You can change or explain anything about how vampires work

Anything at all, for example I would make them have night vision or say that they do expel waste in the form of a congealed mass of proteins and lysed blood cells that they regurgitate

If you think they're fine the way they are, think of something

i feel like this may be going too far into the silly side of things but I was wondering about having my players in a Hunter game end up fighting a gangrel because of chickens. The idea is this Gangrel has kept up a money making job scheme he had from before being embraced of raising fighting roosters and deciding to juice them up a bit with his vitae before a match.

The ghouled birds would then be dominating the circuit and generate notice from someone who is a player contact and asks them to investigate. this would at some point lead to the players fighting a flock of empowered chickens and that’s the point where I feel I may be losing the theme into the realm of too silly. That would enrage the vampire enough to start coming after them for the final showdown.

so any advice on if I should lean into the ridiculous here of having players square off vs roosters with protean or fortitude or celerity type powers or if I should just replace them with regular human caretakers that are the ghouls and have the birds just not be in the fighting?

So far, one of my favorite things with doing WoD lore research for an upcoming chronicle is the hilarious caveats and exceptions to any canon rule. “It is impossible for a Vampire to embrace a household appliance… except for this one case where Maytag Von Blender was embraced by a Malkavian in 1963” type shit

they are both humans who get mystical power from their beliefs. is the only diffrence being what the messagers are up too?

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Lore wise, FIRSTLIGHT has penetrated ICE and many ICE agents are SI hunters but that makes them way too sympathetic.

So I decided to make them a Cult of Fenrir front where racist humans worship ICE werewolves, which makes their world view more fitting.

Or maybe make them part of a Celestial Chorus MAGA mage faction. Honestly Cult of Fenrir and Celestial Chorus are the only factions I can think of with ICE.

Any ideas?

I ran WOD Gy***, and I gotta say, it was actually pretty decent. Had fun mechanics, interesting plot threads, unique situations, and was very low powered for WOD they don't have great combat ability but have great trickery or messing with people, such as an ability to curse people and the example being on 2 suxx you make them botch the next three rolls.

The plot was a two shot to steal off of pentex and the sabbat two keys to a puzzle for the fruit of knowledge and the caravan was off. They guiled there way into the pentex subsidiaries shipping yard and the wolf related bloodline char made a deal with a bone gnawer to cause a distraction, they had to fight a name on the inside of the warehouse and barely won in a 4v1 before managing to get the names keys and stole the truck the key was on.

They then went to a sabbat auction for magical artifacts and managed to pretend to be hella low gen vamps or sneak in with some of the ghouls in the back, they converged in the basement where they defeated 3 ghouls and a ghouled dog before lighting the place up, while driving away they were chased down by a brujah using leaps and bounds and celerity to get on the hood of the car, in this combat they full autoed her but she soaked most of it, shot her with a flare gun which brought a rotschrek, and then crashed the car on a botch into a street lamp sending her flying into a brick wall on fire. They then abandoned the guns and got a taxi.

All in all, it was a fun game. Iegit think it gets a little to much hate tbh.

So, I know a part of the rules in Vampire is that a Vampire can’t really be hurt by normal punches without supernatural augmentation. But I also know older rules have it so Strength scores can go up to 10 or 15 in special circumstances.
So, does anyone know if it is possible for a Vampire to be hurt by a theoretical superhuman with Strength Score higher than 5?
Cuz, bullets from pistols can deal superficial damage, and shotgun blasts can deal lethal damage without supernatural enhancements.

Vampire: The Masquerade is perhaps the most important TTRPG for this blog, and dare I say, for us as a group. Yuno and I met while playing VtM v5, then Yuno met Horia and Andreea while trying out v20 for the first time. So we met, became friends, and, at least in the case of me and Yuno, got together because of VtM. It has become something very close to our hearts, very dear to us.

When we learned of the new v6, there was a chorus of reactions: skepticism, cautious optimism, curiosity, excitement. The four of us got on Discord and did an almost seven hour long close reading of the document, ran the starting scenario, debated among ourselves, and found a lot of things we liked, a lot of things we abhorred, and sometimes we did not agree on what was deserving of a quick Final Death and what deserved to live another night.

So when Horia and I sat down to work on this article, we decided it would be best to offer two distinct perspectives: that of somewhat of a newcomer to the franchise, who started with v5 and only briefly dabbled in v20 and Dark Ages, and that of the veteran with experience across all of the editions and, what, over 15 years of being into this fandom? For the most part we are in agreement, but as always it is most interesting to see where we diverge. Horia was the main writer for this review, and he had quite a lot of thoughts on the newest iteration of the game... almost 8k words worth of thoughts.

With this being said, strap in, this is going to be a long night, but I hope you will enjoy this very in depth review of the v6 playtest! We are very curious to see your thoughts on the matter as well!