On Thursday, White Wolf announced they were going to release a 20th Anniversary Edition of Vampire: The Masquerade. The book will be the ultimate rule book for VtM, containing all 13 clans and bloodlines, discipline powers from level one to level nine, full colour art work, updated rules, and an open playtest design where the fans can contribute to the final product.
This sounds amazing. The only problem, currently it is only being offered for sale to attendies of The Grand Masquerade event in Atlanta. While they have commented that it should be available to the rest of the world, they have yet to confirm it.
To me, this is one of the stupidest mistakes White Wolf could have made. Vampire the Masquerade is massively popular, despite there being no new books being printed for it since 2004 when they destroyed the world.
When it was first released Vampire the Masquerade was something new and something very different to the RPGs that were around at the time. It took from the horror of Cthulhu, the grit and edge that stylised the cyberpunk movement, let you play super-powered unearthly heroes, and it was very, very Gothic. V:tM helped push the idea of vampires out of the dark (so to speak) and made them anti-heroes. Without it the entire supernatural genre would simply not be the same.
To limit this 20th Anniversary Edition to those that can make it to Atlanta would be a travesty. I hope that White Wolf reconsider, and make it available via normal distribution methods. The day they announce that, I'll be putting in my pre-order!
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