#vampire rpg

[samueldays]

I've been invited to a tabletop game of classic (read: stupid retro pretentious) Vampire, the Dark Ages 1e version, and the rulebook is fascinatingly terribly designed as though the chapter writers didn't talk to each other after the outline.

In Chapter Two, on Vampire Society in the Dark Ages, it says that vampires sometimes practice Ordeal By Fire - the accused is required to run a gauntlet of vampires hitting him with lit torches.

Throughout the book, the fluff will frequently mention Rötschreck, the deep fear of fire and sunlight common to all vampires. These things may kill a vampire outright where mere blades will not, which gives one a vague sense that this ordeal is extra nasty for vamps.

In Chapter Seven, on Systems and Mechanics, we get the specifics on how Rötschreck works. When a vampire encounters an open flame, for example a lit torch, he has to roll a Difficulty 6 Courage check. On a success, he can bear the presence of the flame for a few turns (a turn is 3 seconds) before having to roll again. On a failure, he panics uncontrollably and runs away.

Vampires are incapable of organizing an Ordeal By Fire as written because they'd inevitably panic from holding torches. What on Earth were the devs thinking?

(Being burned is diff 8, for the poor sod being hit with torches.)

Worse: Given the above, you'd expect that seeing in the dark really, really should be a default vampire power. It isn't. It's an ability of the Protean Discipline of vampire superpowers that you buy with XP.

Even worse: Each of the 13 Vampire Clans starts with access to 3 of the 16 Disciplines. These are unevenly distributed. Only the Gangrel Clan teaches Protean. (Technically also clanless, but that comes with severe drawbacks.) The book is kinda vague on how much effort and favors it may take to get a Gangrel to teach you this if you're from a different Clan.

Even worser: If the Courage check is severely failed (a botch), the vampire gains a mental derangement, terrified by the fire.

Worcestershire: Due to the nature of rolls in this system, where 1s on the d10s subtract successes, a vampire with maxed-out Courage stat still botches 2% of the time. Courage rolls for Rötschreck happen frequently: torch in close proximity, Difficulty 6. Obscured sunlight or bonfire, Diff 7. Open sunlight or being burned, Diff 8.

I reiterate: this is a game set in the Dark Ages, pre-electricity, and where "see in darkness" is not a default power. One wonders how vampires are supposed to exist for more than a few years without becoming gibbering lunatics.

My guess is that it's the usual White Wolf bad habit of behaving as though characters borderline cease to exist offscreen, and rules don't apply during downtime. Vampires only panic if they encounter fire when the metaphorical camera is on them. Sunlight is only terrifying if you have the GM's attention. Rötschreck is a punishment for the hubris of being a player character.

[netherworldpost]

The God of Undeath and the God of Thievery argue with the God of Magic as to whether or not the burglar vampire can invite themselves into a residence via professional authority.

[harrowedworld]

Harrowed World: Portents In Red the vampire RPG is available to wishlist on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2529270/Harrowed_World_Portents_In_Red__Vampire_RPG/

[dungeonofthedragon]

Ttrpg Recommendations: Vampires!

I love vampires- both silly and spooky! So I thought; well, why not make a rec post of vampire-related games this time?

Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants by Far Horizons Co-Op

The world is controlled by vampiric aristocrats. Fortunately for your scrappy band of rebels, you've gained the favour of the fey! Mystical masks allow you to spill the blood of your oppressors (for a price.)

I haven't had a chance to play this game, but everything I've seen about it looks amazing. Also, it uses the Forged in the Dark system, which is behind several of my existing faves!

Fanged by level2janitor

Fanged is a rules-light rpg where each player (besides the GM) creates two characters: one vampire, and one mortal. It takes some cues from Vampire: the Masquerade but is much, much easier to pick up and play. I'd planned to play this with some friends a while back and, while it never quite got off the ground, the would-be players were able to quickly create characters and develop their connections between each other in our small seaside town setting.

Reason/Run by Sam Robson

This is my own creation, but it is very much about vampires and so I wanted to include it! Reason/Run is a one-page solo rpg about an ordinary person exploring a vampire's castle to try and rescue a loved one. They cannot fight the vampire head-on, and so if they ever encounter it, they must choose to either reason with it or run away.

I barely escaped when I played this myself. Was forced into a situation where I had to make a roll with a 33% chance of success. Failing a roll means your character is killed and the game is over. I was so nervous as I was pretty close to winning at the time, and thus so relieved when the roll succeeded!

Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings

A solo journaling rpg where you play as the titular vampire! My manager first recommended it and, I have to say, it's so good. Dark, desperate and lonely, but amazing! Follow a vampire through their centuries of existence, up until their demise. If you're the type of person who always feels bad for monsters in the stories (I know I am!!!), this game is for you.

There are literally thousands of community copies, so if this sounds like your thing, it's so easy to nab this one!

[argentgames]

Weekly Update 3/17

Hello all!

We’re back with another compilation of our game dev Twitter updates. 

Check out the pics below for a look at our current games’ progress!

Red Embrace: Paradisus

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Will you join Kiefer's tech-rebel faction and become a vampire of the wires?

In which MC accidentally sends Jack to the nether realm whilst trying to get past him.  He doesn't have much luck with these things.

Alvera and Ventura, the two Golgotha sisters who glimpse all of MC's possible destinies.

Implementing a glossary of Red Embrace lore terms for RE:P! Soon you'll be able to live your vampire life in a state of significantly less confusion.

Nadim and the Netizen vampires hope to save a dying world...but that rarely works out smoothly.

Working on a walk/run toggle button, so you can roleplay some vampiric street-stalking (and navigate small areas more easily).

Rosalind isn't about the prowling vampire life. She'd rather play MUDs and stay cozy in her coffee shop.

Guilded Hearts

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MC and Casper (playing as Moggie), together inside the Lost Heroes MMO for the first time!

Some profile picture options for MC!

Chatting to Casper on Dovcord.

[saintes-rpg]

● FORTY FIVE ● HUMAN ● MALE ● JOURNALIST ●

"Entitlement is a delusion built of self centeredness and laziness."

Biography: Originally from Chicago Alex first moved down to Louisiana for college. The son of a media magnate, it was no surprise that Alex first wanted to get involved with communications, and when he finally settled on journalism, his family was extremely proud. What they weren’t however, was prepared for how entitled Alex was when he finished college. Upon returning home, he assumed his dad would be taking him under his wing and teaching him how to run the company, but his dad, Bryce, had different plans. He had expected Alex to get a job within the company and work his way up, making sure he knew every step of the business the way he himself had, but when Alex found that out, he was infuriated. 

It was only through his mother’s intervention that Alex wasn’t completely disinherited, and when he realized no other media companies in Chicago would give him a chance after hearing about his entitlement, he fled back to Louisiana, moving to Baton Rouge. He managed to get an entry level job at a paper, which didn’t pay much, but he still had his parents money, which his mom was still providing him. He worked at the newspaper, but he didn’t really make friends, he looked down on the people around him like he was better than them, and that rubbed people the wrong way. After nearly ten years of living and working in Baton Rouge his parents surprised him by coming down to visit. He showed them all the hard work he had been doing, and when his father offered to take them all out to dinner, Alex assumed this would be the point where his dad was going to offer to take him under Bryce’s wing, and let him take over the company, but as the evening went on and there was no mention of it, Alex got more and more mad. The anger came to a boil when Bryce commented on the sale of the company, and Alex was infuriated to find out that Bryce had sold the company for a huge profit. When Alex demanded to know what was going to happen to him, his father assured Alex that he wasn’t forgotten about. He had an account full of money put aside for Alex, for the future. 

Alex, infuriated at his father for ruining his life long plans, stormed off into the night, and Bryce and Carmen, Alex’s mom, were never heard from again. Alex was investigated closely, but when witnesses said they saw him walk away before his parents disappeared, the investigation ran cold. Alex went back to Chicago to declare his parents dead, but found that all of the money his father had promised him was in a trust that could only be accessed when Alex was an editor of a paper himself. The life insurance on his parents was paid out to other people, and the money that Alex had been getting monthly was no longer coming in. Destitute, he went back to Baton Rouge, and began to pressure his boss into letting him learn under him, letting him be an editor. The boss didn’t go for it, and after awhile got more and more uncomfortable with Alex pressuring him. Alex would harass staff members, trying to act like he was better than them, until he was eventually fired for his behavior. 

Infuriated, he was sure it was a coworker he had been bossing around who got him fired, and he followed them home before grabbing them as they got out of their car and telling them that they had made a terrible mistake. The next day the office got an email saying they were quitting and never coming back. Meanwhile, Alex moved down to New Orleans and began to work at a paper there. He kept his head down, stayed under the radar, but tried his hardest to come up with stories that would impress his bosses. When the great announcement happened, he tried hard to write stories about it, but so many stories were happening all over the world that they were lost in the shuffle. 

When he heard about a city of solely supernatural people, he knew he had to move there, he had to be a journalist, and maybe- just maybe he could impress the world and make editor of that paper, and finally get his inheritance.

Alex is an open character, if you think he looks right for you, feel free to fill out the application and submit it here!

Admin Note: Alex is a character who has a major plot that will affect the entire group, if you're interested in him, please message the main so we can discuss the plot and how best to utilize his character in this major plot.

[literalcatpod]

33 - Making a Biker Gang Leader You Can't Look Away From in Vampire: The Masquerade Feat. Meghan Murphy

Vampire: The Masquerade, currently published by Renegade Games at the time of this episode's release, is one of those systems that was bound to pop up eventually, and here it is. It's one we worried about doing alone, but luckily @murphypopart of $2 Creature Feature was here to help! In all honesty, though, I think Brother Billy the Vampire Cat was inside all of us, all along, and this was merely the vessel he used to be written into the world.

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We’ve got a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/BadgerTrove 

Download the character sheets: https://bit.ly/literalcatpod 

We’re on Bluesky now! https://bsky.app/profile/literalcatpod.bsky.social 

Cover art and Intro/Outro music made by Joel Holland

Thanks for listening! We’ll Cat-ch you later!

[wickedwitchofthelambs]

Mina Harker

❝ Sângele este viața. Si sângele. Si ar trebui să fie al meu. ❞ ☽ Wilhelmina Murray ☽ reborn: 22.07.2000 (22 years) ☽ born in Antwerp, Belgium ☽ Species: Witch ☽ reincarnated Elisabeta (wife of Dracula) ☽ modern AU to Bram Stoker’s Dracula ☽ writer & science student ➛ searching for Dracula 🖤

❝ Is it possible to love someone so completely, so intensely, they could never die? To give them more than just your heart or your soul? What if you could give then the miracle of immortality? ❞ ― Kellie Thacker ➥ twitter: https://twitter.com/wilhelminarpg ➥ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wilhelmina.rpg/

[gmortschaotica]

"Daniel has answered a mysterious summoning to Hallowbrook, where a kindred with a link to his past has an offer to make. An offer that will be difficult to refuse without dire consequences."

http://gmortschaotica.blogspot.com/2023/04/vampire-masquerade-v5-solo-session.html

[lunarcovehq]

Who are the oldest characters in the rp? Like supernatural age wise, not physical unless human and what not. Just curious!

If our masterlist is correct, Aaliyah Rose is our oldest permanent resident at 310 years old! Theodore Moore, a temporary character is 356 years old. Here at Lunar Cove, we appreciate our elders. Also maybe don't call them elders to their faces because sometimes they don't take it too well...

[ethereumhq]

Circle 1 - Limbo.

Entry Fee: As soon as your character enters the event, they will be given a drink that is laced with ethereum. Your character has to drink this in order to enter, so please don’t try and do any workarounds here unless your character wants to immediately back out and not enter the property.

Entertainment: Though this circle will look and function most similarly to parties your characters may have attended in the past, rest assured the Pendragons have spared no expense or excess in their preparations and decorations. Fountains of drink of all kinds for all species, performers and DJs keeping your minds and bodies entertained. But don’t wear yourself out on the party’s doorstep. There’s more to see inside…

[samueldays]

Old: RPG set in medieval fantasy-esque setting.

Bold: World of Darkness Vampire RPG set in the real life middle ages around 1250.

Told: The GM told us the party is speaking Latin because that's our only common language. (Vampire being a drama game, charsheets are shown only to the GM.)

Gold: Guy posting conversation in actual Latin in the game channel, with English OOC notes. "Ubi sumus?" (Where are we?)

Hold: Hold on a moment, says other guy, I refuse to believe that "reddit" is a real Latin word. I think you're bluffing. (It's real.)

[lareinetheroyal]

Lareine é uma base no Telegram voltada a vampiros que buscam outros semelhantes da espécie, com o intuito de junta-los em um lugar onde podem se divertir e compartilharem suas experiências sendo um ser imortal.

Clique aqui para obter mais informações.

[risingpeaksrp]

Would anyone like to see Im Jinah? And if so, where could she possibly fit?

Of course, I can see her as a vampire, angel, shifter,, merfolk, witch, whatever you have a fancy for really.

[dungeonofthedragon]

25th Century Vampires is now available on DriveThru RPG! Small enough to fold up and fit in your pocket but robust enough for several sessions of demon-slaying vampire action!

[argentgames]

Nadim—Red Embrace: Paradisus (+ Answering Asks)

Nadim, the Sound Transcender.

Red Embrace: Paradisus

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NADIM

House: Iscari Height: 6’2 Likes: Algorithms, dancing, singing, music production, fashion, meditation, the tambur Dislikes: Hypocrites, funerals, marching bands, hospitals, tight spaces, the police

Description:

Mesmerizingly intense and magnetic, Nadim is well-known for his aloof exterior. Although he can come across as abrasive, the Iscari’s intimidating energy attracts all the attention in a room without an ounce of effort.

As a DJ and audio engineer, he puts his talents to use for the Netizen faction – helping the tech-punk group flourish in both work and play. His massive rave parties, which he hosts inside an enormous warehouse, are unmatched in Vegas.

But on occasion, something more vulnerable flashes behind his eyes. Nadim’s fierce, passionate loyalty to his friends stands at odds with his iciness…perhaps there’s a reason for it.

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Stay tuned for more character introductions in the following weeks! There is much still to uncover about the strange occurrences of 1999…

Questions or Comments?

Feel free to send in questions about RE:P and any AG/GAG games (or dev-related questions)! Our Ask Box is always open.

Answering Asks!

What are Saorise’s and Aleusha’s favorite songs from America?

A: Saorise is the type of lady who’d enjoy Billie Holiday classics, like “I’ll Be Seeing You”. Meanwhile, you’ll catch Aleusha jamming to Gothic hits like Type O Negative, especially “Christian Woman”.

Is there any voice acting in Red Embrace: Paradisus?

A: Possibly! If we can get the budget for it, we’d love to include partial English VA in RE:P. It’ll depend on the success of any Kickstarter/crowdfunding campaign we end up doing down the line.

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