COMING SOON: Three "Vampire: The Masquerade" interactive novels!

I am new to the World of Darkness, thus i went for some quick read of the clan lore… well i am most intrigued with the Toreador clan Nephilim variant and their Path of the Angel , too bad they are considered extinct after the Dark Ages, else an Angelic Vampire will be a sight to behold :sweat_smile: supposingly the only Lawful Good Vampires ?:thinking:

Malkavian aren’t included ?
It would be a shame !

I’m misreading something and getting confused by ‘put them on your Steam wishlists’ :rofl: but can someone tell me if these three novels are exclusive to Steam? I don’t think so. Thanks!

It means (for those who use Steam) that by putting the unpublished games on their wishlists, the games get better publicity out of the gate … in other words free advertising and product call-outs for CoG within the Steam platform.

Correct

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Gotcha. So they’ll still be published on other platforms too? Not just steam?

Edit: Thanks!

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I love Paradox and their strategy games like Stellaris. I can’t express how excited I am about this! I hope there’ll be more things to come with Paradox.

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Sorry if that was asked already is this based on which edition of Vampire the Masquerade

v5. Current edition, as they are officially licensed products.

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Oh, that’s unfortunate because the lore aand the mechanics were better in older editions based on what I read

Not sure what you mean about the lore, since it’s the exact same lore as the earlier editions. In fact, I’ve been spending hours going through the old splatbooks from almost 20 years ago. As for the mechanics, my game is very light on those and is more of a storytelling game with light rules, kinda like CoG’s normal ones. Kyle’s book Night Road is more complex though.

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I agree with you, the so called " lore " of 5th edition is actually putting the timeline to modern society, where it is to coincide with the current modern time frame , it is actually very interesting where the government realise the existence of vampire and started a war against them , the elders try to unify all the clans hence starting a war among the vampire as well… in addition the Thin Bloods are growing, this is all very interesting read … i believe your game is into such period of power struggle among the vampires right? Which is fascinating as well😅

However i think there isn’t any conflict by adding historical lore of other editions right ? For example, the Toreador Nephilim variant were supposed to exist in the dark ages , but that doesn’t mean there couldn’t be survivor or followers of the Nephilim in the current society right ? Since it is all up to the story tellers .

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Even more info about Night Road on this week’s World of Darkness News show! Ten out of ten will try to seduce a hunter and adopt a wolf

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Wich month means Summer 2020?because I kinda think the first book will be released soon

The upcoming release thread says late September but it has a question mark on it, so that isn’t definite.

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Thx I really appreciate this information because I start Lacking new story’s (I don’t know all of them but not every story is interesting for me and I red so many of them :/)

English is not my first language and i’m not very good at expressing myself so hopefully i don’t end up putting my foot in my mouth, I found part of the writing to be a bit too biased in a certain direction, I know it almost if always been like that but as i have gotten older I’m not sure I like some of what I read when it came to the lore/fluff with certain characters (as example of what I meant) , as I said I got older so maybe it’s me not getting something

You meant the general plotline?
Well, me myself is new to this world of darkness , hence i am like a blank paper who are willingly to adapt whatever the developer had install as long as they are logical , thus far i think the plotline is alright , the rest is depend on individual author on how to explore them .

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Well an example that came to mind was a character that was or is (I don’t remember well with this headache) a Tremere that made a group or subpart of the clan (or maybe went independent, I don’t remember again too well) that accept women or is composed only of women which isn’t at all the problem but the backstory of the charactermimply ormtried to imply the Tremere Clan was Misogynist which I really don’t remember being the case before V5

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Tremere were never misogynistic. Are they in v.5? I haven’t touched it. My current gaming friends are only interested in fantasy or sci-fi.

Either implied or heavily implied IF I remember right? but V5 has other issues that make me unhappy with it fluff and crunch wise (so far a whole third of vampire factions, the Sabbat, is practically gone making conflicts between vampires overall Camarilla versus Anarchs) but there was a breaking point that made a lot of people including me stop being involved (I had not brought the books but I kept up with info about it): They retconned the anti-homosexual purges in Chechnya, a real-life atrocity, that was in progress at the time of writing , as a vampire cover-up plot. That was in extreme bad taste and had the repercussions that V5 is not doing well right now and Vampire Bloodlines 2 is overall (not to forget the 3 COG games coming up but Bloodlines 2 will most likely reach more people) what will determine what Paradox does in the future with V5

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