Black Chantry: The Sabbat

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https://www.blackchantry.com/2023/11/14/4207/

Vampire: The Eternal Struggle Product Roadmap 2023-2024

Words by Ben Peal, Product Director, Black Chantry Productions:

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The Sabbat
Following the 30th Anniversary deck, we’ll finally be covering the long-awaited Sabbat. I strongly recommend reading the Fifth Edition Sabbat book to get an understanding of how the Sabbat are currently being handled in Vampire: The Masquerade. The main thing – the core principle – is that the Sabbat largely discard any clan affiliation and instead adopt a Path-aligned ideology. So instead of having clan-themed pre-constructed decks for the Sabbat, we’ll have four Path-themed decks: Path of Caine, Path of Cathari, Path of Death and the Soul, and Path of Power and the Inner Voice. The crypt cards will be of non-antitribu clans, but with the Sabbat sect and an indicator of the vampire’s Path. There will be Sabbat-specific and Path-specific cards, as well. I’m sure you all have a lot of questions about the Sabbat, and we’ll have more answers for you sometime next year.

After the release of the Sabbat pre-constructed decks, I think we’ll be generally done with pre-constructed decks as the primary format for new cards. We’ve given you a steady diet of those over the past several years and we plan for future releases to be in fixed-bundle formats akin to Fall of London.

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Aus dem Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter March 2024:

https://www.vekn.net/2-uncategorised/58 ... march-2024

Four Sabbat preconstructed decks are in early design stages, not quite ready for the first round of playtest yet.

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Aus dem Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter April 2024:

https://www.vekn.net/2-uncategorised/58 ... april-2024

• Design of four Sabbat preconstructed decks is in progress.

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Aus dem Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter May 2024:

https://www.vekn.net/2-uncategorised/59 ... r-may-2024

Pre-playtesting design of four Sabbat preconstructed decks is in progress.

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Aus dem Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter June 2024:

https://www.vekn.net/2-uncategorised/59 ... -june-2024

• Design of four Sabbat-themed preconstructed decks moves on, soon for eager playtesters to have first bite at!

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Aus dem Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter July 2024:

https://www.vekn.net/2-uncategorised/60 ... -july-2024

• Design of four Sabbat-themed preconstructed decks moves on, hopefully soon ready for a first round of playtesting.

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Aus dem Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter August 2024
https://www.vekn.net/2-uncategorised/61 ... ugust-2024

• Before travelling, Ben sent a MASSIVE bunch of cards for playtesting. It was no less than 97 new cards for the four 2025 Sabbat preconstructed decks that went for a first round of testing. The first opinions voiced as usual range from "meh" to "way too pushed", but we´ll see, it is the grade statistics and the formal comments that count!

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Aus dem Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter September 2024
https://www.vekn.net/2-uncategorised/61 ... ember-2024

• The first round of playtesting of four 2025 Fifth Edition Sabbat preconstructed decks has concluded. Thanks to all that tested and the playtest coordinators! Now the design team will analyse grades and comments and prepare the next round of testing.

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Aus dem Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter October 2024
https://www.vekn.net/2-uncategorised/62 ... tober-2024

• Other projects are in progress: 2025 Fifth Edition Sabbat preconstructed decks are moving towards a second round of playtesting soon, the Hecata preconstructed deck will hopefully be in stores in January, the five next New Blood packs (Lasombra, Hecata, Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce) are planned for late first quarter next year.

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Aus dem Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter November 2024
https://www.vekn.net/2-uncategorised/63 ... ember-2025

• The second round of playtest of the four 2025 Fifth Edition Sabbat decks has started! This time 98 cards was presented to the playtest groups to try out and give feedback. This round ends January 2.