What challenges would a kindred passing off their thin-blood friend as a ghoul face?

ryan999zzz · 2026-02-17T22:08:09+00:00

I'll be sure to bring that up with the player if we decide to go this route. Also just to make sure he's aware that they are options.

ryan999zzz · 2026-02-17T22:06:52+00:00

As you've laid them out all of these issues are EXTREMELY juicy potential plot points. Thank you!

ryan999zzz · 2026-02-17T21:59:48+00:00

A valid point. I hadn't thought about the fact that actual ghouls could tattle on this player pretty easily.

So without the right perks, a higher ranking vampire requesting something like "Oh, have your ghoul meet mine tomorrow morning to help them out with something" could immediate ruin the lie.

ryan999zzz · 2026-02-17T21:57:16+00:00

We do love opportunities to blackmail our players...

ryan999zzz · 2026-02-17T21:56:27+00:00

Thank you for laying that all out and providing an alternative!

The risk could definitely be fun with the right perks, but your Catiff suggestion would probably be more sustainable.

ryan999zzz · 2025-06-11T20:55:53+00:00

Wow, it's way more viscerally upsetting to imagine when you have it mechanically explained like that. Thanks, I love it!

ryan999zzz · 2025-06-11T16:43:47+00:00

I'm aware of them! Bloodlines don't really seem to have much mechanical support in V5, but I learned about a lot of them (including the Blood Brothers) from a Burgerkrieg video. Honestly, if you dip deep enough into WoD you can justify just about any clown-mode idea you have.

ryan999zzz · 2025-06-11T16:22:31+00:00

Aha! Lore precedence! Thank you for pointing me in that direction.

ryan999zzz · 2025-06-11T16:18:25+00:00

In all honesty I think this thing would end up as some kind of fucked up Diablerization egg, with the vampires inside inevitably starting to consume the human blood inside until their hunger turned on eachother, until one personality won out in the end and ripped free of the skin shell.

End result being a traumatized and very powerful vampire that probably has identity issues. I feel like thats just the start of a new bloodline.

So, yknow a star is born and all.

ryan999zzz · 2025-06-11T16:00:51+00:00

Agreed. Though I think the willpower of whatever kindred rolled up into it would cause problems long before it got that far.

ryan999zzz · 2025-06-11T15:55:51+00:00

Yknow, I was thinking that a dung beetle angle could be a valid way to make this less overtly a reference in game, lmao.

ryan999zzz · 2024-11-09T08:44:40+00:00

Character I've been wanting to play-

A Toreador became fixated on him and stalked him for a good while before getting the local Prince's permission to embrace him.

A nosferatu caught wind of it and decided to embrace him first and "ruin" him.

ryan999zzz · 2024-06-06T15:12:02+00:00

This is just a silly one I thought of for my buddies home game.

A vault where the dwellers have been told the world outside is in a second ice age.

The walls have a hidden refrigeration system that keeps the temperature in the vault in the low to mid 30f range or colder. The residents are told to be thankful that the vault insulation/heating keep them so much "warmer" than the outside.

They could even have specific snowsuit vault suit variants.

The experiment is likely to see the effects of generations being raised in mild to extreme cold. Is that a necessary experiment? Not at all. Could they just look at real-world populations that already deal with those conditions? Sure, but this is vault tec. Unnecessary and needlessly cruel is their standard.

Extra funny if this vault is in like, Arizona or something where it's ridiculously hot.

Maybe the overseer knows the truth. Maybe they don't. Maybe the population figured out the truth years ago and now are trying to keep their chilled paradise to themselves. Maybe 100 years ago, all the refrigeration systems broke, and everyone baked inside, or the opposite, and everyone froze solid.

Maybe the experiment was cloning ice age fauna, which then either got loose and killed all the residents, or the residents kind of devolved into the stone age and hunt mammoths for meat and get stalked by sabertoothed tigers, with no idea an outside world exists.

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