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Is Annabelle from LA by night it’s supposed to be this dumb?

Ok, dumb is a big word, and for the record, I do like her as a character, but she is really not getting it.

For context, I’m still early in the series, on season 2, and I get that she’s still very young and stuff, and that Clan Brujah are supposed to be rebels fighting against injustice for Kindred, but I would of thought all this “fish out of water” stuff would be a season one thing. Not to say she should become nihilistic and give up on what she believes in, but I feel like Vic or Jasper says something about vampire society, Annabelle is like, ”WHAT! NO WAY, THAT’S MESSED UP.” They go through it next episode, Nelly says something about vampire society, Annabelle is like, ”WHAT! NO WAY, THAT’S MESSED UP,” and it’s like nothing sticks long term that changes her still very human logic.

All that being said, she’s still my second favourite character behind Jasper, and she is pretty good as a way to introduce VTM elements to new people (which is me), but it does feel forced and stunned, not to mention the very, very, very forced late 2010s pop culture crap that almost projectile vomit out of Annabelle’s mouth. But that’s a low blow, since just walking through the common section shows that all the old comments from when the episodes were released kinda spoke like that and/or didn’t really mind, so, you know, it’s a bit of a period piece in that regard.

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u/No-Punch-man_60 — 3 hours ago
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Clan Curses affordable and high quality! Come get some!

u/vann5 — 5 hours ago
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We reached 1,500 copies sold! A massive thank you to the Vampire: The Masquerade and historical TRPG community!

Hey everyone!

We wanted to drop by, share a huge milestone with you, and express our gratitude to everyone who played, shared, or picked up a copy of our books.

Here is a quick look at our journey so far:

  • March 2023: We released Age of the Living Gods.
  • April 2026: After three years of hard work, we hit the 1,000 copies sold milestone.
  • Just a few months later: Thanks to the incredible reception of The Kingdom of Uruk and Vampire: Blood & Tragedy, we officially reached 1,500 copies sold!

Seeing how well these dark historical settings have been received fills us with pride. A special thank you to the entire Vampire: The Masquerade community for embracing the nights of Antiquity!

A question for the comments:

With Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey currently making waves in theaters... we want to hear your take: Who is the ultimate Helen?
Nolan’s Helen on the big screen, or our legendary Helen—Toreador ruler of Argos?

Where to find us & What’s next:

  • Storytellers Vault: You can find Blood & Tragedy alongside all the Age of the Living Gods setting books available for download on the Storytellers Vault!
  • Dive In: While we gear up for our next release, Bloody Tides, we invite everyone to take their tables on an adventure through ancient Mesopotamia or the dark tragedies of ancient Greece.
  • An Epic Reveal: Get ready! Later this year, these dark worlds will step beyond RPG character sheets and rulebooks to come to life in epic prose novels!

Thank you all once again for making this possible. See you in the shadows of history!

u/Individual-Jelly8014 — 14 hours ago
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is one of the best Vampire: The Masquerade games I've played. In this essay I will-

I know this sounds strange, but bear with me, I've been thinking about this.

Here's the premise. It's the 2020s and the world is in a bad way. Government agencies operate out of secrecy, cults exploit the poor and vulnerable, terrorists spread chaos and death, and a mysterious and ancient order pull the world's strings from the shadows. You're not entirely sure who's truly your ally and who's secretly your enemy. You can't help but feel like you're being manipulated by powers beyond your control. Technology has advanced considerably, becoming a great advantage to some and an extreme detriment to others.

In this world you have incredible abilities that include, but are not limited to: resistance against lethal damage, enhanced senses, invisibility, muffling physical movements, blinking across distances, jumping large heights, weaponised arm blades, and inhuman strength and speed.

There are many ways to navigate the world and approach objectives, provided you have the right build. You can stealth your way through a section, persuade people to get in somewhere, go in guns blazing, or use your intuition to find an alternate path.

You play as a secret agent, armed with superhuman abilities you never asked for...also you wear a trench coat and sunglasses at night. You move through neon-lit streets, corporate buildings, ruined homes, dark alleyways, and grimy sewers. Your superiors send you to fight shadow agents who don't officially exist, serving masters who no one knows the names of. You meet the people of this world, the feds, the anarchists, the manipulators, the victims, and the criminals. You fight them, make deals with them, converse and come to understand them.

This is a dark and dangerous world. You live in an apartment above an arms dealer, a drug addict, and a serial killer. Somewhere in the city there's a bathtub full of blood. There are a few too many corpses in the sewers. Someone is taking pictures of you without your knowledge. A murder happened outside your home and the police couldn't care less about who did it. Maybe this world can't be saved. Maybe it doesn't deserve saving. Maybe all you can do is fight for it.

TL;DR: I think Eidos-Montréal / Square Enix could make a really good VTM game.

u/LizzyWizzy19 — 17 hours ago
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My Caitiff

Art of my OC and Caitiff Morgan, give her some love because the Camarilla sure ain't!

All jokes aside, loving the chronicles I'm currently playing in, and she is awesome despite all the Caitiff bigotry! xD

u/EconomicsNo8843 — 11 hours ago
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The Dog, Camarilla Nosferatu

William Taffy Jr
In life he was a completely narcissistic singer who looked like a super model. His sire expected him to change after "teaching him a lesson" by embracing him. It didn't, all it did was make him bitter. Now he ruthlessly climbs the ranks and seeks his sire for revenge. He also despises the Toreador and Ventrue as they are who he believes he should rightfully be, denied his destiny. Everything is always so unfair to him.

It's a complete coincidence he ended up looking like a dog man, but it has been a source of infinite jokes. Ones he personally despises. As such he is mostly skilled in Animalism, uses animals as spies and confidants and has a lot of points in potence which he uses when he goes into one of his usual "rages". He doesn't use Obfuscate almost at all, when he arrives he makes sure to be seen, even learning some presence.

I have this guy as a bad guy idea or just a background npc, but so far I haven’t had a chance to use him, yet.

u/Messaff — 17 hours ago
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Silly vampire couple idea

My wife and i came up with a silly concept for a married vampire couple with a nosferatu who controls flies and a ventrue who hates the sound of buzzing and the nosferatu makes his flies land and walk whenever they come into a room so its like

*buzzing*

*vampire enters room and immediate silence*

*they leave and immediately theres buzzing again*

And like "daaaarling can you quiet those things the buzzing harshes my beautiful senstive vampire hearing"

*gremlin voice* "of course my darling! I shall turn my flies into walks for you..."

We came up with it because my wife is annoyed by flies buzzing around the house and I was like "if I were a vampire who could control flies i could fix that right quick"

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u/Verminausea — 11 hours ago
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How would you portray the grief of a sire who has lost his only childe?

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I'm currently dealing with a rather unusual situation in my V20 chronicle and I'd love to hear how other people would portray this kind of character.

My character Agnes is a 11th Generation Malkavian who followed the Path of the Voice and Inner Power. She was embraced only two months ago, and she has now been killed.

Her sire, Emir, is a character whose personality I've developed myself, although the Storyteller portrays him in-game. Emir has spent roughly 70 years trying to find and create a childe. He didn't want a childe merely as an apprentice or an extension of himself; his ultimate goal was to find someone who could become his companion for eternity.

He's a taxidermist and an extreme perfectionist. He has had 76 previous candidates over the years, and the heads of those failed prospects are preserved as taxidermy in his home. The wraiths of those people also remain there, making his house almost a physical archive of his failures and obsessions. He has had numerous ghoul servants, all of whom he simply called Mrs. Olsen, regardless of their actual names.

Agnes was different.

Emir had developed a very deep bond with her. There was an unusual level of mutual trust between them, to the point that they were comfortable exposing their vulnerabilities to one another in ways neither would normally allow. Before embracing her, he spent a year getting to know her and made her recount the stories behind the scars she carried, treating that process almost like an examination of who she was as a person rather than simply looking for a suitable vessel for the Embrace.

And then, after seventy years of searching, he finally embraced someone he genuinely considered worthy of spending eternity with.

Two months later, she's dead.

One thing I find particularly interesting is that Emir is the sort of person who doesn't necessarily process attachment in a normal or healthy way. His entire life seems to revolve around preservation: preserving bodies, preserving memories, preserving the dead, preserving failed attempts at finding someone who could stay with him forever.

So I'm wondering:

How would you portray his grief?

Would someone like this become obsessive about preserving Agnes in some way? Would he refuse to accept that she's truly gone? Would he become increasingly fixated on the possibility of finding some remnant of her?

One idea I'm considering is having him repeatedly contact the Malkavian network, trying to reach the fragmented echoes of Agnes that might still exist within it. Not necessarily expecting to bring her back, but desperately trying to find something that still feels like her—a memory, a voice, an impression, anything that could convince him that some part of his childe remains.

I'm especially interested in how you'd handle the contradiction between his apparent perfectionism and the fact that Agnes was, perhaps, the first person he couldn't simply preserve or control.

Would his grief be quiet and ritualistic? Obsessive? Angry? Denial expressed through increasingly elaborate attempts to preserve her? Or would someone like Emir eventually accept the loss precisely because he has spent so much of his existence surrounded by the dead?

I'd love to hear how other VtM players would approach this psychologically and narratively.

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u/TheUnholyMary — 13 hours ago
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POV: You live in a town that's too small for the Camarilla

Your Sire is an older friend of yours who became a vampire while he was in college, when he returned to his hometown, he turns his friends and thats it. You are the only vampires in this small town of 10,000 residents. Your life is peaceful, fun, and fulfilling. You use disciplines for fun while hiding in the woods or the ruins of an old factory.

Do you think a scenario like that would be realistic in the long run?

u/LazarusFoxx — 1 day ago
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What is your favorite Clan?

Ran a High Clan/Low Clan poll a few days back and wanted to score the winners again to see who actually takes the cake

View Poll

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u/Evethefief — 2 days ago
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Results: Favorite Clan Poll

A few days ago I created a google survey to poll the community’s favorite vampire clans. Received 150 responses but haven’t seen anything new today so decided to call it and share the data.

Top 3:

1st: Tzimisce (13.3% of votes)
2nd & 3rd: Lasombra & Tremere (11.3% of votes each)

I was surprised to see the Sabbat clans place top 3. Tremere I can at least understand because of the Great and Mighty Kevin having appeared in recent media but this seemed surprising on the other two. These three were significantly more popular and stood out as a top 3.

Group 2: High Popularity

4th: Brujah (8%)
5th & 6th: Salubri & Ventrue (7.3% each)
7th & 8th: Malkavian & Toreador (6.6% each)

Group 3: Mid popularity
9th: The Ministry (6%)
10th, 11th & 12th: Gangrel, Hecata, and Nosferatu (5.3% each)

Group 4: Low popularity
13th: Ravnos (3.3%)
14th: Banu Haquim (2.6%)

There is a sort of arbitrary difference between what I labeled as High and Mid popularity but low popularity did receive significantly less votes than every other category. Top 3 were also significantly higher than even what I labeled as high popularity.

Anyways: defend your clan. Say why it’s the best. Also if you have theories on why the distribution is the way it is.

Edit: the photo is the default chart provided by google forms. Not something I hand made.

u/Equivalent-Fail3850 — 1 day ago
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Virullan, Nosferatu Elder specialized in Animalism

Lord Virullan is a bit of a nasty bastard that hides deep bellow a city and uses his vast array of ghouled vermin to enact his deals.

I did make a video about him but I won't post it here since I turned him into a D&D stat block and I feel bad trying to promote D&D stuff in a VTM subreddit so just the art then. Could be used for a Dark Ages game

u/ChemicalNo586 — 2 days ago
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If you could completely change or explain anything how vampires work what would it be?

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

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u/Legitimate_Arm_5630 — 1 day ago
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How come the Masquerade hasn't been destroyed in V5 yet?

Ok, so, a bit of context from previous editions: from what I've gathered, the only reason Hunter groups did not blow up the Masquerade wholesale is because they didn't have the power nor the influence to do so. Take the Society of St Leopold as an example: while being great vampire hunters and, probably, having a great amount of evidence about vampiric existence, they would surely get wiped out really quick were they going on and about preaching about vampires, considering that would just be exposing your own neck and hunters thrive, also, on the fact that vampires are not aware who they are exactly. Still, they do try to slowly and surely destroy the Camarilla's misinformation campaign (as per Guide to the Camarilla, page 184).

Now, considering in V5, the Inquisition has not only taken the upper hand but also forced vampires to quarantine their own cities and cut most of their contact / influence with human society, how come they have not pulverized the Masquerade wholesale? As to exemplify what I am about to say, consider VtM Bloodlines 2 "bad ending", where they raid Seattle and burn everyone down, including multiple Elders and the Prince.

Wouldn't this event gather a LOT of attention from the public? Considering it did, why would they not seize the chance to break the Masquerade once and for all, right in the era of information? Is it just an issue with lore because, in a metasense, the masquerade still needs to exist for Vampire: the Masquerade to be playable? Is there any actual reasoning given in the books? I don't remember any good explanation for this

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u/Historical-Waltz3496 — 1 day ago
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My Friend's VtM OC! Damian Hawke!

Art by xKokobael!

An art piece I commissioned for my amazing friend of his character!

Damian Hawke! A Toreador Private Investigator!

u/QuipALot — 1 day ago