Editing Vampire: The Masquerade (section)

====The Full Release====
Then the core rulebook for '''V5''' was released on August 2 2018, and the early reactions were pretty damn negative. All the artwork had been replaced with corny photo shoots (like in the semi-official Mind's Eye Theater LARP books) because [[Derp|the head of the new White Wolf was a Vampire LARPer in its heyday]]. There's an absolute dearth of material compared to V20 (there are no rules for Sabbat or Anarchs in the corebook, with the former seeming to be wiped out/forced into deep hiding in-lore), and furthermore none of the clunkiness of the crunch was fixed. On top of everything else, the new fluff actually ''encourages'' being the kind of edgy, psychotic, superficial asshole that made White Wolf players a fucking running joke in the RPG community.

The Camarilla splatbook that came out post-launch would become the straw that broke the lolcow's back for one simple and very important reason: They brought the anti-homosexual purges in Chechnya, a ''real-life atrocity which was in progress at the time of writing'', into the story as a vampire cover-up plot. Sure, they've made less-than-tasteful allusions to real-life events before, but even when [[Wraith: The Oblivion|Wraith]] did a splatbook about the Holocaust, they at least had the good taste to put all their effort into being respectful, because even the company that published [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse|''Freak Legion'']] and let [[Phil Brucato]] write books on playing as a [[furry]] knew where to draw the line. These fucking LARPers claimed that real people involved in the killings were totally sick vampires, just for some cheap angst and an unoriginal plot hook.

Paradox has pulled all copies of the Camarilla and Anarch [[splatbook]]s for a full rewrite, and every single White Wolf manager has been thrown out ass-first and replaced with seatwarmers. White Wolf as a game development company no longer exists; they are now a glorified holding company, folded into Paradox's corporate structure, that will license their properties to other publishers (read: Onyx Path, who are currently working on a V5 update to Chicago by Night, by-the-way) for future World of Darkness books. [[Lulz|That's how much of a trainwreck White Wolf has become - they couldn't be trusted to write their own material anymore]].

All that said and done, V5 isn't quite dead yet. New releases are slowly coming out even if they often of mixed quality. For example: Cult of Blood Gods provided extensive fluff and crunch, whereas Sabbat provides no play options and is basically useless. The popularity of V5 is niche, but it's slowly growing, as indicated by the [https://www.youtube.com/@worldofdarkness World of Darkness YouTube channel], which continues its LA by Night series, and having even brought Matt Mercer of [[Critical Role]] fame onto the show to appear as Beckett.

The future of V5 is incredibly uncertain, but what we have so far seems to indicate that the current writing team moving with some level if confidence - even if the final product might not be what /tg/ exactly wants.