#vtm v20

[squiretinnion]

Tarot cards, weapon of choice, for some major players~

I'm not posting all these individually, but I also have so many more I want to do! I'm on a portrait kick right now though... I may come back to it...

Thana has a custom Toreador symbol because tbh I don't like the rose, and she deserves it. Also, that's a ghoul symbol I did with the chain!

Bonus Caine :P

[bburn-art]

ivor post based on all the stuff from r/kitchencels ive seen floating around

[monetmightexist]

i was explaining certain vtm mechanics to my mom so that i could tell her about my campaign and when i got to true faith she rolled her eyes, but then i told her "your faith can be in anything! you just have to believe in it hard enough" and she goes

"Flat Earth."

a whole new world has opened up to me. i can give conspiracy theorists true faith. made up of nothing but delusion. this is the funniest fucking thing ever

[lu0niiel]

digitally coloured sketch of one of my medieval ghouls! kestrel is a lovely boy who has never done any wrong

[prophcassandra]

White Wolf seemed continually shocked that, no matter how many times times they wrote “vampires have no sex drive” or “the vampire sex drive is re-wired to center on feeding as a replacement for sex” across the first two editions of VtM, most players or writers just ignored them because the amount of players that want vampire smut is pretty much always going to be higher than those that want to subvert expectations around sex and intimacy with vampires.

So then in Revised they changed approach from saying “vampires have no sex drive” to “well if you have sex as a vampire it’s actually really icky.” They added details like vampires having all their bodily fluids replaced by blood and were not shy about saying "yes that means you cum blood and all sex is period sex." They were trying to gross out the fandom and make people stop playing horny vampires, but were again, shocked when players either ignored this, or were into it. Then when they finally acted like they had acquiesced to fans and made an honest to gods VtM smut novel it was filled with incest, necrophilia, and more SA than a late-stage L. Ron Hubbard book.

Yet they still were baffled by the amount of vampire smut being produced, realizing that, if anything, they had only encouraged the player base. Then when V20 came out they were line "fine, fuck you, vampires can have sex now and it's normal, the Blush makes all your bodily fluids normal and stuff, you win." Dark Ages V20 even leaned into this and is I think the only VtM gameline that took what I would describe as a "normal" attitude towards romance, sex, and intimacy within a TTRPG. For a moment, I thought maybe they'd finally gotten over themselves. Aaaaaand then V5 came out and we got Bloodstained Love and had to experience the lovely drama around the "Here's how much Humanity you need to fuck" rules and the "Bleed is always good and you should always strive for it" lines they put in. So like, any thoughts on V6? What weird drama is VtM going to get into around portrayals of sex and romance at the table? I wonder what strange and unique controversy they'll give us this time

[piracypiranha]

vampire the masquerade voice:

“A vampire’s bite is not a metaphor for sex. Vampires have sex. They have GREAT sex.”

like ok thank you White Wolf I get it you guys need to let Anne Rice know, personally, that your vampires fuck. not symbolically. not tragically. not tastefully offscreen. they hit it raw.

[ghoulapp]

We added every Bloodline to our VTM character creator/chronicle manager!

GhoulApp - VTM Character Creator (V5 & V20)

The Ultimate Vampire: The Masquerade companion. Create V5 & V20 characters, explore the VTM wiki, roll dice, take the clan quiz, and enhance

We know you've been waiting to play THAT specific, long-forgotten Bloodline. So we went through every single one we could find, from Azanali to Ramanga and implemented them with all their rules and quirks intact. Whether you want to play one or drop them into your chronicle as NPCs they're ready.

We also added the remaining clan-specific disciplines that were missing, so you can use them freely with your Kindred. (Still capped at 5 dots for now, but that's changing soon.)

If we missed a Bloodline or got something wrong, join our Discord and let us know, we'll fix it ASAP.

And with this out the door, we're turning our attention to something you've been asking about for a long time:

The Dark Ages.

[vss-vinesse]

The thing I enjoy most about wod is how character-driven the stories are. To me the abilities that you get are a consequence of the story, and stories where players conflate those powers for the story in an attempt to mimic action-movies really do bore me. Especially vtm.

I can't stress enough how it's not about the disciplines or the clan you chose, it is about your character and their journey of discovering the dark unknown and trying to survive, grow confident and enact their own vision upon the world.

Combat has it's place, but it is a quick slope to final death if you play with the guidelines of the older books in mind.

That said play it however you want to, I just feel like so many players miss the forest for the trees.

meow