One option with powerful open-ended tools is to make it clear to the players that their enemies can be just as smart and creative as them. If you do something particularly crazy, cool, especially if you do so in a way that makes the story better. But your enemies can then be free to escalate things as well.
I absolutely LOVE Blood Sorcery in VtR but.... The rules for it are so.... underwhelming... 😅 I mean, Crúac and Theban Sorcery are expensive in XP, there aren't many rituals.. the time to cast it is way too long (I'm not expecting to cast it instantly, but 30 min per roll is a bit too much, isn't it?), I mean if I want to use it in-game, everybody else will be playing, doing something and my character will be there casting the ritual... Idk, what's your opinion about it? The rituals also seem pretty weak for their cost and casting time, I read the rules several times and I can't imagine why somebody would get spend XP with Blood Sorcery instead of normal Disciplines that can do shit instantly and for a very low cost... idk man, as I said I freaking love it conceptually but the rules of it are just a deal breaker to me.
Blood Sorcery just plain works better with the advanced rules. Then you have the disadvantage of casting time compensated with the benefit of flexibility. The issue is that the advanced rules for casting are more complex, so there's another potential downside. Advanced Sorcery is almost mage-level of complexity, with the difference that in mage this is basically it for systems complexity, while in vampire there's so much more, like all the other disciplines.
i know I am WAAAAAAAAAAY late to the party but I am getting into VtR2e more now. I think the Styx or VII are the perfect price for blood sorcery. Either the further use of it causes more styx to haunt the vampire or the VII are a 'hunter' for those that perverse the world by blood sorcery.
Love this book for VTR, one of the first supplement books I bought for Requiem. I like the Idea of more situational support spells or utility spells rather than outright combat even though those are fun as well, they can just cause problems if seen by mortals. (much like Mages and their magic)
Divination 2, Genius Loci = gives perception to an area around the character. Potency to determine range, but increasing the range increases penalties to perception rolls because of all the sensory input from all around, out to range limit.
One question: What difficulties exist in adapting blood magic rituals from the first edition to the second? The other day I was comparing the rituals of Werewolf of the first edition with the rules of the second and it seemed to me that it was very simple to adapt them so that you work in the new edition (not so the Gifts that are very different in 2E, but it does not matter too much because there are a large number of them). And I was wondering if first edition blood magic was easily adaptable or if too many things have changed between editions to make it possible.
