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[Muad'Dib]

Even assuming that this is the case, I don't think it happened with Montano. He travelled with [ Lasombra ] and attended to the matters of Clan Lasombra ; so I think he would be an exception in regard to this....

[Muad'Dib]

Thank you for updating these Nephandi sheets, and also thank you a lot for the other World of Darkness sheets .

Another detail : Ahriman ( The Nephandi equivalent of a Cabal ) is missing. It could be put at the top, but for this one entry would have to be removed. I would suggest for 'chronicle' to be removed, 'type' put in place of 'chronicle' ( midlde left ) , and 'Ahriman' put where 'type' currently is ( top right ) .


The Essences could be listed in four selections ; the other one could be crossed out after printing the sheet. Myself I prefer eight selections....

[Muad'Dib]

Is it written anywhere that Montano was ( or is ) a Laibon, or had any similarity to them ? As far as I remember, he left and travelled with [ Lasombra ] after being Embraced ; so I think he didn't follow their morality and didn't have any similar traits....

[Muad'Dib]

Going by what I read in the first edition Corebook, a Forces Pattern is created and fueled ( with it's own amount of Quintessence ) for the duration of a particular Spell. I will check this later....

[Muad'Dib]

I wish a new Iteration-X Convention Book would be written, as the current revised one was written a decade before the four other revised CBs ( By this, I don't mean to say that the revised Iteration-X CB is bad. ) . But then, what would the other Conventions get if Iteration-X gets another book ? Still, I think it should be done, even if it will result in inequality in the amount of material. The Iteration-X is in some respects the principal Convention of the Technocracy, so I think it does deserve a CB written in the new style and outlook.

[Muad'Dib]

I was looking at the sheets from the regular Mage section, and not M20. I checked the M20 ones, they are updated. Some more comments/suggestions :
I suggest that you make the factions selection partly non-alphabetical ( if it is possible ) , with the three principal ( as I understand it from what I read in the M:tA books ) Nephandi factions - the Infernal Nephandi, the Malfean Nephandi, and the K'llashaa - at the top. It seems wrong to me that they share alphabetical ordering with the other factions, who joined the Nephandi later - both in-setting and in publications. The M20 Corebook lists...

[Muad'Dib]

I hope that the Old Clan Tzimisce will be included in V5. Maybe some of them could join the Camarilla ?

[Muad'Dib]

I think Paths of Enlightenment should be done in V5 through both a new morality system, and Loresheets ( mainly for particularly dedicated Path followers ) ....

[Muad'Dib]

Are you saying this based on some events that happened in regard to [ Lasombra ] in V5 or V20 ?...

[Muad'Dib]

I think Correspondence 4 is needed for this.

[Muad'Dib]

How does "opening a portal" differ from "teleportation" in regard to Correspondence 3 Effects ? I am confused by you making a differentiation between these two terms. As far as I understand it, in practical use of Correspondence 3, they are interchangeable.

[Muad'Dib]

The first answer that comes to mind is the Camarilla of course ; but maybe it was a war that in the end nobody won ? In the Revised Ventrue Clanbook it is described that some Ventrue Vampires in the Camarilla hold the view point that the hostilities with the Sabbat are senseless and should be ended....

[Muad'Dib]

I see Cardinals as Vampires who would lose relatively little ; and even if they would lose much, it would be in the short term. They have stable powerbases and extensive resources ( or some other equivalent capabilities ) that can enable a ( relatively ) smooth entry into the Camarilla for them....

[Muad'Dib]

Anatole, are you planning to do any more writing for the World of Darkness ?

[Muad'Dib]

What are these standards of being 'acceptable' for V5 ? I am aware of no Clan having a unique Discipline that only they have, and the new Clan Compulsions ; is there anything else ?...

[Muad'Dib]

Did you forget to add the Dune series by Frank Herbert in literature, or did you choose not to add this ? ( A reminder in case you forgot )...

[Muad'Dib]

True, it is like this, but only to an extent. I think that Vampires as highly ranked in the Sabbat as the Cardinals or the Prisci joining the Camarilla is an event that can happen ; it is a very interesting and uncommon possibility....

[Muad'Dib]

Wouldn't this be Archbishops ? Archbishops are leaders in single cities, while Cardinals have large geographical areas under their purview....

[Muad'Dib]

I doubt it was taken from V:tM, it seems like a common trope.
WoD also has the trope of a benefactor helping and/or looking after a particular family....

[Muad'Dib]

I like the tone of the text, and the matters and issues it talks about.
I don't understand why Lasombras who are or were Cardinals would be excluded and abandoned by the Lasombras joining the Camarilla. Seems arbitrary - "Oh, these surely are followers of the Sabbat ideaology and approach, the unwelcome Lasombras." . It is denying the possible recruitment of influential, capable, and powerful Vampires because of an arbitrary reason.
The requirements put to Lasombras in some Camarilla Domains seem really steep if multiple of them would be asked from a particular Lasombra....