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VtM - Review: Vampire: The Masquerade, Revised (3rd Edition)
suggesting the thing ;)
According to various sources, including AOL Chat sessions, an article in Inquest, and a post by
developer Justin Achilli, some of the changes in the Revised Edition will include:
● A three-tiered combat and damage system akin to that of Trinity. Yes, your mortals can now soak
(some stuff)!
● Refined dice pool splits -- no longer will "I hit him 100 times" get you 100 separate actions.
● A system for reflexive actions such as soaking, spending blood points, invoking line-of-sight
Disciplines, etc that clarifies when you need to split a dice pool and when such actions are
considered "automatic."
● Revised and reworked systems for morality, including Humanity and the non-Sabbat Paths of
Enlightenment. According to Cynthia Summers at an AOL chat, the Lasombra's Path of Night is
based on the idea that "vampires are monsters in God's order - so they d*** well better act like
monsters! It's not about complete random wrecking stuff - it's about wreaking TERROR in the
kine."
● Streamlined initiative, resulting in quicker combats.
● Revised botch mechanics -- no longer does your chance of catastrophe increase with the number
of dice you roll for an action.
● Merits and Flaws in the core rulebook.
● Special rules for damamging the undead -- shooting a corpse doesn't do much good, so picking a
vampire off from 30 stories above probably isn't the best option. Now you know why Inquisitors
carry swords....
● Revised Thaumaturgy and Necromancy (to better fit with Wraith), with clarified paths and rituals
for both. Necromancy is going to have Paths and some Rituals.
● The book also contains an update on the backstory of Vampire's World of Darkness, as well as all
13 clans and their Disciplines, details on the sects, Kindred history, notes on "the others" and
antagonists and all manner of other goodies. It's 312 pages hardbound.
● a shake-up of the status quo: the Sabbat is making life difficult for American Kindred, the Kueijin
are making inroads on the West Coast, the Nosferatu Justicar has been murdered, 14th and
15th Generation Kindred are popping up (a sign of Gehena)
● some of the clans are getting tweaked: the Assamite Curse has been lifted, Gangrel are
reconsidering their membership in the Camarilla, Malkavians are less kooky and more scary
(andthey have regained Dementation as a Clan Discipline), Ravnos are more into being deceivers
than perky Gypsies.
● the June-December catalog entry for it mentions: "all-new information on the changes that affect
the clans, and on the beginning of the end of the Camarilla."
San Diego Comic Con
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