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[Leandro16]

NO

It helps clans be different, and it is also a money in the vampire blood economy.

Let´s remember that under normal circunstances you need the blood of someone who has certain discipline as in clan to learn it....

[Leandro16]

Requiem 2ED discipline powers are way stronger and versatile than those of any edition of masquerade.

Devotions can be absurdly broken, for example Zagreus has a combo of majesty (presence) + dominate that makes a bunch of people behave in a certain way so his wishes become true.He does not even need to plan, the power activates by him saying "I wish this could happen" or this "will happen". The range of this power is at least a city but by the way it is worded it seems to work around the whole globe....

[Leandro16]

I doubt they play those games given the importance of secrets

However i can totally see Nosferatu playing board games to socialize with other clan members or gangrel going to hunt together, ventrue competing over a resource as some kind of game, toreador making snob parties, brujah are likely to have many hobbies as they not only are radicals but passionate about everything... etc...

[Leandro16]

Vampire never had great game mechanics, stuff like the embrace having no cost, no equal/similar dice pools to resist, unbalanced powers etc... The most similar thing to good mechanics is the second edition of requiem/blood and smoke. However the game was PLAYABLE 6/10, easy to understand, and had a 11/10 setting + a 11/10 art that resembled the 90s comic books.

There was too much to love and if you did not like somethig you could homebrew it, the authors encouraged the golden rule a lot and it was one of it´s best selling points, eventually it became a modular experience. As a Storyteller...

[Leandro16]

Most of the problems of V5 are present in the core book, since the preview and the playtest. (Bad Mechanics, Bad Writting & Pretentious Photographic Artstyle).

As said in other comments the developers just choose to ignore the customer base, when the franchise was resurrected by V20 giving people what they actually wanted: a good product with a reasonable price and lots of content.

One of the problems of suplements and the players guide is that they are built upon a bad foundation which is the V5 core....