Justin Achilli Originally posted by Justin on the V20 Blog. Okay, after a day’s delay, here are the Attributes and Abilities, ready for playtest and scrutiny. Some of the high points: Specialties changed a tiny bit. Instead of exploding 10s, they count as two successes. It saves a bit of time when they do come up, and it … Read more
Originally posted by Justin on the V20 Blog Just a reminder that if you’re using Twitter, you can get your V20 Twibbon, designed by Craig Grant, right here.
With all of the systems consideration and potential revision going on for V20, the matter of dice pools and success statistics has come up. It’s something that the Storyteller System has always had an acknowledgedly side-eyed relationship with, but this was certainly a worthwhile time to delve back into the math. So… let’s. At a … Read more
Originally posted by Justin at the V20 Blog What I’m working on today is a bit sticky. Dodge. It’s a valid part of an RPG combat system, but as a standalone Ability, it doesn’t fit the model of what the other Abilities are designed to do. I’ve never liked Dodge as an Talent. It always … Read more
A big one this time, and only a partial chapter at that! Here we cover the basic walkthrough of character creation, to jog your memory (or to introduce you if you’re one of the newcomers just stepping into the World of Darkness). In particular, note some of the rewritten material on the clan synopses that … Read more
If you’ve been watching the #v20 Twitter tag, you’ll see that I was a bit concerned about the word count for the Brujah spread. It weighed in at about 1600 words, which is a lot for a two-page spread that’s going to feature some marquee art. Rich suggested paring it down a bit, so I’m … Read more
Originally posted by Justin at the V20 Blog The Brujah spread is available at the following location: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1c2ECeJ5_wk9z2AZTY2j3NeSAldwtOeOvi0ZLQuajFSc The rules chapter is available at the following location: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1sQl4Ludel05aEauCMyu1PHOiDaGlN1Vc8JHDLGUpqAQ Feel free to propagate those URLs. And please remember to offer feedback as discussed here. Thanks, and good Storytelling!
So how does this Open Development angle work, anyhow? Keep an eye on the blogs and forums to get the best sense of when a new dev doc becomes available. We’re eventually going to place a widget somewhere to aggregate them, but we’ll roll that out as Web Cell completes it. Development is an ongoing … Read more
Well, now that we’ve announced that we’re doing a 20th edition of Vampire: The Masquerade, I just want to take a few minutes to say hello to all you old faithfuls (and maybe a handful of new converts as well). Ever since we started talking about doing this, our intent has always been to make the book … Read more