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When will we learn the fates of Maxwell, Capone, etc.?

And please keep it up with the WIR.

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Yes, but is he still at Ceoris? Is anyone assigned to the place? Who might be there now? Aside from the lady with the gargoyles, that is....

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Clearly the solution is to fold the vampire up like a paper airplane....

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I like to think the above ground portion are well known, mostly safe and have been made a tourist experience. Similar to the Dracula tour or the Frankenstein tour - Ceoris is the Scholomance tour. Perhaps this is a bit of revenge from some local vampire involved with the tour company.
Below ground is a different matter. I prefer to think of it as abandoned entirely - so that if the PCs arrive on the scene what they find will be a surprise.
Maybe being assigned to Ceoris is punishment, maybe it is an act of desperation

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That could be something that changed. Maybe things associated with a cause of death are banes to wraiths, something that empowers a shadow for a while or could trigger a harrowing for a weakened or injured wraith. Maybe the legions offer tools for dealing with these situations....

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In terms of the metaplot I agree with tasti man LH. Make it a bit like Europe after the fall of the Western Roman empire.

Mechanically, make things simpler and cleaner where possible. That goes for the underworld itself as well.

In terms of presentation, group wraiths by Legions rather than Guilds.

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What is going on at the ruins of Ceoris in V5?


Yes, in know that it was abandoned by at least the 17th century and is little more than ruins according to cannon lore.


But that is dull.


Supposed following the destruction of the Vienna Chantry some Tremere go to Ceoris in hopes of finding something useful.


What would you have them find?...

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So there are supposedly between 60K and 70K vampires in the world. About 1/2 to 2/3s of those are Cainites, or about 40K, give or take. The rest or KotE vampires. If, say 4K Cainite vampires were killed during the span of 3 months, that is 10% of the Cainite population. 1 in 10 vampires destroyed by the SI.

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The Giovanni have taken a beating and the survivors are apparently merging with the Samedi, Harbingers, etc. Part of that beating apparently came from the SI.

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I thought the attack on Vienna happened in 2008 - my mistake I guess. But when did they attacked Venice? And what have they been doing for the last 10 years?

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I would argue they did. As has been argued in circle's here a lot, vampires are monsters, parasites, and they make everything worse - they damaged the economy in their war. That vampires triggered the Great Recession also tracks with the VtM books, where it was vampires in Chicago that destroyed America's steel industry as part of their jyhad. And saying the vampires caused either of those doesn't come close to saying they caused the problems in Chechnia....

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I would argue for two spheres - Central America, and South America. Possibly a historical third in North America. But in any case, I would be more interested in material on the Drowned Legacies than Sabbat cities. And it should be written by people from South and Central America with an appreciation for the folklore, history and local cultures.

But that is also true for an additional material on South Asia....

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Some years ago White wolf published a book on the mafia - just the human mafia. I've not read the book. But I suspect the human mafia in the World of Darkness are not part of a race of hidden and super natural parasite people, who burn in sunlight, can be driven away by true faith, and so forth....

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That is just it - they are supposed to be monsters. Making them altruistic turns a game with them into a game of Captain Vampire - Undead Superhero. Not a game of Vampire the Masquerade, where everyone is a goddamned monster and asshole as well....

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The high humanity of these characters has always struck me as a flaw. They are still to involved in vampire politics, too involved in the system, to have humanity scores that high. They would be better served to have scores around 5 - 6. Humanity scores that high should be reserved for vampires who have opted out of vampire society as much as possible, like inncou watchers....

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Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait....

(squinting at Theodrim)

Are you suggesting there is more to punk than some frugal shopping at Hot Topic?

Joking aside, nothing in the vampire community should be safe, and none of the vampire social groups should be good. Vampires are a race of secretive, supernatural sociopathic parasites. They are a hidden tribe of magic lampreys that feed on human society. They might not be able to actually feel emotions or generate new ideas - depending on your read of the material. The...

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Ideally by someone who really understands and respects the local cultures - and is a member of at least one of those cultures....

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I would ask for something that focused on vampires in the first season. It would have two or three point of view characters. The audience would learn about the world of vampires at the same rate as the characters. Exposition would be avoided as much as possible.

While it would have moments of levity and humanity, it would end with hard-core horror and tragedy. No one achieves redemption. The most decent of the PV degenerates into a pure monster (but not into a wight) and murders the other two characters for the amusement of the elders. Cut to black and end of show.

Further...

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Hypothetically - and this is pure fan wishing here - say Netflix or Hulu or a similar company announced a World of Darkness show. It going to be 10 or 12 episodes long, and have a reasonable budget. The sky is not the limit here; you cannot cast dead actors, hire impossible directors, or anything out of bounds for Netflix of Hulu. But it is a World of Darkness program.


What would you want from such a program?...

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Maybe they will appear in LTSRR....