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Why would Hungarian Fascist Terrorists target anything in Vienna? Like. They would be pretty tied up in Hungary.
Seriously, with how many things IRL just fall out of the news cycle after the initial surge "pending investigation," everyone watsonianly and doylistically could've just carried on...
V5 is a product of it's time. It tries to ape what came before but the devs don't really get it, as it was back when VtM was made.
That doesn't mean it's a bad game, or that it's unplayable. But it's not the same experience.
I actually like hunger dice, for instance, over the blood pool...
Seattle got started on Penny Arcade. Same ST.
And not to my knowledge.
Seattle is like that.
LA was really obvious that there was someone going 'this is what you're going to do so we can fit all of these things in the episode, and let's hope we don't have to steer.'
New York's season 1...
LA by Night was the worst one, I couldn't listen to Annabelle sniffling for a half hour nearly every episode. New York by Night and Seattle by Night are much better, imo.
LA and New York feel a bit kayfabe-ish to me. Way too on the rails, like they discuss what's going to happen on the episode...
Shadows wasn't bad. I liked it. I think it's worth it. It's got multiple endings, multiple characters, it explains all of the relevant lore through a codex or whatever so it doesn't waste actual scenes on info dumping. There's a prologue.
I felt somewhat immersed in Julia's life.
Coteries, not...
Oh...
I'm not surprised, tbh. It was always going to happen, especially when they started doing stuff like adding in a random 'Hey, mask! There's a plague about!' scene in Shadows of New York.
I bet it has good music and art though, if it took anything from the previous pseudo VN.
So, reaching back to Lilith and the botched Awakening of Caine, the short answer is Vitae is, to put poetically, the sanguine essence of power. It's, to put in other, less fancy words, super blood charged with magic.
Lilith shared her (already cursed) blood with (already cursed) Caine and that...
I'm not surprised. Very few games make it out of this kind of development hell. Even fewer make it out as good games.
My guess was the first studio was too activist (VtM is, by it's nature, a very political game, but my guess is that studio wanted IRL politics and went in hamfistedly and...
My unpopular WoD opinion?
I don't think I particularly have any that's unpopular.
Mmmm. 5th ed will probably be the best MtA edition mechanically if they ever get there. It might accident it's way into the best balance across all levels of play. I'm super hoping the hunger/rage/desperation(?)...
[X] [Glory] CON
[X] [Power] Instinct
I figure SB fills in the rest.
I am appreciative that you crosspost though, Aldsan. Questing on SB never really clicked for me. (It doesn't on QQ either. All of my quest participation seems to happen on SV, dunno how that worked out)
I like reading it here.
I would be interested in taking Instinct, Magic Resistance, or Charisma.
The first two because it seems like we're starting to scale, and the latter because it'll help with social.
I haven't been keeping up with the thread for builds or the like, so I don't know what we should be spending...