I just published Detroit by Night, a city setting supplement for V20, on the Storytellers Vault! It’s $5 and 15 pages of original content (except for the art provided by STV).
The violence and urban decay of Detroit is the subject of much embellishment, but there is some truth in the stories. A city of skyscrapers and major industry, the best days and nights of the Motor City are seemingly behind it. But mortal Detroit is a paradise compared to the nightly carnage of the Sabbat. With no archbishop to govern them, surviving to sunrise sometimes depends on a pack’s collective courage, cleverness, and a little bit of chance. Most unenviable of all are the peacekeepers, the enforcers, who do what they can to control the chaos in a city of anarchy.
Storytellers using Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition can use this book to craft Sabbat chronicles set in modern Detroit, with a special emphasis on episodic procedural-style stories. Whether they serve an ambitious bishop, a Black Hand commander, or a visiting Inquisitor, player characters can be the agents of order and justice (or injustice), with advice on this format and its advantages and disadvantages. This supplement is best used for an action-oriented game.
Detroit by Night includes: • A list of notable NPCs in Detroit, including from the Black Hand and Inquisition; • A thorough but concise history of the Sabbat in Detroit; • An outline of the major neighborhoods of Detroit, with Cainite domains; and • Storytelling suggestions for running an episodic procedural-style game.
I did some art for my nosferatu boyman Herbert. He had been living a life of isolation back when he first became a nosferatu. But he found something to do and companionship in computers and the blossoming internet. (It is the thing one he has in common with many Nosferatu.)
I like to stay active and engaged in art and the art/vtm community at the moment. So if you have any questions about him, for him or anything else, feel free to ask!
The Sabbat While the “Kindred” (terminology the Sabbat abhor) of the Camarilla hide amid humans and adhere to archaic Traditions, the Sabbat revel in their vampiric essence. They decline to put on the pathetic guise of mere mortals or to be reduced to minions of their elders. In addition, vampires are without any doubt better than mortals. Just as mortals do not consider their food their equal, Sabbat vampires regard mortals as pawns or meals and have scant patience for “Cainites” who impersonate the living. The Sabbat believes vampires are by their definition inhuman. But the Sword of Caine is not an accumulation of blood-soaked maniacs gallivanting around public places in full display. They deny human values as philosophy for their lives, so they have invented their own schools of thought. Sabbat vampires follow an extensive array of Paths of Enlightenment, moral codes that direct the Beast into a confined medium and permit the Cainite to cultivate a way of viewing and acting in the world. The Sabbat not only revolt against acting human, but also against their own tendency toward isolation. They generally band together into packs serving multiple functions: Cain-worshipping cults, combat squads, and political cliques.
