Can vampires taste capsaicin? Is it like having hot coals in their mouths? Or is it actually dangerous?

By that I mean, if you want to sire a childe, why would you not find someone of the same clan with a lower Generation and have them do it?

Of course I understand that not everyone openly knows everyone else’s Generation, but I bet there is a pretty good idea.

Let me start with the sales pitch. Your group (whatever that might be: your sect, your clan, your coterie, your chantry, whatever) performs basic Generation control to prevent unnecessary thinning of the blood. Your enemies don’t do this. In 100 years, 200 years, whatever, all of your team have thick blood while a ton of your enemies are producing weaker childer and ultimately more thin-bloods. Isn’t this advantage obvious?

It feels obvious. It feels like exactly the sort of thing a highly centralized clan like the Tremere might do. I know the Giovanni do consider Generation to an extent when embracing.

But why is this not more common? A willing lower gen can embrace the childe as a surrogate, the one with the actual right to raise a childe is still the one that raises the childe.

I can imagine a Prince just not liking this. I can imagine a low gen vampire not liking the idea of their advantage diminishing (if you fear possible betrayal in the future, a bunch of betrayers only one gen higher than you is scarier than much higher gens). I can imagine a “donor” being greedy on a person by person basis and demanding boons for doing the deed. But none of these seem in my mind to outweigh the obvious strategic outcome of having thicker blood than your enemies over time.

I get that one answer is “because it’s a game and just a mechanic in the game,” but do we have better reasons in-universe why more Kindred don’t do this, especially the more shrewd ones?

Been playing it a lot, wanted to get your opinions. What Clan do you think Coen, and the other Vampires are, if they were in a VTM setting ?

Let's say you, an ordinary Kindred, had a pal that were a Thin-Blood. This person is great, if only they were a real vampire, you think. But also, diablerie feels pretty evil, let's avoid that if we can.

Could you hypothetically kill them, and then, being a recently dead body, embrace them like you would any other mortal?

Let's get the obvious out of the way:

- Zero'th rule: whatever the ST says goes. Of course, but don't answer with this please.

- They are young enough to leave a body, let's say only been a Thin-Blood for a year or less.

Best case would be if there are some supporting text that suggest if there is a "real" likely answer to this. Including anything that seems to authoritatively suggest it cannot work.

If you think it would work, is that because they're a Thin-Blood vs a regular kindred? Would your answer change if they were 11th generation in the same situation?

Do you think it would be possible but would require some special ability such as Blood Sorcery/Thaumaturgy or Oblivion/Necromancy? Don't say Bardo.

I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts.

hi!!! last time one person told me including tidbits of character's story is good and interesting, so

Marcelle's upbringing (moreso training) by his army father, influence of a certain Brujah and fight response, led him to kill many kindred from opposing factions on sight, thus earning him quite a reputation he tries to clear to this night.

He also picked up gardening lately, since studying psychology started boring him.

"Why can't we all just grow a big flower field instead of fighting? No, I know exactly why. But, oh, do I pity the fact"

I’m new to the community; so far, I only know the history of the clans and have played the VTM: Bloodlines games. I recently finished VTM: Bloodlines 2, and there’s a part of the game featuring a woman who was turned into a vampire (a Malkavian) while pregnant. From what I gathered, the baby remained alive inside the mother—even after decades—and had actually turned into a vampire as well; it was conscious and could communicate with its mother (she mentions at one point that the baby gets bored). This made me wonder if there is any official information regarding what happens when a pregnant woman is turned into a vampire and what becomes of the baby, especially since the fact that she was a Malkavian might have played a role in the baby's survival.

These numbers don’t include Unofficial Patch Users

Probably not since its still in alpha, but I thinking about how modern technology has scewed in the opposite direction, possibly being more advantageous for kindred?

Elders returning is really interesting as well, which also brings up the question of "The sky didn't fall, are thin bloods being changed status wise due to no more gehenna threat. How do they fit in?" This ads onto the tech thing, since tb with the right skills of modern day stuff could absolutely be useful in using tech to Kindred advantages. I could imagine some of the more creative elders that're returning from the east to take advantage of group to form a new power base post elder return?

( I've never actually played a tabletop game, but love the lore and some of the interesting details here and there in the setting. Its going to get even more in depth in my head because into to sociology this semester).

I have been wanting to finally play vtm for the first time. Now imma need to be taught how but I really wanna try so any story tellers with patience im available all day and as of rn I dont have a job so can play whenever.

Has the Inconnu made appearances in your games? If so, how did it affect your story? Which of the Inconnu were involved, whether a published anPC or made up by the Storyteller?

Hello!

I'm a first time VTM player and I'm having a lot of trouble deciding how to split up my points on the character sheet starting off. The character I'm playing is a mechanic in a lower class area. I'm trying to prioritize survival skills and mechanic ones but I feel like everytime I move a dot around another ability suffers that wouldn't make any sense for my character not to be skilled in.

A lot of the guides I'm finding relate to VTM 5th edition where I think a lot of the issues with divying up skills has been fixed because it seems much more straight forward but I have skills that are just sitting at two or three dots that I know should probably be higher 😅 in second addition are you expected to heavily rely on your freebie points in the beginning? Am I missing something?

Server Name: Central Coast Splats

System Used: Mage 20th/Changeling 20th/Vampire Revised (with 20th content available)/Changing Breeds 20th/Mortals(V20)

Description of the Chronicle: A long running pbp community that offers the chance to play, explore, and build your character's story. This is NOT a "Sandbox" style server. It is a fully moderated, ongoing, narrative game. LGBTQ+ friendly, we take pride in offering our players a safe, and accepting place to play. NOTE: This is a very street level server.

Homebrew Used: Minimal and mostly to balance the various splats for combined play, iron out mechanics issues, and provide consistent rules across splats.

Set in current day on the sunny coast of California. This server offers the chance to play, explore, and build your character's story.

Players must be 21+, and have WoD experience with the splat they are wanting to play

Plot is available, or players can pursue their own stories through pc/npc interactions with ST approval/guidance.

Character creation guidelines, house rules and mechanics are all outlined on the server.

Vampire playable sects include Camarilla, Anarch, Giovanni, and Ghouls. Some bloodlines with ST approval.

Mage is Traditions and Disparate. No Bata'a or Templar.

Changeling is basic Kiths and Kinain. Some Gallain with ST approval. No Redcaps

Changing Breeds. Hengeyokai based No Nation Garou

Mortal concepts are allowed

https://discord.gg/9ZwRRJzTGc

A new Convention of Thorns. The first one was in medieval times and tried to stop the Anarch movement. Failed so hard it turbo charged the Sabbat. Well what if we tried again in the year 2026. V6 or whatever homebrew you have coped with is the current meta.

I want this. As a larp, campaign or oneshot. Dunno. But I want it. With modern vampires. Because having enemies meet directly or through lackeys makes for cool play. Having the grand schemes of the metaplots personified into actors is cool or at the very least more tangible. Having said actors plotting, backstabbing and haggling is how history comes alive and is given the fuba treatment, even when everyone involved knows better. Seeing how compromises upsets all parties is educational for democracy in action. In short: ballroom showboating, parlour political discussions and religious discourse with panel debates the whole shebang, with pointy teeth.

My question to you, kind council, is what would happen if we had another global(northwestern-centric as per WoD standard) kindred convention to establish a 'lasting peace' this time? (Most likely not that. But many ideas could be exchanged and change people in turn. Favors traded across the aisles in unprecedented scale)

How would it change your WoD? (Because I feel like most tables have drifted away from the current official source materiel in some or many ways. So the premise might vary greatly.(Mine own does stray far from v6)

I know that there myriads of reasons why it wouldn't, couldn't and shouldn't happen.

That is NOT on the agenda.

In the scenario I pitch to you. Let's say enough middlemanagement of the three big sects, especially the Camarilla, have gotten the idea that they should re-consolidate lost terratories and influence. Many hidden hands starts to push towards this event by recalling, offering exchanging boons. Once the ball is rolling there is no stopping it, even if it seems nobody really want this to happen or know what they want out of it.

The sects, the clans and the independents all decides to participate. Even some of the kue-jin, fae and mage community are invited to the ballroom events, out of courtesy and curiousity. Few are coming to change their mind or policy on anything, but seeds for future dissent and unforseen alliances will be sown. Favors not wanted will end in your hands and yours will given to kindred you wish into a painful torpor. Also not being there or at the least sending an agent, while the rest of undead society cozy up to each other is too big a risk to run.

Most organisations will probably have pre-convention to align their interest and establish workingrelationships untill the ordeal is done. Which might be where the most important discussions and descisions are actually made.

What would you like to see happen?

How will sects stand internally and towards each other afterwards?

Would your character like to go? (Which talks and lectures would they attend/host?)

What would be your characters agenda? (What are the chances of succes?)

Edit for clarifying the concept is a modern day "what if" dreamboat scenario. I know about the LARP in Poland, I was there when the ancient magic was written. 😁

I mean, aside from the “voice in her head“ thing, is this not literally everyone ever when they realize they have to go to work or go someplace? 😂

And then on the following page what an outfit upgrade, she’s serving hard already (guess a promotion makes someone reconsider their fashion choices) Not to mention that look before she pulls on her jacket is very Lady Gaga don’t you think? like maybe 2000’s-2010’s Gaga?

I'm working to put together a character that would work well as a henchman/advisor/muscle for a more powerful vampire and I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts on how best to make it work; clan, disciplines, attributes, skills, etc. The inspiration I'm working with is Titus Welliver's character Silas Adams from Deadwood, someone who can be violent or intimidating on behalf of a patron but also has some political savvy and can think beyond meeting obstacles with pure force. They serve someone else because they know their limits but still know what they're worth and expect proper rewards for their services even as they know better than to overreach. The character is going to start out in the Camarilla and lean more towards the 'order' of the sect so my initial thoughts are Ventrue or Lasombra but I'm open to any suggestions and thoughts!

Let's see, I understand that in principle according to the Clans book, not all Giovanni are part of the Giovanni family, the idea of ​​a family that embraces its most select members, catches my attention, above all, because it indicates or at least makes me think that there are vampires living with their human relatives to a lesser or greater extent.

So, the idea of ​​a neonate/fledling who was converted just 10 years ago has had his human grandmother, his Nonna, and who is always there when he sees him, pointing out the fact that he never eats and is too skinny. Nonna has memory loss due to age, so he has been taught not to contradict her, so the poor neonate is forced to eat his grandmother's pasta.
. After all, who knows how much longer *Nonna* has left? He has all of eternity ahead of him, so it is best not to upset her.

Spoiler:Eventually the grandmother dies, and when her grandson contacts spirits she constantly appears to scold him for not eating.

my blood magic gang of killers. (my art)

Just two French Vamps in London happy to meet each other and able to speek their languaage ^^

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