“Going back and forth between the role-playing aspects and the action aspects – it took us a long time to get what we felt was the feel we were going for,” he said. “We really wanted to have the feel that you had a lot of choices, and the different clans you could play and the different choices would make a difference in you game experience. But at the same time, when we first started it, everything was taken as directly as possible from the White Wolf Vampire: The Masquerade rules. And we found a lot of that, like the randomness of dice rolls in combat, because it looked like a first-person shooter and it felt more like an action game, what we were going for when some of that stuff game into play … you know you are standing in front of a guy and you get a bad dice roll and you are shooting at him with a shotgun from two feet away, it just didn’t feel right. It felt like it was broken; it felt like it was stilted. So we started paring some of that stuff down with White Wolf’s approval.​