The Ravnos already lost their elders when their Antideluvian woke up, so they've had decades to prepare for the current climate. The Beckoning has forced many Kindred elders to abandon their domain and head to the Middle East, leaving unprepared neonates behind as rulers. This means that they have become invaluable as messengers for the highest bidder. The Ravnos clan bane forces them to stay on the move, so no one is better equipped for dangerous trips than the tricksters. The Second Inquisition has forced most vampires to stop using the Internet, which means that old forms of communication have come back into fashion. Regardless, they are easier to incorporate into chronicles than they were in the past. Vampire: The Masquerade Companion hasn't established if the Ravnos belong to any of the sects, or if they will remain independent. It's still an improvement over the old clan weakness, which was always a dice roll away from derailing a game. The new bane makes it harder to tell stories based in small locations, and it would be practically impossible to use a Ravnos in a story where characters are imprisoned. If a Ravnos sleeps in the same place more than once in seven nights, then they roll a number of d10s equal to their bane severity and take aggravated damage for each critical that is rolled. The new clan bane is linked to the destruction of their Antediluvian. The old clan Ravnos weakness was the temptation to commit specific crimes. These amalgam powers are Chimerstry, which can make an individual experience a brief hallucination, and Fata Morgana, which conjures more complex hallucinations that can affect a group of people. The new version of clan Ravnos have access to Animalism, Obfuscate, and Presence, with the old Chimerstry abilities now being amalgam powers of Obfuscate.

The old version of clan Ravnos had access to Animalism, Fortitude, and Chimerstry, which was their unique discipline. Chimerstry allowed the Ravnos to create illusions, which would become more convincing and complex as they mastered the discipline. The Ravnos are back, and they have a role in Kindred society, rather than being outcasts and nuisances. The clan was almost wiped out by their Antideluvian waking up and being destroyed by the sun, but they're slowly returning to prominence. The Week of Nightmare (or some equivalent) still took place, but the details are sketchy. They now share a kinship with the trickster gods of old, and their compulsion is one of seeking adventure and defying odds, rather than being a menace. The Ravnos are still nomads, but this is tied to their new clan bane, rather than a connection to the Romani people. The new version of the Ravnos in the Vampire: The Masquerade Companion has erased the old clan. Clan Ravnos was used as a sacrificial lamb to tell the fans that Gehenna was coming, and they were mostly a non-entity in the events that followed. When the Antideluvean awoke, it drove everyone in its clan mad, and many of them were destroyed by their allies in the ensuing chaos. It took the combined efforts of three of the most powerful Kuei-jin, the Technocracy from Mage: The Ascension, and sunlight itself to destroy it. An event called the Week of Nightmares occurred, where the Ravnos Antideluvean woke up in India and went on a rampage. Perhaps the biggest mistreatment of the Ravnos happened at the start of Gehenna. Clan Ravnos were hit particularly hard by outdated depictions of the Romani people, but the Vampire: The Masquerade Companion has gone to great lengths to help modernize the clan and do away with the harmful stereotypes that they were associated with in the past. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines was particularly bad in this regard. There were also lots of elements of the old World of Darkness that are now painful to behold, in their depiction of different cultures and races. The World of Darkness game lines had no problem including gay LGBTQ characters at a time when that was almost unheard of in many forms of media.

The old version of the World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade was far more progressive than other popular tabletop games of the era in certain areas. Today, we're going to look at the new iteration of clan Ravnos and how they compare to the original tricksters. The Vampire: The Masquerade Companionhas brought three of the thirteen clans into the modern World of Darkness.

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