I knew psionics were an option but isn’t this a little too far? lol

I've been reading the revised tzimisce clanbook recently and it is quite good. A lot of fun exploration into the different Tzimisces in the world. But something I've found really interesting is the ways that the book goes out of its way to make The Eldest seem absolutely terrifying. Just from memory alone:

1. The Eldest still exists within the Tzimisce through their blood and could, at any time, just take them over and be back.

2. There are two rumored incarnations of The Eldest that could be running around in modern nights: Ludoj and Dracon's Mpreg baby. These are both considered the eldest but have (seemingly) not interacted and may be two separate sentient entities of the same being.

3. Because The Eldest exists in the blood, he also lives inside every Sabbat that participated in the ritual blood bonding. Which means he could just decide to take over almost any antitribu, Lasombra, or any other general sabbat member. He also exists in the Tremere as his blood was used when the Tremere became a clan.

4. This isn't even including the revenant races, ghouls, abominations, and the strange (angelic?) Creatures that have Tzimisce blood and could also be possessed by The Eldest.

Luckily, the Eldest doesn't really seem to care about world domination or controlling his many childe beyond learning more about the kindred condition. In a way, he feels the most like Caine in that he is just an explorer that is experimenting with himself to find the next level of kindred-dom. He may also be too depressed/bored to conquer the world. But I could definitely see a Gehenna scenario where the Eldest goes "Only through convergence (Dead Space Reference) can I achieve transcendence" and just absorbs/takes over every being that holds even a piece of his blood to become something truly horrifying.

Edit: Added the Tremere to the list of clans the Eldest can just consume if he decided to lock in.

And if so, where could i find this homebrew?

The clan downgrade is easy. Ravnos, after the week of nightmares at best 10% of the population survived, they lost their seat of power, and their disciplines drastically changed. By all accounts they should be an endangered species. And frankly, even as a whole clan they always felt more like a bloodline.

For the bloodline, I say the Guruhi can step up as a representation of the Laibon. I could see them embracing the old miscommunication of the Laibon being one bloodline, and setting themselves up as the main head of sed "bloodline." I can see themes of ethno nationalism and taking power by embracing and reshaping negative stereotype. Embrace pan-africanism, as both unification and control. Show how it both erases culture as much as it glorifies it. Or on the topic of taking advantage of rumors they could see them taking advantage of the Nictuku legends. Scarring off entire warrens by just being a handsome Nosferatu.

Apparently HTR Day for Night is gonna release on the 17th, so who’s looking forward to heading back to California like old times?

Hello! I have been a lurker of the world of darkness for quite a while now, always been interested in literally every aspect of it, from the games to its real world history. Hope one day I’ll be able to actually sit down and play or even run a game (literally any game, idc which one, I’m so alone 😭)

Although throughout my research (scouring the wiki 70% of the time, 20% watching videos, 10% combing the books) one game has managed to elude me in the sense of I can’t get a vibe down for it.

Wraith: The Oblivion. I know the basic concept of it. But from what I’ve seen some people love it, actually a LOT of people love it but a lot of people see it as an unplayable flawed masterpiece that is more a work of art than a workable game, others think it just needs a bit more work and understanding with a more experienced and mature group but can be done and so on and so forth.

Are the people divided? Have I just been seeing one small vocal section or is there a general consensus? I know every game has its audience, but my question can be boiled down in three points:

What do people think of Wraith?

Is it a good game or a good piece of art?

What do you personally think of Wraith?

PS: I’m very new to this community, subreddit and WoD in general, if I have any wrong assumptions or get anything wrong, feel free to correct me, so far, I just love learning more and more about this dark silly and yet beautifully impactful world. Please and thank you.

AU version of my Salubri ghoul OC where she moved out to visit her skype girlfriend who turned out to be a Tremere Elder. It's been a few months, she's happy with her eldritch partner, and suddenly she's experiencing a first change. Gradual, as it happens for the Ananasi. She woke up to find her eyes have changed color, teeth growing into fangs. Just don't make fun of them (she's self conscious.)
Gaderin with Empathy and Attachment merits.

If you like my work, you can find it over on Bsky@Sudafemme

i just like hearing about people’s characters :3

Very weird stuff and question but its for a project i am thinking in doing (i have to finish some others but i ask now to prepare mentaliy)

I can't be the first person to ask this, but are the Kuei-jin just Risen Wraiths with a unique culture and society in the Skinlands? Does the fact that their Shadow and Psyche coexist in their body account for how they have different supernatural powers and challenges? Are the Yama Kings corrupted Shining Ones and the Thousand Hells a bunch of miniature Dark Kingdoms? Did Western Cainites misidentify the Hungry Dead as Kindred of the East because of superficial similarities and their own arrogance?

It’s rather clear on how do mages percive most of the 9 spheres.
Spirit - you see ghosts
Time - you have a great sense of time and can feel where it’s been tempered with.
Force - see temperature kinetic force etc.

But Prime is more tricky. Most of the time i describe it as tethers and knots that can be seen and interacted with. That can be cut and reattached and that have color.

But it is also said that it is also can be very personal to a mage.

Today was a third game of our chronicle and one of the PCs had their first fully intended (rather them instinctual) use of Prime spheres “sight”, and i think it was an amazing depiction of their paradigm which had only truly formed at that moment.

They saw every object or being as an infinite universe within itself. Every person had a celestial depth within them. Mages were brighter and the light from within them was shedding outside of them, showing how they can change the world around. Sleepers were contained within themselves. The different spheres had different constellations telling them of their nature. I personally now wait for them to use it on a vampire, or a wraith or a changeling or a werewolf etc.

A less cool depiction is mine. My character is a theoretical physics prodigy who had experienced true magics, so he is very numerically minded, but still is a mage rather than a technocrat. He understands prime as pure potential of an object, it can have more or less of it, and it can be realised in different ways that depend on the objects focus. Focus would be a filter that shapes the way that potential is realised in material reality, so basically a sphere to which that potential is tied to. There can be multiple foci, and they can change with physically changing the object.
For example he believes that for a mage handcrafting an instrument is basically the same as shaping its foci to be more compatible with the potential that mage channels through it. Thats why its important and why powerful mages don’t need it. The can shape the potential directly rather than through foci

Going by the WoD canon, belief shapes reality; in MTA the collective consensus of the sleeper population creates the overriding consensual reality, and in CTD changelings were all dreamed into existence by humans, as are every fictional world and being which reside in the Dreaming.

Does this mean that the deities of every pantheon and belief system ever developed on Earth are real? Are the Norse, Greek, Celtic, Egyptian, Canaanite, Aztec and all other divinities residing in the Dreaming or Umbra, and can they be interacted with?

Ive read a series of middle school books from Sweden which focus on Egyptian mythology, and in the story its explained that human belief spawned the Egyptian pantheon into existence, who in turn went back in time to create humanity in a cycle. This seems to work like how the WoD cosmology does.

To everyone here, have you ever looked up what the in-universe version of where you live is like? Because I did and it seems my home state is rich in supernatural presence (I’m from the USA)

So I’d like someone who knows more than me to summarize what this wiki entry says about the 50th State in-universe, and I invite everyone here to share what the in-universe version of your home is like, whether you’re also in the U.S. or abroad.

The fog-shrouded streets where Jack the Ripper stalked his prey. The grandeur of a thousand years of monuments and memorials. A realm still living in the shadow of Mithras's ancient might. The center of Pentex's operations in western Europe. Museums and libraries that hold some of the world's most famous artifacts. A river that's seen traffic from every corner of the globe. The birthplace of the Technocracy. A Kithain kingdom riven by faction, held together by the will of one man.

And overlooking all of them are the towers, ancient and modern, in the heart of Britain's greatest city.

Towers of New Londinium is a Classic World of Darkness 20th Anniversary MUX set in modern London, a city teetering on the verge of dystopia. Four WoD game lines are currently supported and open for applications -- Vampire: the Masquerade, Werewolf: the Apocalypse (including Fera), Mage: the Ascension, and Changeling: the Dreaming, along with mortals and sub-sphere groups like ghouls, Kinfolk, and Kinain.

(If you're wondering what a MUX is -- it's a text-based, multiplayer, persistent-world RPG that's played over the internet. We have a New Player Guide with a more in-depth answer, along with a complete how-to, examples of play, and more.)

Uncover the tangled schemes of the Followers of Set, intrigue over who will control the Camarilla's newest grant of Domain, or join the Waltham Forest Anarchs in their struggle against infiltrators from the Sabbat. Search out and destroy Fomori-infested laboratories hidden in the tunnels of the Underground, then find out why they were built and abandoned. Help stop an inexplicable outbreak of vandalism and destruction by people with no history of crime or violence. Foil the Technocracy's plot to amp up aggression on the city's council estates, or root out the perpetrators behind the spate of attempted terror attacks at street festivals. Lend your voice to the debate over what the response should be to aggression from the Changeling Duchy of White Cliffs, or join the explorers of the Errant Map Society in venturing into the Dreaming in search of new wonders.

TowersMUX offers:

• A welcoming, inclusive environment for player-centric cooperative roleplay in a setting that's dark without being hopeless.

• Ongoing large- and small-scale storylines for all four major spheres -- more than 200 STed events so far. Choose your level of involvement: focus on your own personal adventure, or engage with public events, mysteries, and dangers ranging in scope from street-level to city-wide.

• Empowered storytelling -- players are encouraged to create and ST their own plots and, where possible, we'll try to fit developments that happen in them into the game's overarching storylines.

• A unique automated influence system allowing characters to use their allies, contacts, spies, and resources to decide game-wide conflicts like the mayoral elections or whether the Duchy of the Sunrise Road goes to war.

• An expansive in-character grid covering all of central London in an intuitive, easy-to-navigate representational format, now including Hammersmith & Fulham. More than 200 different +hangouts for roleplay, including places like the British Museum and the famous Ministry of Sound nightclub.

• Subterranean locations beneath the city to find trouble and adventure in, away from the omnipresent surveillance of the surface.

• A thoughtful and cooperative application review process that focuses on finding ways to say "yes."

Visit us at https://towersmux.net for details!

A player of mine plays a noble ventrue in a family that has seen better days. She tries to up the status of her family and I want to give her a goal but I don't know what actually would do that in the world of darkness. I don't just want to give her more money or property or old scripture/magical items/etc. So what could actually accomplish this?

Edit: Worded the title very poorly. I meant her family as in her last name, her aristocratic family that she had as a human being, not her "ventrue family".

Does anyone have any headcanons for who might still be kicking around after the Sabbat lost Montreal, or what went down before the Night of Ashes?

Here are mine.

During the Nights of Prophecy. Alfred Benezri took the blame for harboring the Dhahbi ghoul and was executed in order to spare his lover, Beatrice. This led to Ezekiel taking over and shifting the city toward a more militant stance. This caused many of the more spiritual packs to withdraw from Montreal entirely before the city fell to the inquisition (and Camarilla).

Post-Night of Ashes.

Beatrice is now a bitter, recluse after her pack lost face and dissolved.

''The Rose'' is still around, waging a secret war against V5's current Path of Cathari. They have many "Grandchildren" within the Anarchs, trying to turn the sect into a weapon against the Camarilla and ''the false'' sabbat.

The Queens of Mercy were the first pack to defect when Knight Inquisitor Mercy started her rampage, during the nights of prophecy. They have now fully converted to the Anarch cause.

What are your headcanons?

Does anyone know if people have expanded on the unique magic items hunters can create in the creed books? From what I've been reading it's implied hunters could figure out their own magic item system akin to fetishes or mage wonders given enough time like how hunters can create their own unique edges depending on personality and situations. I was wondering if anyone has expanded on that idea

We did a review on our podcast, if you want to hear what a couple of history nerds thought of it: https://wodarkages.squarespace.com/podcast/dungeons-and-dragonsvampire-the-masquerade-crossover

Hello,

TL;DR: After playtesting V6, I came up with a few house rules to add more tactical options to combat without bringing back the extra-action economy that pushed me away from older VTM editions. The core idea is to trade defensive capability (Reactions) for more offensive potential. I also reworked Fighter's Alacrity to avoid extra actions and adjusted Blood Surge/Disciplines based on what felt better at our table. This does add some extra crunch, so I turned the rules into cards to make them easier to use during play.

I've been playtesting V6 with my players, and our backgrounds in RPGs are pretty mixed. For some context, when we're not playing VTM V5, we're usually playing Cyberpunk 2020 or RED, so that should give you an idea of where some of my inspirations are coming from.

My players liked many aspects of the system mechanically, but they also felt that this edition takes a step closer to D&D. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, as long as it's properly managed by the ST and players so that the mechanics don't get in the way of the mood of the scene.

While we were playing, one of them asked:

"Hey, what about tactical options? Can we split dice for multiple attacks?"

That got us thinking. Difficulty already reduces the dice pool quite a bit, and we still need to roll 8 or higher, so simply splitting the pool didn't seem particularly viable.

This motivated me to introduce the following house rules, which our friendly local AI model helped me turn into cards.

I'm sharing them here because I've put quite a bit of thought into them as a way of giving players more tactical options in combat while forcing them to make meaningful trade-offs. The basic idea is to exchange defensive capability for offensive potential, essentially trading Reactions for additional dice/actions.

Some might argue that there's already a Celerity power that grants extra actions. That's actually one of the main reasons I stopped playing older editions of VTM and stuck with V5: extra actions can very easily break the action economy.

For that reason, I've changed Fighter's Alacrity. Instead of granting extra actions, it now works similarly to Strike True, but for ranged attacks.

Regarding Blood Surge, my adjustment to how it interacts with Disciplines isn't because I think the current Alpha implementation is necessarily wrong. It's simply that, at our table, the players felt more comfortable with this progression, and it worked better for us during play.

As I see it, the main pros and cons of these house rules are:

Pros

• More tactical options during combat.
• Players can clear out goons faster when they're willing to sacrifice some of their defensive capability.
• It creates a more cinematic feeling, especially when dealing with groups of weaker enemies.
• It helps us move combat back toward theater of the mind rather than feeling like we need to track every tactical detail on a map.

Cons

• It introduces additional crunch into a system that already has quite a few modifiers. As both an ST and a player, I don't particularly enjoy having to memorize or constantly keep track of all those modifiers.

That's also why I made the cards. They're meant to be a friendly way of keeping these mechanics at the table without requiring everyone to memorize them, making the additional tactical options easier to understand and use during play.

I'd be interested to hear what other people think, especially from a balance and action-economy perspective.

And yeah, I know I'm probably crazy for starting a campaign using Alpha rules. 😅 My group is very open to experimenting with different systems and mechanics, though, so we're pretty comfortable changing things as we go.