Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines: Difference between revisions

** As to why {{spoiler|Andrey}} would even bother with this, there is a popular fan theory that Deb of night is actually a camarilla vampire who upholds the masquerade by ridiculing the numerous conspiracy nuts who call her show every night.

* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: The Ventrue Tower.

* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: To get the good ending. Any [[Genre Savvy]] player knows that if a [[MacGuffin]] [[Upgrade Artifact|promises power]], then the [[Big Bad]] will use it to become either [[Nonstandard Game Over|undefeatable]] or [[One-Winged Angel|much harder to kill]]. Since any clues otherwise are ambiguously presented, either weakly worded or emphasize the [[Big Bad]]'s threat, what's the choice a smart gamer will make? Why, reload your save and pick the stupid option next time, of course.

** It helps if you know the World of Darkness, where two out any three artifacts that bring you significant power also [[Evil Is Not a Toy|lead you to a bad end, usually sooner rather than later.]]

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Goes with being part of ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]''.

* [[Pineapple Surprise]]: "Nines" Rodriguez saves the PC from a gang of Sabbat shovelheads by threatening them with a grenade.

* [[Power Born of Madness]]: Malkavians, obviously. Their powers range from seeing bits from the past and future to being able to induce their insane thoughts into anyone they choose, provided it's not a very powerful or strong willed individual.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Of the Storyteller roleplaying system. Manipulation, your social dexterity - one of your most important abilities - is used purely to influence your haggling score. And there are no willpower points, virtues, or vices - instead you have Blood Buff, which is the Storyteller system's spending-blood-to-increase-stats ramped [[Up to Eleven]]. But the degree to which they simplified the system without losing most of the coolness of it makes it a good change in general.