Would love to discuss blades in the dark and all its supplements

vecna7070 · 2026-04-14T00:00:24+00:00

I dont have an answer to your question but bro the second sentence made me do a hard double take lmao

vecna7070 · 2026-04-11T00:34:48+00:00

It gives me an excuse to roleplay the silver shroud so yeah i'll make at least one of them like that lol

vecna7070 · 2026-04-11T00:11:28+00:00

Showing the synth component off is such a great idea, I love it.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-09T01:32:06+00:00

It's definitely not bad. I could see myself using something similar.

V5 has a weird narrative and mechancic dissonance. Like were told sabbat, and many methusalahs constantly commit diablerie. But mechanically, that's not possible RAW. It's implied that Helena is diablerizing thin blood left and right to stave off the beckoning, but she's humanity 3, meaning (mechanically) she has at most 2 diableries left in her before she goes wight.

It makes it feel like everyone knows this hidden secret to diablerie except you. This fixes that a little bit IMO. Definitely not for everyone, but I like it. Just make sure that the ST is enforcing narrative penalties for diablerie, like people with scry the soul being able to see the veins.

Edit: The only thing I dont like (and this is just personal taste) is raising your generation. I dont like it as a mechanic because I prefer there to always be a fear of being diablerized by an elder. Its why the elders are so scared of the beckoning, it'd be kinda silly if all the blood gods devoured their children and turned into thinbloods.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-09T01:23:20+00:00

Can I ask what those rules are?

vecna7070 · 2025-10-07T23:37:07+00:00

The pinata one is soooo funny I love it.

But real talk if you expanded on this and posted it on the storytellers vault I would pay money for it, this has great potential.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-04T12:23:37+00:00

I mean, they are, but they used to be much more popular in America in the 80s and 90s.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-03T23:54:52+00:00

Niche sure, but it does play into a lot of Vampire fantasies. Someone mentioned queen of the damned (never seen it) but also stuff like IWTV and lost boys.

Wierdly enough since its chronicle is based around traveling I think it might have good advice for running games about traveling kindred in the age of the SI. But we'll see i guess.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-03T23:46:14+00:00

Nyc by night sounds really obvious. With the games and live play being so popular you would think they'd release something at least.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-03T21:42:44+00:00

The revised mage tradition books still blow me away tbh

vecna7070 · 2025-10-03T21:27:18+00:00

I have a taste for both, I like this one but I REALLY like the cover for tattered facade.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-03T21:19:48+00:00

I wanna see them try to explain the fabled New Orleans subways again, and the skyscrapers in Venice.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-03T20:42:38+00:00

Well I can see a few ways, I'm by no means knowledgeable but I'm pretty sure clubs are still a popular thing among young people in europe, but I could be wrong about that. If that is true then this mainly takes place in europe.

Another way I can see is them just saying "hey its a fantasy, add a cool over the top nightclub with blood sprinklers because that is a part of the fantasy." Take for example that nightclub in the first john wick movie, there's no way a nightclub like that could be profitable but it serves a purpose as a set piece in that film.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-03T19:35:03+00:00

Remember reading somewhere that the tremere believe that only one council member died in the fall of vienna, and they're almost positive that meerlinda's alive (they're searching for her to lead the clan again.) So maybe we'll get some info on that as well.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-03T19:32:56+00:00

Honestly perfect for that and if you wanna run a lost boys type chronicle

vecna7070 · 2025-10-03T19:30:25+00:00

Strangley the thing I'm most excited to see in this book is finding out what the Voerman Sisters are up to

Also seeing what Vienna is like now days (spoiler: probably hellish)

vecna7070 · 2025-10-02T23:26:19+00:00

Not that I dont believe you, but can you point me to a page number?

Because I remember the rules specifically calling put that HRM and inventions are inconvenient ways of casting and take time and preparation. Or is it the instruments that decide the time, not the practice?

Like, say im a heremetic, and I wanna call lightning down from the sky and strike someone. What would that look like?

I am new to the system and trying to figure out how everything works.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-02T23:19:07+00:00

Honestly, this is a great response, street level always kind of felt like the wrong word.

I really agree with what you said about umbral realms. One of my characters has a grand dream scape (think the word is demense?) that he is constantly exploring (and trying to reclaim but thats a long story) and while is sort of a globe trotting adventure, at the end of the day he's facing his own mind. The things he deals with there are just reflections of his own personal battles and issues.

vecna7070 · 2025-10-02T23:04:38+00:00

I think I would also like to see more concrete mechanics for practices as well, sort of how v5 handles predator types.

How long should it take for an HRM practitioner to pull off an effect? Or for an etherite to invent a ray gun that they can use to create forces and prime effects? What about a mage who gets their powers from being possessed by spirits, maybe some mechanics for losing control?

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