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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With all of the systems consideration and potential revision going on for V20, the matter of dice pools and success statistics has come up. It’s something that the Storyteller System has always had an acknowledgedly side-eyed relationship with, but this was certainly a worthwhile time to delve back into the math. So… let’s. At a … Read more
Originally posted by Eddy on the V20 Blog As I mentioned yesterday, I’m working on the bloodline appendix. As a reminder, here’s the parameters I came up with on this section: Bloodlines and variations we aren’t addressing are the Laibon and the Kuei-Jin (including the Bushi and the Gaki). They were expanded in separate books … Read more
Originally posted by Shane on the V20 Blog They say a picture is worth a thousand words and we could not agree more. Vampire: The Masquerade broke the 4th wall so to speak in a way that was and remains unparalleled. While the style, mood, and the Gothic punk themes from the content we provided … Read more
Originally posted by Eddy at the V20 Blog As Justin has mentioned, V20 is going to have an appendix containing nearly all of the bloodlines in Masquerade. Right now, this “appendix” is looking to be close to a hundred pages, so I’m essentially developing a small book inside of a larger book. And IT’S ALL … Read more
Originally posted by Justin at the V20 Blog What I’m working on today is a bit sticky. Dodge. It’s a valid part of an RPG combat system, but as a standalone Ability, it doesn’t fit the model of what the other Abilities are designed to do. I’ve never liked Dodge as an Talent. It always … Read more
A big one this time, and only a partial chapter at that! Here we cover the basic walkthrough of character creation, to jog your memory (or to introduce you if you’re one of the newcomers just stepping into the World of Darkness). In particular, note some of the rewritten material on the clan synopses that … Read more
We know that there are a number of forums, lists and community destinations that people are discussing all matter of things involving V20 and we’re doing our best to keep tabs on as many of them as possible. So with that in mind we wanted to help provide a destination and have added a new … Read more
If you’ve been watching the #v20 Twitter tag, you’ll see that I was a bit concerned about the word count for the Brujah spread. It weighed in at about 1600 words, which is a lot for a two-page spread that’s going to feature some marquee art. Rich suggested paring it down a bit, so I’m … Read more
Originally posted by Justin at the V20 Blog The Brujah spread is available at the following location: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1c2ECeJ5_wk9z2AZTY2j3NeSAldwtOeOvi0ZLQuajFSc The rules chapter is available at the following location: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1sQl4Ludel05aEauCMyu1PHOiDaGlN1Vc8JHDLGUpqAQ Feel free to propagate those URLs. And please remember to offer feedback as discussed here. Thanks, and good Storytelling!
So how does this Open Development angle work, anyhow? Keep an eye on the blogs and forums to get the best sense of when a new dev doc becomes available. We’re eventually going to place a widget somewhere to aggregate them, but we’ll roll that out as Web Cell completes it. Development is an ongoing … Read more
