#v5

[prophcassandra]

You know, I think that new World of Darkness fans and even longtime fans who aren't super familiar with White Wolf's publishing history miss an important aspect of the WoD. Like, if you only got into the game with V5 or W5, it's easy to miss that White Wolf has this bizarre, adversarial relationship with its own fan base So many decisions that people complain about in the WoD come from the fact that White Wolf writers and editors will see a certain section of the player base and go "Oh, they're playing the game like this? That's unacceptable, they're playing the game wrong, they need to play it like this instead." And then they make weird changes to the rules or lore which are designed to mechanically force players away from playing a certain way. Details like the Tremere Antitribu being all killed off or the Stargazers leaving the Garou Nation were justified in-story, but the reason they happened in the first place was at least partially due to staff at White Wolf being annoyed that a lot of min-maxxers used those Clans/Tribes to make overpowered characters. Rather than just nerfing them, the writers got angry and decided to try and remove them from the game out of spite. Like if you're a V5 player who just got into the game in that edition, you might not even understand that the primary reason that kindred of 8th and 9th generation were all said to have been forcibly removed to the setting to go answer the Beckoning was at least partially because certain writers at White Wolf were extremely peeved that most players in previous editions played at 8th or 9th generation since it was very easy to dump most of your Background dots in Generation during character creation, and it made certain writers angry because kindred of those generations were narratively supposed to be rare. Players who put most of their dots in Generation just because it objectively made their character stronger were playing the game "wrong." Thus kindred of those generations had to be removed. Out of spite. There are a lot of changes across all the main game lines that White Wolf has done out of spite like that. V5 gets more hate than it honestly deserves in large part because a lot of the decisions it's easy to perceive as these kind of "spite changes" that White Wolf loves to make.

[prsk2dmv-transparents]

Happy Birthday!! 2026 ~ Momoi Airi

@sekaitransparents

[daily-olruggio]

KNOW THAT ALL MANNER OF LIGHT AND HEAT FALL WITHIN THE DOMAIN OF FIRE MAGIC!!!!!

[frostwarden0013]

For fun, I've recently started drawing city maps meant for like, world of darkness city settings

Here's the 1st one I've drawn, intentionally left without any game specific labels so that people can fill it in and customize it into whichever game they are using

New Orleans, Louisiana

(Population statistics circa 2025)

[tamapalace]

what are your thoughts on the V5 Familitchi?

[sangvinivs]

writing VtM chronicles is very easy actually, beautiful women come to me in visions and tell me how to torment my players

[badass-at-fandoming]

Beckett's Loresheet from Vampire: the Masquerade - Gehenna War sourcebook, page 157

EDIT: Transcription below the cut

Beckett

According to Kindred cultures that acknowledge the generation model, the fourth generation of vampires was a kind of Cambrian explosion, increasing and solidifying emerging vampiric strains in the previous generation. Sometimes nicknamed methuselah due to their age, most of the known Kindred of such low Generation have been Beckoned or choose to serve in the Gehenna War, but some lie dormant in domains outside its battlefields.

One of the greatest seekers of Kindred lore, most knowledgeable about the resting places and graves of the ancient dead, is the Gangrel Cuthbert Beckett. Where some Kindred scholars are content to theorize from the comfort of their libraries, Beckett has always gone out to look for himself.

As the Gehenna War intensifies, there’s a sudden demand for those with the specialized knowledge to know what the Kindred of various domains are really facing. Beckett is not the only Kindred archaeologist who has suddenly started to receive invitations to the courts of mighty vampire Princes.

One Dot – Bloody Ancestry: You trail a methuselah by tracking their descendants. You own and maintain notes on vampiric ancestry concerning vampires in your region in a physical or digital form. You receive +2 dice bonus to all Occult tests when investigating the ancestry of any vampire.

Two Dots – Dream Interpreter: Sometimes, methuselashs and even older vampires communicate to their progeny through the daysleep. Once per story, when a character or Storyteller tells you a dream, you may make an Intelligence + Occult test at Difficulty 2. On a win, you receive a number of actionable facts from your Storyteller equivalent to one plus the margin of win.

Three Dots – Perks of Youth: From you contact with Beckett, you’ve learned that those with knowledge are targets for manipulation by older Kindred. You’ve developed hardiness to such supernatural manipulations. Once per session, when a vampire of a higher Blood Potency uses a supernatural coercive power on you, you have receive [sic] a two-dice bonus to resist it.

Four Dots – Ancestor Cult’s Favor: You’ve entered the good graces of a cult worshipping a methuselah. Assign six dots in any way you like to the following Backgrounds to represent what they provide you: Influence, Haven, Herd, Resources, Retainers, or Status. You keep these benefits as long as you obey at least one of their requests per story.

Five Dots – Face to Face: If you seek out the Ancients, you risk finding them. Once per story, if facing a methuselah or an elder, you can make an Intelligence + Occult test at a Difficulty of 4. If you succeed, you manage to recollect a detail or an angle that prompts the vampire to answer a single question about their own past or the Kindred of bygone eras truthfully, at least from their own perspective, as long as it doesn’t significantly jeopardize them or their plans.