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Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
by Garrett T. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/27/2014 11:11:27

I was incredibly excited for this book to come out and incredibly disappointment once it was released.

This book feels like a Requiem 1.1 rather than a Requiem 2.0. I was disappointment in the fact that material from the supplement blood sorcery wasn't included, no bloodlines are included (and there are no plans to officially update the old bloodlines), the humanity system feels even more restrictive than before, etc.

The decisions Onyx path made to make this a "stand alone" product (yet they direct you back to God Machine for Merits?!) while making the God Machine reliant on the original World of Darkness Core seems like the most backward decision they could have made. If God Machine was a stand alone product, they could have used the extra space that opened to really flesh out this book with Vampire specific rules and lore. Now they are stuck in a cycle were every new splat will contain "core" information (which gives us less book), yet refers us back to another book that refers us back to another book.

Vampire the Requiem is ten years old and this is the first actual revision to the game, I was hoping for a solid product that incorporated and updated the rules and themes published since 2004 and in many ways this book delivers.. but not nearly enough to justify the ten years it took to get it.

-I enjoyed the new Coils and Scales of the Dragon, but somehow still miss the old ones. I wish Blood Sorcery had gotten the same treatment in the corebook. -I love many of the new merits.



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