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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 7689049" data-attributes="member: 10738">I'd love to read an article or comparison that discusses where a person who is new to WoD/CoD could jump in...which edition/setting is better for a newcomer, and what the differences are and advantages would be of adopting one over the other.I'm not particularly new myself (I was trying out the first edition of V:TM when it was released, did a bit of live-action when I met my now-wife in 2006 -2007 and not long ago snagged a copy of Strix Chronicles when it was still under that name).....but seriously I'm not that up on my WW history and lore....really the opposite, as most prior efforts were only a couple sessions long and very confusing. I'm intrigued at all the stuff Onyx is doing now, and liked the principle setup in Strix Chronicles, but not really sure what edition I would want to get in to right now, what the advantages of the 20th Anniversary editions are over the CoD versions. There seems to be an appeal to the 20th anniversary books, for example, which I think update the original setting to a contemporary phase....but I also was generally under the impression that that world was destroyed or something before 2nd edition V:TR arrived, right? So how do the new tomes reconcile that? And is the only difference between WoD and CoD that WoD is aimed at old schooler Vampire gamers, and CoD is aimed at newer players who want a do-it-themselves toolkit game? I didn't get the impression from Strix Chronicles it was aimed at do-it-myself, but more like a introductory book with a defined chronicle/premise (the strix).It's all very intriguing but starting to remind me of what it must be like for a gamer who is lapsed and walks into Barnes & Noble only to face D&D 5E and Pathfinder....and wonder what edition he needs to plunk $100-200 down on to get started. But D&D and Pathfinder both at least have a introductory edition that's relatively cheap and still useful...I'm not even sure if WoD/CoD have such.Someone talking about D&D 5E, Pathfinder, OSR and prior editions won't be confusing to me (it's my core focus), but I think that WoD/CoD right now are still going to confuse outsiders.</blockquote>

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