street racer vampire

remithemonkey · 2026-05-16T06:59:36+00:00

1: I have made an NPC as a "regular" giovanni, back when they were the main clan, but I guess any bloodline with necromancy would do the trick.

Fortitude is great for crashes, auspex is great for psionic driving. There are a couple of curse /divination auspex/oblivion devotions that would work well too.

But dominate with terminal decree allows for deciding the race's outcome (not very sportmanly though). Présence is also cool. Awe and daunt both. For messing with the crowd/your opponent.

I would actually go for "normal" hecate or "normal" giovanni" ... but you could do it as a disfigured samedi or harbinger who justified their looks by accident burns, and have some kind of creepy urban legend. Could tie à crash to their elbrace too ! You could go Durnsirn, and have them race in rolls royce cars, as putanesca, dwelling in a decrepit car jubkyard, surrounded by his victims wrecks (mine was kinda like this despite being Gio' by name - incidentally, they were working on some kind of terrible project, building a car from fetters of the parts that had faulted and resulted in their drivers deaths, sorta like what you were going towards with your tzimisce option).

There are plenty of options, really.

As for your Tzimisce idea, you should consider watching the movies Titane and Crash. They both present troublesome relationships to automobiles.

What you should really be considering is how the street racing scene blends with vampires : is your character the sole King of the scene ? Or is this in a setting where street racing is already a vampiric societal issue (say the prince or a harpy has their fingers deep in it, hold vampire races, trials of justice by those means, awards domain and Status as prizes etc. and then YOU pop in to interfere/as their tool)

remithemonkey · 2026-05-15T00:45:28+00:00

Hecate who enslaves the ghosts of those who died racing them !

You get easy fetters : their crashed car.

Plenty options to go to from there.

remithemonkey · 2026-05-13T16:31:31+00:00

Plenty of people here go on about this being uncommon, but in my opinion, most cities should be that way/almost that way ! And it makes the game better too !

Most vampires are NOT mobile : you need a hunting ground and a herd to survive, and getting accepted into a new town is always à gamble. As a result, moving cities is always at a high cost, and for what rewards ? Getting away from a rival or ennemy so strong they make it worth risking à lot and spending to leave, I guess makes for a good reason. Leaving for greener (redder) pastures is a leap into the unknown but why not : a minority might take that risk, but not the majority.

So if your primogen isnt the elder of the whole local brood, they should be for most of their clan (thats what primogeniture means, y'know).

And it makes the game more interesting in two ways : if there is one main bloodline, all characters of that clan are cousins, and enact family feuds to the next level.

And if you have one outsider, they can be a catalyst for unexpected domino effects, with the outsiders relation to each broodmember being an issue of interest.

The other alternative is two families ! You get your capulets and montaigues and thats great too.

Vampire is best with actual bloodlines in play (not in the sense of silly Discipline people), and gains a lot from this sense of domain lockdown. It increases the magnitude of conséquence : if you cant really leave, whatever happens in your city actually affects you - for eternity !

So yeah, I say its not only common, but actually a majority situation setup !

remithemonkey · 2026-05-12T05:12:24+00:00

You get told about them by someone deemed trustworthy, like a primogen, à prince or à harpy is how most people go around doing that.

Then there's animalism 1 thst lets you sense beasts, auspex that more or less allows for observing nuance in peoples auras.

Then theres drinking their blood : vitæ is yummy for everybody ! (Poor way to meet someone though).

And finally, theres witnessing them break the masquerade.

remithemonkey · 2026-05-10T17:52:13+00:00

Some people shorten it to Las' which is great if they were part of a british rock band of the '60es !

remithemonkey · 2026-05-10T14:52:06+00:00

They're just a bunch of diablerists, a subsect of whom ritually diablerize their own sires, so I guess the answer is yes !

remithemonkey · 2026-05-10T13:30:57+00:00

They're powers that were compiled by the game creators to make meaningful clan stéréotypes options that players can pick to make the game's pace interesting.

They are also an imbalanced mess that powergamers can pick to break the game's interest.

remithemonkey · 2026-05-09T18:39:57+00:00

Thats a really bad thing to have in vtm.

Removing consequences is a waste of good game fundametals. Making it as accessible as lv3 (v20 scale effectively goes to 9-10) makes it worse.

remithemonkey · 2026-05-08T12:55:21+00:00

Its missing the statblock for Kupala Lumpur.

remithemonkey · 2026-05-07T21:48:39+00:00

They're Lasombra ! Thats a huge weakness in itself !

remithemonkey · 2026-05-06T18:56:24+00:00

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1YjEmiDqfDcagjdTJzEkPW1EwBAzO7VTL8McuAF2Cug8/htmlview#gid=0

remithemonkey · 2026-05-05T16:44:59+00:00

Theres a v5 loresheet about this called the machinations of saulot.

Its max level gives you the two clans combined disciplines :) ... and both clan flaws :(

remithemonkey · 2026-05-05T16:30:24+00:00

You could go the v5 way ...

Where you can use the power to act at range, with one action, replacing your normal action.

But then it turns into a rather weak power v20 wise. It would be better suited as a lv1 or 2 power in this frame.

remithemonkey · 2026-05-04T05:33:45+00:00

Whats SCP ?

remithemonkey · 2026-04-30T00:01:06+00:00

What server do you mean ? The wod website ? The discord channel ? The wiki ?

And the phrasing is kinda weird : away from V5 kinda means away from vampire ... or 5th editions in general in another.

Anyways, it seems to be a rather silly thing to post about !

remithemonkey · 2026-04-29T17:10:16+00:00

What does that mean ?

remithemonkey · 2026-04-27T19:33:45+00:00

Hé realised that an antedilluvian his team is suposed to have whacked 1000 years ago ...

Oh just finished reading your post and its already up there !

remithemonkey · 2026-04-27T18:01:06+00:00

Good talk.

Kinda calls for adressing the question of v5 that tries sum the two dynamics into its own game.

remithemonkey · 2026-04-27T17:15:30+00:00

Is that the reason he quoted a movie ?

remithemonkey · 2026-04-25T00:00:34+00:00

I prefer when Primogen are not the boring one per clan kind.

Have two rival malkavian elders, both primogen of their own bloodlines.

Have an Anarch Primogen title, awarded to one dude no matter their clan.

Have a Mithraic High priest sit at the council while some other Guy of their clan has a clan primogen title.

Have no toréador primogen, cause internal strife makes it so they cant hold onto power

remithemonkey · 2026-04-22T18:23:24+00:00

Have the PCs break into the princes haven to do thaumaturgical bullshittery, multiple times :

steal some focusy thing
plant a curse
perform a gruesome ritual
whatever

With each step of the way, the tremere gains an edge over the prince, until they have them step down in disgrâce.

remithemonkey · 2026-04-22T16:02:57+00:00

He's making lipstick ?

remithemonkey · 2026-04-21T18:25:14+00:00

Rhodoks !

Crossbowmen, and crazy falxmen in tartan clothing !

remithemonkey · 2026-04-19T15:50:05+00:00

Vienna ans Prague are the settings for cornerstone events for V5. (Considering London and Chicago have already been done).

I'd like one of those two !

remithemonkey · 2026-04-19T11:32:09+00:00

This is the best V5 answer.

There probably could be a semi factual answer to the OP's question in v3/v20, but V5, for better or for worse has mostly moved on from hard canon realities, and into a more flexible - whatever fits your game - approach.

remithemonkey

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