Join The Sabbat Faction In Vampire: The Masquerade Sourcebook
May 27, 2021 by fcostin
Fans of Vampire: The Masquerade from Renegade Games Studio will be delighted to know that there the first sourcebook for the 5th Edition will be heading your way this summer, with new features to include the Sabbat Faction in Sabbat: The Black Hand.
Sabbat: The Black Hand // Vampire: The Masquerade
Contained within the new sourcebook you will be gifted with pages upon pages worth of lore, background and information to kick off your next set of gothic adventures, both available in a stunning hard copy along with a PDF for those who prefer their RPG adventures easily accessible on their devices. As players expand their roster, welcoming the dark and mysterious Sabbat Cult:
"Inside you’ll find descriptions of the Paths of Enlightenment, the foundations of Sabbat identity, information on the Gehenna War, and details on how the Sabbat opposes the dread Antediluvians. You’ll get new tools to expand your chronicles, including Discipline powers, minions and servitors, and the horrifying Ritae of the Sword of Caine"
Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Storyteller Screen // Vampire: The Masquerade
Along with the brand new sourcebook for you to sink your teeth into, the Official Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Storyteller Screen will make you the envy of all the pale faces, providing the GM everything they need to dive deeper into the story. With quick references, charts and important information on the inside of the cover, and stunning high-quality artwork to encompass the outside of the screen.
The toolkit provided with the storyteller screen will provide more information for the storyteller themselves, guiding them through the ins and outs of running their own campaign within Vampire: The Masquerade.
For an August 2021 release, you can pre-order both the Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Storyteller Screen and Sabbat: The Black Hand Sourcebook on the Renegade Games Website, or check in with your FLGS to see if they plan on stocking the new and updated release.
August 2021 is certainly the month for me where my purse is going to hate me a little bit...
"As players expand their roster, welcoming the dark and mysterious Sabbat Cult..."
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looks great to suck people into playing this game.
There are already four sourcebooks for this game – Camarilla, Anarchs and London and Chicago setting books – plus a GM’s screen. I guess it’s had a change of ownership/responsibility and this is the first addition from Renegade Games, plus a new GMs screen that they’re doing?
It’s a change of publisher partner. So White Wolf doesn’t exist now due to the Chechnya mess, and was folded into Paradox Interactive. Therefore Paradox Interactive are developing the main books for the game in house (Core book, Camarilla, Anarch, and now Sabbat). Fall of London was by Modiphius (their previous publishing partner) and Chicago by Night, Cults and Blood Gods, and Children of the Blood (this one I wrote for) are by Onyx Path Publishing who are a licensed publisher for it. Renegade Games replace Modiphius as the publishing partner now. Paradox also own the Exalted game line (Onyx… Read more »
Thanks for the clarification – I hadn’t realised Modiphius were no longer involved. Sounds like more of a mess than I realised.
Thanks @doctorether for the summary. I’ve just received the Modiphius bundle of books (the main one, the Camarilla, Anarch, Fall of London and Storyteller screen). So I guess Modiphius won’t be involved with any further releases… I presume the Sabbat book is fully compatible with the previous ones – rules and lore wise? Was the ‘Chechnya mess’ something to do with writer(s) bringing in some seriously awful real-world politics/social commentary to the setting? I vaguely recall you may have covered this some years ago… I haven’t followed the setting for many years, but spent a great deal of time roleplaying… Read more »
That’s correct. Modiphius will soon be finishing their publishing (hence their sale). The Sabbat book is written in house by Paradox Interactive (who White Wolf is owned by/folded into), so it is still the same system, some of the same writers and designers. 5e VtM is not compatible with previous editions though. It is a full rebuild. Chechnya mess you can read more here in an article I wrote for OTT. https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/blood-culture-world-of-darkness-community/ Think of VtM 5e as a back to basics. More mystery, less certainty, sacred cows in the lore killed, and a game that is more accessible to new… Read more »
Thanks. I think it was probably 1st Edition that I played (I never owned any of the books at the time) along with a ‘Mind’s Eye Theatre’ ‘live action’ version. I got a copy of the original core book second hand a year or two ago, but I’m not worried about backwards compatibility. Although I am pleased the new books all work with each other! I’m interested to see what they’ve done with moving the timeline on, and although I’m not expecting to play the game (but who knows?), I like the idea of stripped down, simplified rules focussing on… Read more »
No Tzimisce? I have yet to actually start reading the rulebooks for 5th edition, so there might lore reasons for this, but I hope to see them in the future.
Tzimisce were released in the Companion, which was a free pdf that came out in December, along with rules for Ravnos and Salubri. The Companion also has a few fixes to the game and some other new bits.
Good to know, looking forward to getting re-aquinted with one of my favorite clans (alongside Malkavians) from my teenage years. I don’t know what that says about me?
What you will find with both of those clans is that their “snowflake” disciplines are gone. V5 takes a machete to the disciplines. For example, Serpentis for the Setites (now called The Ministry) was really a few Protean (shapeshifting) and Dominate powers. So Serpentis is gone but in place are a few Amalgams (combo discipline powers) unique to that Clan. Likewise Banu Haqim (Assamites with a better name) don’t have Quietus, as that was basically Blood Sorcery with a few other powers from other disciplines. Same with the Malkavians and Ravnos, so Dementation is back to being Amalgams based on… Read more »