Originally posted by Justin at the V20 Blog Look at these Gangrel I found loitering in the back parking lot and giving me the stink-eye. The thing that needs the most stress-testing here is — hey, surprise! — clan weakness. Now, the only thing the rule stipulates is the appearance of the animal features upon … Read more
Originally posted by Rich on the V20 Blog Last time I posted, I mentioned how wonderful it is to be able to work again with the talented artists that helped make VtM the aesthetic benchmark that it was. One of my favorite illustrators, and favorite artists to art direct, has got to be William O’Connor. … Read more
Originally posted by Shane on the V20 Blog So as many of you know we are fortunate enough to have our old friend Tim Bradstreet returning to do the main 13 Clan spreads like he originally did. As many of you know Tim, like many artists uses real models as part of his photo-realistic look. … Read more
Originally posted at the V20 Blog Can you FEEL the Ravnosery? This one was a challenge to write. On the one hand, there’s a lot of Revised-era work that went toward expanding the clan from their original, somewhat shallow concept. On the other hand, the clan spreads are overviews that give only broad-strokes impressions of … Read more
Originally posted by Justin at the V20 Blog Here in the shadows we find the Keepers, Clan Lasombra. I did them this time around because people wanted to start seeing some of the non-Camarilla clans, but I didn’t want to do the Tzimisce and the Tremere back-to-back. (“These guys are creepy. Oh, and these guys … Read more
Originally posted by Justin at the V20 Blog A quickie as the day winds down. I’m trying to finish the Lasombra writeup, but in the meantime, here’s a portion of the systems chapter. This covers the basics as well as a selection of physically based actions, ready for playtest. https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=13OdkeoicvChlyPcwW-HxdhxHhzaKlH-Re5favuVkh5k Now back to this clan … Read more
Originally posted by Justin on the V20 Blog Good afternoon, class. Today, let’s talk a bit about the themes that characterize V20. They’re not quite as “crunchy” as other playtest material has been, but they shape all of the work that goes into the book, both behind the scenes and in the chronicles you play. … Read more
Originally posted by Eddy on the V20 Blog. A lot of moving parts have been happening at work recently, between the April Fool’s joke, the discussion about selling the book outside of Grand Masquerade (short answer: Yes, we will, and we’ll tell you more once we have more to share) and a nasty norovirus plague … Read more
Originally posted by Justin on the V20 Blog. Behold the Tremere. https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1O6GmaUSuL3YkhJS70TlNpX3AF2BoRLZJ_jnM_jDw8co Note that the clan weakness is still in flux. I want to see some of this in play. In watching the feedback from the previous discussion (290 posts at present count!), one common thread that kept emerging was the dependency of the Tremere on … Read more
Originally posted by Shane on the V20 Blog. So Im going to take a moment to share something with the community as it was shared with us internally at CCP today. 1991 was the year White Wolf Publishing and Vampire both came into being and today we had a very special anniversary for one of … Read more