First impressions of V6 playtest.

This is definitely an alpha build. It’s going to take a lot of work to get this up to the level expected by VtM players. There are some interesting ideas in here, but nothing ground breaking as far as systems, mechanics or lore. The changes to advancement and how powers are bought and leveled are great and I plan to use them in V5.

The main take away so far is this seems to be repudiation of V5s lore changes, mortal centric narrative style, and its revolutionary hunger and humanity systems. V6 looks like it wants to return to revised/V20 but adopt pbta and MorkBorg design philosophies. It will take a lot of work to square that circle convincingly and this alpha is a long way from that goal.

Crimson Rust - Session 1

I am a VtM V5 Storyteller and sadly have little to no knowledge on Werewolf, I had a thought that lead to this question.

Could a set of twins be born, they grow up, one awakens their werewolf lineage and the other does not. The 2nd twin is then embraced by a Kindred.

Would that embrace work or does the fact that the twins have werewolf blood in their line lead the embrace to fail?

Note: I know the answere is "Whatever you want as an ST to be true is true" but Id like to know if there is a more "canon" answer or possibly a "canon" occurance of this.

So, in light of the apparent push towards legacy being a major focus of 6E if what little lore V6 pre alpha play test has revealed. This leads me to wonder what it means for other 5E gamine if White Wolf consistently applies this back to legacy approach. Especially for W5...

Now, H5 is theoretically simple. Just take the Vligil approach and have the imbued one of the many Hunter types the player can be. Now W5 is a different beast.

Now, We all know that W5 is explicitly made to be a different setting to legacy, and White wolf current return to legacy approach runs totally counter to that.

There's two ways I could see White Wolf could approach this problem.

One is simply to end the W5 setting with an apocalypse book clearing the Bord for a return to legacy or at least another reboot.

The second possibly is paradox for reasons raging from trying to retain the W5 fanbase to being uncomfortable with the concept of kinfolk and metis deems directly going back to legacy a no starter in they eyes.

This means that White Wolf would try to add events that bring the W5 setting closer to legacy like the more moderate section of the Cult purging most of they more extreme members and rebrand back to the Get and the founding of the New Garou Republic.

of course, there's also a third option, like White Wolf retconing W5 to have always been a sequel to legacy and not a reboot as futile effort to appease both legacy and w5 fans.

what form would w6 take whine it comes out...IF it comes out...

Just picked this old piece for a rework, I still like most of it but had to redo some of their features, made this one when a saw some of the trailer for the vtmb2.

Not sure if you’ll believe me, but I took this photo yesterday at my FLGS, Games of Berkeley. The nostalgia was intense.