Vampire The Masquerade 5E (2018)

Overview

Vampire: The Masquerade (5th Edition) is published by Renegade Games Studios and was released in 2018. It is a TTRPG-scene classic for vampire-themed games. Set in an alternative, but modern, world, called "World of Darkness". The players will step into the shoes of recently turned vampires, now thrust into the dark underworld of the vampire society. It is a storytelling game focusing on personal and political horror. Description The players, now part of "The Masquerade" have to keep their new identity a secret from the human population, while at the same time engaging with various vampire clans and factions. Managing the new reality, both in terms of new societal norms and requirements, and their vampiric hunger, will set the players on a different "adventure" altogether. System Overview & Key Features
Storyteller System (d10 Dice Pool) The system utilizes the Storyteller engine, which uses pools of ten-sided dice (d10). To resolve actions, the player adds the character's Attribute and Skill scores together to determine the total number of dice rolled. Any die showing a 6 or higher counts as a success. Rolling multiple 10s yields a critical success.
Disciplines Player characters have access to supernatural abilities known as Disciplines. These include categorized powers such as enhanced physical speed, cognitive manipulation, and physical mutation. Activating these abilities frequently requires a "Rouse Check," a dice roll that carries a probability of increasing the character's Hunger level.
Touchstones and Humanity Characters possess a Humanity rating that measures their ethical degradation. To maintain this rating, characters link themselves to "Touchstones," which are specific human non-player characters representing the vampire's surviving mortal values. If a Touchstone is damaged or killed, the player character risks a permanent reduction to their Humanity score.
Blood Potency A statistic called Blood Potency dictates the strength of a vampire's abilities. Higher Blood Potency provides numerical advantages to Discipline rolls and healing rates. However, it also imposes dietary restrictions; characters with high Blood Potency cannot reduce their Hunger by consuming animal blood or preserved human blood, requiring them to feed directly from live humans.
Additional links renegadegamestudios.com https://renegadegamestudios.com - Official Renegade Game Studios website worldofdarkness.com https://worldofdarkness.com - Official World of Darkness portal

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Vampire: The Masquerade
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The City of Wastrels
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The City of Wastrels

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🩸Brussels is the capital of Europe. To the mortals, it’s a surreal maze. To the Camarilla, it’s a gilded cage. The year is 2016. Prince Vermeulen has wiped the court floor clean to make room for a fresh generation of neonates. You arrive in the City with a target on your back, drafted into a game you don’t yet understand. Here, your word carries weight, and your loyalty to the Camarilla is your only shield — for now. Beyond the polished marble of the European Quarter, older factions and darker mysteries are waiting. Every alliance has a price. Every secret is a weapon. Your actions will test your Humanity and shape the City. Your failures will shape your execution. How long will you navigate the corridors of power? Will you rise in the City of Wastrels or vanish from records and memories? Brussels is watching, and Brussels remembers. - Membership starts at 4.99 EUR/month via ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/hiddenson - Character creation and Session 0 are free. - LGBTQ+ and kink friendly.

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Modern Nights: Vampires in Peril
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0/1
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Modern Nights: Vampires in Peril

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Hi I'm Buff Mimic, but I also like Mimi. I'm looking for a group of 4-5 other players and a GM willing to guide us along a journey through a city of their choice in a Chronicle. We'd be using the V5 system at a base, but I'm happy to also use V20 if it's preferred in the group. Just a big thing to me is that this game will be modern nights. I've had a lot of experience with D&D, fantasy tastes of all kinds, and I'm really itching to do something in another setting.  How the game looks I imagine will be discussed between the players and GM, or potentially the GM will have a more clear idea of the chronicle they'd like to play. All I'd ask is that we're at minimum doing a game using Neonates not fledglings stuck to their sires side for a bit more character independance. That said I also don't mind "Mixed Age" games as long as we discuss it between the players. An Ancilla in the party with a Thin-blood for example sounds like it could be a pretty funny sight.   The Days we'll play are pretty flexible. For myself I can state that Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday evenings aren't the best for me, but outside of that I am quite flexible, and I'd ask you include the days you'd be free when contacting me. I'd prefer games that are 5PM EST and onwards that hover around 3-4 hours. I would like to see a longer term chronicle, something that goes until we feel it's completed or potentially something that is made up of many smaller chronicles interconnected so we'd keep our characters but the goalpost would be changing consistently.

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Short Trial Campaign
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Short Trial Campaign

Roleplay focused Roleplay focused
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Hello, We are a group of ttrpg players looking for one or two people to join (one of our members died, one had to step away for work). We are currently running a pathfinder, lancer, and mutants and mastermind game, we are writing a shorter vampire 20th campaign to test roleplay compatibility. Our group mainly focuses on rp, and has a mix of veteran players/dms and some that are newer. We play every Saturday, though we have a number of games that we swap between, and when life comes up we at times just hang out and play video games (we have members in eastern and central time, and play from around 4ish to 9ish Eastern with a food break around 6 that goes for 45-60 minutes). Our group is lgbtqia+ friendly. We use discord, as well as roll20 and other virtual tts at times and our age range is 24-36 currently. If interested please reach out to me on discord at .revachol, or the dm for the vampire game mongoosebaron.

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