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Spin the wheel. This Greek mythological figure is trying to kill you

Spin the wheel again. This Greek mythological figure is trying to protect you

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

It looks really cool and I'd love to get into the lore but I'm not sure which bits to look into see a different experience from V5 narratively ^^

Thanks for the ask! In VTR, there are only five core Clans: Ventrue, Gangrel, Nosferatu, (much like the originals but with some changes), Daeva, and Mekhet (amalgamations of some of the archetypes present in Toreador, Brujah, Ministry, Lasombra, Hecata). Each clan has a myriad of potential 'bloodlines' to explore, like sub-clans with a unique discipline.

There are also five Covenants, which are like the Sects in VTM except they're all different facets of the same society and have to interact and coexist more often than, say, the Camarilla and Sabbat. Some are just as diametrically opposed, but on different axes, like the Invictus vs Carthians (status quo/traditional vs change/experimentation), and the Lancea Sanctum vs Circle of the Crone (Abrahamic religions/service to a higher power vs pagan religions/indulgence of the beast), while one, the Ordo Dracul, focuses inwards on honing and improving the vampiric condition through science and discipline.

No more Caine: there are many stories about the potential progenitors of vampires, and only a handful are biblical. Generation is gone and replaced with Blood Potency. No Thinbloods, no Gehenna, no Kuei-jin.

The Mask/Dirge system in VTR 2e: The archetype your kindred present themselves as, vs the archetype they truly embody. Both give you options for recovering willpower and add concrete motivations to fall back on. 1e has its shining moments, but I much prefer this to the Virtue/Vice system it replaced.

The Strix: malicious beings that take the form of owls made of smoke with yellow eyes. A uniting, primordial enemy of all Kindred, bent on their ruin and capable of possession, only hurt by fire and sunlight. More heavily emphasised in 2e.

Blood sorcery: the Tremere are gone, but their spirit lives on in the Lancea Sanctum and Circle of the Crone, who each have their own school of secret rites with which to work wonders beyond what innate disciplines can achieve. Unfortunately their combat viability is somewhat nerfed in 2e.

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