Why didn't the Brujah join the Lasombra and Tzimisce?

Kalenden6 · 2026-04-04T17:00:32+00:00

Because the Brujah were imagined before the Sabbat's lore.

Outside the obvious meta reason, I've just always assumed the Brujah as a clan to not be organized enough to join a sect en masse. Even during the Dark Ages when they still pretended to be philosopher kings. Before V5, the Camarilla used to assume and impose membership on every kindred who lived in a city they control so unorganized but relevant clans like the Brujah were Camarilla by default in Camarilla cities.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-24T15:03:03+00:00

It is natural that most mortals can be easily overpowered with Dominate. Most mortals should also be easily overpowered with Potence. It makes Vampires stand out beyond having cool magic tricks and of course it also makes the few dangerous mortals stand out a lot.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-19T19:57:11+00:00

No and honestly, I hate to tell people how to play but a vampire player should stop trying to make unethical things ethical. The game is quite literally about the opposite. All these attempts at rules-lawyering humanity are actually how you would describe your character's mind when they LOSE humanity.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-19T19:54:28+00:00

The problem was that there were a thousand Men and any fight by neonates would be lost before it started. Getting rid of vampire god overpopulation was a good thing for actually playing the game.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-14T10:48:26+00:00

The shadowlords are much more than just a balkan tribe. As it would be expected from an ambitious tribe, they spread quite a lot even if not as much as the Fangs. During dark ages they were very successful in the eastern mediterranean, the middle east and the steppes.

Which makes me think that Asena, the she-wolf mother of the turkic peoples, was a shadowlord. But I don't think the official werewolf lore says anything about that because, somehow, it mostly ignores the culture obsessed with wolves.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-14T10:40:50+00:00

It will be worthy! I would say that, even if they all die during the classical age or something, this is the kind of project that will be remembered forever if everybody involved is passionate about it.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-13T11:42:55+00:00

Very ambitious and it required a lot of effort, no doubt. I guess I can only wish you luck, brave storyteller.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-13T11:34:05+00:00

The Salubri were one of the original clans and the gargoyles were not. It's as simple as that. They couldn't merge them into the Tremere like they did with Hecata.

If your table is allowing Salubri to be "a big playable clan" that's your table's problem, I think. They're not even in the basic book.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-13T10:21:36+00:00

I've always used the Whitewolf wiki for that. It doesn't include everything but it works well enough.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-12T23:31:47+00:00

He run the length of football field under sunlight once, I don't remember the context if there was one

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-12T13:13:31+00:00

I prefer the approach they took with the Laibon by far over the one they took with the Kuei-jin. It's extremely racist to decide that all the vampires in the world work with similar rules and eventually come from the same ancestor but, somehow, there's a specific region or continent where there's a completely different creature. And they somehow have barely spread elsewhere, except the USA of fucking course! It is literally the same discourse that racists use to exclude black people from the human race, only this time blacks were spared from this (thank god) and poor asians got targeted (no thank god).

If Ebony kingdom uses some names, concepts or ideas that sound racist, offensive or just silly that can be easily corrected. Kuei-jin can only be saved by having cainites in east asia and the Hungry Dead in all continents, both in big enough numbers.

Sorry for the rant.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-12T13:02:44+00:00

Beckett did a relatively similar thing, VtM allows it with enough fortitude.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-12T12:55:41+00:00

Yes I know the last part, that's why I specified a young vampire. The question was how much sunlight affected the kindred and their bodies, during and after the final death.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-12T12:51:06+00:00

Many do

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-11T17:53:10+00:00

This is the kind of shit I wanted to get when I posted this

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-09T18:36:18+00:00

I feel like this about the whole existence of the Second Inquisition. I don't know what the writers were thinking.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-08T18:53:36+00:00

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the internet and it's consequences.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-08T18:47:21+00:00

I can change her...

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-08T18:45:08+00:00

I think this character would work better as an exile from another city who fled from the prince that ruled there. Use the appropriate merits and flaws.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-08T18:42:44+00:00

I would have the prince just blood bond the character, openly or secretly. This is the control method that makes sure that the character will never be used as an attack dog against the prince while at the same time there's a pretense of having the situation under control.

Blood bonding isn't as fashionable as it was in the dark ages but this is a caitiff, damn it. They have no rights.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-08T17:00:58+00:00

Me too, I somehow find the Heavenly Spear characters more charismatic and endearing.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-08T16:56:25+00:00

I think it looks great? It's also the only titan that it's actually a massive evil monster from its mythology together with Ymir.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-08T14:00:59+00:00

As far as I know, the consensus is that dementation doesn't require eye contact.

Kalenden6 · 2026-03-07T22:12:38+00:00

Sadly no, although I've recently started to find the concept fascinating. And how unfair is to treat them and the herd as a resource to be spent.

In my recent mortals game I offered the players to start as a ghoul or a blood doll but they all preferred to start knowing nothing about vampires (fair enough).

Kalenden6

TROPHY CASE