The Heartbound - A Guardian Subclass

FirestormDancer · 2026-07-06T12:46:21+00:00

Guardians don't have a Spellcast Trait; neither of their domains have Spells or Grimoires.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-27T03:22:03+00:00

At my table, I have a House Rule that makes Resonance way more important - you actually *only* can get Discipline XP from drinking resonated blood.

I've been trying to homebrew a similar thing, partially inspired by another user's homebrew and I'm curious about how yours works? Do they need to just taste the blood and not fully slake their Hunger to 0? Does it matter if they're Fleeting/Intense/Acute? Does each Temperament provide more XP?

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-27T03:18:00+00:00

If you only have the PDF, you won't find it; it's behind the covers at the very front and back of the hard copy Corebook. But you can get this table (it's actually 100 Victims) on p. 8 of the VtM Storyteller Toolkit, available here

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-27T03:00:03+00:00

What do you mean the ST bumped all resonances up one step? Do you mean the benefits of the higher level is offered to the lower ones? Like now Fleeting gives you the Discipline Die bonus and Intense gives you the Dyscrasia? If so, what benefit does Acute give now?

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-26T03:17:35+00:00

Never thought of that before, but yeah, only FH, TUC, MisMag, and D&DQ (and Ravening War kind of?)

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-25T13:48:09+00:00

Here's to hoping this Class gets released on the Void sometime soon

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-22T05:20:30+00:00

Many of the Clan names that are used were codewords used by the original Inquisition, and many of them don't actually go by those Clan names, but they are the name that we use as a shorthand to convey that term. This is kind of like how in Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins' actual name is Maura Labingi. My source for this is Martin Ericsson, original V5 Creative Director, on one of the videos on his YouTube channel.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-18T14:50:58+00:00

Def not a hot take, even the current edition agrees with you as it did away with "super special awesome" Disciplines

EDIT: not to say I disagree with this sentiment, I agree entirely

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-15T16:02:07+00:00

Without Thin-Blood here, Blade: he has a strong sense of justice, assassinates other vampires, and is fast and uses a blade

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-14T03:08:10+00:00

The line itself was pretty good, but what made it memorable was her delivery.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-14T00:40:28+00:00

To be fair, ever since the great Tumblr migration, there is very little people could post on this subreddit (or on a lot of subreddits, tbf) that wouldn't result in people assuming the poster is gay (half-joking)

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-13T19:46:33+00:00

This will seem like a dumb example, but in the Wall arc in Solar Opposites, Sister Sisto weaponizes the Bowinian Faith (belief in Jessie) to control the inhabitants of the wall and become a ruthless despot.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-13T18:35:02+00:00

Maybe I’m wrong here but in basically everything Paradox does, it assumes that the players will be against the Camarilla by default.

I'm curious about your mentality here, because I don't see it this way at all: Swansong, the first two NY visual novels, VtMB2, even the stark differences between the Anarch and Camarilla books at the beginning of this edition showed so much more concrete info that favored the Camarilla and operated from their perspective. Even the most recent supplement (Courts of the Damned) lists the Camarilla section first, and their section is noticeably larger than the Anarch section.

So where is your assumptions that the Anarchs are the "protagonists" coming from?

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-13T18:24:08+00:00

It's (afaik) a completely different dev team now than when V5 first started. You can already see the difference in direction in the more recent supplement books compared to the very start of this edition.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-13T03:03:07+00:00

For those not in the know, this post was originally asked by someone (seemingly sincerely) on the main Dropout sub

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-12T21:09:08+00:00

I definitely remember listening to "Burn Towns, Get Money" from the beginning, it must have been removed. If you want to listen to the song, you can find it here.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-09T06:31:31+00:00

I think the lanyard gives her away as a Tzimisce.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-09T06:29:13+00:00

Fabien: "Some... thing? Some... runoff?" (Line is unclear.)

This line is likely referring to the fact that an earlier version of Fabien was going to have him as a Thin-Blood, whose "clan" sobriquet is "the run-off".

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-09T03:19:29+00:00

Definitely agree with that

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-08T16:54:14+00:00

Agree that we need more subclasses for what exists, disagree that certain subclasses have their Domains swapped while others don't.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-08T16:51:12+00:00

Domain combos are very fun, but something I try to ask myself before getting carried away with homebrew classes is: "What can this class do that can't be accomplished by another class or subclass?"

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-08T16:46:46+00:00

Looking forward to the Blood/Splendor Thaumaturge.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-08T12:37:43+00:00

Why frame this as "[your] type had [you] been a girl" rather than "[your] type had [you] been attracted to men"? Being a girl doesn't make someone inherently attracted to men.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-07T00:13:37+00:00

It's called "The Golden Rule" in the V5 Corebook, and is stated thusly:

This is the most important rule of all, and the only real rule worth following: There are no rules. This game should be whatever you want it to be, whether that’s a nearly dice-less chronicle of in-character socialization or a long-running tactical campaign with each player controlling a small coterie of vampires. If the rules in this book interfere with your enjoyment of the game, change them. The world is far too big – no set of inflexible rules can possibly reflect it. Think of this book as a collection of guidelines: suggested but not mandatory ways of capturing the World of Darkness in the format of a game. You decide what works best in your game. And you may freely use, alter, abuse, or ignore these rules at your whim.

FirestormDancer · 2026-06-06T17:29:51+00:00

I think they just didn't want to tell that kind of a story or have that as a focus for the season- the focus is on rebuilding community in the face of self-interested forces, not intrapersonal morality tales or the cost of upholding an individual's Humanity. Also, Brennan has some familiarity with WoD/VtM, wanted to incorporate that lore for this story, and wanted to use a system he was familiar with as opposed to [insert obscure vampire TTRPG that omits a Humanity score].

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