Mid-Week Sorta [Monday Meeting Notes]
And, in case you missed it, we also announced
Vampire: the Masquerade 4th Edition. I posted a separate blog about this a couple of days ago, because it’s a pretty big deal (he said with massive understatement), so you can check out the commentary here:
http://theonyxpath.com/vampire-the-masquerade-4th-edition-announced-at-gen-con, but I do want to clarify a few things here:
1- I made the mistake, and this is totally on me, of mentioning the fact that 2016 will be the 25th anniversary of
VtM. This does not make
V4 a 25th Anniversary Edition or anything like that. We aren’t going to label it that way, nor are we limiting
V4 or any other possible 4th Edition of our
cWoD lines to coming out on those dates. We’re going to work on
V4 until we get it the way we want, and while we are aiming at getting something available next year, it’s more important to us to give
V4 the kind of attention and care that it deserves.
2- And expanding upon #1, my thinking on further lines going
4th Edition is that the form that project takes will be based on the information contained in their 20th Anniversary Edition. In all cases our goal will be to create an accessible edition for newcomers as well as our long term fans, and so the comprehensive massive tomes we have seen so far will not be the format the
4th‘s will be in. That format is a wonderland for dedicated fans, as we intended, but so full of info and minutiae that someone coming to them without prior
cWoD experience can find them very hard to get into. Not everyone, of course, we’ve had a nice number of folks tell us
V20 was their first experience with
VtM – in fact, I ran into a fellow at Gen Con who explained how he got his gaming group into
cWoD recently.