not matter at all).
This sounds good in theory, but in reality I never had a strong connection with Bloodlines, because the differences were too few and too shallow to make me feel like they mattered. It was, in short, too cosmetic. Dragon Age: Origins was a little bit better thanks to more detailed background introduction, which helped get you "in character" (and you got to have special say when you reached the content you "started" in).
Depends on what you mean by "6 games worth of content". Arcanum has a plenty of reactions depending on your character. You will be treated differently based on your race and stats. You'll have extra options when you're a necromancer capable of summoning spirits of the dead. I would be hard pressed to find another game offering as much as Arcanum does in this regard, but this is precisely what a true RPG ought to offer, in my opinion.
it should be THE MITSODA CUT if we are keeping with themes
I found that trailer to be perhaps the only thing that showed what kind of monsters vampires can be and their response what to fire everyone? Figures.
I just find it entertaining to speculate how that would happen. Odds are we'll never know what Brian or Hardsuit had in mind. So if I was the DM for this world how would I employ any of these scenarios.
You know what my impression was? That they couldn't make up their minds. New Vampire has these tools that make thinbloods a fun and valid way to play. They wanted those as well as Resonance, but they feared people would harp on being a lesser vamp and would miss the clans. So they had to have both. It's like making a Mage game where you start off as a Sorcerer who awakens at some point, instead of specializing in the ways that both experiences can be fun and unique.
I don't necessarily disagree. I primarily play Bloodlines as Tremere and Toreador, so the appeal there is something inherent to all experiences rather than the big differences in perspective. But I think we see eye to eye on Origins and you get what I mean. Sure, the story is the same after every Origin. But being a Human Fighter and killing the guy who destroyed your life is special and unique, whereas for a Mage that's just another bad guy to deal with. Sure, the Human Fighter and the Human Mage gets some special goodies here and there. One gets to become King, the other gets to ask for Mage Rights. The change in perspective remains the key either way, rather than outright C&C.
? I wonder why they did this if they allegedly started from scratch anyway...
