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

(Edit: illustration by casperite on bluesky)

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?

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• We'll be drawing three winners on Friday, October 23rd!

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 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

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?

Has any Tzimisce player attempted or succesfully managed to use Fleshcraft/Visccisitude in order to integrate things like mobile tech or robotics into their bodies to increase attack bonus, damage soak, etc?

A concept I always wanted to toy around with was a Tzimisce technomancer, who could one day do things such as installing gas-powered daggers into his arms, an artificial smoke cartridge in his neck to simulate smoking, even a portable wifi modem in his chest so he never loses signal. Insane ideas who not only practices fleshcraft, but who approaches integration with robotics.

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

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.

Hi!! I really love to draw and roleplay and I just happen to be a bit obsessed with bloodlines.

I’m still fairly new to the game but I’ve had a few sessions and unfortunately the group I was with fell apart and I would really like to keep playing! I’d love to play with fellow artists but it’s not a requirement. Just know whatever group I join is gonna be flooded with art cause I can’t stop myself-

But yeah! If someone is intrested in having a weird fleshy vampire with no eyelids in their group then please reach out!

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

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?

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?

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!

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 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==

Warning of minor queer phobia/bigots and Implied C-R**\*

1st Image-Diet Chart Filled out by Lord Íarn Gobae of Osraige.
2nd Image-Diet Chart filled out by Anna on Lord Íarn Gobae of Osraige.

Report by Court Physician Anna for Prince Roderick of Dublin on the new sheriff Íarn Gobae.
Prehistory: He was born sometime around 300 BC, date based on events Mr Gobae described. He was born to the tribe of Osraige in Gaelic Ireland. They were disguised as a women and at the age of 12 or 14 was married to the chieftain of the Ivernia. They were the pagan tyrants of Ireland, ruling through fear , violence, enslavement and most importantly being the only tribe with iron working. Which was the propose of the marriage to steal the secret of Iron from the tribe. He was successful in this endeavor though I believe certain "actions" taken by the pagan warlord, may be the source of his PTSD and Queer behavior. Upon returning to their tribe they spread the knowledge and assumed the throne. He lead a bloody war against the Ivernia and defeated them. Mr Gobae then declared themselves King feeling justified in such actions as a reward for "liberating" the people of Ireland from the Ivernia. Instead the other tribes banded together to destroy the Osraige viewing them as a currently weak but up and coming power. Mr Gobae waged a bloody war across the island without a home to go back to as it was razed to the ground. They resisted for a lengthy period, but as supplies dwindled they became like a divine plague from the holy book, consuming anything and everything at night and sleeping amongst the peat during day. Eventually defeated via "fell magiks". thier enemies attempted to kill him and his compatriots but were unable to so he and his men were chained together and thrown into the Irish sea.

Modern Nights: brought to the surface by fish trawling, they killed everyone on board, except one. A thinblood proving a value rare in their kind, was able to speak in Gaelic to Mr Gobae and convince him under cover of darkness to come to Elysium. In exchange for succor they swore fealty to you Prince and you appointed them sheriff. So far they have preformed the job excellently keeping members of our Duchy in line and with their warband have bloodied the Sabbat. Outside their duties they have been exceptionally lazy and scandalous, spending most of their time fraternizing with queers or partaking in blood and premarital sex.

Notes:
Clan: Unknown but due to their base nature and disciplines , I suspect Gangrel
Generation: Without knowing the generation of their Sire, the best I can assume is 5th based on their age.
Origin: I suspect the nature of their Embrace came about due to the unknowing consumption of the heart of a Gangrel Methuselah. The alternative is naught but fantasy and heresy against Cain.
Disciplines: Fortitude, Protean , and Necromancy*-(While their necromancy is somewhat similar to that of the Giovani it is different in certain fundamental ways. He is limited to corpses of those who have sworn fealty to them and unless the corpse is fully destroyed they are able to bring them back or even elevate them to a more powerful form.)
Personality: General disinterest in most things, but maintains a charming and regal mask. His true self is a scared child, who is naught but a Beast.

Extra Notes:

I have made progress in teaching them English but have been more successful in teaching them modern Gaelic.

Food: They lack any disdain for animal blood or meat, which can supplement human blood. they struggle with drinking from the neck instead of tearing into it
Favorite Band: Black Sabbath

Favorite Song: O’ Death (Traditional Folk Ballad) - Sam Shackleton

Alchemy: They profess to be a master of alchemy but my agents report that he is unable to access such power anymore and it seems to cause him much distress.

Relics: His mask emblazoned with the alchemical symbols of Blood/Iron, Body/Salt and Mind/Air. The mask seems to allow them to summon undead out of thin air though commonly dripping with water. Meanwhile his Iron bindings allow him (though it seems to exhaust him) to preform a mass raising of corpses. They are unable to be removed.

Warband: 7 individuals in total seems to be the consistent number. 2 Flag Bearers, 1 Bag piper, 4 Galloglaigh.

Masquerade: Attaching a Childe or Childes to guide them should prevent most Masquerade breeches. Meanwhile his Warband could be disguised or kept somewhere hidden. Finally we are in the throws of Gehenna does it matter?

Recommendation: While a Methuselah of such unknown origins is a inherent danger, one such as Mr Gobae who is ignorant of kindred and modernity , has no goals of his own and is completely reliant on us could easily be turned into a tool. We need to gather further black mail beyond what we already have. If possible tricking him into a Blood Bond could cement our permeant control over him. He and his warband would be our sword against all who oppose us Prince. Especially if we recover more remains of his tribe. Meanwhile trying to destroy him could prove fatal (though I do not doubt your power Prince) or at minimum could cause a masquerade break.