"Thanks to our community for the frank feedback on Bloodlines 2 and the Premium Edition. That feedback made it clear: Lasombra and Toreador belong in the base game, so that is what we are doing," said Marco Behrmann, White Wolf Executive Vice President and Bloodlines 2 Executive Producer.

"Sorry we couldn't get away with it" vibes

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It’s just wild to me that a game straight out of a TTRPG is “light on RPG elements”.

Character stats is just something DnD came up with and everyone goes "character stats = RPG". DnD had character stats because Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson all played table top war games before creating DnD.

Some of my favorite TTRPGs, don't have character stats; looking at you Under the Autumn Strangely, Dread, 10 Candles, For the Queen, and that one game were I play tested characters playing Truth or Dare.

At the end of the day, playing a TTRPG is about telling a story. If the Chinese Room can tell a great story with light character customization. I will take that.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Dread is legitimately one of the best horror RPGs ever created.

    For those who don't know, it's a game of "Final girl" / "Cabin in the woods" style horror where terrible things happen to a group of people. The only mechanic the game has is a Jenga tower. Every time you want to do a risky action, you pull a brick. If the tower falls, something really bad happens. No other game has ever quite created such a perfect feeling of steadily mounting tension and... well... dread.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    @Voroxpete @ShaggySnacks I can’t find it on steam. There are dozens of dread something games :(

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's a tabletop RPG, not a video game.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Doesn't VTM, the ttrpg the game is based on, use character stats? I see nothing wrong with expecting the videogame to have similar gameplay mechanics to the ttrpg its based on. Especially if the first game did that.

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