#VtM 5e

[golcorneta]

So sad no one understand Latinamerican memes

[terman]

My characters deserve to have cool illustration, so here's art for my Nosferatu from 5e

[dr-mingus]

I'm fairly new so I don't know if this stuff is already the accepted perspective among VtM players, but it seems to me that a Vampire's essence is contained within their Vitae, while the body it inhabits merely acts as a vessel for it. Rather than the corpse being "brought back to life" by the blood, the corpse is a host through which the Vitae acts its will upon the world.

Here's how I think it works, feel free to correct me:

Kindred Vitae has two basic instincts that drive its behavior: to preserve itself, and to produce more of itself. These manifest in the host as the desire to consume blood, and the desire to Embrace.

During the Embrace, a Kindred drains all blood from a mortal. This Kindred, the Sire, introduces a small amount of their Vitae into the mortal's corpse which then finds its way into its brainstem. It acts to enable motor and sensory function, but lacks sufficient Vitae to sustain the entire host body. To remedy this, it attempts to source blood from the nearest available source, causing what is known as a Hunger Frenzy.

Once blood is consumed, it makes contact with the Sire's original Vitae. It then becomes Vitae through its capacity to transmute mundane blood into more of itself. It is possible that this is achieved through a property that makes it impossible to dilute, ironically similar to that of Holy Water.

Vitae then spreads throughout the host to facilitate biological processes necessary to achieving the instinctual goals. It interacts with the host body, preventing decay but also reshaping certain tissues and organs to better function as instruments of the goals. Teeth become sharpened fangs, the stomach reshapes to allow blood directly into the circulatory system, taste buds and neurotransmitters are altered to incentivise consuming blood, etc. It also flows into the rest of the brain, where the personality and memories of the host imprint into it through its presence in the memory centres.

In the event of a threat to the Vitae's survival, such as sunlight or fire, it exhibits a response similar to the human body's response to extreme cold. To avoid loss of heat, the body concentrates warm blood in the safest and most important areas, the torso and head, leaving the extremities cold. In the case of Vitae, blood leaves the anterior of the brain and limbs, and concentrates in the amygdala and brainstem. This causes the distinctive Fear Frenzy or Rötschreck in the host as the Vitae spurs the host to flee to preserve itself.

Through unknown means, Vitae is consumed by sustaining the body or by the manifestation of Powers of the Blood. In an attempt to restore itself, it increases the host's desire to feed. In extremis it forces the host to forgo rational action in a bid to sate its primal needs. This may occur any time a Kindred exerts themselves.

Variations in Kindred Clans are possibly the result of the original "Antediluvians" whose willpower and mastery of their own Vitae were such that remnants of their personalities and powers remain in their blood and are passed down to their descendants to this day. In a similar vein, the Anger Frenzy may be a remnant of the original Kindred "Caine" whose own rage could have been passed down to all Cainites due to his immense power and will.

Fully draining a Kindred, or Diablerie, extracts the Vitae dwelling in the Brainstem which has taken on the most significant imprint of the host. This causes a conflict within the Diablerist , as two different personality imprints vie for control of the same body. Eventually the more willful memory imprint wins out and takes full control of the host.

Fin

This was a fun bit of creative writing, and has given me some ideas for more stuff about how disciplines and other vampiric traits work.

I might do some more of this stuff if people like it, or if I get bored.

Thanks for reading!

[tetanusvaccineofficial]

canon selfie my social media influencer Toreador, Juno, took like a year BEFORE his death/embrace

the reality of being a vampire does not live up to his expectations. he's especially not pleased that he died in his Denny's uniform, or that he's accidentally committed murder

(due to having a grand total of three willpower, this pathetic guyfailure autofails most hunger frenzy checks, apparently!) (he also has stigmata!)

[caffeinesystem]

A creature and her creature

[elliest-ellie]

My VTM players have not been letting me rest for saying "alcohol shop" instead of "liquor store" which is probably the least human way of saying that

[diceyclipse]

Carnival - A d10 set for Vampire: The Masquerade, sold during the last restock. I really like palette-style sets, where each die is unique, but the whole is harmonious. And you ?

[whosaiththewords]

VTM Concept: Anti-Stains.

Whenever you do something exceptionally good - think setting up a homeless shelter when it's something you haven't done before - you get a mark. After the session you make something like a remorse roll, which becomes more difficult as you gain humanity just like remorse rolls. Succeed it, and you have a temporary point of humanity. If you don't gain any stains for a while after that, you're a better person!

[moop-snoop]

Started playing a Vampire the Masquerade 5e game n i have many art of my nosferatu boy Monty

Australian vampire stuck in Las Vegas cus some guy decided he needed him for his computer club 🙄

(Red head is a Toreador called Lance who is played my gf!)

[supersquiddle]

I was tagged by @nearly-memories so here's the VTM Wardrobe for Lucas

Clan: Malkavian

Humanity: 7

Generation: 11th

Favorite Discipline: Dementation Bro either dresses like he's about to go through a spirited hike through the woods or like a fucking e-boy and there is zero inbetween. However, regardless of outfit he always is seen wearing a choker of some kind, it's his favourite. Usually for practical coterie-type stuff or when he wants to be casual it's a green bomber jacket with jeans and converse. However, his actual job is being a pretty famous gaming youtuber/streamer, so occasionally the e-boy type shit will include his own damn merch. I tag... geez idk a lot of people have already done this. @foolishphoenix-blog

[golcorneta]

This happened on the 1st session. Allan and Haorán (@damasc-x OC) where in the harbor and a man came out from the water, we baptised him as Froggy boy at first. This NPC was ugly (even uglier if we think Allan is Stunning), with shreded skin and a smell of humid ground and probably rotten fish, Allan unfortunatly, saw something else, and tried to seduce this man. There were indeed plenty pretty characters, but Allan got captivared by the ugly one.

As a fun fact, the first time I draw this NPC it resulted into a extremly handsome man, as an explanation for this we made the headcanon that Allan sees people with a whole different perspective, recreating faces. For this reason, he saw a handsome froggy boy instead of a cadaveric rotten man, and the same happends with his Mawla; Daxia.

Allan is a total Caitiff at this point. Has the distorsioned reality of a Malkavian, the patience of a Brujah, the "pride" of a Ventrue and the behavior of a Toreador sometimes.

As another fun fact: I play with the ST patience every time I draw him as a total model

AND as an even funier fun fact. This NPC is a redesign, the original character is irrelevant and even uglier. So our ST decided to transform him into a whole different character.

The character was Zygaena

[terman]

More shitpost with Zara

[dr-mingus]

If you're in the same Vampire Chronicle as me you should probably skip this post, you know who you are.

Sorry if this is a bit of a ramble, I haven't posted in this tag before.

I made my first character about 3 months ago, and started playing a couple weeks ago. When I was making him I thought I was making a competent character who wasn't just a version of me. I thought he'd be interesting to play because I would have to be selfish and elitist, but he just feels like what I was trying to avoid, Me but a Cool Vampire.

Once the session was done we were talking and someone said my character was the most normal guy in the Coterie, and I had a look and they were absolutely right.

My guy is a Ventrue who was an officer in ww2 (the chronicle is in the 50s so he's still a fledgling) but I haven't really fleshed out his Agoge or Sire just yet. He wears a suit and drives a car and gets his resources from embezzling from his parents' company. His Scene is the local country club where he feeds from Manhattanites who admire his golf skills (maybe)

Everyone else is some brand of unusual, (morgue worker, bone theif, terrible father, killer housewife, Nosferatu librarian) but I'm literally just a guy.

I guess my question is, How do I get weirder? What can I put in my war experience or agoge or family history to give me some flavour?

[kiritany]

My character for VtM campaign (^_^) - Daniela "Sunny", malkavian, bartender and toxic student

[elliest-ellie]

POV: You're about to save this smug 150 year old Toreador from getting his eye stabbed with a screwdriver

Quick sketch of an illustration I'll do next after the character art is done for Rose (the one doing the attempted stabbing)

Full piece sketch:

[jasina85]

Currently thinking about the interaction between Shape the Sanguine Sacrament (Blood Sorcery 1) and Blood Form (Protean 5/Blood Sorcery 2). Because like, it's obvious, right?

SSS let's you basically do bloodbending so you can do funky stuff like 3d blood art performance or getting fresh blood out of stuff, right? And Blood Form literally turns your body into a sentient blob of vitae. And even though it's so obvious the two have plenty of interactions, the book doesn't touch on it at all.

I feel like the most obvious and simplest answer is that a vampire in blood form should get a resist roll against being SSSed, but it's also very funny to think about the coterie's sorcerer just yeeting their mate at someone this way, or using them to do art. That latter half must feel weird af for the blood formed person.