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Storyteller rant
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So, I'm currently trying to run this Vampire game set in present-day Vienna. I don't have Wien bei Nacht (the licensed German sourcebook by Feder & Schwert about Vienna) so I have very little information about the setting. It's a bit weird; Vienna is actually quite important, but it's usually only mentioned in the books. I have a Mexican Samedi prince named Tenoch de la grandeza who is actually only about 250 years old but poses as a 600 year old Nosferatu, though he doesn't deny that he's Mexican (pointless anyway because of his accent). He came to Vienna after World War I to learn Thaumaturgy because Pochtli, who taught him Dominate in exchange for a great deal of Necromancy (which Tenoch, along with Thanatosis, learned from his sire Jorge de la muerte who he later killed because Tenoch was a mage in life and hated being Kindred. Of course it was very profitable for Pochtli, but Tenoch was young and naïve) in Mexico City, refused to teach him. Because he single-handedly killed a Sabbat pack that killed the former sheriff Tenoch was made sheriff instead. He acquired princedom by dominating the rather naïve prince Leopold into trying to force the Tremere to give thaumaturgic tomes to him. Leopold was obliterated for that and no one made the connection, so Tenoch became prince. His sheriff is a German Toreador named Julia von Sacher-Masoch who used to live in London during the Victorian Era. She spend some time in Bedlam because she suffered from severe depression and frequent nervous breakdowns; her parents fled to London because of the revolution in 1848, became Kindred shortly thereafter and disguised their feeding as incest. She felt guilty for enjoy the alleged incest. Her mother accidently embraced her when she was 14. She went to Bedlam where she became a Sabbat member and learned some Thaumaturgy (which Tenoch does not know). She later left Bedlam and the Sabbat and fled to Vienna because of her former Sabbat membership. She became a harpy, but the Sabbat eventually found out about her which is why they are attacking Vienna (VAV said the Sabbat has no real place in Austria). She was the one who actually witnessed Tenoch destroying the Sabbat pack and brought it to the prince's attention. She taught Tenoch German and Tenoch taught her Spanish. Because Tenoch despite his young age already depends on Kindred blood he regularly drinks from Julia – and only from her; he hides his dependence from everyone else – and is thus blood-bound to her. He knows that and regularly lets her drink from his blood as well, though she doesn't really need it except for the blood bound; however, unbeknownst to him she is immune to the blood oath. Because of her thaumaturgic knowledge she also knows about his real clan membership and thus has some sense of how he old he can be. He doesn't know any of this and Julia also didn't tell anyone.
I also got this paranoid Filipino Malkavian primogen named Reynante who is very paranoid and doesn't communicate much with other Malkavians because he is in fact a Kuei-jin. He wants to pave the way for the arrival of more Cathayans because of the amazing dragon nests the Tremere claim (according to the KotE companion). ( Read more...Collapse )
So, I'm currently trying to run this Vampire game set in present-day Vienna. I don't have Wien bei Nacht (the licensed German sourcebook by Feder & Schwert about Vienna) so I have very little information about the setting. It's a bit weird; Vienna is actually quite important, but it's usually only mentioned in the books. I have a Mexican Samedi prince named Tenoch de la grandeza who is actually only about 250 years old but poses as a 600 year old Nosferatu, though he doesn't deny that he's Mexican (pointless anyway because of his accent). He came to Vienna after World War I to learn Thaumaturgy because Pochtli, who taught him Dominate in exchange for a great deal of Necromancy (which Tenoch, along with Thanatosis, learned from his sire Jorge de la muerte who he later killed because Tenoch was a mage in life and hated being Kindred. Of course it was very profitable for Pochtli, but Tenoch was young and naïve) in Mexico City, refused to teach him. Because he single-handedly killed a Sabbat pack that killed the former sheriff Tenoch was made sheriff instead. He acquired princedom by dominating the rather naïve prince Leopold into trying to force the Tremere to give thaumaturgic tomes to him. Leopold was obliterated for that and no one made the connection, so Tenoch became prince. His sheriff is a German Toreador named Julia von Sacher-Masoch who used to live in London during the Victorian Era. She spend some time in Bedlam because she suffered from severe depression and frequent nervous breakdowns; her parents fled to London because of the revolution in 1848, became Kindred shortly thereafter and disguised their feeding as incest. She felt guilty for enjoy the alleged incest. Her mother accidently embraced her when she was 14. She went to Bedlam where she became a Sabbat member and learned some Thaumaturgy (which Tenoch does not know). She later left Bedlam and the Sabbat and fled to Vienna because of her former Sabbat membership. She became a harpy, but the Sabbat eventually found out about her which is why they are attacking Vienna (VAV said the Sabbat has no real place in Austria). She was the one who actually witnessed Tenoch destroying the Sabbat pack and brought it to the prince's attention. She taught Tenoch German and Tenoch taught her Spanish. Because Tenoch despite his young age already depends on Kindred blood he regularly drinks from Julia – and only from her; he hides his dependence from everyone else – and is thus blood-bound to her. He knows that and regularly lets her drink from his blood as well, though she doesn't really need it except for the blood bound; however, unbeknownst to him she is immune to the blood oath. Because of her thaumaturgic knowledge she also knows about his real clan membership and thus has some sense of how he old he can be. He doesn't know any of this and Julia also didn't tell anyone.
I also got this paranoid Filipino Malkavian primogen named Reynante who is very paranoid and doesn't communicate much with other Malkavians because he is in fact a Kuei-jin. He wants to pave the way for the arrival of more Cathayans because of the amazing dragon nests the Tremere claim (according to the KotE companion). ( Read more...Collapse )
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Hola,
me again.
Thanks for your comments, and sorry for the late post. For some reason I can never get social stuff done even if it's just answering your comments or posting about how it went. Not trying to offend because I know it's rude, it's a general problem of mine. I'm sorry about that.
Anyway, I'm happy to say that our session went very well. I was afraid that my friends might not really be into role-playing but they enjoyed it. I ended up simplifying rules and disciplines because I own the .pdf-version of the books (V:TM revised, to answer your question) and didn't print all of them. Also, looking at the computer during a session totally kills everything.
I had my girls being embraced by some rebels (clan Brujah + Toreador) who left them a note explaining that they were vampires, that there was a blood hunt on them and that they did this out of hatred for the Camarilla. The characters didn't know each other prior to that but they woke up beside each other in a parking garage. They got to know each other a bit and naively walked through the night until they were approached by a young 8th generation Brujah by the name of Vivien who first gave them a tongue-lashing for caressly walking around the streets and talking to strangers when they knew there's a blood hunt on them. Turns out, she was a member of the anarchs who knew their sires and went out looking for the characters as soon as she heard what their sires had done; she explained the important things to them, like humanity and generation and stuff, told them a bit about the sects and clans, answered their questions and found out their clans by testing their disciplines (bit of rule tweaking here I think). Also, she told them that the current prince was in fact a Malkavian with a split personality ('be thankful you were not sired by one of them. Or by Nosferatu, they're disgusting.') and her other personality was posing as a relative of hers; said relevative 'discussed' the blood hunt with the prince in exchange for some favours (one of them involved the characters wandering around in a haunted mansion - one of my friends told me she can never look at chandeliers the same way. Probably because one of the wraiths was constantly trying to kill them with falling lustres) and got it called off by additionally averting the prince's murder suicide (she was angry and depressed because of her 'lack of power' and constant quarrels with her 'relative').
The story was actually designed to end there, but my friends still did have some spare time and wanted to continue ... so, they now won the prince's favour and one of the characters got permission to embrace her boyfriend (who was all like 'vampires? okay, okay, you're obviously high'). Also, the prince asked them to assasinate two influential anarchs by the end of the night or they'd have another blood hunt called on them. They were able to convince one of them to leave town and assasinated the other. That part went fine but I wasn't prepared ('the character's not stuttering, the GM's stuttering') and everything wasn't really thought-out. Actually everything was a more complicated than I described, they also had some deals going on that I can't even remember anymore. One time I got everything confused and was all like 'wait, wait, wait, forget what I said the last fifteen minutes' >.> My friends said they really enjoyed the first part but next time I'd better prepare for situations like that.
I'm planning to host another session at the end of January - this time with, you know, proper rules and stuff. It'll probably be a Sabbat chronicle; I have a thing for violent and involuntary embraces. Also, the Sabbat are pretty fascinating. The others don't know about this yet but I'm positive they wouldn't mind another session or two :)
me again.
Thanks for your comments, and sorry for the late post. For some reason I can never get social stuff done even if it's just answering your comments or posting about how it went. Not trying to offend because I know it's rude, it's a general problem of mine. I'm sorry about that.
Anyway, I'm happy to say that our session went very well. I was afraid that my friends might not really be into role-playing but they enjoyed it. I ended up simplifying rules and disciplines because I own the .pdf-version of the books (V:TM revised, to answer your question) and didn't print all of them. Also, looking at the computer during a session totally kills everything.
I had my girls being embraced by some rebels (clan Brujah + Toreador) who left them a note explaining that they were vampires, that there was a blood hunt on them and that they did this out of hatred for the Camarilla. The characters didn't know each other prior to that but they woke up beside each other in a parking garage. They got to know each other a bit and naively walked through the night until they were approached by a young 8th generation Brujah by the name of Vivien who first gave them a tongue-lashing for caressly walking around the streets and talking to strangers when they knew there's a blood hunt on them. Turns out, she was a member of the anarchs who knew their sires and went out looking for the characters as soon as she heard what their sires had done; she explained the important things to them, like humanity and generation and stuff, told them a bit about the sects and clans, answered their questions and found out their clans by testing their disciplines (bit of rule tweaking here I think). Also, she told them that the current prince was in fact a Malkavian with a split personality ('be thankful you were not sired by one of them. Or by Nosferatu, they're disgusting.') and her other personality was posing as a relative of hers; said relevative 'discussed' the blood hunt with the prince in exchange for some favours (one of them involved the characters wandering around in a haunted mansion - one of my friends told me she can never look at chandeliers the same way. Probably because one of the wraiths was constantly trying to kill them with falling lustres) and got it called off by additionally averting the prince's murder suicide (she was angry and depressed because of her 'lack of power' and constant quarrels with her 'relative').
The story was actually designed to end there, but my friends still did have some spare time and wanted to continue ... so, they now won the prince's favour and one of the characters got permission to embrace her boyfriend (who was all like 'vampires? okay, okay, you're obviously high'). Also, the prince asked them to assasinate two influential anarchs by the end of the night or they'd have another blood hunt called on them. They were able to convince one of them to leave town and assasinated the other. That part went fine but I wasn't prepared ('the character's not stuttering, the GM's stuttering') and everything wasn't really thought-out. Actually everything was a more complicated than I described, they also had some deals going on that I can't even remember anymore. One time I got everything confused and was all like 'wait, wait, wait, forget what I said the last fifteen minutes' >.> My friends said they really enjoyed the first part but next time I'd better prepare for situations like that.
I'm planning to host another session at the end of January - this time with, you know, proper rules and stuff. It'll probably be a Sabbat chronicle; I have a thing for violent and involuntary embraces. Also, the Sabbat are pretty fascinating. The others don't know about this yet but I'm positive they wouldn't mind another session or two :)
Short story ideas
Hola,
in a few weeks I'm going to host a session with a few friends who are quite unfamiliar with Vampire. Neither of us have ever tried roleplaying, so we are only going to hold one session, at least for now.
So, I've read the core rule book of the 3rd edition and the storyteller's handbook, but I'm having a hard time thinking of stories that are neither too long nor too complicated for people unfamiliar with Vampire. I thought something about thin-bloods/caitiff might not be a bad idea because it would make everything a bit less confusing by excluding the clans. Other than that I'm a bit at a loss to be honest.
I thought perhaps you could help me out. Do you have advice regarding this or perhaps an inspiration? How did your first session of Vampire go? I'm a bit nervous to be honest.
Thanks in advance.
in a few weeks I'm going to host a session with a few friends who are quite unfamiliar with Vampire. Neither of us have ever tried roleplaying, so we are only going to hold one session, at least for now.
So, I've read the core rule book of the 3rd edition and the storyteller's handbook, but I'm having a hard time thinking of stories that are neither too long nor too complicated for people unfamiliar with Vampire. I thought something about thin-bloods/caitiff might not be a bad idea because it would make everything a bit less confusing by excluding the clans. Other than that I'm a bit at a loss to be honest.
I thought perhaps you could help me out. Do you have advice regarding this or perhaps an inspiration? How did your first session of Vampire go? I'm a bit nervous to be honest.
Thanks in advance.
Vampire 20th Anniversary Edition
Hi, everyone. Long time no post.
For those who have missed the announcement, late on St. Patrick's Day it came out that White Wolf was going to be publishing a Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Rulebook. It'll be a deluxe book featuring all the clans, all the bloodlines, and all the signature Disciplines up to level 9 where applicable.
Rules are Revised, with a few tweaks to account for some weaknesses which have become apparent in the 13 years since Revised has come out. If Revised is 3rd Edition, think of this as 3.1.
Setting's being updated to be a little less dated and a little more reflective of the modern nights, with the ubiquity of cellphones and the Internet as a prime example.
Best of all, it's open development. They're in the process of writing it now, and are soliciting input from the fans to make sure it's the best book they can make it.
Discussion is happening at:
- The development blog at VampireTheMasquerade.com
- The White Wolf forums' 20th Anniversary forum
- Twitter, via the #v20 hashtag
- The RPGnet thread
- Share memories on facebook.com/vtm20
More info is at the Information link at the aforementioned VampireTheMasquerade.com. Common questions below( the cut...Collapse )
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I'll be short and sweet. I am looking for the origin of my icon, a friend of mine told me she thought she recognized it from vampire the masquerade. I thought it might be worth a shot, has anyone seen her before?
Before you chastise me for not searching on my own hard enough, believe me when I say I've been at this for weeks, no reverse image look up has rendered any results. If you think you can locate where she came from please tell me how >_>
Before you chastise me for not searching on my own hard enough, believe me when I say I've been at this for weeks, no reverse image look up has rendered any results. If you think you can locate where she came from please tell me how >_>
Looking for STs
Requiem of Dreams is a Digichat-based online RPG site set in Seattle, and we're looking for Storytellers.
We're looking specifically for Storytellers for the following teams: Mortals, Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, and Demon: The Fallen.
Preference will be given to people who have experience in an RPG chat environment, particularly if you've been a Storyteller previously.
PleasSend applications to Succubus with your preferred venue and your chat experience.
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We're looking specifically for Storytellers for the following teams: Mortals, Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, and Demon: The Fallen.
- We also support Hunter: The Reckoning and Changeling: The Dreaming, so while applications will be accepted for those venues as well, our emphasis for now is on those mentioned above.
- We're also shortly opening the "Second City Project," which is an application-based secondary setting for characters of all stripes who aren't otherwise permitted in the main setting. Sabbat, wraiths, Technocrats, Fera, mummies, Kuei-jin, etc. The SCP will be more player-driven, but that doesn't obviate the need for Storytellers.
Preference will be given to people who have experience in an RPG chat environment, particularly if you've been a Storyteller previously.
PleasSend applications to Succubus with your preferred venue and your chat experience.
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For the Best Fangs in Hollywood or Anywhere........Visit Us!
Hello, I have been making custom fangs for the Hollywood Goth/ Vampyre Communities since 1997. Here are a few of the people I have made fangs for over the years. Hope you like them. Visit my site for more photos. Thank you.
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Blood across Florida
Blood across Florida is an Old WoD Vampire: the Masquerade game set in Miami, Florida in the year 2000. It revolves around the Sabbat occupation of this city and the players play young Sabbat vampires that are looking to prove themselves worthy of the title. The game will focus largely on opposing the Camarilla and other many foes of the Sabbat, both in outright combat and spy hunting. Between these major events the Cainites will be able to take part in blood rituals and violent games, preying on the human occupants of the city and terrorising, brutalising and just plain murdering them for fun. More politically-inclined Cainites can spend this time working behind the scenes, building up their influence and establishing a power base or joining the Black Hand and discretely watching for corruption amongst their peers.
Come along and join the Festivo dello Estinto - The Festival of the Dead. This is a yearly celebration of undeath by the Sabbat and highlighted by bonfires, blood baths, dancing with corpses and many other means of jubilation.
The style of the game is brutal and dangerous, player characters will run the risk of destruction on a regular basis but this will only serve to sharpen the taste of victory. I classify this as a Black Dog game in that it contains graphically descriptive depictions of violent acts and the true horrors of the Sabbat, something often missed in many supposed Sabbat games.