Twenty unique Strix, as well as complete rules for building your own.A first-ever look at vampire domains around the world, from Tokyo to Berlin.Reimagined clans, covenants, and supernatural powers to create your perfect monster.No other rulebooks are required, and the rules are fully compatible with The God-Machine Chronicle. A complete guide to playing a vampire in the World of Darkness.Vampire: the Requiem 2nd Edition contains: Time for the sinners to become the saints, and the hunters to become the prey. Tonight, they’re loose on the streets of your city. They slaughtered the Night-Senate of Rome, drowned the tombs of the Princes of Alexandria, and warred with the Plague Lords of Transylvania. Your Kindred are the smart, sexy vampires of pop culture, but you are haunted by the Strix - the grisly, demon-possessed corpses of folklore. The sharks you swim with aren’t the only ones out there. Featuring Blood and Smoke: the Strix Chronicle.

Driven by a hunger like fire, you will struggle to maintain your humanity while immersed in a vicious society of monsters. Tonight, you become one of the Kindred, the beautiful and the damned who hide behind our ordinary world. Updated and revised core rule book for Vampire: The Requiem.

Note: This was previously published as Blood and Smoke: the Strix Chronicle, now retitled with a new cover and an index.