History Headscratchers / VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines

* In the tutorial, Jack explains that vampires prefer "quality" blood over quantity, and that humans will provide varying levels of nourishment depending on their genetic stock and/or socioeconomic status ("you ever have a [=PhD=] kid? That's good stuff"). In practice, every human provides the same amount of nourishment to the player character ''except'' for vagrants, who provide significantly less. When Ventrues drink a vagrant's blood, there is a random chance that they will vomit it back up, and the status notification refers to the vagrant as a "lowborn human": the term indicates that Ventrues find the blood distasteful specifically because of the vagrant's genetic stock, rather than their current, contingent socioeconomic status. I always found it strange that vagrants provide less nourishment to vampires than wealthy people of good breeding, but the same is not true of sex workers or gang-bangers. While obviously not all vagrants, sex workers or gang-bangers are "lowborn humans", I would have thought they'd be disproportionately likely to meet that description compared to, for instance, a wealthy dude with a fancy watch and a flash car.

* In the tutorial, Jack explains that vampires prefer "quality" blood over quantity, and that humans will provide varying levels of nourishment depending on their genetic stock and/or socioeconomic status ("you ever have a [=PhD=] kid? That's good stuff"). In practice, every human provides the same amount of nourishment to the player character ''except'' for vagrants, who provide significantly less. When Ventrues drink a vagrant's blood, there is a random chance that they will vomit it back up, and the status notification refers to the vagrant as a "lowborn human", which suggests that it results from the vagrant's genetic stock rather than their socioeconomic status. I always found it strange that vagrants provide less nourishment to vampires than wealthy people of good breeding, but the same is not true of sex workers or gang-bangers. While obviously not all vagrants, sex workers or gang-bangers are "lowborn humans", I would have thought they'd be disproportionately likely to meet that description compared to, for instance, a wealthy dude with a fancy watch and a flash car.

* In the tutorial, Jack explains that vampires prefer "quality" blood over quantity, and that humans will provide varying levels of nourishment depending on their genetic stock and/or socioeconomic status ("you ever have a PhD kid? That's good stuff"). In practice, every human provides the same amount of nourishment to the player character ''except'' for vagrants, who provide significantly less. When Ventrues drink a vagrant's blood, there is a random chance that they will vomit it back up, and the status notification refers to the vagrant as a "lowborn human", which suggests that it results from the vagrant's genetic stock rather than their socioeconomic status. I always found it strange that vagrants provide less nourishment to vampires than wealthy people of good breeding, but the same is not true of sex workers or gang-bangers. While obviously not all vagrants, sex workers or gang-bangers are "lowborn humans", I would have thought they'd be disproportionately likely to meet that description compared to, for instance, a wealthy dude with a fancy watch and a flash car.

** I would be inclined to agree with you, except that Nines (and all the Anarchs, really) are NotSoDifferent from the Camarilla as they think in terms of their attitudes. Nines gets every bit as petty and pissed off as [=LaCroix=] does if you even ''dare'' question his motives or compare him to them, even though, just like [=LaCroix=], he basically spends the whole game getting you to be his errand boy. He probably won't be all "call the blood hunt" just because you told him where he could stick it, but he'll likely be sore about it for a while.

*** Yep. just because Jack is {{AffablyEvil}} doesn't mean he is going to care much about who dies.

*** Yep. just because Jack is https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AffablyEvil doesn't mean he is going to care much about who dies.

* Because Ash was already a celebrity. Nothing to be done about that. Better he stops doing movies, appearing on talk shows etc and slowly slides from public knowledge ''then'' vanishes rather than vanish at the height of his fame when everyone and their dog will be looking for him. You're a nody, more or less, you vanishing will attract very little attention, so that's what happened. However now that you ''have'' vanished you reappearing will result in questions you can't safely answer.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Sabbat is supposedly composed by Tzimisce and Lasombra. So why not even one single Lasombra get mentioned in game?
* Because the game's portrayal of the Sabbat is pretty primitive. Aside from Andrei, it's pretty much restricted to Shovelheads, because they're the bad guys anyway. There is one point where you're attacked by Lasombra women in the Sabbat HQ though, however it is not elaborated on. Then again, they also had a Tremere Antitribu, a kind that supposedly died out. Also, it's not like they HAVE to show all clans. We never saw a Ravnos or Setite, after all.
** Also the Lasombra aren't exactly foot soldiers. They're very much in line with the Ventrue or Toreador of the Camarilla in that they are more often behind the scenes doing their work. While it's odd that we never see them it's perfectly explainable by simply hand-waving it as us only seeing the rank and file antitribu types in the game.
** Come to think of it, even of those we only get to see the Brujah and Gangrel, even though the real core of the Sabbat consists of the antitribu of most Clans. Yeah, the game didn't exactly give much thought to the Sabbat here.

** In Bloodlines, the Nosferatu changed its appearance and looked like the PC Toreador, once in the execution he returned to its real appearance. That was how it managed to embrace somebody else.

** As for Ventrue with fortitude: it's in the name. In-game the use of fortitude is basically a physical defence buff, but in the tabletop game, it defends against ''everything'' including physical blows and social coercion. Ventrue are defined as leaders, it makes sense that they'd be equipped with an ability that would allow them to curb or bypass manipulation.
*** Plus the Ventrue are ''not'' the leaders working in the shadows, at least not to other vampires. There are public leaders. Having a spur-of-the-moment defence against assassins etc is a smart thing for the guy on the throne. As for the Malks and Obfuscate they're all about mysteries and secrets, hiding fits in.

*** Admittedly, I have only very little knowledge about WtA, buuut ... both it and VtM are RPGs. Whos to say that the Garou fought in Griffin Park isn't one who has just leveled much, much more than the player character and is therefore much more powerful?

Why doesn't Isaac send anyone to help Ash? The game plays it like he's just being cowardly for not helping Ash, but it's not like he'd have to go himself. He's baron, he's got money, he's got employees (one of which being the goon who sends the Fledgling his way in the first place), he could send someone or multiple someones to help Ash. Yet he refuses to out of misplaced fear that he'd have to personally fight off the hunters? It doesn't make any sense, Ash even assumes he sent ''you'', meaning the possibility is very much on the table and inline with his usual tactics.

[[folder: I work for the Camarilla as a spy.]]