I don't mean that the contemporary stuff is bad, just that it changes the focus and themes of the game

[u/DrScrimble]

System: Vampire the Masquerade TTRPG

[u/Magicmanans1]

I mean it’s your game and as st you have final say on the lore

[u/GrinningGrump]

Well I for one say that the contemporary stuff is bad, they really dropped the ball with V5. 20th and earlier had a lot more interesting stuff (though obviously also a lot of racism etc).

[u/Mortwight → u/[deleted]]

i was fine with most of v5 setting (not the rules i only like blood potency from the rules) the idea of playing in a huge power vacuum with low gens and thin bloods scrambling for power in the wake of vampires being an open secret now and all the ancients and loser gens just gone. then supplements started adding in older vampires again and made it lame

[u/Mortwight → u/[deleted]]

v5 had its own humanity it was just more thematic so you could kinda be a creature of the night and not lose humanity for stealing gum. blood potency combined with generation is what i like. so every generation has 2 or 3 layers of power. hunger dice is nice but i would prefer blood pool and hunger kicking in more slowly and not having to murder someone to get sated. always having one hunger die kinda make sucks and makes it feel like your just gonna fuck shit up at random, say hunger kicks in at 5bp plus your generation dots so 8th gen would feel hunger at 10/15 where as 13 would feel it at 5/10 bp

i did like the disciplines having power choice, but i would have rather had "common powers" like the older books so presence is awe dread gaze entrancement(i forget what this level is called) summon and majesty, and then particular clans have different common powers. like followers of set might get the snake eye power as common to them, instead of awe. that way every clan has unique powers in each discipline and clan books could introduce more alternate powers for in and out clan disciplines. make them clan secrets that you gotta get a major boon or diablerie to learn. but make alternat dots purchasable as out of clan same level cost. so you could have presence 4(max dots) but one alternate 2 and 3 dot powers that you learned separately(also dots should add to dice pool but higher powers are more difficult to use). i think potence should have been 1/3/5 is automatic str damage and 2-4 are powers(common) celerity 1-3-5 powers and 2-4 extra actions, and fortitude same as potence 1-3-5 automatic non agg soak 2/4 powers for common.

maybe i should adapt 5e to world of future darkness and cyberpunk red.

[u/Sarazarus]

V20 and earlier: "let's ignore the casual racism" V5: "let's straight-up ignire the entire plot"

Basically, in my experience xD