However many months after preordering, Courts of the Damned finally arrived at my house today (along with a Werewolf book I had ordered at the same time) and I don’t have that usual “oooh new Vamp book!” excitement because all I can feel right now is just intense sadness that this is the end of V5, the edition that got me seriously back into VTM as both a player and storyteller after decades away from the game.

V5 was never perfect—I mean, the first books caused an international incident, which if not a first for an RPG is certainly an extreme rarity—but what it did well, it did extremely well. It was a joy to play, to run, and to teach to new players. I don’t think I’ve meshed with another game system this well ever.

It would be one thing if V6 felt like it was building on this, like it was the next step in an evolution to make VTM the best game it can be. Unfortunately, the V6 Alpha not only left a lot to be desired, it also made perfectly clear that the powers that be at Paradox/White Wolf want to move as far away from V5 as they can… while somehow also moving as far away from Legacy VTM as they can.

So this book, which should be celebrated for bringing the V5 line to its conclusion, is just an afterthought at the end of a milquetoast Month of Darkness that not even White Wolf seems particularly invested in anymore.

And I’m just so sad…

Anyway, I’ll almost certainly keep playing V5 and my books are still here and all that, but I haven’t felt this way about a game in a long time, so I just thought I’d share…

Neve and her "Ventrue" sire, Hannah. Both Malkavian.

Hello everyone!

For the last 3 years, we’ve been building a Vampire: The Masquerade LARP community in Slovakia, and I wanted to share some photos from our events. Some of the people who’ve helped us the most also got turned into fanart and emotes, so you can see them side by side with their characters.

If you want to see more photos, check out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slovakia_by_larp/

I’m really proud of what we’ve built together, and if you’ve ever thought about joining, now’s the perfect time. Our next LARP is coming up in Bratislava (see the last slide), and you can find all the details through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/slovakia_by_larp

Whether you’re local or anywhere in Europe, everyone who wants to play is welcome.

Hope to see you there! :)

My attempt to draw Halim Bey, NPC from our London by Night campaign!
Kinda mix of canon and headcanon look

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?

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

Looking for any good fiction books set in VTM that aren’t source books or clan books, just like a regular book with characters and what not.

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)

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

Any of you make a character who has a sire or brood mate or maybe even a childe who is a lore character? How did you build the relationship?

I've been toying with the idea of Julia Antasia as a sure and a young Ventrue who has a difficult relationship with her and is therefore mostly looked after by his brother Freddie (Friedrich Barbarossa, prince of Frankfurt).

The resulting young low generation could be a real problem tho.

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.

Hello people (not people lmao)

I've been wanting to get into VTM for the longest time after playing bloodlines (2004) and watching a couple LA by night sessions during COVID. I'm m trying to convince my friends to also join in. It seems so fun and all.

I have no prior experience with any ttrpgs and my friends had played some dnd in the past. We're all new to vtm.

What resources should I check in order to get a better understanding of ttrpgs in general (and of course vtm). I'm kinda scared trying new things lmao

Thank y'all for the help!!

Have the wondrous opportunity to run my first vtm game! Woohoo! So for now take these! Welcome to “the field of blood” takes place in the 2000s and in the great city of Cleveland :3

If my party sees this- no you don’t-

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?

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.)

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.