Interest Check: Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition

Hi All. I am tossing around the idea of running a Vampire 5th edition chronicle. The idea is still in its infancy and may not happen for a little bit, but I wanted to see if anyone would be interested in jumping on board.

I definitely would be interested

I haven't had the chance to play 5th ed, so I'd be interested for sure.

I'm new here and at playing PbP in general, but I wanted to try VtM for a while now, if you don't mind having a newbie onboard. :D

I could probably play in such a game. Would be interested in hearing anything you'd care to elaborate on regarding the campaign premise.

I was in a VtM game that has died. I'd love to bring him in and play.

I could be interested in playing in a 5th edition game

I see you put up your game, here is the link

I am still working on it, but I wanted to get it up for when I am ready.

Hudson City

Here is the game link again. I am still in the design stage. It is a fictional city with roughly a million people in residence. Feel free to apply to the game and I will approve you. I will also put a link to the Discord channel I created for it so we can do a bit of session zero once I have the city more fleshed out. I would like to know what kind of game y'all are looking for so it is more of a "living" game vs. me throwing a bunch of lore at you and you reacting to it. My hope is that eventually this will become a sort of West Marches-ish type game where there will be multiple coteries working in the same city. That is why the number of players is so high. I participated in an online game like that over hangouts a few years ago and it was a blast. I want to see if it will work in PbP.

Here is the link to the Discord server:

Hudson City Discord

Ah, I wanted to join but I really don't want to use Discord. I guess I'll pass for now then.
But good luck with the game! The premise sounds very interesting. :D

The game will be played here. The only thing I wanted to use Discord for was the dice app as GP does not have V5 dice and to brainstorm about the game.

What we do in our V5 game is just roll the d10s as normal, and indicate which are Hunger (i.e., the last 3, say), or roll Hunger dice separately. It doesn't total it for you, but you can see the results.

Sorry but I am in the same boat, im not particularly fond of the Discord app for role-play usually.

hi i would like to play but i'm a newbie do you mind that ?

You can just use d10, only decide in advance which values are successes, failures and crits and roll hunger separately, as Qralloq proposed? If you'll allow this, I'd like to join! ^...^ (I won't be very active at brainstorming anyway, since my online is very... episodic. Hard to stay for a long time to have a constant exchange.)

I am good with doing dice rolls like that if it is going to prove to be more inclusive. Flying Succulent, feel free to participate as much or as little as you are able. Steef, apply to the game if you have not done so already and I will approve you.

So, I had an idea that I wanted to run by y'all. I was thinking of running an extended prologue sort of Chronicles of Darkness style where everyone starts out as human and slowly gets drawn into what is really going on until finally the Embrace happens and we go from there. My reasoning is to give y'all a chance to live in your characters' skins for awhile before their lives get turned upside down. I think it will make for a deeper roleplaying experience rather than just doing a quick synopsis of the human life, Embrace, and then jumping right into life as a vampire. If the game grows as I hope it will, I would like to keep this practice in place with new players coming in as humans and being Embraced by one of the veteran characters.

If that does not appeal to you, I am fine with scrapping the idea. I just thought it might be cool. Let me know what you think.

I like this sort of start for vampire. Depending on post frequency, that could be a month before embrace.

Are you thinking personal one-on-one subforums for the victim phase, or all commingled?

So what did you say can I play I'm in vtm

At this point, single sub-forums. I will set them up when we finalize the first crew. We do not have the luxury of a Sabbat mass embrace after all...😈

There are still Sabbat remnants around, haha.

Do I play with you or not

Steef, check your email. I sent you an invite.

Indeed there are...muhahahaha!

i checked i don't see any invinte

https://gamersplane.com/games/1882/

Go to the game page here. It shows you are invited. You should just be able to join with one click from there

Thanks

I think I may also open up starting off as ghouls as an option. You would not know much more than the humans would.

what's the difference between a ghoul and a human

A ghoul is a human that drinks vampire blood. It extends their lives and gives some minor powers, but also creates a fierce addiction. If the ghoul does not drink at least 1/month from a vampire, they begin to age rapidly to the age they should be physically as well as losing all other benefits. Further, they are generally enthralled to the one they drink from and have an obsessive unnatural loyalty to that vampire.

So basically a vampire that drink vampire blood an need to that blood to live and become a Slave
to the vampire they drink from?

They are not vampires. Think of Renfield from the original Dracula film. Ghouls are slaves with a few perks. To become a vampire, an individual needs to be fully drained of blood and them given vampire blood at the brink of death. The vampiric blood then turns them into a vampire.

With ghouls, they drink the blood without being drained. Therefore, it halts their aging and gives them one of their master's powers. They can still go out in sunlight and eat food and such, but they are not nearly as powerful as vampires.

ok thanks

I might be interested, would love to learn a bit more about your setting.

Sorry to break this to y'all, but I may have to hold off for awhile on this one. My home game has informed me that they want to try a new game, so the prep I had done for their D&D game is out the window and I am having to start from scratch. As I am already involved in a bunch of games and running another game here, the one I have not gotten off the ground is going to have to take the hit for now. Again, I apologize.

I did see on Discord that The_Librarian may be planning a VtM game. Get with them and see what is up.

Ah, it's fine, no one has unlimited time! :D But it is on hold, not completely cancelled, right? Just to be clear.
And good luck with your DnD game!