Rites of the Blood

[Ascanio Giovanni]

For those of you who don't know, Rites of the Blood has now finally been released. It is available on DriveThruRPG.com at the following address.

rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/131877/Rites-of-the-Blood

For those who do not know what this is, it is the new V20 blood magic supplement. I highly recommend it.

[The Mouth]

Reading it now.

[Omar Khessib]

Sorry to turn this into a thread about peoples political shiznits, but I really don't want to pose this question on every freaking platform. So, here it goes. Let me know if I should move it:

Most if not all the current platforms are proposing conversion to V20. Most of these are running on V20 Core exclusives, nothing from Revised getting dragged over, which to some people makes it more accessible (less reading material) and for others makes the game feel restricted (taking away options that were allowed under Revised). I have a couple questions regarding this book release and its impact on the game.

1. RotB mentions the Baali and does a section on them in detail, but doesn't provide statistics and the common stat blocks we are used to. Assuming nothing has changed between Revised and V20, does this mean that the Baali are now an available bloodline? This goes for both those proposing resets as well as those who are not, but the problem is twofold for those not proposing a reset. The current Baali plot, if not resolved in the next month or two, may lead to some Baali characters, and if that suddenly is no longer an option, how do you propose to deal with the discontent of the players?

2. This book reintroduces many aspects of sorcery from Revised, providing a lot of new content but also dismissing some other content that "didn't make it" for one reason or another. For those touting a V20 excursionist platform, now that these disciplines have been added, are you using only what is provided for V20, everything provided between Revised & V20, all V20 + Revised with scrutiny, etc. What's your thoughts on including the Revised stuff.

3. I swear I had another but it isn't coming to me at the moment. I'll probably remember and post it later.

[Bertie]

Baali are actually in Core V20 on page 394. V20 actually includes a great deal of bloodlines, including:
Baali
Blood Brothers
Daughters of Cacophony
Gargoyles
Harbringers of Skulls
Kiasyd
Nagaraja
Salubri
Samedi
True Brujah
Ahrimanes
Anda
Cappadocians
Children of Osiris
Lamia
Lhiannan
Noiad
Assamite Antitribu
City Gangrel
Salubri Antitribu
Toreador Antitribu
Tremere Antitribu
Ventrue Antitribu
Assamite Sorcerers
Assamite Viziers
Daitya
Tlacique
Warrior Setites
Mariners
Angellis Ater
Dominate Malkavians
Brahman
Wu Zao
Telyavelic Tremere
Old Clan Tzimisce

Are the different V20 Core candidates going to put any further restrictions on V20 core content? The V20 setting also makes some changes to make some of the bloodlines more available than they were in classic VtM, the Children of Osiris for example never got turned back into humans, and the Telyavels are hiding in the Sabbat.

[Omar Khessib]

Hah! Thank you Kevin. I need to start reading up on V20 before I say anything else stupid.

[The Mouth]

Yeah, running core V20 still offers a huge list of options.