#nosferatu
Nosferatu, 1922
Vendetta’s still got plenty of the trappings of the tabletop RPG. The aforementioned frenzy system is one of them, where starvation makes a vampire lose control of themselves, fly into a rage and maybe even snack on a mate. Instead of worrying about a single vampire, however, each player runs a Chicago clan, competing with the others by playing cards that represent their undead powers and abilities in locations they want to control—all so they can gain enough influence to overthrow the current Prince of Chicago.
Vampire: The Masquerade—Vendetta is a devious, bloodthirsty card game from the Subnautica designer
“We want you to feel like a vampire in everything that you’re doing,“ says Hardsuit Labs’ narrative lead, Brian Mitsoda. He admits, ”[The first Bloodlines felt] kind of more like an FPS where you occasionally drink blood for fuel.“ This time, he says, "The violence of the vampire is more reflected in how you approach combat.”
Vampire: The Masquerade has been around for over twenty years and with more content coming, hopefully, centuries more.
Vampire: The Masquerade-Swansong Coming In 2021
In Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong, players will be able to take control of three different vampires. Using these different characters, players will have to figure out the truth behind murders, conspiracies and other vampire shenanigans.
Malkavian: Would you like some… basghetti!?
Seattle is host to an incredibly lucrative technology industry and business community, and the Camarilla have certainly benefited from this. Lead by Prince Cross, over the last 20 years this faction has helped to foster this community and drive the financial success of the city into the 21st century. Deeply ingrained into Seattle’s business community, the Camarilla count among their numbers CEOs, software moguls, bankers, venture capitalists, politicians and other members of society’s elite. This is a Kindred faction that doesn’t just influence the city from dark, street-level alleys, but also from the board rooms crowning skyscrapers up above.
This is partly in thanks to Prince Cross’ even-handed rule, business sense, and organizational capabilities. The Prince is skilled at forging key alliances, but also at knowing just how much power to give vampires to keep them comfortable but unable to rise against him. A ruler who prefers negotiation and careful strategy over brute force and violence, his political policy is one of stability, prosperity, and maintaining the Masquerade.
“Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2” Reveals The Camarilla
Meet Bogs! They were a nosforatu I played last year in a Vampire the Masquerade game. They were a park ranger with a trained search and rescue dog named Cerberus before they were turned. Very good at being sneaky, very good at talking to animals. They spent a lot of time in the woods pretending to be the chupacabra and actually continuing to do their job as a park ranger.
I enjoyed our mini campaign, it wasn’t super serious and had a comedic tone more in line with What we do in the Shadows, but the system just isn’t for me. I don’t like how aggressively open ended it is and non specific about abilities, yet also incredibly restrictive. I don’t think I’ll play in another long term campaign, but I have talked with this DM about coming back once in a while to do one off games with whatever new group he does this setting in.
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Denn die Toten reiten schnell.
I’m glad I finally did it for the 100th birthday of Nosferatu ! This movie is so awesome, so beautiful and poetic. I’m sad that the pictures are blurry, but eh, that’s to be expected with glass.
Bonus :
[image ID : three pictures and one gif of a preserve jar painted red and drawn on in black. On the first one, there’s a forest of firs on a mountain, and a few lines tracing the shape of a coach at the bottom. On the second pic, a castle appears in a valley, perched on a narrow rock. A sinuous road leads to it. The third one shows the shadow of Nosferatu on the stairway wall. The gif shows the rotating lantern. The bonus picture shows the detail of the coach. end ID]
