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My character, Catarina, is a total perfectionist when it comes to her body. She has undergone countless flesh-crafting modifications to achieve a figure that perfectly balances a sensual, burlesque aesthetic. This fits her background perfectly, as she runs a burlesque cabaret in Las Vegas and originates from the era when this style first emerged.

I decided to draw her adding some finishing touches right before going on stage. It's also worth noting that she is a professional seamstress and tailor; she only performs on special occasions, singing or playing the piano. Even so, she remains incredibly meticulous about her look.

Melania (an old friend's PC) turned into a regular in my games. A funthirsty, playful, mischievous stray kitty who shows up now and then — a handy Sabbat hook whenever I need a rabbit for new players to chase down the shovel‑dug hole. Every time the players think they've got her, she turns out to be just a manifestation from the Madness Network — a total Schrödinger's cat, screwing up plans randomly.

Or like that time she was in therapy on this divan with some old Freudian shrink — only for the conversation to end and it turns out she'd been talking to a sprinkler in someone's front yard.

Did you have a PC character so memorable that you brought them back as an NPC in your later games?

Birthday gift for our ST

"Medea - clan Tremere" is my character for the game "Vampire: The Masquerade, NEW YORK by Night."

One of my first, more or less decent concept art pieces, it's a bit unfinished, but I like it.

Very old -a bit outdated- illustration of my first ever VtM revised character: Javier Muratore. In life, he was a scholar and the principal of a strict, highly elitist private high school. His students likely never felt such joy — not since Taco Tuesday — as they did on the day he stopped appearing at the office. He was not chosen by the Pyramid for his kindness or love of education, but rather for his strict disciplinary methods and his ability to obtain subtle collaboration — i.e., blackmail, etc — from wealthy parents.

Naturally, he got the Tremere treatment — being the small fish in a new tank. No matter how much of a fancy‑pants smartass you were, you're dead last in the rat race.

It is the year 450 BC, and the Hellenic world breathes a false peace. The Great King Xerxes has fled after the Persian fleets were shattered in the waters of Salamis. While Athens, intoxicated by its own naval glory and the silver from its mines, transforms the Delian League into an oppressive empire, Sparta, the city of iron, watches with silent distrust. It is the Pentecontaetia, the fragile eve of self-destruction that mortals will call the Peloponnesian War.

Millennia ago, the Second City fell into a sea of fratricidal blood after Ilyes' diablerie by Troile's fangs. The surviving Cainites fled westward, but left behind the illusion of openly reigning as the Living Gods of Mesopotamia. In Hellas, they learned a new lesson: true divinity demands stealthy control, lurking stealthily within the myths of the Olympian Pantheon. Paranoia, war, intrigue, domination, and betrayal dictate the games of those who whisper in the ears of philosophers and tyrants. Wisdom has given way to Hubris , and the lords of the night now toy with the fate of entire city-states, oblivious to the tragedy they are about to unleash.

Vampire: Blood and Tragedy is a complete setting in Ancient Greece (fully compatible with 5th Edition and V20), and contains:

●     A Deep Dive into Hellas: Historical, political, and geographical descriptions of the fragmented city-states, detailing the web of the Cainite Cold War from the Acropolis of Athens to the harsh domains of Sparta and the shadowy sanctuaries of Crete.

●     The Clans of Greece: A comprehensive analysis of how the Caine lineages fit into Hellenic culture. Instead of modern archetypes, discover the social roles, cults, and philosophies of each clan in Greek nights.

●     The Balance of the Soul (Ethos): Abandon contemporary morality. A completely new system of morality called Ethos, replacing Humanity with ancient virtues, civic honor, and the constant struggle against the unbridled arrogance of Hubris.

●     New Rules and Features: A collection of new Predator Types, Backgrounds adapted to the era (such as Kleos, Xenia, Slaves, and Mystery Cults), and dozens of new Qualities and Flaws tailored to the harsh realities of the Mediterranean.

●     Mythic Powers and Antagonists: Summary and expanded Discipline Rules, including the "Elder’s Secrets " for V5, and a compendium of allies, mortal enemies, and mythological beasts that threaten the Damned.

●     The Threads of the Fates (Loresheets): Exclusive and in-depth Loresheets to connect your coterie to the great heroic myths, divine secrets, and forgotten ancestral machinations from 450 BC.

I am running the Crimson Gutter campaign with my usual group. My city is a custom one called Dhanu City that exists essentially in a made up area of New Jersy. The city is "Atlantic City without the Casinos."

One of the things that I wante dto do however was use some of my older VTM books and I have all three "Chicago Chronicle" cronicle combo books an dnever got to use them, so I figured that to me and my players we can just move stuff form those books to a made up city, as we all know basically nothing about them anyway.

But that is just a really long way of saying, I am adding the succubus club to my game, and the version I am adding is the one from the classic books, Baby Chorus and everything.

So I was wondering, what are some good evocative music I can be playing during the new coteries forray into the club. I'm looking for real classic dirtbags wearing trench coats music. Lecher Bitch. Things that if listened to by the wrong crowd would cause a riot.

Any suggestions outside of the OST of Bloodlines?

Some more neat art of my character. Love this little freak and posting him and commissions I get of him, been having a great time with the cast presented in 2nd ed of Chicago By Night. Fairly high EXP game, allowing me to get weird with thaumaturgy paths. It's great!!!!

(reupload cuz i used the wrong format)

Her name is Tina, 11th gen Lasombra

She was a shovelhead who didn't die! woohoo!

(i swear that vinculum is literally the only reason she gives a quarter of a fuck about anything the sabbat has going on)

No, seriously. Why are these guys so laughably weak? They're awful. You're telling me that the biggest danger to vampire society is made up of THESE jobbers? You could get 10 of these Inquisitor clowns in a room and they'd all get mopped up by Jan Peterzoon. You know - the paperwork guy who has less combat dice than your average purse snatcher.

(And this is using V20, where people are meant to be strong. V5 makes this even sadder).

I have never seen a more fraudulent group of supposedly badass villains be more of a letdown. I was considering adding some in, but their statblocks are so fucking ass that they are legitimately outdone by hillbillies who spend $3000 on Amazon for supplies.

They live in a world where humans can flip continents over like pancakes, and yet not a single one of these bozos has managed to resemble anything close to a threat. I'm pretty sure the rip off of the Scooby Doo gang I had drafted up was more capable than these brainlets.

I thought the Sabbat was bad, what with them being completely useless when the thing they claimed to oppose actually showed up. But no, apparently their biblical levels of incompetency are exceeded by an organization that has been consistently getting its ass beat by a bunch of tech illiterate nepo babies. At least 50% of them can't send an email, and most of them only vaguely understand how firearms work.

Hundreds of years of studying the enemy? More like "a thousand years of fraudulence".

This is probably where you'd bring up True Faith. Normally, I'd agree with you. One problem:

True Faith is genuinely worthless until it reaches 4 dots, and most of them don't even have one.

I have zero clue how these guys, who have objective evidence that God was some sort of tangible entity, are struggling to teach others Faith. You are the LITERAL CATHOLIC CHURCH. You have seen people do miracles and know that there are mystical forces at play. You presumably know that the world will end if you let everyone know about Magic, because otherwise there's zero point to not shredding the Masquerade. So how come you can't even do the most basic of supernatural abilities? It takes less effort to use magic than it does to get a driver's license.

They don't even bother to use any sorcery or magic or anything. They have one thousand years of lore on supernaturals, and not a single one of them has managed to make ANY headway in exceeding the third weakest supernatural species to ever exist.

At this point the only explanation is that these guys are led by some Elder laughing his ass off, because they are getting outdone by Chinese Homeless Men from 1000 years ago.

Also yes my cropping is dogshit. These jobbers don't deserve it.

New York by Night
Finished a cover art piece for our campaign - seen stuff like this done for DBD campaigns and thought this is a cool idea
Had so much fun doing that, even if I'm not 100% happy - but I learned so much and think this might become a yearly tradition now
Our campaign is running since almost seven years now and it's so dear to my heart

It started as a Camarilla campaign in Boston, but by now the coterie are Anarchs in New York and finally thriving