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Nancy A. Collins’ Sonya Blue vampire novels are a treasure and every Vampire player should read them.

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My favorite White Wolf Rasputin was from the Malkavian clanbook; it’s just a popular cover identity used by pranksters.

I like the idea of the Drowned Legacies as well. It has long been canon that *something* was in South America, preventing the known and playable monsters of the various game lines from having the continent all to themselves. It was a matter of time until somebody wrote up an official account of what was out there. I expected it to be werebats or some other sort of fera that had been falsely declared extinct, but Vampire got around to answering the question first....

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Lasombra often have ghouls. Dominate one of them into doing some early morning arson.

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Doesn’t Thaumaturgy have an old rite that does this? Crank another vampire’s generation downward?

ETA: Found it, but it’s a Rank 6 ritual. Quenching the Lambent Flame, from the book “Sins of the Blood.” Changes the target’s generation to the 13th.

I could see a real control freak of a Sire wanting to do this, if the Childe is meant to be a tool who can’t become a threat to their Elder. Maybe the Sire has some dirty work that a ghoul wouldn’t be durable enough to do.

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Hey, it’s better to ask than to just wonder forever!

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If V5 is the deliberate resurrection of 1st Edition’s themes that I think it is, then the betrayal also serves V5’s interests by reminding the reader that the Camarilla are callous and abusive antagonists for the sympathetic Anarchs.

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They spoke with the wraith of Cappadocius.

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I can see the Followers being unwitting agents of the Wyrm in Werewolf, even more so than other vampires, because of the clan stereotype as corruptors.

What appearance did they make in Wraith? Was Set canonically slain by Horus or whoever and sent to Ghost Egypt?

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There are two possible answers.

El Diablo Verde, and WRONG.

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From the moment Montreal By Night first saw print, the Sabbat’s appeal, to me, was the fantasy of these creatures trying to forge a genuinely posthuman society for themselves - even with all the hypocrisies that come with it, like the clashes between the generations within the sect. At least these people weren’t going to waste their immortality by hating themselves for what they are. For reasons having to do with being a closeted twentysomething (I’m out and fortysomething now) from a strict religious background, the Sabbat’s core fantasy of striving to accept your real self, finding...

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One imagines that, if it was easy, Set would have made a lot more of them. A mokole abomination sounds ridiculously overpowered.

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I believe there’d be a market for some kind of grand unified history of the World of Darkness, however many volumes it takes. I really do.

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The more I learn about V5’s new canon, the more the idea of treating each edition as a separate alternate timeline makes sense to me. It can all be true at once, just not all in the same timeline.

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One stuffed pony doll from whatever talking pony cartoon Pentex owns, unironically cared for and kept spotlessly clean, surrounded by pools of blood.

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I would have chosen Anatole or Victoria Ash, if only for the joke that they died in novels only to rise again when they had their deaths retconned with the launch of V20.

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Wow. The Sabbat isn’t left with much then, are they? After losing Milan and New York, I thought Montreal and Mexico City were the only significant holdings they had remaining after the end of the Revised Edition in 2004. Between not having a city left and the offscreen massacre of the Gehenna War, the message seems to be that the Camarilla and the Anarchs are the only intended player options in V5 after all. I’ve never seen a game actively reduce the number of playable factions due to fiat from the rights holders before.

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This is why we can’t have nice things.

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I now badly want “Mary and Michael are having another go at Moloch’s and Troile’s experiment and you can clearly see how doomed it is until they put the Whammy on you” to be a significant thing in V5.

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That’s always been my read on it as well. The whole Trinity concept would have been an awfully shocking blasphemy to ask all those faithful and penitent Cainites to get behind without throwing the effects of Industrial Strength Toreador Presence at them. I think that when you read the words of a Kindred who misses the Dream of Constantinople in the modern nights, you’re reading a vampire who misses the last time they were compelled to feel anything that strongly. For every vampire who was outside the Trinity and looking in, it was all about being mesmerized by Michael’s terawatt smile....

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The annual football championship game, the Super Bowl, remains the most watched event in American television. The game is the most important event of the year for the advertising industry, and an unmeasurable chunk of the audience watch just for the ads.

The size of American football’s TV audience has been hit hardest on the Monday night broadcasts, where it has to compete with pro wrestling. Sure enough, the World of Darkness has its own pro wrestling league, whose champion is a masked Nosferatu named El Diablo Verde. I don’t know precisely who is supposed to own it, but...