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[Meldok]

I will go more extreme, the Camarilla would at some point go into a full fledged civil war. Two clans who more or less demand the right of rule will lead to this because both clans are one side of the same coin. Neither side is capable of backing down at a certain point and both and tensions will rise higher and higher until a point is reached where the whole system falls apart.

[Meldok]

No you're not. I also separate the game lines pretty hard, especially when I'm storytelling.
This began as a more practical way because I had severel players who were so in to the different splats, that I just said that I will have my one rake on the different splats while we're playing VtM. So I can do all kind of shenanigans in that regard....

[Meldok]

As Kammerer said you get an extra weakness. But as far as I remember your childer would be Baali after embracing them, so they would not get the Nosferatu curse....

[Meldok]

As far as my experience with 19 years of rpgs goes, everything that doesn't contradict itself is a minor error and will be in an errata including missing exp cost. So to answer your question you have to live with it....

[Meldok]

The problem with both splats is (besides the weird KJ stuff) that there is no real conflict as long as everybody is keeping to their turf.
You need conflicting intrests....

[Meldok]

Good question. You could make the Ashirra a full fledged sect. Have some more vampire clans unlive in the middle east area. North Africa and Istanbul could be contested territory between them and the Camarilla. India could be a playground for all three sects while the Ravnos try to safeguard their population of mortals around them.

The Ashirra had a rough time and it was for most of the time a loose confederation between Islamic vampires but after the course of the Tremere the Assamite viziers push for closer ties. The Muslim Lasombra where quick to join because of the persecution...

[Meldok]

Not necessarily, the Ventrue allied in an early stage with them, they might even prefered if they stayed a bloodline which they could control better. But yeah there would be a big chance that the Tremere wouldn't have survived that era....

[Meldok]

In important cities it's rather unlikely to have neonate prince but in smaller cities it's quite possibly to have a neonate prince if. In current times I would suggest some towns on the border of anarch territory would have some youngling princes if only for the case of propaganda. "See the Camarilla isn't just a tool of the Elders."
Besides that if a neonate might be a former ghoul of an Elder he might be experienced enough to fill a power void in some regions. Elders might think of him as a tool but he plays right back at them. Of course this might only be valid if the blood...

[Meldok]

I was going with the idea from the DAV20 book, in there Saulot was still diablerised. But the purge was put to a stop. And even if that were not the case, the Ventrue faction "Lords of the East" would still use the Tremere to fight the Tzimisce.
Also humanity plays a big part in the Camarilla after the Inquisition it was widely acknowledged that only the Road of Humanity would prevent a new Inquisition. Thus a huge forced convertion took place and this is something no Tzimisce with a bit of self respect would accept....

[Meldok]

I wouldn't say so. The Tremere after the diablerie have a pact with the Ventrue faction the Lords of the East to fight the Tzimice. Yeah they are petty diabelrist but the Ventrue have respect for their willpower and ruthlessness and since they are still a upcoming powerhouse the Ventrue would probably prefer to have them on their side especially if the Assamites go crazy during the Anarch Revolt.
Also I don't see the Tzimice in the Camarilla, maybe the Old Clan but thats about it, they would never ever subdue to the weak path of Humanitas.

My guess is that the Sabbat will...

[Meldok]

The premise of the DA20 book, with surviving Salubri is, that Tremere is still succeeding in the Diablrie with Saulot and the purge of the Clan begins. Through some miracle the remains of the Healer, Watcher and Warrior reunited and are a unified front and can withstand the purge. But with the Tremere in the Camarilla they never ever joining them. So they end up in being the thrid founding member of the Sabbat and while they make they Sabbat more human, they probably change too and becoming less turn the other cheek and through the sword by the sword kind off guys.

[Meldok]

Since I'm not opposed to the hunger idea in general (only its current implementation) I really like this idea because its elegant. I had something similiar in mind with the bonus dice but the point of human blood is a neat solution for many problems....

[Meldok]

A lot of good advise here in this thread. I just add mz two cents.

First think I think of what kind of chronicle me and my players want to have, is it personal horror, politics, mystery/occult, action. We pick a focus point and a secondary one. Then I go on a search for which cities are most suited in my mind for the chronicle. After the city is chosen I look at its history and geography and decided what kind of vampires it would attract through the ages. Then I create some NPC wig their on backstory and look if natural conflicts between them occur. Like a Ventrue industrialist and...

[Meldok]

I agree to become reveneants their need to be some kind if magic. But ghouls have to become pregnant and birth children before there would any such chance. Imo that's why I think a pregnancy would result in an normal baby with a higher chance of miscarriage....

[Meldok]

In this case I would argue that it will be a long long pregnancy. But given how the Revenant family of the Venture started. She ghouled the inhabitants of an island the reproduced and the fae-shenanigans on the island turned them into ghouls over time. I would say thatpregnancy and child birth works normally....