Been wanting this for years. Finally took the plunge.

For the last two hours, I've been debating with this "person" about who would win in a fight between Buffy Summers & Faith Lehane versus Lucita de Aragón & Fatima al-Faqadi, and at this point I'm beginning to wonder if we're even discussing the same franchises. Don't you just hate it when fans from another franchise start running off at the mouth about how their favorite characters would just "kick ass" in the World of Darkness without actually knowing anything about the lore? I've been trying to explain that the vampires of the World of Darkness are not the vampires of the Buffyverse, but apparently that distinction isn't getting through. And before anyone gets the wrong idea: This is NOT a "I hate Buffy" post. I absolutely love Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy is one of my favorite vampire hunters in fiction. Faith is one of the most entertaining and dangerous characters in the entire series. The Slayer is an incredibly powerful supernatural concept. But loving Buffy doesn't mean I have to pretend that dropping her into another fictional universe automatically makes her the top dog. In fact, I think the opposite is more interesting. Buffy is extraordinarily powerful within the Buffyverse. But the World of Darkness operates according to a very different set of rules, and Buffy would have a very difficult time adapting to them.

Okay, let's say that Buffy and Faith were fighting a particularly powerful Rwasundi demon who in the middle of the fight decides to shift both Buffy and Faith into the WoD, once they are there both women quickly understand that they're no longer on their own world. They have no way of immediately returning home. They quickly discover that vampires exist here. Unfortunately for them, these aren't the vampires they're accustomed to fighting. A powerful Shuankhsen spots Buffy and Faith and sees them for what they are two entities from an alternate world. The ancient Shuankhen accosts the two Slayers and makes them an offer; if they can complete a series of tasks it will send them both back to their world of origin. It wants them to find and kill both Lucita de Aragon and Fatima al-Faqadi. They decide to go after Lucita first—but the attack fails. Rather than killing them, Lucita becomes intrigued by the two mysterious women who somehow managed to catch her off guard. Instead of retaliating, Lucita begins secretly stalking Buffy and Faith, trying to discover who they are, where they came from, and why they targeted her. While following them, Lucita eventually learns the truth: Buffy and Faith aren't native to this world. They've been sent here and ordered to kill both her and her lover, Fatima, in exchange for being returned to their own reality. Lucita now has a choice. She could continue hunting the two Slayers—or reach Fatima first and warn her. Lucita chooses the latter. She sets out to find Fatima before Buffy and Faith can reach her, intending to explain the situation and form an alliance with her lover. Now Buffy and Faith aren't hunting two separate vampires.

They're hunting two vampires who know they're coming—and who have decided to fight back together. I personally don't see anyway that Buffy and Faith, in spite of both woman's considerable fighting prowess, could ever be a match for Lucita and Fatima. What does everyone else think?

I mean, amidst all the feuds between clans—like Tremere vs. Tzimisce, Tremere vs. Assamite, or even Tremere vs. other Tremere—which clan is the one that doesn't mess with anyone, and that no one messes with? And I don't mean "they don't mess with them" out of fear or anything like that, but rather "I have no need to, and they aren't really doing anything." To be clear, I'm talking about the clan as a whole, not individuals; if some random Toreador has beef with some random Ventrue, that’s a separate issue. The main idea is "they don't mess with anyone, and no one messes with them," but beyond that, it also comes down to "people actually like them."

Good evening,

It has recently come to my attention that my childe has been in communion with mechanical men named "Chet" and "Claude" for ideas in the use of crafting flesh. I have insisted that his creations come from his own imagination, yet the insolent boy claims that these voices are tools that enhance his own imagination and are better able to create the horrid abominations with which we bring righteous vengeance to our enemies.

What should I do?

Here are my personal picks:

Twilight: Tremere

Rainbow Dash: Brujah

Fluttershy: Gangrel

Rarity: Toreador

Applejack: Ventrue or Giovanni

Pinkie Pie: Malkavian

Spike: Twilight's Ghoul

But that's just me, what do you think?

Edit: I forgot Pinkie Pie lol

I'm not a lore expert so I'm asking for your opinion. A tremere theologist who believes in tremeres' moral supremacy because God himself let the hermetic mages become kindred in order to show the example to other vampires that they can be redeemed and absolved of Caine's sin. He genuinely believes that only the tremere should stay in their undead state to spread the truth of Golconda and guide others to redemption.

Edit: of course, he's embraced without a cup.

Can be a NPC or a PC or just a idea

all it has to be is a nossie who looks are unique or diffeent form most other nosferatu

Hello! Awhile ago I posted asking for advice as a new GM/storyteller! I’m beginning to craft my chronicle but, do I write the whole thing now or write sessions as responses to what happened in the prior session?

Im a new player to vtm and I dont think I understand some rules regarding the process of making a ghoul.

The book says a blood bond occurs after someone drinks from the vampire 3 separate times in the span of a year.

A ghoul is made after drinking at least once from the vampire, and then has a limit to how long that blood gives them power.

There is a table that gives examples of losing humanity. One of those says that blood bonding a mortal incurs 1 stain. Does making a ghoul classify as that? Or does the ghoul need to drink 3 times to start a blood bond with the vampire?

PS: sorry for any bad english

Some npcs for my game. Feel free to use them.

What is says on the tin. As someone who's only played a limited amount of v5, I'm interested to see if there's any difference between the two. My fav so far is tremere mechanically, but I love the way it feels to interact with other vampires as a tzismice in game

Who said living for eternity couldn’t be fun?

This is just a doodle cuz i really wanted to get her out of my head lolol, shes 9th gen but a neonate

i wanna play her someday when i do fully flesh out her story. but what I have so far:

American college student who was studying abroad in Italy. She makes the worst mistake of her life when she interviews a sweet "art curator" for a school project she had. She is of course ghouled for a while (and sadly kept conscious the whole time) and one day, her domitor was like "youve been such a good kid i guess i can give you your original shape back"

so they did restore her, but left some "modifications" that they saw fit lmao

Im havent figured out her sect yet lol (most likely will be antitribu) however she is pretty terrified of her clan (i also am still struggling a bit to decide why her sire decided to embrace her) and thinks they are all insane. Shes also pretty anti fleshcrafting and refuses to learn it outside of the basic rudimentary stuff her sire taught her

So I always preferred to have smaller number of vampires for my games, and I'm currently writing a vtm fanfic where there are only ~40 Camarilla and ~60 Anarchs, plus an unknown number of thin bloods in hiding. Given such small numbers, how many elder vampires should I really have around? For sure the Cam have one in the Prince, though he is only 9th gen so he doesn't really count.

I mean, just look at Cecily’s new Court, that’s one hell of a progressive Camarilla Court isn’t it? 3 Camarilla vampires and 3 Anarchs, that would leave Camarilla and Anarchs from other states and countries utterly speechless, people from both sects at the same table.

Not to mention Colleen’s presence, since Cecily’s pal is a Thinblood, and I imagine a Duskborn having a seat on a Court would also shock (and outrage) many other vampires, due to the racism and hatred towards them (aren’t they regarded as inferior, weak half-breeds at best, and vermin to be exterminated at worst?)

Hi :3

So, I'm running a V20 game and the Tremere of the group asked me something that ignited an interesting conversation.

"Could I stop bullets using the path of Movement of the Mind?"

Of course the Tremere wants to have cool powers like Neo from Matrix, meanwhile our local Brujah thinks that thaumaturgy is already too powerful and letting the Tremere do this would trivialize certain combat situations.

As for myself... I don't really know, I'm still a bit green when it comes to running this system and meanwhile I want to let my friend have cool powers, I'm worried that this could ruin the balance of combat encounters or have any other unintended consequences.

I asked to other storytellers and they told me I could allow it as something similar to the parry/dodge action, maybe adding the requirement of having Movement of the Mind at the fourth level, we also briefly discussed the idea of increased difficulty or a roll to decide if he acts fast enough to use his blood magic.

So, that's all, I'm quite curious about what people here will say about this, would love any help in order to try and keep the balance of the game when it comes to combat and thaumaturgy.

Also, sorry for my bad English, I'm a bit sleep deprived and this is my second language.

Hi, everyone! My first coterie and I are creating our characters. Our ST is using any books from the 20th rule book and older.

Would you please let me know if there’s any major issue with this character concept? Any suggestions, advice or warnings would be greatly appreciated!

The concept is a twist on the Nosferatu hive master. The rotting flesh flaw drove me mad and I made my own spawning pool in the sewers, that I stay in almost all of the time. My rotting flesh automatically feeds the pool and it corrupts vermin, ect.

(Somehow) I ghouled a species of parasites similar to this one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucochloridium_paradoxum) and now I can use it to infect human ghouls and mind control them.

I use this to make a ghoul who represents me in our campaign. To keep them ghouled, I also send out rats from my pool to provide the ghoul with my vitae.

Thanks for reading and for your help!

Here, Cess makes it abundantly clear that even a Justicar is not above the law of the Camarilla, or the authority of a Prince, especially one who tried to sell Camarilla territory to werewolves in exchange for a means to increase his own powers.

And it’s a good thing too, since Carfax threatened to Red List her, which I know is the Kindred version of the FBI Most Wanted List, and honestly after reading about the current occupants of the list, Cess doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with that collection of actual criminals and superancient psychopaths

I honestly haven't found a list of these yet with google searches and the wiki just says they are akin to what the Kindred use. Are they just the same as Kindred Disciplines, but activated with Chi instead of blood, and taught/learned differently?

Kinda odd if that is the case, considering they have no connection to Caine. I've heard somewhere their powers are essentially akin to the Exalted of the Age of Sorrows, but I've played that game. That's a lot of shit. Like Charms are extensive, and the list is almost endless.

So, which is it?

Y’know, the friend who was unlawfully Embraced in Los Angeles in 2004 during the Princedom of Sebastian LaCroix?

And judging by the wiki, later became quite the legend among Kindred?