What up,

I think one of the reasons bloodlines are presented the way they are, with Disciplines kept slightly separate from the bloodline itself, is to facilitate the assimilation bloodlines without the magic powers and vice versa. I can't stress highly enough that the existence of the Burakumin and the Bruja, for example, should not keep players from making undead Japanese mortician and vampire biker characters without the bloodline. Bloodlines are meant to be evocative and examplary, not exclusive.

I don't know if or when we'll see more about the Burakumin, the Morbus and the other three full-on bloodlines in the Vampire rulebook. I'm not ruling it out.

Those bloodline thumbnail descriptions given in the clan write-ups of Vampire: The Requiem won't be appearing in future supplements. They're meant as inspirational starter ideas to get you going, not teasers. It's likely that you'll see published bloodlines down the road that crowd in on those ideas a bit (and you could certainly swap out one bloodline's name for another), if only because a lot of broad quality ideas are in those thumbnails.

More to the point, for some of you: I don't plan on reinventing the Giovanni. If I spend all my time rehashing the specific ideas of Masquerade, I'll never get to do the new stuff. Besides, the Giovanni had their time and were well represented back in the day. If you love the Giovanni, more power to you — but you've got the tools you need to revise them for your own Requiem campaigns. Don't wait on me.

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Will