Interest Check: Vampire the Requiem 2.0

[Crocodile]

Alright, so Vampire the Requiem 2.0 is out and admittedly has been for a bit under the guise of Blood and Smoke: The Stryx Chronicle


So I'm here to drum up interest for a game of VtR 2.0 simply because I like the new rule set and want to spin a tale for characters.


I'll be tossing up several ideas currently for players to vote on. Below are descriptions of each vote choice. Your are limited to three votes. The first is the base game and concepts. Those that follow are modifications.


All Night Society (General Setting)


-Political intrigue


-Horror


-Clinging to Humanity


Knights of Blood (Invictus Game)


-Maintaining the Masquerade


-Vampiric Nobility


Sanctified Nights (Lancea et Santum Game)


-Devotion


-Hunting Ancient Relics


Ouroboros (Orod Dracul Game)


-Investigative


-Unveiling hidden knoweldge


Bloody Revolt (Carthian Movement Game)


-Rebellion


-Building Something New


Pagan Rhapsody (Circle of the Crone Game)


-Disparate Faiths


-Embrace the Beast

 

[Grey]

So down with this I'm clawing my way out of the grave.


Not so enthused about Bloody Revolt or Sanctified Nights, and I'm a die hard Ordo fan, but I'll play any of them.

 

[Crocodile]

Well, go ahead and lock in some votes on preferred settings. Hopefully we will grab a few more players as well.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

So I haven't seen Blood and Smoke, even, but the single session of VtR I've sat for whetted my appetite. If the ST hadn't been a perpetual novice who couldn't tell a story, I'd have stayed on for a long while. I have a hazy impression of BaS being more supernatural in scope and themes than the original. Is that roughly what 2.0 is like? Could be worth picking up.

 

[Crocodile]

Yeah, they even made the Invictus and Carthians have some supernatural tricks.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

Oh, wow. I was disappointed in even Cruac, though I understand the design goal. The low-fantasy horror just takes a better story about personal morality and horror than was available at that table.


I'll be sure to check it out. Provisionally interested in All Nights and Pagan Rhapsody, but only actually opposed to Knights. I'll be able to commit to a real opinion in a couple of days to digest yet another core book, though.

 

[Crocodile]

I never really cared about Cruac or Theban Sorcery. What they put in were good starts with their nasty little subtle abilities. I love the Coils though.


Might still be unimpressive though, but I think the Covenant book coming out will fix that whenever they get to it. More of it all.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

So down with this I'm clawing my way out of the grave.

I would sacrifice a hundred cattle for a Kuei-jin game, now you mention it. Has VtR attempted to reboot that?

 

[Grey]

@Alexandra[/URL] owns the books and has threatened to run one before...

 

[Crocodile]

What exists instead are the Jiang Shi, a curious cluster of vampires most likely originating out of East Asia.

 

[Crocodile]

So far, I've got @Grey, @Shining Lotus Sage , and I believe @The Dark Wizard will be joining us. Hopefully a few more takers but if not I'm happy to run with three. Vampire has the joy of being flexible enough for that no matter which setting.

 

[The Dark Wizard]

So far, I've got @Grey, @Shining Lotus Sage , and I believe @The Dark Wizard will be joining us. Hopefully a few more takers but if not I'm happy to run with three. Vampire has the joy of being flexible enough for that no matter which setting.

I voted.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

I won't vote until I've had a chance to get the books and peruse them. Probably tomorrow, if I can get the coolant leak in my car fixed.

 

[Crocodile]

Well I see a few more votes now. Looks like All Night Society with Ouroboros behind it. Most intriguing especially if I pull my own vote out. lol


If I do so it truely its between All Night and Ouroboros since its looking like I only have you three. Maybe more will show up along the way but I'm content. Just don't be surprised if I prod you to keep the game rolling.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

Reading. I like the more, ah, disjointed writing. Far more characterization, less of a textbook feel than previous offerings.


 
Really digging the way the senses mechanic makes players keep asking "Is there blood?" Get a little of that obsession to bleed over.

 

[Crocodile]

Okay, we apparently have a voter whose not speaking up from my count. Whatever.


We can just do All Night Society to give you guys more freedom of choices. I do ask you all maybe try to work as a coterie?


 
My second musing is the Ordo game because I badly what to drag your characters into the machinations of the God Machine to invovled Angels and Demons.


Also want to toy with Stryx stuff but again I cal do all of this in All Night as well. Input? Questions? Considerations?

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

If we do Ordo, can I shamelessly steal ideas from Welcome to Nightvale?

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

But really. Just make it weird.

 

[Crocodile]

But of course

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

Sold. I'll get started on my Mekhet radio host Cacophonist right away.

 

[VectorPup]

If you have a space free: I NEED DIS

 

[Crocodile]

I do indeed.


 
@Grey @Shining Lotus Sage @The Dark Wizard @VectorPup


So Ordo Dracul game is shockingly in the lead. All Nights Society right behind it.


I'm all for doing either but I have plenty of weird and creepy plans set out for either one. Does this appeal to all interested parties? Shall I make the threads and plunge us headlong into the mysteries and coils of the Dragon?

 

[VectorPup]

I would be quite interested in a weird Ordo game, myself.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

I will be so excited when updated bloodlines come out, I'm sure.

 

[Crocodile]

Well, Onyx Path put out three in their blogs I think.