Now that Larian is Done with Baldur's Gate 3 and DnD...

Considering how well they did with Astarion and Forgotten Realms in general, I would greatly like to see them do a Vampire the Masquerade game.

A Runaway Maverick (technically) Day 1 of Drawtober

This is my Ravnos lad back as a ghoul! Back before he went by Beau, on the right is his ex/sire Theo. lore under the cut :]

Maverick, Ricky, whatever you may want to call him ran away from home in the spring of his senior year of high school, having met Theodore after a college tour, and being absolutely *smitten*! He then spent several years with his new lover, performing, traveling around the west of the US and acting as a bloodbag absolutely living his best life! Eventually he was embraced in a panic when he was drained by accident. Soon after, Theo left, taking much of their earnings and their van. I love both the idea of him ending up a thinblood and the option of him being a full Ravnos kindred so both versions exist in my brain? (this is all written with the 5th edition rules in mind) If full Ravnos, he would spend his days as a traveling musician, settling into feeding off his audience (albeit with several mistakes when he was new,, and abandoned by his sire). In this version, he hopes to try to reconnect with Theo, uncertain what he did wrong, angry but optimistic in a way (when hes not writing sad country break up songs). He understands in a way why Theo did what he did, he would have panicked too in that situation! Maybe it was okay! They can talk it out!

He wishes to make back up with his mother now that he is more successful, but is unsure how to explain his awful teen behavior to her (running away, asking her for money and promising to come home,, then disappearing again), never mind his current situation (being a vampire). In this he would go by Beau, cursed with the secondary clan bane, and well known enough by his lover's old nickname for him to adopt it as a stage-name. For the version of him that's a thinblood, I think hes far more vengeful. He wants to go back to his family, but is still cursed with the clan bane, feels useless to his sire as his blood is no longer desirable, and he is ANGRY. He feels lost and abandoned and had to beg his mother for money. He quickly realizes he could not return to his old life, he can't go back home, not if he wants to actually *live*. I think he would want Theo dead, he's conflicted but he's no longer bloodbound, and would not have nearly as many benefits of kindred life as a fullblooded vampire, he's not interested. He wants his life back.

I found the best use for the dominate discipline

"Daniel has answered a mysterious summoning to Hallowbrook, where a kindred with a link to his past has an offer to make. An offer that will be difficult to refuse without dire consequences."

http://gmortschaotica.blogspot.com/2023/04/vampire-masquerade-v5-solo-session.html

Gulf of Horrors

What a better way to ring in the eventual New Year than with a Sabbat inspired Chronicle for Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition.

I am looking for some players to join me in my Chronicle, known affectionally as "Gulf of Horror". It's a play on Gulf of Mexico, if you haven't realized. I like naming my games something fun. City by Night is overdone, ya feel me? The game will be taking place in 1987, and you are going to help Jasper, a they/them, unknown clan to you, who has ways to change their identity and wishes to bring the Florida Panhandle to it's knees. You know Florida Man? He's the imprint.

If you are interested in being a totally rad 1980s style vampire that wants to fuck up the Camarilla, and have Saturday's free at potentially 12 pm CST or around there, then hit me up with a message.

DISCLAIMER

I am a Story Teller that has been in the game since the beginning of June this year. I am always good with new players, intermediate, and experienced. Because I only have 6 months of experience under my belt, I do my best to follow the source material, but have changed some battle tactics to make flow of the game better, and usually go with rule of cool if something takes up too much time to look up. I have one player already, and am looking for 3 more players.

WOD 5th ed rant: Decided morality

This is simply my own take on this and I respect if you the reader have a completely different one. Regardless, there is something about WoD 5th ed that truly bothers me on both a storyteller and a writer level.

It is the fact that we cannot play any antagonist factions and that some factions are deemed antagonists for extremely strange reasons.

To explain, in the 5th edition of Vampire the Masquerade the Second Inquisition has managed some massive victories over the kindred, destroying a Tremere Chantry and putting the vampires on the defensive. This is a huge victory for humanity.

Yet, we cannot play a character from the Second Inquisition. Even in their own book, we are not given any character creation rules for them. This is extremely strange, as the vampires in VtM are not good guys. They have never been good guys as a whole, with few individuals being the exception.

The humans in the Second Inquisition, regardless of their morality, are still taking out creatures that manipulate and feed on humans. Yet they are treated as an antagonist-only faction like the Sabbat.

This is extremely bad writing, because we are not given the chance to decide ourselves who is right and who is wrong. We are told the Second Inquisition is bad and we should not play them. Yet we can play a fleshcrafting inhuman vampire landlord.

It isn't even that V5 is the only one that has this problem. Hunter 5th ed makes it very clear the player hunters cannot join larger hunter organizations because those are bad. The examples we are given are written cartoonishly incompetent and evil, in an effort to discourage the players from even trying.

Like with the vampires, however, the freelance hunters aren't exactly the paragons of morality. After all, an angry mob is an angry mob regardless of WHAT it targets.

What makes this very interesting, is that even in the most strict times of WoD 1 to Revised editions we were still always given the chance to try to play the other side. Even if there was a culture of looking down upon snowflakes (characters who were special), the books still kept the avenues open for exploration.

As I said at the start, the Second Inquisition has done a lot of good by taking out vampires. That we are told they have not and that they are all zealots and fanatics, and yet the PCs can be zealots and fanatics too, is treating your playerbase like idiots.

TTRPG players, I have a long-standing theory that everyone has a favorite character that they’ve played—an irreplaceable one that just has a very special place in their heart, even if they tend to love their characters equally.

Tell me in the tags about yours, or if you really and truly don’t have a favorite, say so!

I wish vtm wasn’t so unfriendly to playing higher generations ;-; no you probly won’t manage to persuade or trick them point blanc but they can offer so much story opportunity an balance to what is usually a bunch of baby vamps!!

Like it’s a very social sorta game. It’s not high stats win it’s high stakes an clever thinking that get you what you want. Imagine though. This high gen kindred appealing to its younger counterparts. A adoptive sire situation or mentor like deal. Maybe they just like how badly they messed up their attempt of presence against them like ‘A for effort I like your spunk kid’

Let people be grossly over powered!! Half the shows one watches an characters people love are unstoppable machines of chaos or only held back by morals or literally deity’s an cosmic beings. None of which makes a story mute like it’s about personality ovo)/

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WHY IS A GAME BOOK PREACHING TO ITS READERS?! I can't even find the core elements of gameplay without rooting through the Index and you're wanting to talk about Gender Identity?!ĭID A BLOODY MALKAVIAN PUT THIS THING TOGETHER?! "This is not a fascist-friendly game" and immediate condemnation and scolding. Are we really going to-? I couldn't help the morbid curiosity and read the first paragraph. "Fascism" jumps off the page at me, in bold, black letters, front-and-center. I require some comforting and there must be some sort of tip to get over this trauma. right before 30 pages of fluff prior to anything about the game. Let me check the Appendix that the first page mentioned. PUNCH me! I seriously must be having a bad dream. they're not here? Nor are the Giovanni and Ravnos? They've gutted three of my favorite clans! I need someone to hold my hand. What a mess.ĭISCIPLINES! Yes, let's check those! Dementation is now a power from combining two disciplines? Wait, what? Okay, well, let's see how they set up the character creation and. Okay, let's just see if they give more history on the next page. No real mention of warrior scholars, shots fired at the political right, gender studies. "Molotov-wielding protesters." Uh-oh! I think I see where this is going. Okay, weird, since I've literally never played with people who couldn't tell me "this makes me uncomfortable" like an adult, even when I played these games as a teenager. They open the book with a full-page warning label that directs you to an appendix about handling sensitive subject matter with your troupe. I made the costly mistake of purchasing a physical copy, in hopes that they shed some light on changes between V20 and V5E.

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I didn't buy this as a PDF someplace else. That's as close to "classic" as you're gonna get. You know the ones, in the nightclub, with the blonde hair. The best it does is pay lip service to established characters in Bloodlines that have become pop culture figureheads. If you're hoping for a continuation or some kind of expansion, run away. This is NOT the Classic World of Darkness. See more arguing on a public forum about a game you love, and presumably want more players to find and join.Ĭouldn't review because I didn't buy it online, so I hope this helps somebody. Just something to bear in mind when you're. If you went to a con and walked up to a table you were gonna play at and all the people were yelling at each other, you'd probably just keep right on walking. Everyone is so worried about being right that they miss the fact that they're essentially chasing people away. That said, if I had never played VTM and was here thinking about grabbing a PDF to see what it was all about, the comment section here would likely have me deciding to go try something else and avoid the community in general. Our GM is awesome, the players in our group are awesome, and if the GM says we're going to V5, well, we're going to V5. For me, all the good and bad points really don't mean a thing. I barely have time to play, let alone get into the drama involved in version infighting. I'm only here because we're playing V20 and the GM is talking about going to V5 at some point, and I figured maybe I'd pick up a copy and get a head start on it. Mature Warning: Contains graphic and written content of a mature nature, including violence,sexual themes, and strong language. The terror of the Second Inquisition, the conspiracies behind the Gehenna War, and the rekindling of the War of Ages: these are the building blocks of the modern V5 chronicle. While the rules have been redesigned, this new edition honors the deep story of the original, advancing the metaplot from where it left off and detailing exactly what has happened in the world of the Kindred up until tonight. V5 is a return to Vampire's original vision, moving boldly into the 21st century. Powered by the innovative Hunger cycle, the game also includes rules for creating system supported character coteries, Loresheets to directly involve players with their favorite parts of the setting and The Memoriam, a new way to bring the character's detailed backgrounds and expand on them in-session. The classic that changed roleplaying games forever returns! This fifth edition features a streamlined and modern rules design, beautiful new full-color art, and a rich story experience for players. You are a vampire, struggling for survival, supremacy, and your own fading humanity - afraid of what you are capable of, and fearful of the inhuman conspiracies that surround you. Vampire: The Masquerade is the original and ultimate roleplaying game of personal and political horror.

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Resonance... in bagged blood? Ask "What if bagged blood is delicious now?", and 9 out of 10 Ventrue would tell you to open a blood bar. Welcome to the Velvet Rose. Take a seat, and sink your teeth in. Aren't you glad the Tremere finally did something useful?

For my capstone project, I did a game design document & interactive demo for "Project Resonance" - a bartending sim/visual novel (loosely) based on Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition ruleset.

The demo was made using the Haxeflixel 2D Game Engine. I managed to demonstrate the main gameplay loop and got most of the main functionalities running, but overall, it's still a work in progress.

Edit: Currently not available anywhere online to play (yet) </3. Thank you for your interests!

I think what gets often forgotten in discussions of consumer action is that not consuming some media is, in fact, the default, neutral state. In these "yet you live in a society" discussions the refusal to engage with some media gets sometimes twisted into some perversion, like as if the default state of people is to consume every piece of media uncritically and that the choice to not engage with some media is actually somehow aberrant.

It actually reminds me of the time when Vampire: the Masquerade 5th edition was coming out and people raised some noise about Zak Smith being involved with White Wolf at the time. I hadn't been interested in getting the game anyway but Zak's involvement, even only tangentially, made me go "oh! Well that just solidifies me not wanting to get it." There were also invitations of Fucked up Shit in the writing. And when this came up in a discussion someone tried framing my decision not to buy the game as some horrible infringement of the authors' freedom of speech, as if me buying the damn thing was the default state.

But yeah it's in fact possible as a consumer to try and make the best consumer choices you can, and then when you see the TERF Wizard books the default assumption isn't, in fact, "ah, because of capitalism I must buy these now."

Part II the work I did for the " Book of Nod Deluxe Artifact Edition" for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition by Renegade Game Studios!

In universe VtM memes:

Vampire the Masquerade - V5 - Five Chronicles, Thirty Stories and More...

As time constraints have prevented me writing up our groups last few sessions, now would seem to be a good time for everyone to catch up on the previous one hundred and fifty or so...

https://gmortschaotica.blogspot.com/p/infiltrate-la-chronicle-welcome-to-l.html

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