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@jaded

Yeah, Dawkins is going to be doing one of those each week for the next few weeks. The content in there is V5-related, for metaplot and setting and such.

The embargo is lifted. I'm going to try to gather as much information into a single post as I can.

MOAR INFO! From an interview with Dawkins and Karim, two of the devs/writers.

Karim told a bit about their goal for the corebook, where they want to bring being a vampire back into focus.
Political and Personal Horror are brought into the spotlight, as they seem especially relevant today.

An explanation about Generation came up and it's pretty darn smart.
Besides being a measurement of your steps from the progenitor of all vampires, Generation is seemingly going to be the capstone of Blood Potency of the individual vampire.
(With 11th Gen for instance capping it out on 3.)
And there apparently also is a BP mechanic apparently also have a mechanic to interact with the Rouse system, granting re-rolls when invoking Disciplines.
Bane Severity is tied to Blood Potency, and Bane Severity also judges how bad sunlight hurts you.

Karim also spoke to great lengths about Humanity, and how each Troupe needs to tailor their own version Sins. (This is sure to piss off the people who wants a unified mechanic to simulate the world.) and how you can play a Vampire without Touchstones. So, Elders are clearly working on a very different scale of Humanity.
In regards to Paths of Enlightenment, they spoke of making Touchstones out of different things, maybe even making your Pack Priest a Touchstone. But, there's quite the way until that happens.

There was also talked about the Conflict system, and how the system can be varied in detail, with certain conflicts just being able to be settled by simple difficulty, which was also the reason for the new dice system, where you can just half the dice pool to make a difficulty, and always decide not to roll under certain conditions, avoiding the use of the Hunger Dice.
Willpower was re-iterated as being extremely important, and the Compulsion lists were cited as being an optional rule, and more suggestions than actual rules.

They also spoke a great deal about Loresheets, and how they are used to tie the player to the setting and the meta-plot.
The Dream of Byzantium is supposed to be a Loresheet. I'm unsure if I like it being scaled as a Background instead of Merits, as I really don't want every Toreador to have a few dots in Loresheet: Helena, because they wanted one of the things, and don't care for the lower stuff. (I'll probably houserule that if it is the case.)

At this point, the only thing they haven't talked about at great lengths is the Memoratium mechanic, which I'm really looking forward to hearing more about... (Sigh. It's only a week or so... be cool)

In the fluff department, Matthew also shared a few tidbits.
It also appears that:
Not all of the Sabbat have left for the middle-east, but most of them did. So, we can still have roaming Sabbat in the night, just not as many.
The Church of Caine is apparantly the Canite Heresy, and is thriving in these nights.
The Ravnos still blew up. ( I hope they just got sidelined until the surviving big guys can embrace a new Clan.)
The 2nd Inquisition were the ones that fucked up the Tremere and assaulted Vienna. Maybe they even managed to blow the fuck out of Saulot the Worm? In any case, the division in the Tremere is now very outspoken, and I'm guessing that the Tremere vs Carna vs Goratrix is the new normal.
Assamites are now always referred to as the Banu Haqim, and the term Assamite is going to be a derogatory.
The Followers of Set are now more normally known as the Ministry, and will be a lot more inclusive to the rest of the Clan's various faiths. I'm guessing the Clan of Faith is still a moniker that works?
The Ashirra is now struggling with the arrival of the Sabbat Crusaders and will be far more visible in the coming material. And a free for all between the Ashirra, the Sabbat and the elders who have joined with the rising progenitors? Maybe Enoch is trying to awake his childer?
London has fallen and there is not a single vampire left in the city after the inquisitors rolled through.
Apparently, Mithras/Monty saw them coming. And because he had apparantly been waiting for this exact time, he decided not to warn the rest of the city, except his own cult, allowing them to escape before proceeding to get destroyed in a epic battle royale against the Inquisition, but as Matthew said, there's a chance Mithras is not that easy to put down.

@the-tree-of-woe
I love Tremere and I love playing them.

I hate Anarchs and this actually made me interested in House Carna as Anarch Tremere.

I'm looking forward to seeing what the Tremere's Clan Bane is in V5. The Brujah and Toreador ones are really nice.

Thanks guys. It means a lot. He had a great, great life and was the best kitty.

We're now counting down the days to V5's release on August 2nd.

First up, The Gentleman's Guide to V5 Part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgP8QN-kHS0

Next up, The Fractured Tremere.
https://www.facebook.com/whitewolfpublishing/videos/vb.141058250464/10156197950920465/?type=3&theater

I need some good feelings right now. Our 18 year old cat just passed away. At least he was being held in our arms when he passed.

Goodbye, Biffers. You were such a good cat. I'll miss you so much. Go be with you brother Zeke, sister Callie Mae and adopted brother Porkchop.

All things considered?

• Spartacus
• Rome
• Troy: Fall of a City
• The first Blade movie

@insomnia
But it's just freaking sewer water! Holy crap people.

@shincashay

Sorry for your loss.

@jennkryst

What else is needed, code-wise, right now though?

@thenomain

I'm glad I'm not the only one who reads her as a Ravnos (just by her speech and dress), but I tend to get yelled at that she's Malk when I mention it because MUH PROPHECY!

@lithium

Yeah, those are good.

@thenomain

The PC is a bad example of a Malkavian, as she's the 'bouncy funny crazy' that infested 1e and 2e Masquerade. Therette is alright, and Rosa is Rosa (honestly, I still see more Thin-Blooded seer in her than Malkavian, but I acquiesce that she's a Malk Thin-Blood most likely).

@thenomain

See, and I'm opposite. IT did a good job of showing a Malk with the visions and such... but the Bloodlines Malk is the worst example of a fishmalk ever.

ETA: Honestly, until we see more, I don't know what we'd need for other code. A die roller that can differentiate regular and Hunger dice, a Rouse roller, and then standard apply damage stuff. But we don't know what things like Stains, or other new materials do yet.

@ixokai

... does it work on Penn?

@ZombieGenesis
A lot of that I feel stems from the 1e 'terror murder kill' Sabbat that sticks in a lot of peoples' minds.

Separately, to swing this back onto topic, @ZombieGenesis , I would love to work on a V5 game (to be fair, I'd love to go back to working on an OWoD game at all). I am still reserving some judgement but I've loved everything I've read so far, from the lead-in to the new status quo to the revised combat and Discipline stuff we've seen.

@zombiegenesis

Slipcase ships all together in September. You'll get your PDF email beginning of August for your core though.

@sunnyj

The problem is the players, on a wide scale. The themes of Sabbat really need to be enforced and codified on a game where they are supported; sandboxy stuff just doesn't do it (just like sandboxy stuff doesn't make Camarilla politicking work well at all). Also, different people have different expectations about Sabbat because of how they were weaned into it. I play in a Sabbat LARP RL that exemplifies this problem, with people ranging from 'what we gonna keel tonight?!' through 'We have things that need to be done as a diocese' to 'FUCK YOUR HIERARCHY IMMA VAMPRE IMMA DO WHAT I WANT'.

Focus is the key. I feel like the V5's Gehenna Crusade setup, where there may have been a Fourth Sabbat Civil War (unconfirmed, but hinted at/implied in Beckett's Jyhad Diary) and them ACTUALLY getting to do what they're meant to do (go fucking kill ancients and Antediluvians) will make Sabbat easier to manage.

@enoch

Core in August. Other stuff includes an ST screen, a chronicle planner/journal and special dice to make it easier to count successes (but the game is written to be played with d10s).
Camarilla and Anarch in September.
Sabbat at some nebulous point down the road.

@SunnyJ
To an extent, but the Sabbat were added much later in 1e and 2e playable material. Plus the metaplot for V5 has specific stuff the Sabbat is heavily involved in, which pushes them generally out of the 'main stage' of initial play focus anyway. If the Sabbat book focuses on the Gehenna Crusades going on, they'll have a lot of neat stuff to play with that can intersect back into the other two Sects.