V5 is something new, and it doesn’t apologize for being so. If you want an updated version of the same Masquerade you knew from the 90s, check out the comprehensive 20th Anniversary Edition.
For the first foray in a new direction by a new company, V5 is damn good. There are missteps in V5, and White Wolf has taken steps to put those pieces into better context. There are some tone-deaf portions of V5, but this isn’t new for Vampire if you’ve been paying attention. V5 at least takes the time to discuss how to handle them. There are seriously sensitive and troubling topics in V5, but the same is true for previous editions. In many places, V5 has fixed the white European and American focus of Vampire. V5 seems to have learned numerous lessons from both previous editions and Vampire: The Requiem, and made excellent compromises between the two. V5 should be much easier for a new player in 2018 to pick up and play than older editions. V5 has numerous setting changes that reinvigorate the game and make it feel new again. But we should remember that bold leaps usually have some missteps, and that’s OK. V5 is a bold leap forward for Vampire, and a great step towards bringing in new players and bringing back old ones. So we’ll start with the summary and break it down from there. 
The 90s are long over, and many things have changed, including our attention spans.
Having gotten an early preview, here are my thoughts. After a large outcry over just a small preview from the V5 book, many fans have been wondering just what the rest of the book looks like. The past month has been a weird time to be a World of Darkness fan for many of us.
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