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<blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 9678713" data-attributes="member: 27252">Personally, I found all of the 20th Anniversary books too big to be practical, especially for any newcomer to the games.V5 itself is a pretty large book but the mechanical design is sleek and compelling, and I think it resets a lot of the setting in ways I personally approve of - not wishing to get into a dispute about it all.The relationship with the Chronicles of Darkness was also a bit messy and I honestly think that the talk of having ‘One World of Darkness’ (which was the tagline when V5 was being developed) was to draw a line at the division between the old and new World of Darkness settings. It may not have been explicitly stated but I think that when Paradox changed the name of ‘New World of Darkness’ to ‘Chronicles of Darkness’ it was akin to saying they didn’t really want to support it anymore, but were happy for third parties (like Onyx Path) to as long as it didn’t interfere with their own core brand.I hope they don’t make a new edition of Vampire or Werewolf or Hunter anytime soon as it has taken a long time just to get this far in their development and another potential edition war would not be helpful. However, Mage, Changeling and Wraith all have possibilities for new editions. I suspect that Mage will be the hardest to get right (as it also has something of a conflicted history and its setting is particularly controversial in a number of aspects), while Changeling: The Dreaming and Wraith: The Oblivion could both steal a few ideas from their Chronicles of Darkness counterparts to make them blend better with the rest of the wider World of Darkness setting. I’ll wait and see.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TrippyHippy, post: 9678713, member: 27252"] Personally, I found all of the 20th Anniversary books too big to be practical, especially for any newcomer to the games. V5 itself is a pretty large book but the mechanical design is sleek and compelling, and I think it resets a lot of the setting in ways I personally approve of - not wishing to get into a dispute about it all. The relationship with the Chronicles of Darkness was also a bit messy and I honestly think that the talk of having ‘One World of Darkness’ (which was the tagline when V5 was being developed) was to draw a line at the division between the old and new World of Darkness settings. It may not have been explicitly stated but I think that when Paradox changed the name of ‘New World of Darkness’ to ‘Chronicles of Darkness’ it was akin to saying they didn’t really want to support it anymore, but were happy for third parties (like Onyx Path) to as long as it didn’t interfere with their own core brand. I hope they don’t make a new edition of Vampire or Werewolf or Hunter anytime soon as it has taken a long time just to get this far in their development and another potential edition war would not be helpful. However, Mage, Changeling and Wraith all have possibilities for new editions. I suspect that Mage will be the hardest to get right (as it also has something of a conflicted history and its setting is particularly controversial in a number of aspects), while Changeling: The Dreaming and Wraith: The Oblivion could both steal a few ideas from their Chronicles of Darkness counterparts to make them blend better with the rest of the wider World of Darkness setting. I’ll wait and see. [/QUOTE]

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