Interest Check: Vampire 20th Anniversary Edition

Hello all!

I'm new here. Used to play by post elsewhere, but have been out of the game for a few years and am returning here now.

I GM games usually, and I am checking if there would be interest on these forums to play some Vampire 20th Edition- with a twist.

Pitch The year is 12,000 BC and in Enoch in the Land of Nod, Vampires Rule. Journey to the earliest days of humanity & the Kindred and play as truly ancient creatures in a world occupied by Gods & Monsters-- the Great Nephilim that walk the Earth and Vampires of frightening power- the very children of Cain himself. As neophytes in the First City, you must navigate a world of titans, betrayal, and blood to survive.

This campaign will be weaving together the shadowy-est of Vampire setting myths with influences from The Earth Chronicles (Zecharia Sitchin) to begin before the Flood & track through the centuries of early antiquity.

Genre: Historical fantasy/horror

SystemVampire the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition with supporting material from Revised World of Darkness books

Posting Rate I prefer once/day excepting weekends

Game Duration: Ongoing-- for this concept the goal is a truly long spanning campaign that would cover literally thousands of years of historical time through a series of scenarios with some time jumps

Character Restrictions Since the game is starting so early in history, only the following clans are allowed-- True Brujah (not ordinary Brujah), Salubri, Aasamite, Gangrel, Cappadocian, Losambra, Toreador, Old Clan Tzimece (Again, not "normal" Tzaimece), Ventrue, Ravnos, Nosferatu, Malkavian,

Adult Content Vampire is a game that deals with mature themes & it will inevitably get bloody; that said sex & torture & extremes will be treated lightly & implied/happen "off screen" rather than being described in detail

Marginalized Groups I will neither discriminate against, nor give preference to anyone based on arbitrary characteristics

How To Apply-- If there are at least 5 people interested I will run this, and I will take up to 7 to start to allow for if people fall off without needing to refill. If there are more than that interested, I will set an official application deadline, then use a dice roll to determine who gets the spots.

Love me some WoD.

I haven't done anything with the 20th Anni stuff yet... that said, I'd be down to check out the revised system. Gangrel or True Brujah certainly appeal.

Chalk me up as an interested party.

I would love to learn how to play vampire the masquerade as I've never played before but if you are welcome to give those of us new to the game a beginners tutorial on how to play, that would be awesome. Def interested . Don't know what I would play though. I def post once a day too.

Yes-- I will definitely make sure that it's friendly for new players Amber.

MaJunior-- if you played 2nd ed/revised of any of them 20th Anniversary editions basically collected those systems and put them out as massive hardcovers but the mechanics were the same.

Also for those familiar with the lore-- we will be using the clans for character creation, but keep in mind since storyline we are actually starting before the flood the Curse of Cain does not yet exist, so for instance Nosferatu do not start with the hard set appearance penalty, but will gain the curse at the appropriate time.

Some of the wording in Temporis suggests they did away with the (optional) exclusion rule regarding Celerity... which is interesting.

Ooooh! At last! My Vampire 20th Edition leather hardcover book has been collecting dust for years now. I'd love to join. Especially on such an interesting premise. I never got to play one of the elders before. Let alone Methuselah.

What a neat premise. I’d love to give this a try. Played lots of Vampire, but never this far back in history,

Great!

That gives us four at least, so I am going to set the deadline-- I will roll off when I get up Wednesday morning (8 AM CST) if we are over 7 at that point.

I'm working on getting all the character creation information & building out the shell for the game threads.

Looking forward to running this!

Interested. Not used to historical stuff but willing to give ago especially with the time jumps. Have some knowledge of 20th anniversary

Awesome. Will stay patient. 😁 if you can give us a small bio on each of the vampire races we can be, that'll be awesome too.

I literally was just working on these this afternoon.

Keep in mind-- these groups are very close to their founding and so I'm mostly talking about the founders rather than the groups. There's tons of information about these on the World of Darkness Wiki, but again a lot of the information about the clans is from later times so this stuff won't have developed yet.

Also-- I tried to honor most of the stories from the existing lore when referencing these founders, but since many of those are presented as legends and fragmentary and or contradictory, I've had to fill in some, make some choices, and depart in a few spots. (As well as obvious ones such as Nosferatu who are the "hideous" vampires later on after the Curse of Cain which hasn't happened yet and are presented here as being the beautiful clan).

Clans

Aasamite Under the guidance of the Hierarchy, the Assassins sell their skills and the coin always goes to enrich their elusive founder Haqim.
Clan Disciplines: Celerity, Obfuscate, Quietus

Cappadocian Cappadocius rules the expansive Cappadocians from his Manor house in the outskirts of Enoch where they run the internment grounds, dealing with the mortal remains of the kine (human) stock of the city.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Fortitude, Necromancy

Followers of Set Set keeps a tight grip on the childer of his clan, ruling as a God on Earth from the Serpent Catacombs of Enoch's undercity.
Clan Disciplines: Obfuscate, Presence, Serpentis

Gangrel Ennoia has not been seen within Enoch for centuries. The founder of the Gangrel ventured forth into the world long ago, though each year more and more of her progeny appear-- wandering into town alone or in pairs, slowly peopling Enoch with their animalistic tribe.
Clan Disciplines: Animalism, Fortitude, Protean

Lasambra Known as the Wife of Cain, Lasambra has built a network of her kinder throughout Enoch, seeing that they are often in positions of trust as assistants, consorts, and seconds to the power players of the city much as she has placed herself beside Cain himself.
Clan Disciplines: Dominate, Obtenebration, Potence

Malkavian Malkov promises enlightenment. He leads his followers in deep meditations and guides their quests for perfection.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Dominate, Obfuscate

Nosferatu Nobody knows whether it was Lord or Lady Nosferas who founded the Nosferatu- already even now that secret is lost to the history of time. Likewise, no one can tell whether it is Lord or Lady Nosferas who is the most beautiful in all of Enoch, but surely it must be one of them. Drawn from the nobility of the burgeoning world, Clan Nosferas has a network of wealth & influence stretching throughout Enoch and beyond.
Clan Disciplines: Animalism, Obfuscate, Potence

Old Clan Tzimice Rumor is that Tzimic has learned secrets the the warren he occupies with his followers-- magic of the earth they say.
Disciplines: Animalism, Auspex, Dominate

Ravnos Ravnos the Builder they call him, because much of Enoch was built by his designs-- the buildings at least. Nothing is more important to Ravnos than home and the physical manifestation of security that drove their founder to building the city.
Clan Disciplines: Animalism, Chimerstry, Fortitude

Salubri There is no finer warrior in Enoch than Saulot, and it is to him that the organization and running of Enoch's military force is entrusted.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Fortitude, Valeran

Toreador Arikel, called the Bull Dancer and "Blossom of Caine" heads the projects to enrich Enoch with sculpture and art, and her childer serve in these endeavors themselves.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Celerity, Presence

True Brujah Noble Brujah! The quietest, gentlest of all Kinder is the librarian Brujah and his clan. Dedicated to studying and learning all that the world has to offer, Brujah and his clan built the first library-- the one that Alexandria would later be but a pale imitation of in Enoch.
Clan Disciplines: Potence, Presence, Temporis

Ventrue is called The First King because before his embrace he ruled among the mortals, and he has put down orders that his followers are only to embrace those of ruling stock even before Enoch's roots were built.
Clan Disciplines: Dominate, Fortitude, Presence

Might go True brujah then.

I really want to put my name in the hat for V20! And for such a setting, Enochian!!

Let us know when the recruitment and invite is up and I'll create a character.

Cappadocian or Lasombra could be lot of fun to play.

So, World of Darkness absolutely works better with collaborative character creation.

I also don't usually like recruitment processes that ask you to put in a ton of time for a character build and then not get chosen.

With those both in mind, I will use this thread as the recruitment and consider anyone showing interest as applied; Wednesday I will just determine who to add and send out invites, then we will move to the character creation thread and put together characters.

I currently have the following as applied:

1. MaJuinor
2. Amberthegirlgeekgamer87
3. Khulod
4. Thielindra
5. Light of Midnight
6. Bedzone II

am interested so def give me an invite

Sounds fantastic.

I'll admit, I'm curious how creation will work that far back. (No 13th gens here!)

So, yeah- I know this will disappoint some, but I AM starting the characters at 13th Generation.

Rather than starting at low generation and being super powered vampires from the start we are running it that the characters are the last generation born as Enoch is going into it's decadence phase and the real bottom rung of the society, and then slowly growing into being super powered from there.

That's... interesting... wasn't Enoch founded by 2nd and 3rd gens? 13th gen were new, and the thin-bloods in the middle ages.

I suppose it'll be interesting to see how this works out then.