I was thinking the other day, about how a big part of Caine's curse supposedly is the fact that for all eternity he will watch his offspring destroy each other. And yeah, that's literally true, and there's nothing to be done about it as long as the thirst of ages exists. No matter how good you try to live your unlife, even if you only ever feed on Animals or consenting humans, at some point you will be old enough that that doesn't slake you anymore, and when that happens you will have to either risk frenzy, walk into the sun, or start feeding on other kindred... And with vampires being eternal it HAS to be the case that that will happen to a few of them every couple of centuries... Everything else, the infighting, the jyhad, the power structure of the major sects is all a byproduct of this very fact.

I don't know, just a thought I had. Be interested in what y'all think?

Felicity hasn't quite gotten the memo yet, but by god, she's trying. Persephone's childe, child, and lover: compared to that mess, the young hellion is taking pretty quickly to unlife! An eternal (he he) shoutout to my brave and creative and handsome storyteller for making this drama come to life with me.
You can read my work about her and Seph, plus some other characters both mine and official, right here! Content warnings therein. I'll get around to making an Ao3 eventually. Someday.

Art by the very talented u/SquableJabble! commission him!

A milestone I will never forget!

My very first published book, V20 - Age of the Living Gods, has officially reached Gold Best Seller on the Storytellers Vault!

As someone who has been rolling dice in the World of Darkness since I was 13, seeing my debut setting embraced by the global community is a true dream. Thank you to every single Kindred around the world who supported the book and took their chronicles into the cradle of civilization. You made this happen.

The shadows of the ancient world are only growing deeper. The Portuguese version of my dark fantasy novel, Mesopotamian Chronicles: Hungry Gods, is officially on sale now. I am also thrilled to announce that the English translation is almost finished and will be launching on Amazon later this year!

Thank you for walking in the dark with me.
Are you ready to face the Anunnaki?

The vibes of the movie do feel like something that would happen in the World of Darkness. Something from Djinn the Binding.

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/vtmb/s/0yHNBKCPFb

Going on with the VtM-themed challenge - a series of quick drawings

- Sunrise. The exhausted coterie going off to sleep in a basement as elders fight above, hoping that the world won't just end.
- Masquerade. Minor inconveniences of wearing a falling apart vicissitude-crafted skin suit to a date.
- Crime. The night she killed her mentor (she didn't intend to, but you know how brujah go).
- Repentance. Crawling into the ghoul's bed after a bad night to tell him she's sorry (making things worse)

General question that’s coming up with a Blond Bond with another Kindred. I’m new to VTM.

How do you play the more personal parts of being a Vampire. Do you follow the conventional red card rules or is there VTM specific guidelines. It would seem higher level Blood Bond are inherently a bit intimate at least on my reading and I definitely don’t want to make any other players uncomfortable.

Thanks

I'm a ST in a relatively new game (V5) and one of my players (Ancilla) has 4 dots in occult. And she has talked about wanting to fast track the fifth dot. Now we're unsure how much knowledge her character would have. How much knowledge does each point in occult stand for? The Core Rules make it almost sound like it's knowledge about vampires only or would the knowledge entail more about the wider world of darkness? And if yes does anyone have some advice on how to handle that specifically?

May post the full artwork where the teeth come from later. Testing the waters with this character.
The artist is timidfelidae, on Tumblr.

EDIT: Damned spelling mistake spirit.
There is a hidden phrase by the left side which I left way too clear to be caught reasonably unless you zoom in.

So I made this scenario about kindred living in a small town in Kansas. Kindred population just about a dozen pair of fangs, so the player coterie is almost half of that already. And despite all being fairly young they form the court, because of all available kindred they are at least somewhat suitable for the job and someone has to keep up appearances. The domain is only Camarilla in name but if someone from the big city deigns to look, there has to be someone in office, lest they get sent someone.

The scenario lives from the "we may not like each other, but we need each other. Nobody of us is expendable"-energy. Nobody fights a feud to death here, because they all need each other more than they like to admit. And because the coterie forms the court it's their job to keep the domain save and in order.

Ideas for little adventures so far have been focused around someone siring a childer, violating the traditions, or a new kindred from outside stranding in town. Or an drained body gets found and none of the local kindred has been the culprit. Wildest idea so far: Not-Walther White is cooking in the area and the kindred need to get rid of his operation before police starts looking into every local basement, finding things they didn't even search for.

Do you have additional ideas for what could happen in such a remote place to spice up the long nights? Anything for an interesting one- or twoshot?

(And please keep the ideas somewhat low-level. Anything above a single Werewolf might wipe out the town's whole vampire population.)

I'm a 3-month-old Gangrel in a V5 chronicle set in London, 2010. My sire took an old quarry and the vineyard next to it without asking the other Gangrel, they are angry now. A Gangrel told me the pack meets at the next full moon, and that they won't be pleased if I turn up with nothing. They kinda hate me because of what my sire did.

I'm broke and have no allies among the Gangrel.

I recently caught a Kindred who was sabotaging the vineyard, and I'm giving him to the mafia because I have a deal and they will pay me, so I can't offer him.

I have two feral cats living in the quarry and good tracking, but I don't want to offer them.

What would a Gangrel respect? A trophy, information, a boon? Ideas beyond "bring a deer" would be great. I would like to demonstrate my strenght, but I don't think I can fight because I am still too weak and young as a vampire.

Basically what it says on the tin! I've been toying with the idea a while, I am not using AI and I really like the 5th edition 'magazine photo' style, so I'm keeping it that way. I started with all the animalism cards, hopefully you all can tell which is which :) (Don't mind Unliving hive, it's... a work in progress...)

Before saying any other thing I would like to say that I am not someone obsessed with any version. Every one of them have their positive and negative points.

Even this first alpha have some good ideas like matures disciplines and try to give more identity to the clans. That said, there was an error,a core misconception that is the main cause of all the things that made most of the people upset with the alpha.

What vampire is about? Vampire is about personal horror. It is a game of damned people. Vampire isn't a game about heroism,success and awesomeness.

Vampire is about people dealing with a curse that took away their free agency,their life and even their humanity.

Vampire is about fighting with everything against you. You are Damned,you are cursed. You aren't a hero. You are a victim of your own monster.

This is the true spirit of this game. And 6th edition acted against it in a try to gather more audience and made people more comfortable ,like DND did.

I will talk about the problematic mechanics individually and say what makes it problematic in the light of what I said above.

1 humanity; vampire is a game about damnation,not equilibrium. Becoming worse should be easy and becoming better should be a hard uphill battle.

You're damned, you're cursed. Becoming better is hard. You're fighting the curse and receiving God's pardon as you do it. Fighting for your humanity is fighting the curse itself.

Humanity should be easy to lose,hard to get and at the same time it should be a painkiller to the curse.

That is what humanity is in all editions. It is the fucking core of the game. The concept of balance is the exact opposite of the core idea of the game. Literally the worst thing that ever was written about this game.

2 drama and quickening: as I said,vampire is about damnation. Being cursed ISN'T FAIR. Suffering is the whole point of a curse.

The world is against you since you're damned,hell even your own self is against you ,so why give limitations in how the dm can make the curse painful? And why give the players a way to control their own pain and administer their own curse?

If you control your own curse,it isn't a curse. If it is fair ,it isn't a curse,if it is just a tool for you to get what you want,then it is a blessing,not a curse.

Vampire shouldn't be a game about tactics. Vampire shouldn't be about choosing the most optimized decision. It is a game where the true choice is:

a) getting what you want at the price of becoming a monster

b)sacrifice yourself and live fighting your beast to break the curse.

Trying to act in according to reason,in accordance with strategy and in a gay way is EXACTLY what the beast wants .

The salvation is hard. The cost of ambition is damnation. It is the core of this game.

That is the choice. Quickening and drama completely brake this.

The point is: you can't be successful and humane as a vampire. Hell,that exactly why the inconu and people seeking Golconda abandon the jyhad.

That is the choice that the game should give for the players.

In sum, meta currency are about control and controle os EXACTLY what this whole game premises are against.

Yup don't control your future, you're fighting for a lost cause. For a miracle. Or are you embracing damnation?

If they really, really want to give the players a way to succeed in any task,it should be doing something bad. Becoming more and more monstrous.

The game is about a curse. Not about a group of heros being successful in getting their dreams.

That is why I despise meta currency in this game.

Getting more blood,more power,more influence should be something you get delving in darkness.

There isn't something as good success for vampires. Being good is being a martyr. Being human is being a martyr.

Golconda is painful,but its is the only hope. Golconda is almost unobtainable and cost you success,merits and power but it is the only way to lift the curse.

The curse comes from Caine's egotism,from his ego and ambition. Those are the things that we need to abandon to get salvation.

So yeah,to get Golconda you need failure,pain,loss and torment.

You shouldn't run for those things with meta currency.

The worst is your pain,the closer you're of salvation.

The further you dive in success,the closest you're from the total damnations.

That is common in all the editions,and Fighting against that is the sin of the 6th edition alpha.

Vampire isn't a tactical game about wining. It is a narrative game about losing, suffering and keep yourself trying.

It is a game about losing on purpose to save others that doesn't even exist.

You ultimately lose if you choose to keep winning. You ultimately win if you choose to keep losing.

That is vampire,and that isn't a tactical game

Someone's a gen 14 thinblood. They're considered to be clanless, unless thin-blooded is also considered to be a clan or classification. If the thinblood commits diablerie, will they acquire a clan along with its curse? Will it be the clan they were embraced by in the first place? The clan of the one they diablerized? Or just roll a die? Or would they just be caitiff?

Former Grim Reaper, current Trapdoor, eternal freak. My beloved lhaka disaster. 'Remember girls, concession card holders get the entry fee waived at Ecdysis!'
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So had the idea of being Jeremy Wade type of person in life, loves fishing and hunted every type of small animal. When becoming a vampire is elucidated of all the supernatural creatures he could be hunting for sport, starting with one of every clan and then every nich bloodline. Question is what clan would want to embrace such a person. I'm leaning on Malkavian due to this being a personal obsession but I'm open to other ideas.

Hi all, we're a small Polish team making Oaths & Ashes, a VtM visual novel set in Berlin. Paradox is publishing a short story of ours today for Month of Darkness. It's about one of our two leads, so we figured we'd share it here too!

We don't want to spoil the whole thing, so we'll just say that if Thinbloods are your thing, it might help you get how they feel standing next to True Kindred.

Full text: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/world-of-darkness/community/two-chairs

It's been a while since I ST'ed V5 and I'm trying to get good again at the basics. I would love some suggestions for an established setting that could offer me and 3-4 friends the average V5 experience.

Extra points if the City is easier to understand for new players.

Also extra point if it's not Chicago — I really dislike Chicago.

Thanks im advance.

I'm going to run a Giovanni chronicle, and between Giovanni Chronicle I and II, there's an event known as the Promise of 1528, a peace treaty between the Camarilla and the Giovanni.

However, there doesn't seem to be much information about exactly how the Promise of 1528 unfolded, and the Giovanni Chronicles themselves skip over this event without really exploring it.

Has anyone ever run a session centered around the Promise of 1528 or come up with a story idea involving it?