Sanguinaire is a Vampire Survival Experience of Personal Horror. Experience the wasteland as an immortal suffering the curse of vampirism. Play as one of 10 different bloodlines each with their own unique perks and detriments (the bloodline curse), maintain your humanity or fall to the beast within. Stromkirk Condemned , Stromkirk Captain , Rakish Heir , Bloodlord of Vaasgoth , and Stensia Masquerade are redundant ways of boosting power and toughness, with varying degrees of power. Rakish Heir and Stensia Masquerade require combat damage and are weaker as a result.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Designer Diary #1". GameSpot. October 17, 2003. Archived from the original on June 21, 2019 . Retrieved August 2, 2014. a b Aihoshi, Richard (August 9, 2004). "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Combat Interview". IGN. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016 . Retrieved August 1, 2014. In defining thematic element of the inspirations for this mod, In roleplaying games, horror is traditionally invasive. Horror games depend on a fair degree of contrast: the characters are decidedly heroic defenders against incursions from the unknown. Horror comes from recognizing that the universe is hostile, or that evil exists outside of the characters. In contrast, The Sanguinaire mod's focus is on the character's own capacity to become a monster. A Vampire is a character who is fundamentally unable to control himself under specific circumstances, whether due to specific events (such as frenzy) or the constant degradation of the character's humanity as the story progresses. This is a concept known as "Personal Horror". The inspiration for this theme comes from Laurine, the Diversion, who lets you Goad one of your opponents’ Creatures if you sacrifice an Artifact or Creature. There are a ton of cards in these colors that let you do a similar thing, so let’s go over some of them:Strefan is probably the best option, but Kamber & Laurine can also use them if you want to run them instead. Outside the commanders, you’ll probably have to get creative with how you use Blood tokens. With that being said, I also do not intend to pull any punches, so to speak, in regard to budget. This is not a budget article, so my main focus will not necessarily be to include cheap cards. In many cases, the cards in this article are fairly affordable. However, if there are more expensive cards that I include, I will try to also mention cheaper cards with a similar effect. Unfortunately, I can’t promise that this will always happen, since some cards are expensive due to their uniqueness. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Interview". GameDaily. February 25, 2005. Archived from the original on December 20, 2005 . Retrieved July 22, 2015.

Lees, Matt (April 28, 2011). "10 PC franchises we want on Xbox 360". Official Xbox Magazine. Archived from the original on August 13, 2014 . Retrieved August 13, 2014. a b c d e f "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines". PC Zone. Computer and Video Games. December 22, 2004. Archived from the original on December 2, 2014 . Retrieved July 26, 2014. removal; Bloodtithe Harvester, Dark Impostor, Midnight Arsonist, Markov Enforcer, Patron of the Vein, Shadowgrange Archfiend, Avacyn's Judgment, Feed the Swarm, Rakdos Charm, Urge to FeedThe game has been called a flawed masterpiece by critics. [7] [26] [85] The scale and variety of choice and effect was highlighted by reviewers as Bloodlines ' greatest success, including the variety of clans, with specific dialog options, and the specific reactions from other characters, each with their own clan loyalty and bias. [5] [8] GameSpy called it a nearly flawless classic role-playing game; [7] The New York Times described it as brilliant but unfinished. [85] Eurogamer praised its "effortlessly intelligent" script, saying that "no other game has come close. Nothing's even tried". VideoGamer.com opined that at its best, Bloodlines stands among the greatest RPGs of the preceding five years, although its technical problems should be remembered. [5] [14] [83] According to HonestGamers, the game "may not be polished and may end with a sigh instead of a shout, but for its ambition alone it deserves stream after stream of compliments." [86] Reviewers compared it to other successful role-playing games, including Fallout, [11] Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, [13] The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate II, [11] and Deus Ex; [13] Eurogamer described Bloodlines as Deus Ex with vampires. [1] [5] [83] Bloodline Curse: Vampires of this bloodline require human flesh in addition to blood to survive. Failure to do so will result in becoming unable to satiate with blood and will cause them to crash to ravenous hunger if human flesh is not consumed within 24 hours of stage 2 hunger beginning. Like the Clanless, these vampires are under constant persecution from the other bloodlines. Perk: Detect Life: This perk could also be considered a detriment. While other vampires only experience detect life in hunger, the Oculus experience it as a constant, which goes hand in hand with their insight. This allows them to sense enemies and living beings within a large radius. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Character System Interview". IGN. April 30, 2004. Archived from the original on March 22, 2016 . Retrieved August 1, 2014.

The player can occasionally find human meat in gore bags. In addition while playing as a vampire sometimes human meat can be salvaged from corpses. This meat can be used to craft Human Meat Stew, which Cannibals and The Carnes Sanguinem bloodline can gain additional buffs from.

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If the player is seen feeding as a vampire, or using certain vampiric abilities and fails to "deal" with the witnesses, vampire society will hunt them down and have them killed if necessary. Vampire society has extremely strict rules on maintaining the façade that they are merely a myth and do not actually exist. Vampire society sees exposure as endangerment to their survival, and those who step out of line will be punished harshly. The vampire's biology is altered after transition. The vampire's new body is technically dead, and reanimated by a force unknown. These changes affect every aspect of the former human body and even cause the vampire to become sensitive to certain substances that can be found in certain foods. Vampires do not look human, and to avoid issues with social disposition often must hide these traits. A vampire's eyes are dead, hungry, change with humanity loss, and they possess sharp teeth designed to tear the flesh of their victims. A vampire's blood chemistry is very different to that of a mortal.