[RPG] Metaplot of Vampire: The Masquerade V20

Attributes & Abilities

• Awareness has been added as a Talent.
• Dodge has been removed as a skill; its former functionality has been moved to Athletics.
• Security has also been removed; its former functionality has been subsumed by the Larceny skill and the Technology knowledge.
• Linguistics is no longer a skill; each language known is a 1-dot Merit instead. (p. 484)

Clans

• The Tremere have a new clan flaw; they succumb to the blood bond after only two drinks from a regnant, rather than three. (It's not made clear whether the effect of the first drink is magnified to that of the second drink, or whether the second drink is skipped.) (p.69)
• The animal features of the Gangrel that manifest after a frenzy are now temporary, and may be behavioral rather than physical. (p.55)

Character Creation and Costs

• During character creation, Humanity/Path dots costs 2 freebie points instead of 1.

Core Disciplines

• Potence and Celerity have been significantly altered. Each now adds a passive bonus (at no vitae cost) to their governing physical attribute; you add your dots as extra dice in pools using Strength and Dexterity, respectively. In addition, Potence and Celerity allow the vampire to spend vitae for effects: spending 1v allows a Potence user to add his dots in Potence as successes to all subsequent Strength rolls made during that turn--which used to be inherent to the discipline--and a Celerity user may choose to spend 1v to convert a Celerity dot into an additional physical action for that turn, which may be done multiple times, reducing the Celerity rating accordingly for the turn (Generational blood-spending maxima do not apply to these expenditures.) (pp. 142, 192)
• Dominate and Presence powers whose difficulties were once equal to the subject's permanent Willpower rating now target the subject's current Willpower.

Systems

• If "splitting one's action" in a turn, compare the dice pools for each action, find the one with the fewest dice, and then allot that number of dice among all the actions being attempted. (p.248)

I don't think those rules are rewritten for V20 edition, unless published in a W20 supplement, which I think not.

Anyway don't forget that WoD basic rules are extremely easy. The rest of the rules are simply suggestions about how to manage situations.

This book is nothing more than a collection of guidelines, suggested but not mandatory ways of capturing the World of Darkness in the format of a game.

I don't think Storytellers are expected to remember every dramatic system and every manoeuvres, much less stop the game to search for it. They are expected to understand the spirit of the system and to make up appropriate roll for each situation.

Back in the 90s, when I was on my last teens, and my early twenties, we hadn't a lot of money to buy books. So, I read a borrowed copy of Vampire, returned it, and we had to play with the basic rules and with a downloaded list of disciplines. We played that way for two years. Even when we had money to buy a book, we bought supplements instead of the core book.

Still today, owning the core book and others, in most game sessions we don't open them at all. So I don't think Vampire requires extensive bookkeeping. A skilled ST should not have a lot of problems to improvising manoeuvres (add dices for accuracy, increase or decrease difficulties according to situations, increase or decrease damage,... and use common sense).