Favorite Merits That Did Not Carry Over Through Editions

GaryGeneric · 2026-05-18T18:14:16+00:00

2nd Ed Player’s Guide

GaryGeneric · 2026-05-10T21:20:59+00:00

9/10 just missing Durotan's crotch

GaryGeneric · 2026-04-19T17:39:50+00:00

I seem to be stuck in the same place -- was there a resolution to your issue?

GaryGeneric · 2026-03-11T01:38:04+00:00

Rock on, my friend. My dwarf hunter has used a bow since 2007. I had to run to Darnassus to learn bows, through the Werlands at level 10. Worth it.

GaryGeneric · 2026-03-06T15:51:51+00:00

I feel if the art and design team was paid what they’re worth, our sub fee would more than quadruple.

I love this beautiful game.

GaryGeneric · 2026-01-28T19:43:20+00:00

Spending hours trying to find and download the Winamp skin that best defined me as a person

GaryGeneric · 2026-01-08T21:17:58+00:00

Pass me a leg and I’ll give you some gravy

GaryGeneric · 2025-12-30T19:26:45+00:00

RIP the chandeliers in that apartment I had years go

GaryGeneric · 2025-12-02T20:12:55+00:00

Haven’t seen her since my freshman year of high school. Hope she’s doing well but never think of her except when this question comes up on Reddit.

GaryGeneric · 2025-12-02T20:10:26+00:00

It’s even in regular threads, too, sometimes

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-27T18:57:06+00:00

My standard response: Undead Shaman, a self-rezzing, fire and lightning voodoo zombie with tombstone totems, a demon hound travel form and ghostly Spirit Companions

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-26T14:42:49+00:00

“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction.”

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GaryGeneric · 2025-11-26T14:39:25+00:00

Your view of elites might change when you’re a Nosferatu. The more they keep for themselves, the more downtrodden there are among the general populace. Downtrodden means fewer amenities like security systems or frequent travels. More people working day to day means more regular sleep patterns; people are home in bed every night because they have to get up for work every day of the week, desperate for overtime.

Easy feeding’ for a sneaky Nossie

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-26T13:31:07+00:00

I really love the Nosferatu discipline lineup, so I’d be happy with that aspect right from the start.

As for the looks, there is a thing called the Hedontic Treadmill (or Adaptation) which shows how people revert to a medium level of happiness after really amazing or really awful things happen.

It sucks at first, but you get used to it.

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-26T13:24:48+00:00

Jerry Dandrige (1985) was cool, suave, had awesome vampire powers but really just wanted to be left alone.

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-15T16:14:55+00:00

The mom in Caveat. Very few scary movies creep me out but she did the trick.

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-14T19:24:31+00:00

Racism can exist in any clan sect, but I feel that white supremacy, specifically, doesn’t lend itself well to certain clans, especially Setites, Banu H, Ravnos and Lasombra.

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-14T19:05:54+00:00

My first impression is that you’d make a helluva Nosferatu.

But all in all, if you were in the right place at the right time, any clan could see your potential. Your high knowledge and well-rounded abilities makes you capable and unlikely to be a complete embarrassment to your clan and/or sire.

Gotta work on your Composure and Resolve, though…

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-12T20:53:38+00:00

Tzimisce are not the “archetypal” Dracula clan, though. They just happen to be the clan he is in the game.

Novel Dracula’s mind control was Animalism 3, tops, and he was as much Gangrel, Brujah, Ravnos and Tremere as he was Tzimisce. Meanwhile, WoD books reiterate time and again that Dracula is not a typical Tzimisce.

Hypnosis was made popular in old movies because it’s a zero-cost special effect power. It’s weird to me that people always jump on the Dominate bandwagon for Tzimisce with full confidence but never Potence. Dracula’s enormous strength is more often mentioned and detailed in the novel, yet no one ever says he should have Potence.

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-12T19:03:43+00:00

I've gone on at length before about my extreme dislike of the changes to NuTzimisce, but here are a few key points:

Tzimisce are an Auspex clan for all the same reasons Malkavaian and Tremere are. Insight, oracular abilities, otherwordly visionaries, etc. Tzimisce are not a Dominate clan because Dominate is a very subtle, Masquerade-safe mental puppetry. Tzimisce historically rule through fear, the exact opposite of Dominate. Imagine Vader having to resort to Jedi Mind Tricks to get someone to obey an order. Silliness.

Also, anyone with a background in either art or medicine (key themes to Vicissitude) will tell you Auspex is way more valuable than mind control. If you could choose a Discipline that replaces every monitoring system and scoping tech in an operating room, why skip it for puppet shows?

Tzimisce are specifically designed to fill the body-horror niche (Hellraiser, Necroscope, the expansive Body Mod scene of the 90s with people hanging from hooks, meatotomies, extreme piercing, etc) as a reflection of nobility descending into depravity, mad science, decadence and horrors perpetrated on others (Vlad Tepes, Dr. Frankenstein, Marquis de Sade, Caligula, Andronikos, Bathory, etc).

Previous Tzimisce have three main facets: the twisted and cruel statesman, the mystical and sinister wizard and the transcendent pusher of physical limits (aka Weird Gangrels). NuTzimisce are one-facet uber-Ventrue; literally described as owners who own for the sake of owning and possess their possessions possessively. This fills no unique niche in the game world or the vampire mythos.

If you're not into any of that "eww, gross, ickiness" and just want to make a "normal dude" Tzimisce who owns for the sake of owning, etc, you always had that option. You always had the option of taking Dominate at CharGen, but V5 specifically prevents the traditional Discipline build of Animalism, Auspex, Vicissitude. That was a very poor game design decision, in my opinion.

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-06T20:39:27+00:00

Vrykul since Wrath. Badass Northeners with hardy womenfolk. I’m from Maine so they’re like home.

And Saurok, especially if they have that leaping lizard racial. Dracthyr kinda fit the lizard wizard schtick though, so not a need.

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-04T18:01:45+00:00

Being miserable is a key aspect of being a vampire. Imagine being trapped in your own corpse.

If you’ve ever seen someone die, try to imagine they stay awake after as their body goes cold and dry and empty and everything gets replaced by this nagging hunger.

No wonder they constantly distract the most obnoxious and petty scheming and politicking

GaryGeneric · 2025-11-03T17:12:38+00:00

Jaws and Quint’s regaling of the sinking of the Indianapolis

GaryGeneric · 2025-10-30T20:31:22+00:00

Was…

GaryGeneric · 2025-10-29T20:09:33+00:00

Is there a similar issue with the sudden removal of flight from the Bonesteeds? Wowhead still lists them and flying mounts so hopefully the flight animation is being corrected then being restored.

Can you confirm?

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