r/vtm

- All kinds of different clans with unique abilities specialized to their bloodlines

- Clans have rigid societal structures that shape their members into stereotypes they have to abide by

- One of the most effective ways of gaining power is to take them from their clan origins by force or similarly vile processes (Just replace blood or souls with eyeballs)

- A tentative hyper local ruling body that acts largely independently from its neighboring townships managed by a Might Makes Right power structure

- An ancient tradition based around raising their young to be magically superpowered soldiers

- Regular tests of loyalty and strength happen under the guise of tradition and celebration

- Naruto's journey is that of a Fledgling who wants nothing more than to become Prince of his Domain

- Naruto was told he was a high generation but over the course of the series it's revealed he was actually an Antideluvian somehow

- Sasuke too

it's all just shonen anime VtM

Kicking around an idea to end a VtM campaign after seeing some inspiring character art today. This gist is, what if vampirism is way more common than we've all been appreciating? That the numbers of speculation have been way too low this whole time and the mass of humanity way less of a threat than imagined. Then one night you get up, go to hunt and realize almost every damn person out there is a vampire. Soon it's only vampires and the whole damn ecosystem of the night starts to collapse. I know it's not terribly original, but how would you spin it?

So, say I wanted to play a gangrel character embraced in the 1790s in a modern nights neonate chronicle. If I have this character in torpor for most of their unlife (1811-2003), wether it be from a depressive slump after a lover suffered final death or because she was staked and buried, the character would effectively still be a neonate in terms of power and experience, right? Would other Kindred refer to her as an ancilla/elder despite her lack of power?

Question for both STs and Players who have had good experience with modified feeding rules.

I am running an Anarch game where the players have been sort of shunted together by coincidence to defend and cultivate a territory while trying to rise in power and choose sides in a tenuous local truce between The Anarchs and Camarilla.

I have decided to use Domain rules to help with the idea of cultivating the area, but I find the Chasse difficulty relation kinda harsh for single rolls.

I like the idea of them trying to feed outside of their domain or taking a success with cost in times of emergency, but I would also like to use the rules to help enforce the ideas of the coterie working together to survive while feeding.

What has been your experience with group hunting scenes/rolls, what mechanics did you use, and how did it work out (was it flavorful and intense or overly long and not alot of value to game?)

Id like to hear the good experiences to learn lessons if possible.

Our group is running a campaign that’s mostly for fun, with a focus on comedy. We were in the middle of a climax involving the Sabbat, and due to our own screw-ups—and some bad dice rolls—an absurd number of mask breaches occurred, affecting the entire world; now, the Technocracy is just about ready to snap and declare all-out war. Things have gotten so bad that the Methuselah who created our characters' entire "family tree" has woken up, and the GM described a rage so intense that they are sweating blood without even spending blood points. How would you go about escaping? The situation has escalated to an unbelievable level.

Hey. I'm a pretty seasoned D&D DM, but I've always been writing my own systems and stories. I recently picked up the VTM 5E book and voraciously read it. I wrote my own little Chronicle that takes place in Atlantic City 1998, where a "young" Prince is trying to consolidate power and the sharks smell blood in the water.

Story is basically that someone or something is Embracing new Kindred for an unknown purpose. Maybe to recruit them as soldiers for some upcoming war, maybe as food, maybe just to weaken the Camarilla. The characters are such victims, and are rescued by the Camarilla. There they will slowly learn the ins and outs of Atlantic City and may eventually change the fragile balance of the city in New York's shadow. The Chronicle may eventually even lead up to New York itself.

The newly embraced Childer were led into a camarilla haven after being rescued, kept there for a couple of days and then given a rundown of the Kindred unlife by the clan shadow. Now they've been sent to their first "mission" as a test if they're worth keeping around or not. They have to break into a motorcycle club and steal CCTV video tapes from yesterday that document a Masquerade Breach, only unknown to them is that the tapes are already in the hands of a private investigator.

All in all I think I did a decent job as a Storyteller. It's certainly enjoyable to not be as bound by the constant Skill Checks of D&D. But speaking of Skill Checks, I definitely did hesitate to ask for a roll even when it was kind of justified - because I was scared of a Bestial Failure or a Messy Critical. I was just running the scenario in my head and couldn't think of anything what would happen if either happened.

Let's say the character tries to eavesdrop through a door and tries to make out words. I have no idea what a Bestial Failure or a Messy Critical would look like in that situation. And in a social context too, if they try to extract information - how can that even Bestially Fail or Messily Crit?

I'd love to hear your thoughts about handling Messy Crits and Bestial Fails in non-obvious context.

This isn't necessarily about VtM specifically, but I think this sub is the one most fitted for this.

IRL i suffer(ed) from Moral OCD, I've always had bad thoughts about having committed awful actions, being evil or "wrong", and undeserving of good things.

After therapy and medication, i'm now much better at handling it. It is not a surprise, however, that the horror genere of "Self Loathing actualized" isn't something i enjoy much.

I haven't played VtM yet (even though i'm a TTRPG fan) because of this. Reading some of the lore online, roleplaying as someone having to deal with being an actual dangerous predator and having no choice on it is uncomfortable to me.

However... I do admit that a good part of why I don't like a lot of these types of horror is because of the uncomfortable feeling of an objective morality, of sorts. Like, the feeling that being alive is actively harmful to everyone else, and as such, ending one's life being the only reasonable solution. That you are indeed wrong no matter what, and that someone deserves no empathy because of it.

I don't know if that's the case in World of Darkness, but i was also wondering how other people(maybe even with OCD like myself) handle it.

It's known that Stars Above (Saulot himself) and Kupala (as Root of All) were in contact with Goratrix and guided him and the Seven to Saulot's tomb.

While it was part of Saulot's plan, I have no ideia why Kupala was involved in that. What the Earthbound Demon would like to accomplish with that, what that Diablerie would grant him?

The Ventrue tries with all their might (and Fortitude) to hold onto something being ripped away with unstoppable force. Their joints fail before their grip does. Their arm gets ripped off.

The Ventrue can regenerate their arm over a daysleep or two, but what happens to the detached limb? Is it immediately subject to degenerating to its true age like a vampire's corpse would after Final Death? Does it revert to a human limb? Remain a nice unrotting appendage until the vampire regenerates one, at which point one of the former applies?

Happy to defer to canon from previous editions if this isn't answered in V5, just curious if there is a canon answer.