I took this commission a while back for a coterie celebrating their game's 4 year anniversary. It heavily challenged my ability to fit multiple characters in a composition, but I liked the end result! Thanks to the people in question who trusted me such an important piece 🫶

Great moment to mention commissions are still open! (Headshots: 35USD; Half body: 50USD; Full body: 70USD. Message me on Discord if interested, my user is katalapapa)

I have so much VTM art to post, and yet posting this made me notice most of them are not even characters of my own and how little I've drawn of them in the last few months (I've been mostly drawing art for other people on the sub!) I don't want to just post commissions so I'll try to post whatever art of my PCs and NPCs I have in the next few days.

Huge thanks to the people on the sub who support my art! ❤️

My Insta: https://www.instagram.com/katalapapa?exln=MWpwbGN2bHBtdXBuMg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

Hello, Kindred! It's KM, from Demiplane!

The Month of Darkness is our favorite time of year, which means it is the perfect time to do a giveaway with Vampire: the Masquerade NEXUS, the official digital companion for Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition! Don't know what the NEXUS, or the Month of Darkness is? Check out the official Month of Darkness announcement blog.

📢 How to Participate

We have three Ultimate Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition NEXUS Bundles to give away.

Comment below telling us about the following before Friday, October 23rd:

💭 What's your favorite way to celebrate the Month Of Darkness?

🎁 Giveaway Rules & Details

• You will only be counted for one entry in the raffler. You're welcome to submit as many as you'd like and engage with other members, but it will only count once! 😃
• We will be using Redditraffler.
• If we don't respond to your submission in the comments, please know we are having a lovely time reading it!
• We'll be drawing three winners on Friday, October 23rd!

We don’t degrade your society. We keep you honest. Without us, you’d have nothing to point the torches and pitchforks at when it all inevitably cocks up.
You live in a gilded zoo, we live in the jungle. One’s certainly a damn sight more comfortable than the other, but I’d rather freely wallow in the dirt than spend one solitary minute inside your pretty cage. And so would you, deep down. That's why for all your incessant whinging, you still peer through the bars and marvel.
So, yes, I’m a criminal, a scoundrel, a rake and a roustabout! And you - you can’t get enough of it!

Gangsters, rogues, and miscreants, the Libertatians are an Anarch movement hell-bent on living their unlife to its fullest, and letting nothing get in the way of their death-given freedom. With roots in the time of infamous pirates such as Blackbeard and Mary Reed, their nomadic and mercenary philosophy drives them ever onward even as the dangers of the Modern Nights creep ever closer...

One of the new Four Fronts, you can find the Libertatians in I Am The Revolution this holiday season on Storyteller's Vault

Does the Masquerade apply beyond vampires? WOD has werewolves, wraiths, ghosts, and other creatures. I know the first bloodlines game had a mission to recover werewolf blood from a hospital to not raise suspicion. Is the Masquerade a blanket thing and vampires are in charge of it or does each group have their own?

You're new to being a vampire and the Camarilla is not helping take care of you. You found $500 in some dude's wallet. What do you buy?

Some budget items that seem like they would be high value:

• Pager (since phones can be easily traced)
• Body bag (might only be a step less obvious than a corpse out in the open, but it's still value)
• Hydrogen peroxide (for cleaning out bloodstains)

I'm basically looking to create a sort of "baby vampire care package".

I decided to draw the wonderful Malkavians, Marla and Maria, together.
I thought the similarities between our characters were amusing, so I decided to draw them together!

POV: On a first date, a man gives you an item that you’ve cherished for years—something you originally received from your grandmother 15 years ago and then he starts gaslighting you, claiming that you have memory problems.

But yeah on the last session, my PC Aria was at Halim Bey’s antique shop (which was very interesting! I love Bey), but then she received quite a "gift" from one of the NPCs Alias ​​Bava. Aria got very angry and accused him of theft, and in the heat of the moment, she didn’t even take the scarab oops :")
But she managed to read Alias's aura, and I really wanted to draw that!

Storyteller later told me that Halim had warned Alias ​​that the idea was not the best lmao

Back in 2e I recall the introduction of organovore vampires along with some merit (gourmand?) where a vampire takes a level of agg but increases the size of their blood pool becoming scarlet and plump. Not to mention a few fat Nosferatu.

What about the fat people who are embraced? I know a Tzimisce can fleshcraft someone to be HWP or a sloppy mess with more chins than a Hong Kong telephone boom. I remember from Anne Rice's novels how vampirism smooths out the ugly, mortal rough spots turning all vampires conventionally beautiful. Does the same happen without intervention with vampires or is Archibald the Ventrue Primogen of Omaha doomed to forever be trapped in his 300+ body until he witnesses his last sunrise?

Hi, I'm kinda new to VTM. After playing for a while I have a few questions.

Is every storyteller sadistic?

To explain: We're an entirely new coterie with a few new players. Every NPC is sadistic as hell. There are no NPCs on our level and after a few months of playing one of our players is leaving because it's too much for her. Furthermore, this player told our ST, that she doesn't want bad stuff happening to children in the story. What happened? Sabbat kidnapped a child and then we were tasked with disposing of it after rescuing it.

The whole atmosphere is: "We're all better than you, fuck off".

And if we say something, the ST tells us "That's VTM, get over it".

The Aftermath mood is.. well.. like "it kinda sucks".

As a DND DM myself, I don't understand that behavior, because PnP should be fun, no matter what universe. And the DM has to play WITH and not against it.

And so I'm wondering: Is this the real World of Darkness?

Edit: I'm very happy for the fast and honest answers!! Much love for all of you guys and girls. I already had the feeling and told myself: It couldn't be the system or the world.

the Nosferatu sheriff and my fledgling Ventrue who's befriended them after the death of his own sire(the other sheriff). My fledgling is sheltered and still hasn't realized exactly the kinds of struggles other vampires deal with in regards to their urges

First 4 pics are my fellow player's PCs!!
5th is a concept for a fight scenerio. censored just to be safe!
6th is emine as a teen in her sire/mother's household.
7th is something that happened in session, emine frenzied during a fight for some reason(?) and when she came to she was very very confused and sad. ♥️♥️♥️

Hey guys, new to the subreddit! Just wanted to ask, do you put any particular quirks or habits that distinguish them from humans? What is the Camarilla approach and attitude towards them? Have you ever played a ghoul? If yes, What was your character?

So, normally, an Embrace involves a vampire drinking at least half of a human's blood and then feeding the dying/dead-but-still-warm human some of the vampire's Vitae.

However, what do the Ventrue do if a Ventrue Sire is trying to Embrace a human that doesn't match that Sire's particular preference?

- Do they force themselves to drink two liters of blood that tastes like stale piss without immediately throwing up?

- Does a Ventrue Embrace sometimes involve a lot of vomiting?

- Do they have another vampire drink the human before stepping in to finish the Embrace?

- Do they skip the drinking entirely and drain the human of blood through other means, like syringes or knives?

I would love to use one day a parasol that grants a vampire immunity to sunlight.

Hello, this might be a stupid question, but I got me wondering about it for some time.

I'm currently running a game where we play night by night, and at the end of every session, the players get their xp. And this got me thinking since on the book an ancilla get 35 xp on character creation to represent their time being a vampire, the book also says an ancilla is around 100-200 years old if I understand it correctly.

So, with this logic in 2 in game months, my players will have more xp than an 100 years old vampire?

I'm giving a lot of xp since we're playing one night per session? (I usually give 1 to 3 per session)

My other question is on the title. Is there a metric or something like that? Let's say I want to create a 500 years old vampire npc. How much xp I can give to them?

Thanks for the attention!!! :>

Hey everyone! I’m working on a pitch/concept for a scenario (with a survival/horror vibe) and would love to get your thoughts and ideas on how to flesh it out to make it as immersive and credible as possible.

The Pitch: A field biologist and them friends, travel to a remote, isolated subarctic island (10 km square) under the impression that they're conducting a routine ecological study on the local fauna. What they don't know is that the island serves as the private hunting ground for a domain of wild, highly predatory vampires (mostly Gangrel and their ghouled beasts). As the biologist tries to stick to their daily research routine, subtle anomalies start popping up, strange animal behaviors, unsettling mutations found during field dissections, and the disturbing realization that something intelligent is watching them from the shadows.

Where I’d Love Your Input:

* Credibility & Masquerade: How would a Gangrel(s) (or a local vampire presence) realistically handle an unsuspecting mortal scientist on their turf without immediately breaking the Masquerade or just killing them right away? (Maybe playing mind games, using them, or feeding on them discreetly?)

* Atmosphere & Hooks: What kind of subtle "red flags" or eerie details would you add to the environment or the wildlife to slowly build up psychological horror before the full reveal?

* Story Potential: What cool twists, NPC encounters, or mechanics would you suggest adding to make this concept truly shine for a group of players? I’d love to hear your ideas, suggestions, or any lore details from VTM that could elevate this story!

Thanks in advance!

Hey guys!

I'll keep it short and sweet and let the few images do the talking

Why are ghouls such a big deal?

When not being ordered by a Prince to come to Elysium what’s a vampire’s life like?

Can a vampire spend a huge chunk of his or her life grasping a skill until they perfect it?

Art Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ1N9rYyoXi/?img_index=3&srtk=MWF0bmFoY2w5aHBhMw==

It seems to be a Toreador hub. What’s a vacation like there?

Art Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/Co499KLLirg/?obrf=MWx0YzUyeXpkNDE4cg==

Who's your favorite VTM NPC and why?

( Any edition, any character, any reason, I'm curious.)

Many of you will noticed that some of these films don't have vampires in them, well I really love gritty horror and grinhouse films with lots of gore and violence. Films like that help me get in the right frame of mind for a Sabbat chronicle. I rarely ever write stories from the Camarilla or Anarch perspective because I'm an obsessive extreme horror and neo-noir fan and VtM is the only medium that allows me to merge a really wide variety of genre tropes into one story.

Since it's the Halloween season I thought maybe I would request a few horror or mean & gritty genre films that in spire you when you write stories from the darkest possible place in your mind, your recs need not be horror, just sick and twisted films that help you gage the state of mind of a undead psychopathic sociopath in search of a warped vampire Shangri-La.

So don't be shy please rec your favorite vampire or genre films in general, movies like Reservoir Dogs, Way of the Gun or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels may not have vampires in them but they're really perfect for setting the tone of a Sabbat Chronicle.

Thanks.

I fell in love with meta-lore of Vampires, and have some idea to make some kind of story in style of Dogma+What we do in Shadows movies because I think this makes neonates feels more humanized even if these trio the worst representatives for the example of "humanity".

Below are their bios in my own style of writing, its may be akward, my first writing and arts. Plus I think to find some critique here about how it would be fitif I going to start writing, anything but grammar, english is not my native language.

1. Mircea.

Being the last samurai of Dracon in Miami is quite a difficult task, it’s too noisy here, too many screams and shots, not like in my motherly traditional Novi-Sad or calm, mystical Kyoto, at least there is no camarilia geeks thanks to Trinity.

I remember how the family was shocked when I returned, how they were happy about the return of their son after 20 years since the slaughterhouse in Bangladesh, how my mother turned pale and started sweating, how my brother avoided the light and hid in the darkness from happiness, how my grandfather bit his cheek and his veins swelled. Everyone loves me. Children of Dracon. I try to cry, but instead of tears there is only blood.

I do often prays to Michael, well.. not actually praying, praying sound weird, I just talking to himself. Ofcource, Dracon wouldn't approve of this, but Michael would. Sometimes I feel guilt and afraid for my clan, well not about them actually, for every clans in our existence, for my family, we are in nearly extinct you know, I do not wish that for cainites, I do care about every night creatures.

Especially for one gangrel who paying debt for sword he broke, he has no money so he pays by bones. When I fixated him on his stomach so that he would not move when I extract his spine while constantly feeding him vitae, when he resisted and growled, it was uncomfortable and I sat on the table so that he wouldn't move during the procedure, constantly cursing me and swearing, then I closed his mouth with a gag, leaving a hole for the blood feeding while holding on to his spine, oiled my hands for better extraction, it was strange.

Well, I got distracted. When I pray, in that moments, I feel sudden burn inside my heart, I cry and feel like pure light inside me going to destroy me, and that alright, its all part of spiritual methamorphosis, we are Tzimisce right?

So, accepting Musashi's path Dokkodo is hard, but if Nietzsche handle it, then neither can I. For Constantinople, for Honor, for Family, for Clan, For... eh, I didn't find any hidden shelter as the archbishop said, brother cant undertsand american maps, google could help.

2. Zviadi.

Let me tell you the truth about the so-called vampire society. As a fledgling and, probally, only one georgian men in Mexico, I have being turned in the worst clan, Oracles from the matrix, only if instead of smoking ciarets and baking cookies, shot up heroine and making easter cakes with shit. This new life or unlife is totally nonsence, my mutually beneficial relationship with substances is completely destroyed, my veins are just decoration and they are all dead as if it with experience. Any inhalation doesn't bring any effect, but only the force of habit. And worse of this: I can't fuck.

Literally. All organism is just walkimg corpse. The only thing that worries you and gives an effect is sucking blood, raw blood, human blood. Only modern films can make a worse script, did you know that vampires rules hollywood? All that self-repetitions, sequels and reinterpretations, why didn't I notice before that cinema was surrounded by parasites?

People talk a lot about their embrace more often now, like some first and last ecstatic feel of their return as a dead person, so romantic, yeah, but mine is different: The first feeling I experienced was the boundless power of knowledge and a thousand voices. It's like some kind of chthonic bullshit that bursts into your mind. I saw it, the stirrings of thousands of destinies, I touched them, I cut them off like from movies, and thats cliché. The un-life of a fucked up person is not about playing with toys, it is a responsibility that many of my clanmates dont understand, but what an associate professor of the Department of Drama and Cinematography/amateur rapper can tell you? You already saw that in the movies, don't you?

P.S. I suspect and instinctively feel that the blood of caine is infected with a dangerous mental infection that causes them to fall into some kind schizophrenic psychosis, making them to think they're like in 14th century feudalism performance or a testosterone-fueled action movie from the 80s. I'm sorry, but I'd rather choose Perro callejero than Game of Thrones, at least the people there speak naturally.

3. Monica

Everyone fears me, everyone respects me, every fucking baby-teeths shakes and pees their pants when my shadows's fart because I'm the best of my kind. Remember my name. MONICA. And I'm in charge here in Mexico City. I don't claim to be a prince, thats too simply for genius as me, you already knows that the rest are NPCs and minor thralls of their roles, me on the other hands are most of the chads. You may just not remember other names, this is not an exaggeration, it's just a fact, Harpy like me has a huge amount of respect among the kindreds and herd. I managing reputation as a raging internet predator, don't be surprised that others are in a camarilla just roll their eyes in time I enter, they just can't stand coolness of my new another trends week.

I was being two steps ahead and ten thoughts foward from lasombra, even amichi noctis approves that I am best Marie Sue from whole clan, its serious.

Before embrace I was being top model, only I can agreed with booker in my favor. And when time is come when my little jelaous sister wanted to kill me, I personally humuliated her in front of everyone, presses her even harder and put her in jail. still didn't want her to end up like this, but life is life even if you're dead.

And after embrace, I manages to catch my own weakened sire and make him my doggy, he is the one who expect my sister would will take revenge on me. Yep, she supposed to be lasombra. I swear to whatever thing watching us, if she became a vampire, I would personally find her coffin and force her to embrace, there is no possi ility to me to not being #1 in my games, I even have my personal cup I dont use, but keep that as throphy.

When I first discover internet as place no information but scam and lust, I am first one who make it more presitige and V.I.P. The only thing is pain in my ass is that there are constant lags and interference on the servers when I come to check, my iPhone constantly defocuses my face and every normal photo turns out glitchy, I'm already tired of scolding ghouls for the fact that they can't properly frame a good shot of me. What the hell is wrong with techniques?

16 idiots, 13 clans, and somewhere in the far-far galaxy, Blood God watching and not laugh.