Vampire: The Masquerade
The world of Vampire: The Masquerade is a dark reflection of our own. The shadows loom longer here, and the night is more reluctant to yield to day. Corruption runs rampant, from the government through private corporations and into the various subcultures that revel in these culturally bankrupt times. Vampires are an outgrowth of the people who populate this desperate environment. They exist in the World of Darkness because they are the monsters among us, the products of a world so dark that only something truly horrible and captivating can challenge the depths into which the living residents of the world have plunged it.
Vampire: The Masquerade exploded into hobby games in 1991 and inspired a generation of fans the likes of which the game industry had never seen before or since. The cultural significance Vampire left on not just the gaming world but on modern vampire-related pop culture can be seen and felt at virtually every turn and in every medium today. Onyx Path Publishing offers a number of role-playing game fiction, art, and clothing products for Vampire: The Masquerade, as well as helping to re-release over a hundred original books through PDF and print-on-demand. We published throughout Vampire‘s 20th Anniversary Edition, and are excited have worked with Paradox on Vampire 5th Edition. Vampire 5th Edition is currently under the stewardship of Renegade Game Studio.
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Take a look at some of the social systems based on prestation below. One of the important things for Vampire — which is a very social game — is to not allow the rules to overtake the interactions among players and Storytellers or between players. That makes it a bit difficult to create social systems. … Read more
I asked the #V20 hashtag on Twitter whether I should focus on prestation or titles (two of the in-progress sections from the V20 Companion as detailed in the outline). Feedback was about equal, but favored prestation a little bit over the course of the day, so that’s where I turned my attention. The systems portion … Read more
Okay, the locations chapter for the V20 Companion is up and ready for you to read! It’s here: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1YBFFvGTSL9WtyorRmMSDJp8ZDOVjiIyR5HwWD3d6f50 I’ve been watching all of the commentary and wanted to address a few points here, instead of in-line in the comments. The most important thing to keep in mind as that this isn’t intended to be … Read more
As we move forward with the V20 Companion, it’s important to learn from what has come before. Both to avoid repeating any mistakes and to ensure that we’re hitting the same high notes that kept players happy with the core V20 book, I want to take stock. What worked about the Open Development process for … Read more
Part of working on V20 is creating new material, since players have stated plainly that they want new supporting stuff. It’s a design challenge that has to be handled delicately, though. Too much new stuff creation, particularly in setting material, treads dangerously close to “metaplot,” which we don’t want. Remember, we’re steering away from what … Read more
I love the Grand Masquerade, as you well know. You know what I don’t love? Hotel wifi and the cellular dead spots that seem to breed in hotels. Seriously, I know lots of people were able to keep their cellular and Internet signals going, but I have no idea how. I have, like, 50 different … Read more
Here’s a little more WIP from the titles chapter, so you can see where some of the new material is headed. This may be my last post until the Grand Masquerade, so I wanted to give something with both settings and systems. <3>Mystic (1-point Title) <n>The Mystic Kindred is known by many appellations: sage, spiritualist, … Read more
Now that you’ve had the weekend to chew on what’s shaping up for V20 support, let’s take a look under the hood at the next book in the sequence. It’s kind of weird to think about what’s in book two when you haven’t yet seen book one in its final form, but that’s how publishing … Read more
You know why I keep doing this stuff? It’s because I love it. I love games. I love people playing games together, in particular. So when the chance came up to jump back in to this open development process, well, how can I say no to that? People working together to make great games that … Read more
Originally posted by Eddy at the V20 Blog Testing to see if the blog’s back. Rather than a boring test post, though, I thought I would put up three of the Bradstreet pieces that have been shown on the V20 Facebook page for those might have missed them. Malkavian: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21095070@N03/5936731353/ Toreador: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21095070@N03/5936731329/in/photostream/ Ventrue: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21095070@N03/5937288904/in/photostream/
