u/Ambersous

I'm a little dumb and when making my Camarilla chronicle in Cali for a city I made I somehow fuckin forgot that California is entirely controlled by the Anarchs-

So I decided instead to have the Camarilla have a very shaky hold on their shining beacon city, and at some point the Anarchs will make their move and wrestle control over the city from the Cam (likely by killing people in the Prince, taking away important ghouls, just physically depriving them of resources and going on a hunt for important Cam members basically).

How should I handle the player's place in that if I don't just want them to die? And what the hell even happens in the aftermath of a Cam domain flipping anyway? Do all the neonates and fledglings just have to shrug and throw the banner down? Are all the ancillae running out or are they allowed in on The Movement even if they're likely not at all aligned with the ideals?

So, when a kindred takes damage from something that isn't Aggravated... how does that look? Does a sword bounce off them like a wall? Do bullets flatten and result in a very mean punch feeling? Or do they get maimed and mauled but not really suffer anything beyond the appearance of damage? Like if you shot a vampire in the chest there's a hole, but they walk just fine and are just reeling in pain.

I love hacking in ttrpgs, specifically I am the type of monster that loves Shadowrun hacking, 4e the most out of the 3 editions I've played so far (6e, 5e, and 4e). It is the most fun and interesting system for play I've interacted with, and every other system I've found boasts about how simple and not at all like Shadowrun it is.

That I respect, not everyone enjoys taking a lunch break while the hackers spend an hour plundering a website for every bit of data it has, but unfortunately me and my friends do. Are there any other systems out there that take a more "realistic" approach to hacking like Shadowrun does?

For those of you, like me, who prefer to set your games within the present an have vampires interact with modern trends and technology and what not, how do the kindred in your games deal with the growing presence of mass surveillance? This is something only recently I started to think about in the city I made, with flock cameras and CCTV everywhere using ai facial recognition what is the average non-Obfuscate having kindred supposed to do to maintain the Masquerade and not be caught in the various crimes they are inevitably going to be caught up in?

Heya, I'm running 2 chronicles for a custom city I made and the two groups are starting up their session zeros (one Anarch and one Camarilla, mostly figuring out their characters and feeling out their relationships with each other and some touchstones). And something I do for most games is take a prewritten adventure and just scratch out names and such to fit the NPCs in the story I want to run.

I did some looking and I couldn't find much on my own in terms of V5 prewritten stuff (at least stuff that wasn't explicitly tied to one city), so I was wondering if folks had any recommendations? So far all I know is that the Anarch group is gonna be going throuhg Taste of The Moon. If smth can't be setting agnostic I'm not afraid to bend the in book descriptions/events to fit my city.

Other storytellers out there, how do you progress your games? Since the way the Hunger system is laid out it kinda feels like it's meant to be a day-by-day sort of experience where characters are constantly out hunting. But... that seems totally awful, right?

I mean just on the face of it I don't think anything could be done in game if you're rolling rouse checks every night and hunting every other night. Especially if they need to kill humans to drop Hunger to 0!

So what do the rest of you do? Are there actually any alternatives to this or are we huntmaxxing until a botched roll breaks the Masquerade?