Really trying to figure out how i can fit vampires into my next DnD campaign cause i really want to utilize the lore that I thought of that ties into the phases of the moon. Like I think its such an interesting idea that because vampires are weak to the sun, they would be weaker on nights with fuller moons because of the moonlight being reflected from the sun. Idk how im gonna fit it in but that idea has been in my brain for so long and I wanna use it somehow. Maybe like a city with a fluctuating curfew depending on the Phase of the moon to protect from vampire attacks
I'm toying with one modification and a few original Predator types for VtM5e, having noticed a few holes. Additionally, expanding the known Predators from 17 types to 22 types means I can align them with the Major Arcana of the Tarot, meaning a player short on inspiration can do random draws until they find a suitable Predator for their character.
I'd love some feedback.
Modified: Blood Leech
The name is kept but now applies to young kindred still lapping at their sire's wrist. The published version now has more in common with my Methuselah type further below.
Specialty: Insight (hunger) OR Medicine (exsanguination)
Discipline: Animalism OR Protean
Advantage: Ingenue
Flaw: Prey Exclusion (mortals)
Gain 1 Humanity
Special: the character will eventually have to switch Predator types without change to their starting Specialty or bonus Discipline. When converting, lose both Ingenue and the Prey Exclusion. Humanity is unchanged unless the new Predator type drops you a level.
Methuselah
Preys on their fellow kindred.
Specialty: Stealth (kindred) OR Etiquette (false security)
Discipline: Celerity OR Blood Sorcery
Additionally, when choosing clan Disciplines, set one to 2 and BOTH remaining Disciplines to 1
Lose 1 Humanity
Abraham
Feeds during ritualistic sacrifice.
Specialty: Craft (restraints) OR Occult (sacrifice)
Discipline: Presence OR Blood Sorcery
Merit: gain 3 dots to spend on Retainers
Gain either set:
Eat Food AND Organovore
OR Luck of the Devil AND 3 dots of Mythic Flaws
Lose 1 Humanity
Bender
Denies their hunger and feeds when the Beast breaks free.
Specialty: Occult (meditation) OR Brawl (take downs)
Discipline: Celerity OR Potence
Flaw: Obvious Predator
Flaw: Weak Willed OR Risk Taker
Gain 1 Humanity, not that you'll keep it.
Special: the character will eventually have to switch Predator types without change to their starting Specialty or bonus Discipline. When converting, lose your Flaws from this type (unless the new type also bestows Obvious Predator). Humanity is unchanged unless the new Predator type drops you a level.
Rake
Takes blood by force or submission.
Specialty: Intimidation (compliance) OR Investigation (blackmail)
Discipline: Celerity OR Presence
Advantages: distribute 3 dots between Contacts, Influence, and Resources
Lose 1 Humanity
Vigilante
Prey upon the deserving.
Specialty: Stealth (shadowing) OR Investigation (doxing)
Discipline: Obfuscate OR Oblivion
Flaw: Despised
Gain 1 Humanity
A Runaway Maverick
(technically) Day 1 of Drawtober
This is my Ravnos lad back as a ghoul!
Back before he went by Beau, on the right is his ex/sire Theo.
lore under the cut :]
Maverick, Ricky, whatever you may want to call him ran away from home in the spring of his senior year of high school, having met Theodore after a college tour, and being absolutely *smitten*!
He then spent several years with his new lover, performing, traveling around the west of the US and acting as a bloodbag absolutely living his best life!
Eventually he was embraced in a panic when he was drained by accident. Soon after, Theo left, taking much of their earnings and their van.
I love both the idea of him ending up a thinblood and the option of him being a full Ravnos kindred so both versions exist in my brain? (this is all written with the 5th edition rules in mind)
If full Ravnos, he would spend his days as a traveling musician, settling into feeding off his audience (albeit with several mistakes when he was new,, and abandoned by his sire). In this version, he hopes to try to reconnect with Theo, uncertain what he did wrong, angry but optimistic in a way (when hes not writing sad country break up songs). He understands in a way why Theo did what he did, he would have panicked too in that situation! Maybe it was okay! They can talk it out!
He wishes to make back up with his mother now that he is more successful, but is unsure how to explain his awful teen behavior to her (running away, asking her for money and promising to come home,, then disappearing again), never mind his current situation (being a vampire). In this he would go by Beau, cursed with the secondary clan bane, and well known enough by his lover's old nickname for him to adopt it as a stage-name.
For the version of him that's a thinblood, I think hes far more vengeful. He wants to go back to his family, but is still cursed with the clan bane, feels useless to his sire as his blood is no longer desirable, and he is ANGRY. He feels lost and abandoned and had to beg his mother for money. He quickly realizes he could not return to his old life, he can't go back home, not if he wants to actually *live*. I think he would want Theo dead, he's conflicted but he's no longer bloodbound, and would not have nearly as many benefits of kindred life as a fullblooded vampire, he's not interested. He wants his life back.
Oh wow...we had just about given up on this and here it is: Vampire: the Masquerade, 5th Edition. Dagnabit! I had just received Dragon Age RPG last week and was working on starting a campaign. Now I have to decide...what the hell am I gonna do? These decisions are too much for anyone. Too much.
After being absent for a while - and thanks to Twitter's blunders - I'm back on Tumblr, where I plan to use it as another window to showcase my work... Starting with a commission of a character from the RPG Vampire 5e. A Ventrue named Iago Estirge.
Also, just a heads-up that I have open slots for commissions! Just send me a DM.
Is there any vampire lore that ties specifically into the phases of the moon? Like I imagine vampire attacks would get more frequent when the moon wanes, because logically, wouldn't it make sense for vampires to be more powerful as less and less sunlight is reflecting off of the moon? Then once a month on a new moon they reach a peak of strength. Maybe something like new vampires can only be born on new moons because the potency of the curse is at its strongest with the lack of moonlight
