BLOOD & TEARS, my vampire ttrpg is out now. It's for 1-6 players and is based on the Blades in the Dark rules.
You can define your rules of vampires. Are they weak to flowing water or thresholds or garlic? Can you kill them with radiation? Do they have the power the read minds, or turn into animals? You decide!
Each vampire is defined through their playbook and memories. Figure out how and when you turned, and change your memories as you play to define your vampire, their backstory, and their shifting relationships with other immortals.
If vampires are real then what else is true? Tackle magic by basing it on actual myths and stories about the occult. Are star signs the secret language of the universe? Is remote viewing real? If so, what do they cost you when you try to manipulate them? A grounded approach to magic creates more drama and raises the stakes of the stories you tell.
As you play you will get the attention of one or more factions. Will you bow to The Dominion and their new Undying Empress? Will you evade the sleuths and amateur investigators of The Hunters? Will you play nice with The Others and The Occult? Will your dark secret be discovered by The Grey Zone?
The playbooks of Blood & Tears are based on the classic 4 bodily humours. The Choleric Vampire is mean and aggressive at their worst, charming and a natural leader at their best. The Melancholic vampire is at times introspective and erudite, but often too wrapped up in their memories and regrets. The Sanguine vampire is affable and extroverted, surrounding themselves in beauty and perhaps too many mortals. The Phlegmatic Vampire obsesses over mysteries and the arcane, and is likely to spiral into obsession.
And finally the neophyte as no humour, but has only just joined the ranks of the unliving, and brings all new challenges and questions to established vampire customs.
Do you want to live forever?
Check out Blood & Tears on itch (where it is currently on sale)
Or buy it through DriveThruRPG.
