Blood and Smoke index [Vampire: The Requiem]
Here’s the first cut of the index for Vampire: The Requiem 2e / Blood and Smoke: <Click here for the index.> Enjoy!
The Strix Chronicle
Vampire: The Requiem update
Hello, everyone. I’ve been quite busy the last few months, with a lot of books and drafts whizzing by back and forth. I’ll keep this fairly short, because I’m going to have more to say on most of these after Gen Con. (See below for more Gen Con stuff.) Secrets of the Covenants Since we … Read more
Wild at Heart
Writer Alec Humphrey kindly provided some updated animal stats for use with Protean and Animalism, as well as for those situations when your vampire just gets jumped by a guard dog. (We’ve all been there, right?) These are adapted from a variety of previous books, with a few entirely new ones added in. Enjoy! Click … Read more
The Jaws of the Beast
The Vampire office has been a busy place lately. I’ve been developing our Dark Eras chapter, which takes place in Elizabethan London. I’ve also been hammering on the outlines for Secrets of the Covenants, for which I’m now mobilizing the writing team, and the next book after that, which we’ll be announcing soon. Against that backdrop, I’d like to … Read more
The Shadow and the Asp
As I mentioned last time, we’ve been experimenting with different ways to design bloodlines, based on the new mechanics and design patterns employed in Blood and Smoke. The first in the series was an all-new line, the Neglatu. The second updates an old favorite from Bloodlines: The Hidden. Here are David Hill’s Khaibit. Khaibit You say … Read more
Lonely Together
Happy New Year, everyone! Blood and Smoke came out last month, and the reception has been amazing. Thank you to all of you who bought the book, and especially to those of you who assisted in the open development process. Since Blood and Smoke didn’t include any bloodlines for space reasons, writer David Hill and I decided … Read more
Halloween Blood and Smoke update
I handed Blood and Smoke: The Strix Chronicle over to the art director today. Based on current estimates for when art’s coming in and the CCP approval process, the PDF should be out in December.
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
One year, one month, and one day from the day the writer mailing list for Blood and Smoke opened, the book’s text was locked down and sent for editing. That was Friday the 20th. For those of you keeping track, that means we’re still on target for PDF release in November. The two places we … Read more
Preview: Mysteries of the Dragon
The Ordo Dracul work tirelessly to improve the Kindred condition. Or at least, their Kindred condition. They pursue the Mysteries of the Dragon, ways to understand and reshape basic elements of what it means to be a vampire. In building them, we wanted to show that not only does the Order succeed at beginning to transcend … Read more
Rules of the Night
Vampires don’t play by the rules, but we do. As a standalone book, Blood and Smoke is going to feature the core Storytelling system rules, with the God-Machine Chronicle updates baked right in. The chapter’s designed to be lean and mean, providing the basics you need to play Vampire, with pointers to the other books for more detailed subsystems. (And, … Read more