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In this episode, we combine the final two V20 books: Ready Made Characters and Lore of the Bloodlines.
Ready Made Characters brings you a selection of unique and interesting characters from each of the main 13 clans, for use as starting characters or as NPC characters. Additionally, the book includes charts for coteries and ideas for inclusion in your game.
Lore of the Bloodlines continues where Lore of the Clans left off; detailing the rare bloodlines of the World of Darkness. Containing the nine bloodlines of the final nights, including: Baali, Daughters of Cacophony, Harbingers of Skulls, Kiasyd (settle down, Ian), Nagaraja, Salubri, Samedi and True Brujah. Additionally, you’ll find a wide variety of powers, disciplines, merits and flaws, and a ton of other tasty bits about these Vampire: the Masquerade bloodlines (not to be confused with the video game).
Ready Made Characters was written by Matthew Dawkins and produced by Eddy Webb. It was Published July 6th, 2016 for Onyx Path Publishing.
Lore of the Bloodlines was written by Matthew Dawkins, Eloy Lasanta, Andrew Peregrine, Neall Raemonn Price, Eddy Webb, and Rob Wieland. It was published April 26th, 2017 for Onyx Path Publishing.
Feb 01, 2019 In this episode, we combine the final two V20 books: Ready Made Characters and Lore of the Bloodlines. Ready Made Characters brings you a selection of unique and interesting characters from each of the main 13 clans, for use as starting characters or as NPC characters. Upload and convert PDF files, choose from professional templates, or start completely from scratch. Distribute them across all devices Show off your work on Windows, Android, and iOS devices via smartphones, tablets, desktops, and notebooks. V20 Lore of the Bloodlines: $9.99: Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing: by Kassandra F. I found myself buying both PDF and Hardcover color book afterward. Download V20 Lore of the Clans Free in pdf format. Account 40.77.167.10. About Us We believe everything in the internet must be free. Oct 25, 2018 I'm trying to include the merits and flaws added in the Lore of the Clans & Lore of the Bloodlines books in the site. Thus far, I have organized the merits & flaws how they are in the V20 core book, separated into categories (physical, mental, social, supernatural). Instead of fitting all the merits & flaws from LotC and LotB into those.
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V20 Ready Made Characters
Written by: Matthew Dawkins
July 6th, 2016
Running a one-night game of Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition? Wanting to start up a new chronicle, but your players aren't sure what to play? Looking for some examples of how to use the material in Lore of the Clans?
Thanks to our generous Kickstarter backers, these thirteen ready-made characters cover each of the vampire Clans. Each character is provided with background, roleplay suggestions, art, and some potential coteries and plot hooks — everything you need to start your endless nights as one of the Kindred.
Lore of the Bloodlines
Written by: Various
April 26th, 2017
The Clans are not the only vampires that strut, if I might steal from the Bard, upon this great stage of fools. There are the errant Kindred inaccurately collected under the sobriquet of 'bloodlines.' While their role in the eternal conflict between the childer of Caine is small, it is often incredibly impactful.
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As such, I provide this corollary to my original study. It would be the work of several lifetimes to find and document every tiny aberration or fleeting dead end that constitutes a variation from one of the thirteen. Instead, I have focused on nine that I know for certain have an impact in our little culture war of the dead. From the brain-washed abominations of Tremere magic to vampires twisted by demonic will to the remnants of Clans long thought dead, each of these so-called “bloodlines” have their place in society. There is no larger picture for them — for us — to be a part of. Here on the fringes, each vampire’s experience is unique.
Lore of the Bloodlines for Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary is the follow-up to Lore of the Clans, providing supplementary information on some of the vampiric bloodlines detailed in V20, but lacking whatever exactly it takes to be considered a Clan (have or a had a progenitor who got down to third generation, plus political reality, I guess). Note that a copy of V20, or a thorough recollection of the existing canon material on the bloodlines, is necessary to read Lore of the Bloodlines – the books assumes that you’re familiar with this, and does not spend its limited page count reiterating the basic information about the bloodlines. Lore of the Bloodlines is available as a PDF or print on demand.
Lore of the Bloodlines covers the Baali, Daughters of Cacophony, Gargoyles, Harbingers of Skulls, Kiasyd, Nagaraja, Salubri, Samedi, and True Brujah. Of the “bloodlines” from V20 that did not make it in, most are fairly obscure, even for bloodlines – the Blood Brothers (only kind-of-sort-of vampires anyway; they were an unachieved stretch goal in the Lore of the Clans Kickstarter), the Ahrimanes (a recent bloodline that no longer exists), five Dark Ages era bloodlines that no longer exist (Anda, Lamia, Lhiannan, and Noiad – and the Cappadocians, of course), and the Children of Osiris (not actually a bloodline).
With nine bloodlines covered over 100 pages, this makes for 10-12 pages per bloodline. Most of that page count is spent on an in-character presentation of the bloodline’s background (except for a couple of small sidebars, there is no accompanying ‘objective’ presentation), with each bloodline also getting several character concepts, several merits/flaws, one or more combination disciplines, and one or more 6+ dot elder disciplines. Note that there is an incredibly detailed table of contents, which makes it very easy to find – every part of every chapter is listed out, including exact page citations for each of the crunchy bits.
As usual for this sort of book, the in-character presentation is from a member of the bloodline, and is biased in favor of that bloodline. Lore of the Bloodlines takes this to great lengths at times, as there is some pretty serious self-aggrandizement at play (the Harbinger of Skulls asserts that the bloodline was always distinct, rather than being the remnants of the Cappadocians who were trapped in the Shadowlands, the Nagaraja places their origins in Enoch, the Daughter of Cacophony asserts that they were created by the Tal’Mahe’ra, etc.). Personally, I feel like some of these more grandiose presentations somewhat detract from the pre-existing material (e.g., I liked the Daughters just fine without a long-term meta-plot tie-in for their origin). But regardless of personal opinion, it is the case that for many of the bloodlines, the lore in question focuses focus more on their historical origins than their status in the modern nights.
My favorite chapters covered the Gargoyles and the Salubri. The Salubri chapter sticks with the fairly straightforward origin story and touches on both sides of what’s left of the former Clan in the modern nights (it probably also helps that I’ve got a soft spot for the Salubri). The Gargoyles chapter has the luxury of a more modern and relevant origin story, plus some good discussion of how the Gargoyles relate to the Tremere. I was least thrilled with the Baali chapter, as it has yet another origin story for the bloodline, and one that’s pretty confusing – and the contents on the modern nights didn’t inspire me.
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Each bloodlines also gets the usual full-page art lead-in to its chapter. These pieces were created by Mark Kelly (as you can see from the link, he also contributed some work to Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition – although not that Brujah gangland photo shoot I complained about). My personal favorite is the Daughter of Cacophony, but you can check the link earlier in the paragraph and judge for yourself, since they have all of the art available as prints.
As for the crunchy bits, there’s not as much as usual that might be of real interest to me, in that I consider disciplines above the fifth dot to be effectively meaningless, and because I consider a good number of the bloodlines to be unplayable as PCs in any ‘normal’ game of Vampire, although they could appear as NPCs – the Baali and Nagaraja make poor PCs, and the Harbingers of Skulls, Gargoyles, and to a lesser extent Kiasyd have severe difficulties interacting with mortals but don’t have Obfuscate (the Samedi have similar difficulties, but do have Obfuscate). With that said, there are several merits/flaws that could work well for an NPC, such as Carrion Presence for the Baali (if want to make one of them a really obvious Bad Guy) or Stillness of Death for a Gargoyle (to increase the chances of getting to pull off the ‘surprise that was a really a vampire not a statute’ trope). The Daughters of Cacophony merit Chorus Trained requires multiple Daughters with the same merit to function, but could be handy for an NPC appearance or for a PC if the Storyteller is willing to permit the Daughter PC to have others of their bloodline in town. The Salubri pick of the Scent of the Other merit (which helps them pass in Kindred society) and Sight Beyond Sight (sort of a Salubri variant of Oracular Ability).
Overall, Lore of the Bloodlines is nice, but not great. It requires the reader to know a lot of the existing lore to fill in the gaps and get a decent picture of the bloodlines. This leaves it appealing to a hardcore audience (and, I know, this was a supplement to a Kickstarter for an anniversary edition that wasn’t widely released, so the audience is kind of inherently a hardcore one) – but this member of the hardcore audience, at least, would have liked to see less embellishment on origin stories and more discussion of something like how to work characters of these bloodlines into a chronicle.