Holy shit. At this point, your straw grasping has gone straight on to pathetic. Step Five gives you one dot of Blood Potency for free. You can buy further ones with Merit Points. You don't have Merit points until step six.
The author of the other WW gamelines disagree\. In all cases, the Super Stat(Blood Potency, Gnosis, whatever) is talked about at the end of Step 5 with more or less detail.
Werewolf, page 73, under Step 5 wrote:The next part of adding the werewolf template to this character lies in determining his supernatural aptitudes. Those aptitudes include the character’s Primal Urge and his Essence, both of which have a standard starting point. Primal Urge starts at 1 for all characters, and Jack decides not to increase it at this time.
Page 73 of Mage, Under step 5 wrote:
Maculda’s Gnosis begins at one dot. Although Caitlin hasn’t yet reached the step where she chooses her Merits, she decides now that she’s going to spend three of her seven Merit dots to raise Gnosis to two dots.
Step Six: Merits
Caitlin has only four dots left, since she already spent some on raising Gnosis.
Caitlin spent three of her merit points during Step 5. They were gone before step 6.
but also the expenditure of a Willpower that you won't get until step Seven.
Given that people can clearly spend merit points before Step six, they can spend willpower dots before step seven. When you get to Step Seven, you remember that you already spent one and mark your sheet appropriately.
somehow not mean that you can take a Bloodline Discipline? That's exactly what it says.
Let's say I'm selling cookies. I have chocolate chip, oatmeal, and cinnamon cookies. I have a little sign that says: "Cookies for sale! $1 each! Limit three per customer. You may not buy more than one oatmeal or cinnamon cookie". There's also a sign over my stand that says "Only white people can buy cinnamon cookies". Does this mean a black person can come up and buy a cinnamon cookie? No, it doesn't, because there are restrictions on what non-whites are allowed to have.
So seriously, why is this so damned important to you?
Because there's enough wrong with the game that you can make rational arguments about why it sucks and not just make shit up. When you make bad arguments, you discredit your side. To use a rough analogy, Rathergate completely discredited any criticism of Bush's military record. You can't discuss it without someone bringing it up.