There is a special joy in running a vampire one-shot after having played only dnd adjacent games for 4 years, with people new to vampire, and afterwards talk about how they would love to again in the future
Especially since this one-shot was a "test" of some houserules and trying to GM/ST in a different way, in preperation for the Vampire chronicle i'll be starting later this week.
Click the 'keep reading' if you want to read my rant about the oneshot
The game was set in Los Angeles, vaguely during the Bloodlines game, and the story was a mix of the 'Southland Slasher' questline from the video game, and the v5 "monster(s)" quickstart story.
Honestly it went incredible smooth, they coterie was very confrontation shy, so i might have oversold the "combat is dangerous", which I went hard on cuz they were mostly familiar with DnD. But it was all very good and it felt great.
Biggest worry was that it might be too railroady, but when asked they said it felt very sandboxy for a one-shot, even if the story was a bit linear.
