Originally posted by Eddy on the V20 Blog
Without exaggeration, I have had over a hundred comments on the bloodlines, ranging from the insightful to the insane, and I loved every one of them. Thank you guys so much for all of that.
In trying to go through all of it, I primarily focused on sorting out which bloodlines would make two-page spreads, because Rich needs that information as soon as possible to get to the artists. Here are the spreads I mentioned in my previous post:
- Baali
- Blood Brothers
- Daughters of Cacophony
- Gargoyle
- Harbingers of Skulls
- Kiasyd
- Nagaraja
- Old Clan Tzimisce (plus kolduns)
- Salubri
- Samedi
- True Brujah
- Arhimanes
- Anda
- Cappadocians
- Lamia
- Children of Osiris
- Lhiannan
- Noiad
Some people lobbied convincingly that Old Clan Tzimisce is really a variant of the Tzimisce, so I agreed and demoted them to a variant (quarter-box). Same with Kolduns, but they will reference a Koldunic sorcery discipline write-up.
Others asked about the Laibon, saying that it wasn’t as much of a retcon as the Gaki and Bushi were for Kindred of the East. I pulled out the Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom book, and the Laibon actually have nine sub-bloodlines (called “Legacies”), each with slightly different mechanics. So, while the only entirely new system for them was a new set of Virtues, I still think that the Laibon were sufficiently revamped in that book to be able to do them justice in the limited space I have. So they’re still out.
There are some discipline questions I still need to answer for these guys, but as far as which bloodlines are getting the two-page treatment, that’s the final list. Any new bloodlines I dig up that fit what I’m doing will fall under variants.
Please keep shooting me any bloodline variants you find. This crowdsourcing of the research has been immensely helpful!