The Gentleman's Guide to Vampires: Clan Malkavian

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  • @1nf0calypse
    @1nf0calypse 5 лет назад +37

    The last Malkavian I played was convinced he was still a human in an immersive VR video game, throwing MMORPG lingo around all the time and treating others like NPCs - usually the NPCs, but also the Ventrue of the party. When he went to sleep, he imagined his "normal human life" and told the others about his boring day job, the fighting with his wife and so on. Sometimes, when he was annoyed or bored, he simply stated "AFK" and went into a pseudo torpor for a few minutes.

    • @TheGentlemanGamer
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  • @GentlemanAeon777
    @GentlemanAeon777 12 лет назад +70

    "The glass is cracked, yet strangely clear."
    -Malkavian PC to Strauss in Bloodlines-

    • @criss3619
      @criss3619 3 года назад

      That's how I feel about our world, such a perfect sentence.

  • @KassienBlackcloak
    @KassienBlackcloak 8 лет назад +195

    Here is a roleplaying tip for a Malky. Imagine your derangement in a filter. EVERYTHING your character experiences passes through that filter and is changed, as well as everything they try to put out into the world passes through as well and is changed. Sure, some Malkys are the ride the dinosaur skeleton naked in the middle of the museum types, but most are so deranged they are terrifying. Play your derangement. Play it hard and true. And keep playing it when your troupe are laughing at the table. Then keep playing it. Keep going even when they stop laughing and start getting bored with it. Then keep going. Keep going until they are all looking at you with worry and fear. That's when you are somewhere near home for a Malkavian. Cheers.

    • @MoonchildOfDarkness
      @MoonchildOfDarkness 6 лет назад +10

      Well said.

    • @R.E.LeBeau
      @R.E.LeBeau 5 лет назад +7

      Indeed the dark one speaks the poems of the great wisdom and truth

    • @hisvoiceremasteredrecords
      @hisvoiceremasteredrecords 5 лет назад +6

      I like to play my Malk as a tortured autistic character, torn between the extremes of severe suicidal depression and the survival instinct of the Beast, I then fill up the corners with complex paranoid delusions, though not vulgarly obvious to the other players (mistrust, aggressive outbursts, Machiavellian scheming, etc.). This is largely based on my own somewhat pathological persona, though with a little less critical reason and a little more dramatic impulsivity - no fish.
      My own diagnosis is autism /adhd/social anxiety with severe depression, and sure i've been to some condescending asshole therapists, but they never, ever accused me of being 'too lucid' or 'not wacky enough', let alone 'not retarded enough to be autistic'. As an aspiring clinical psych, I hope i never patronise a patient as bad as a crappy storyteller degrades a Malkavian. That's when i get hostile OOC, not even joking.
      Example: I was once accused of cheating (Playing a Bru with Malk powers), so i went full fish and they loved me. I left the game after that session.
      I really hoped that shit had changed since the 1990s, what with mental health awareness and other fashionable snowflakery going on, but i still get the shitty end of the stick, socially, professionally and academically. I just quit another crappy job today bc i am sick of having my intelligence insulted by minimum wage drones (i usually reply by asking how their PhD thesis is going, then undermine their self-esteem for being less than a rocket scientist themselves); who cares, i graduate next year, then i can get a real job and they will still be the NPCs of the real world (ie. there to be used/robbed/provide exposition, lol).
      We are losing the battle, my friends; ignorance is winning.
      Hope that helps (or hurts) anyone who has been getting it wrong!

    • @johngraham9117
      @johngraham9117 4 года назад

      madness mixed id madness defined is madness lost and found and belived. dont forget that otheres have agentcy as well

    • @criss3619
      @criss3619 3 года назад

      @@hisvoiceremasteredrecords you are a very self aware person, seems to me you aren't afraid to be your self and honestly speak what you feel about certain topics. Remind your self that having that skill in this modern dark age is a very useful tool, so love your self and don't let society get to you. Most people don't even know what they want and are suffering so just keep on being you.

  • @captaincokecan
    @captaincokecan 5 лет назад +124

    Stop sign: "....."
    Malkavian: " No you stop"
    Stop sign: "..."
    Malkavian: " no you stop ahhhh"
    Stop sign :"...."
    Malkavian:" ahhh nooo i won't"
    Stop sign:"...."
    Malkavian: " You have made a powerful enemy today sign"

    • @spartanalex9006
      @spartanalex9006 5 лет назад +1

      10/10 dialogue writing there.

    • @Bl1tzkn1ght
      @Bl1tzkn1ght 4 года назад +7

      *later*
      The sign is bent in half.

    • @TheGentlemanGamer
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  • @johnstuartkeller5244
    @johnstuartkeller5244 6 лет назад +58

    "Just when they think they've got the answers, I change the questions."
    - the Madness of the Malkov Ian's

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  • @aaronlevitz4984
    @aaronlevitz4984 10 лет назад +81

    When I was a member of the Camarilla, we had something called "the Malkavian Special Friend." Basically, you were the mark for Clan Malkavian's pranks and problems, but if you get messed with, Clan Malkavian would come to your defense.

    • @TheGentlemanGamer
      @TheGentlemanGamer  10 лет назад +32

      I'm sure those "special friends" loved that position.

    • @ekramer1030
      @ekramer1030 10 лет назад +9

      The Gentleman Gamer
      I wished to thank you so very much for your explanations. I think I now understand the Setite a bit better. Pesky, pesky Setite. We keep TELLING him he's really our Malkavian brother and he's just forgotten, but will he listen? Of course not. It all could just be a prank but I may have forgotten. Anyway, I must disagree that becoming a Malkavian makes you more insane. I believe I am FAR less mad now that the voices in my head have someone to talk with. It made the screaming stop most of the time and that is SO much less distracting. Would you like some cookies and hugs, or shall I just dance?

    • @aaronlevitz4984
      @aaronlevitz4984 8 лет назад +5

      The Gentleman Gamer It was great. Sometimes they'd end up as "Primogen," and all the Malkavians would bring their issues to the "special friend."

    • @ekramer1030
      @ekramer1030 8 лет назад

      Aaron Levitz
      Oh man that must have been awesome. :D

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  • @ReyvateilReploid
    @ReyvateilReploid 10 лет назад +92

    Playing a Malkavian is an interesting experience, if done right they are awesome, but it's so easy to mess up on them, to make them into Fish-Malks. I admire anyone who can play a Malkavian well enough to not be a Fish-Malk.

    • @ReyvateilReploid
      @ReyvateilReploid 10 лет назад +35

      ***** Fishmalk is a term used to refer to a stereo typically wacky Malkavian, the type who hits someone in the face with a fish and runs away hooting. Since Malkavians are all insane, the clan tends to attract a type of player who wants to be wacky or otherwise "chaotic neutral". The specific origin of the term has been attributed to an illustration in the Vampire: The Dark Ages Rule book, which featured a "knight in his undies bleeding into a goblet while some guy fondled a dead fish."

    • @portraitofmadamex9031
      @portraitofmadamex9031 7 лет назад +13

      I agree. Most Malkavian players are just a reduction of a stereotype of a mental illness and it gets tiring...Or a "wacky harley quinn ripoff" which is also blend and not creative... playing a Malkavian requires skill and thought.

    • @VandalAudi
      @VandalAudi 5 лет назад +3

      I find there are good Malk players and writers who made fish Malks so bizarre they go beyond your expected fail and made it something that even with the trademarked “chaotic stupid” behaviour of a regular fishMalk, they pulled in the other players into their derangedments. I suppose most of them instead of winging it, they play the metaplot, doing seeming random stuff to hide the player’s true intent, breaking 4th walls, using dementation to pry spoilers from the ST, you name it.

    • @jamestate770
      @jamestate770 5 лет назад +2

      @@VandalAudi best Malk ive ever seen played had MPD. Three personalities and each thought they were different clans (npc st created.) A malkavian advisor, Nosferatu spy, and a Brujah bruiser all in one character. It was beautiful

    • @thegoodluckranger5129
      @thegoodluckranger5129 4 года назад

      @@VandalAudi Had a fellow player who did a lot of what you described and it more disruptive and annoying than anything else, quite unpleasant too, actually. He would interrupt other players in order to describe whatever "wacky" thing he was doing at that moment or to explain what "Caine" was whispering to him, yep, that was his derangement, Caine would give him orders and tell him secrets which he would generally use to derail the story. It finally came to a head during the second session when he started verbally abusing another player and threatening to ghoul and rape the character's family members after they'd politely asked him to stop interrupting them and when several members of the group reprimanded him for this he had a panic attack, fell over and shit his pants. I was kind of in shock as to what was happening when he silently got up, went to the bathroom, locked the door and didn't come out until his brother arrived to pick him up.

  • @reiner6
    @reiner6 11 лет назад +15

    Malkavian its my favorite clan, when being the storyteller, they add flavor to the game, and you'll never know what a malkavian player will do, and it works the other way around, the player never knows what his malkavian will do.

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  • @satanicwatermelon
    @satanicwatermelon 11 лет назад +15

    Malks have to be my favorite, for the sheer amount of variety in the clan, like every flavor jelly beans

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  • @wesleybrown7404
    @wesleybrown7404 8 лет назад +81

    Malkavian is my favorite clan to roleplay even though they get pretty boned in terms of disciplines and are primarily used for comic relief. As a Storyteller, I restrict Malkavians to only veteran players with good concepts...you've got to earn the right to play Malkavian in my World of Darkness. My favorite Malkavian character was called "The Vampire Batman" although he also had a secret identity during the day as the always sleeping, thousandaire playboy and welfare recipient Woose Brain. Rather than play him as raving and random-he was simply delusional about his identity and tried to the best of his ability to emulate The Caped Crusader no matter how weird or paradoxical it may seem to others. His demented delusions and vampire powers compensated for his lack of gadgets and resources. While in his mind he is wearing bulletproof Bat-armor and driving the Batmobile, he is really just wearing a trench-coat and a Batman T-shirt with matching Underoos on the back of a moped. He routinely tells the group, "No guns. I don't like guns." but then loads a magazine into his AK-47-when pressed about it he claims, "It's a Bat-a-rang." The coolest part was that by pretending to be Batman, he would find clues and analyze them in his "Bat Computer" which was actually just sticking whatever he picked up in his mouth and using-the Malkavian mind network to render surprisingly accurate crime fighting information in most cases. I also made him a legit martial arts expert with a supply of exceedingly useful everyday tools on his belt, and eventually he owned a vampire bar called "The Bat Cave." He referred to the Prince as Commissioner Gordon and everyone else on the team he called "Alfred"-just little things here and there to let you know that he was bat-shit crazy but not completely worthless and annoying.

    • @coffeebreakhero3743
      @coffeebreakhero3743 8 лет назад +11

      PRaise yOu aWESomE onE, yoU havE MAde oNE cILHd oF mlaakv Laugh

    • @MrFantocan
      @MrFantocan 7 лет назад +13

      Best part is calling all other players Alfred.

    • @SuperAAAGamer
      @SuperAAAGamer 7 лет назад +9

      Wesley Brown I think this is really cool, I hate how Malkavians are reduced to comic relief in most adventures. They have the most potential of all the clans in my opinion, think "genius syndrome". I love my Malkavians to be incredibly intelligent, truly knowing all the answers but none of the questions.

    • @schwann145
      @schwann145 7 лет назад +9

      I feel like that's exactly the kind of Malkavian that gives the clan such a bad name.
      This is not a silly clan - it's a clan of tragedy and terrifying horror.

    • @kevinbarber2795
      @kevinbarber2795 6 лет назад

      Wesley Brown lots of laughter

  • @shillinhite3911
    @shillinhite3911 6 лет назад +3

    The first and only vampire I've played so far is a Malkavian. She is very emotionally invested in the survival and wellbeing of insects in sort of a Kristoff from Frozen "Reindeers are better than people" kind of a way. Imagine her surprise when they start telling her the things they want.

    • @shillinhite3911
      @shillinhite3911 6 лет назад

      She was embraced by her uncle, whose derangement was that he would always embellish past events in his own mind to make them seem more exciting, and then ended up believing his own tall tales had actually happened. He was killed pretty soon after he embraced my character, though, so he didn't really get a good chance to introduce her to vampire life.

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  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад +4

    @Samwise7RPG Thank you! The Malkavians are a superb clan when played with respect, tragedy and an element of seriousness.

  • @andrewjensen8128
    @andrewjensen8128 6 лет назад +22

    Most gamers treat playing a Malkavian as, "I'm so random!"

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  • @lunatelion07
    @lunatelion07 3 года назад +2

    This channel deserves more attention!

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    • @lunatelion07
      @lunatelion07 2 года назад

      @@TheGentlemanGamer You're a legend, sir. Your videos have single handedly gotten me into tabletop games. The lore ones, in particular, have given me the goal and dream of writing for VTM. Expect a donation from me 4th April.

    • @TheGentlemanGamer
      @TheGentlemanGamer  2 года назад +1

      @@lunatelion07 You superstar. Thank you so much!

  • @ItsRainingHippos
    @ItsRainingHippos 9 лет назад +16

    Guys, turn on the subtitles. You won't be disappointed.

    • @Skullkan6
      @Skullkan6 9 лет назад +6

      it's like it was written by a malkavian. I almost wish there were written subtitles as an easter egg for the video.

    • @ThisIsRelevant
      @ThisIsRelevant 7 лет назад +5

      climb out caving
      Carmel Caving
      Clan Al Kayvyan

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  • @AlexanderMystery
    @AlexanderMystery 11 лет назад +24

    best clan in the game ever!!! lovely explanation mate :)

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  • @lazarus30001
    @lazarus30001 6 лет назад +1

    Best presentation I've seen regarding the mindset of Clan Malkavian.

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  • @ValravnPrince
    @ValravnPrince 10 лет назад +29

    We are Clan Malkavian! Fuck the Sabbat! Fuck the Camarilla! Cousin, it is time!

    • @wampyrelli
      @wampyrelli 10 лет назад +7

      You mean the dinner is ready, twisted child of Malkav?

    • @willofbob
      @willofbob 10 лет назад +7

      Your clock is slow, dear brother. It was time 6 months ago, but no-one showed. We had to reschedule for February 31st.

    • @aeiouqueen
      @aeiouqueen 10 лет назад +4

      The voices are weakened, but we shall listen.

    • @ValravnPrince
      @ValravnPrince 10 лет назад +3

      So quiet... Please, make me scream...

    • @aeiouqueen
      @aeiouqueen 10 лет назад +4

      Hush silent one, many things must be screamed these nights.

  • @woodwwad
    @woodwwad 13 лет назад +1

    Thanks for the shout out. Great points about the malks being so totally different from each other. Good job with the story about Cain too. Salot did indeed return.
    I've seen many cities in games were Malks weren't welcome. Last time I ran VTM, the prince of my city, Boston, was a Malk.
    excellent job.

  • @Garchicero
    @Garchicero 12 лет назад +2

    I've been preparing my next Malkavian character for like 2 months now, and I don't expect to finish anytime soon. Feeling it will be a great story once Daniel rolls in (his name).

  • @PlacidDirge
    @PlacidDirge 10 лет назад +2

    Oh the Malkavian, we delight in playing as ourselves, with ourselves, even when when we are someone else, or we when we are no longer here.

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  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  11 лет назад +6

    They're more inclined to obsession than mania.

  • @horusrage
    @horusrage 12 лет назад

    I like the way you did this presenting the Malkavians as an old malkavian and tremere player it made me very nostalgic to play once again but at the moment I am running the game my friends and I are playing.

  • @Estel2121
    @Estel2121 8 лет назад +11

    I know that this is an old video and whanot, but if we ever get another VTM series and you are not put as the prince of some camarilla city we should riot.

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  • @eran5005
    @eran5005 9 лет назад +2

    Definitely my favorite clan, the one i enjoyed playing the most.

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  • @Komeister
    @Komeister 13 лет назад

    This clan is a forbidden player clan in my campaigns because everyone wants to play this clan lately due to a GM I met on a convention who was able to put an EXCELLENT Malkavian on the board.
    Next to this, excellent video. Thanks!

  • @nishidohellhillsruler6731
    @nishidohellhillsruler6731 Год назад +1

    Imagine that the universe were a Rube Goldberg machine, huge, truly huge, and you are in there, somewhere in there, not being able to see the forest because you are two inches away from a tree, and in this immense machine there are infinite little balls doing their random things along the machine; now, why does a Malkavian embraces someone? Because it's going to be funny, in the great scale or at a tiny point of that machine, eventually. It's going to come out as a punchline of some kind, eventually. You all are welcome.

  • @ryangeoghagan3076
    @ryangeoghagan3076 7 лет назад +14

    I don't care what every online quiz says. I'm not a Toreador. I'm a Malkavian.

    • @jonathanguajardo8430
      @jonathanguajardo8430 4 года назад +1

      maybe your insanity is that of inner paranoia where the outside you acts like a toriodor to shield absolute crippling anxiety

    • @dakotablount251
      @dakotablount251 4 года назад +1

      Suck it up pretty boy.

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  • @JStarPaws
    @JStarPaws 7 лет назад +3

    Wow, you did my favorite clan proud!

    • @TheGentlemanGamer
      @TheGentlemanGamer  7 лет назад

      Kathryn Hamilton Glad to hear it!

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  • @Kikiyume
    @Kikiyume 7 лет назад +3

    Remember that he explained Dementation came back. It's not a Sabbat-specific Discipline.

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  • @koshercub
    @koshercub 11 лет назад +2

    I'm glad that I inspired a malk creation. The quote I used is actually from my Elder character I made training his childe to be a true malkavian. Malkavians see the world. They can see how the sane see it but they know it's a falsehood.

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  • @spinnerling
    @spinnerling 5 лет назад +5

    Short tip for to-be Malkavians: The Jim Carry crazy house malkavian would never be invited anywhere. It's a very unsustainable character. The Anthony Hopkins malkavian, however, would thrive. The Robin Williams malkavian might not thrive, but would at least make a great character for your group to play alongside. Think subtle and brilliant, not vulgar and random.

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  • @KelilaHaven
    @KelilaHaven 11 лет назад +1

    im very very grateful for this video. Not just for really good, interesting and understandable information in it, but for nice presentation of it. Aaaand one more 'thank you' for just an accent you have.^^
    With love from ukrainian toreador-malkavian, or malkavian-toreador, it doesn't matter.:3

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  • @ReganousTheGrey
    @ReganousTheGrey 4 года назад

    Good evening,
    Another excellent video, quite informative.

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    • @ReganousTheGrey
      @ReganousTheGrey 2 года назад

      @@TheGentlemanGamer Good evening. Excellent idea, will be there!
      Hope you are doing well during these pandemic times.

  • @baltoen_
    @baltoen_ Год назад

    Doing some research as a complete beginner and our ST pointed to this channel.
    Before doing any reading I tried taking the clan quiz on the official website as I figured it'd be a fun entry and I got Malkavian. Wasn't disappointed.
    One of the other players got that too.
    Our ST response was: This is gotte be fun 😅
    But I've definitely taken some good mental notes from this video. We'll see if that's the clan I pick, definitely very intriguing.

  • @Onionkid99
    @Onionkid99 13 лет назад

    What I like about Dementation is that it doesn't cause insanity per se, but rather brings that inner latent madness bubbling up to the surface.
    It's also unique in that many Malkavians are not only willing to teach this discipline, but will merrily do so.
    Of course anyone who seeks to learn it will invariably gain a dementia. Though in the Malkavian's eyes, they're doing that kindred a favor by expanding their reality just a bit...

  • @TheStupidLama
    @TheStupidLama 12 лет назад

    I guess that the interest in Vampire the Masquerade is fading.. but I was about to say: you deserve more views! you're great, it's fun and informative listening to you. The voice also sends his its greetings! And don't you dare not taking him seriously!

  • @PDRNorrington
    @PDRNorrington 12 лет назад

    Now i want to get into playing Tabletop games because of your vast knowledge of the game.

  • @Frank-Voight-Kampff
    @Frank-Voight-Kampff 13 лет назад +1

    @clackclickbang Well mental illness and an almost tragic connection to the true destiny of the WoD. I always saw the Malkavians as Cassandra-like characters. They know so much about the ways of the world, the future and their place in it but are never able to comprehend it in a "sensible" way.
    And there are so many great character concepts possible with them.

  • @rudolphantler6309
    @rudolphantler6309 6 лет назад +6

    A Malkavian, a Ravnos, a Kiasyd, and a Harbinger of Skulls walk into a bar....

    • @litchqueenasenath5995
      @litchqueenasenath5995 6 лет назад +1

      And the bar says ouch.

    • @marlonribeiro8351
      @marlonribeiro8351 5 лет назад

      Suddenly the Vampire LARP becomes Changeling.
      Malkavian = Pooka
      Ravnos = Exu
      Kiasyd = Shide
      "Skulls" = Sluagh

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  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @woodwwad Saulot returned and he brought an extra eye with him! He always was good with gifts.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад +1

    @eggmansizzle The Malkavians are up there among my favourite clans.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  12 лет назад

    In that case I appreciate the compliment. Not many people come out and say such!

  • @ChaosAssailant
    @ChaosAssailant 11 лет назад +1

    wish they would make more video games for this great concept...

  • @paulleach3612
    @paulleach3612 4 года назад

    For those whose passion is in the of seeking knowledge, then greatest curse is to have have all the answers...

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  • @Dobyk
    @Dobyk 11 лет назад +2

    What is your opinion of Dominate Malkavians? The core book says their madness is less pronounced and certainly less dangerous, and they even appear to be outwardly stable. So, does that mean that the Dominate Malks are much more lucid and reliable? I imagine them to be rather rational and sensible, although weird, as opposed to the unpredictable madness of normal Malks. I'm trying to create an obsessive-compulsive occultist Malk who is weird and friendly, rather than dangerously deranged.

  • @SuperHavard123
    @SuperHavard123 12 лет назад

    I really enjoy your videos, just getting into vampire the masquerade...

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @hoboyho They are a good clan to play as, providing you can do so with seriousness and an understanding of how tragic mental illness can be.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @Blandhumanoid Glad you liked it!

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @Onionkid99 Dementation isn't too far from the Discipline of Presence, in that it merely heightens emotions that already exist in a mortal or vampire.

  • @MasterAsra
    @MasterAsra 11 лет назад

    There's that, but a Malkavian's Dementation of sufficient level can be permanent, which is a pretty long time for the vampire struck with it. It's going to be pretty hard to find something capable of getting rid of something like a paranoia, depression or newfound fear of the dark. In the middle of combat this can be deadly.
    Also most Thaumaturgy paths can be matched by other clan powers. Assamites and Setites even have their own Thaumaturgy paths that Tremere don't have access to.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @TheVikingHill Thanks! I hope you keep watching!

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  12 лет назад

    It's a fantastic setting.

  • @wormwoodz
    @wormwoodz 12 лет назад

    A fun detail is that Saulot actually found the answear to Malkav and Set's question. (SPOILER ALERT!) His reply to them is in a document that players can discover in Transylvania Chronicles, and it can be a bit shocking... considering this is established 3rd edition lore. An interesting read, but I don't recomend looking it up unless you plan on running a Gehenna chronicle. It does make the Revised CB a very interesting read, once you understand what they were looking for, and why they failed.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @LogicalBrutality My thanks to you for recommending!

  • @Christoff070
    @Christoff070 4 года назад

    Excellent enjoyable insights into Clan Malk, thanks. Im interested in how star signs compare to Vtm clans, and I've always thought that Aquarius would be a nice comparison. Unpredictable yet usually reliable. Capable yet chaotic. Looney yet deeply insightful.

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    • @Christoff070
      @Christoff070 2 года назад +1

      @@TheGentlemanGamer ok checking out now, congrats on making a new game

    • @TheOnyxPath
      @TheOnyxPath 2 года назад

      @@Christoff070 Superstar! Thank you so much.

  • @evilblondgoth
    @evilblondgoth 12 лет назад

    I am very happy to see you did not go with the steryotypical view some players have of the clan, that insanity only encompase the more extreeme mental ilnesses like scizophrenia or pshycotic tendancys. I hate it that many many players forget that there are many different forms of mental ilnesses from Depression, eating disorders, severe form of ocd etc.

  • @frostwitch7234
    @frostwitch7234 10 лет назад +5

    Much Madness is divinest Sense --
    To a discerning Eye --
    Much Sense--the starkest Madness --
    'Tis the Majority
    In this, as All, prevail --
    Assent--and you are sane --
    Demur--you're straightway dangerous --
    And handled with a Chain
    Get your own cookies. :D

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  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  12 лет назад

    Very kind of you to say so... What would you like to hear me say?

  • @koshercub
    @koshercub 11 лет назад +1

    Do not look into the mirror. You will only see an illusion. Do not destroy the mirror. You will have nothing to see. Break the mirror leaving only cracks. The cracks are where the truth really hide.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @hoboyho In my last Dark Ages chronicle we didn't have any Malkavians, but we did have a True Brujah who diablerised one. He ended up taking on the Malk as an alternate personality.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  12 лет назад

    My pleasure. I hope your family member is doing well.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @Komeister Thank you for watching!

  • @ChaseWyler
    @ChaseWyler 13 лет назад +1

    Yes, thank you, Malkavian is my favorite clan

  • @TheVikingHill
    @TheVikingHill 13 лет назад

    I have only played one game of Vampire: The Masquerade and did not really get it and now I know why. The game's background was never told to me. It was more like there are different clans flighting for power. These clan though the history and detail, wow. Deep game.

  • @YaoiHuntressEarth
    @YaoiHuntressEarth 12 лет назад

    Although there is some interesting theories of Arikel and Malkav being twins which could explain both clan's psychotic problems (the Torreador's occasional sociopathery and the Kook's madness.)

  • @TheMalkavianPrince
    @TheMalkavianPrince 12 лет назад +1

    Well thank you, that was fairly informative, and contained a few things I was not aware of..
    Just one thing, though:
    Wasn't Malkav also a Child of Lilith, and twin Brother of Toreador?

  • @evilblondgoth
    @evilblondgoth 12 лет назад

    Thse that look down on those who know a little better from fist hand exsperiance. As I said I have my owen issues and I have a family member who is Para Scitz and though he can not hold down a job etc he has days/weeks where he is compleetly in controll and days when he is not. So thanks again for clearing up some misnceptions xx

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @mollytherealdeal Old World of Darkness. I could move onto new at some point, but the clans have less flavour in new.
    I do like the sound of that character! A very different type of Malkavian.

  • @Frank-Voight-Kampff
    @Frank-Voight-Kampff 13 лет назад

    I sooo want to play a Malkavian in one of your campaign...

  • @ClockworkSorceror
    @ClockworkSorceror 12 лет назад

    Very nice, I have to say that this is one of your better history lesson videos. I can't wait to see some of your videos when/if you get around to the Werewolf tribes. Also, would it be possible to do an addendum video at some point regarding the malkavia disease ?

  • @WolfgangNightshadow
    @WolfgangNightshadow 13 лет назад

    I used to play a Malkavian once, a former orderly in a closed mental hospital... he resided in the hospital and kept performing the same duties he had done when the institution was still open, occasionally he would find new patients, mostly vagrants, drug addicts or teens who had run away from home, he would keep them locked up and care for them, feed from them, of course they would all invariably die... I miss that guy...

  • @commandervulkan
    @commandervulkan 5 лет назад +8

    Sanity is for the weak

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  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @EvanLovesWhiskey They'll get a video especially about them at some point.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  11 лет назад

    Vampire was the most popular RPG in the mid '90s.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @WolfgangNightshadow He sounds like a very cool character. A decent sort of Malkavian!

  • @PolyrystallineLace
    @PolyrystallineLace 12 лет назад

    He has a hott, distinguished voice. Like that of a brilliant, furtive villain-protaganist.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  12 лет назад

    Glad you liked the video!

  • @DisegnoSb
    @DisegnoSb 10 лет назад +3

    well, i would like to start playing a malkav, but i have a few questions...
    1)are either sicero or sheogorath, good inspirations for a malkav character?
    2)knowing that everyone have some "weirdness" or "mental illnes"(at least in my country it is said that more than 90% have at least something, from obsessions to depression or stress and lots of them end up with something worst because of that) making an exageration of my own, could work?(my problem is that when i get angry i think different, things that i would like when im happy are anoying, and things that i would hate when im happy i start to like when im angry, also... i lose any mercy or simpathy for anyone, and coul see someone dying without even thinking its something to care about but it does not means im violent, just that violence does not seems like something important when im really really angry, but yeah, i tend to be more violent when im angry, like anybody else)
    and
    3)what can you tell me about malkav ghouls?

    • @thefool9761
      @thefool9761 9 лет назад +5

      Cicero in my opinion would be a better choice - perhaps performed with more subtlety. Malkavians are crazy but not stupid, and those that live in the camerilla rarely are loud about their insanity. To do so could put them in danger of being exploited or killed. Like in Bloodlines, Tourette Voermann has multiple personality disorder which is used strategically to fool people that there is more than one vampire running the city. One being impulsive, sexually driven and anarchic while the other is cold, psychopathic and business based.
      Another example could be Hannibal Lecter, who would be a mixture of antisocial disorder mixed with intellectualism. Uncomfortable to be around and very analytical of people around him and perhaps tempted to go into a fit of rage if a provocation, which goes against the Malk's judgement of character is triggered.

    • @litchqueenasenath5995
      @litchqueenasenath5995 6 лет назад

      If you wanna play a cripplingly depressed Malk watch and study Bojack Horseman.

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  • @GirlWhoLovesTurtles
    @GirlWhoLovesTurtles 12 лет назад

    I personally love playing as a Malkavian. I'm not sure why but it's always satisfying to seem like the most stable member of my coterie one moment and then turn into rambling lunatic the next. The only real down side I've ever really seen was that the derangement gives something of an unfortunate tick which someone can learned to exploit.

  • @juriaan13
    @juriaan13 13 лет назад +1

    We..They..uhm us..are not insane..we know to much ..Malkavians are the best.Embracing is pure luck..they survive the madness during the change, embrace it and "live" reject it and never know all the secrets we know..or don't know..

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  13 лет назад

    @hoboyho They know the answers to everything. They just don't know the questions. This results in their spouting what other vampires presume to be gibberish.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  12 лет назад +1

    They're doing an MMO!

  • @NodDisciple1
    @NodDisciple1 11 лет назад

    7:24 I wish I could remember which book, but I could've sworn I read in a Sabbat book that Sabbat Malkavians deny being Malkavians but claim to be Caitiff's/Panders. They even deny the existence of Malkav himself.

  • @elderjuniormaster
    @elderjuniormaster 11 лет назад

    I stood surprised in first words of your typing, i saw "Mcdonald's stated in interviews that they're only going to be using Kindred, 'and i guessed 'meat')

  • @mbalazs3544
    @mbalazs3544 7 лет назад

    3:27 To prove a point on freedom and the "responsibility" of no regret. ~ maybe

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  • @DTux5249
    @DTux5249 5 лет назад +1

    Now, Malk fans, I need inspiration
    I have a Malkavian, a dean of medicine. I'm thinking OCD, possibly obsessed with Golconda. But, in what other ways could this OCD manifest?
    So far I've got him counting the time since his T.O.D. As a kind of "this is how long a body can be clinically dead and still function

    • @hisvoiceremasteredrecords
      @hisvoiceremasteredrecords 5 лет назад

      How about some superstition based on mathematics/numerology? 😉

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  • @Brutalyte616
    @Brutalyte616 10 лет назад +4

    I'm curious about something.
    How far would random sudden bursts of violence go for redeeming a Fishmalk?

  • @YaoiHuntressEarth
    @YaoiHuntressEarth 13 лет назад

    @woodwwad Awesome. What kind of Prince was he (other than crazy)?

  • @Buttaredtoast
    @Buttaredtoast 12 лет назад

    Hey, could you please do a video on the daughters of cacophony? I think they're kind of cool.

  • @Chrominance87
    @Chrominance87 12 лет назад

    6:44 you describe Dementation like how the Brujha would use Presence.

  • @Frank-Voight-Kampff
    @Frank-Voight-Kampff 13 лет назад

    @clackclickbang Isn't Saulot mentioned in Kindred of the East? Was his encounter with the Kaj-jin that journey you mentioned?

  • @Ormnephoenix
    @Ormnephoenix 12 лет назад

    you sir are my history teacher.

  • @Shyster099
    @Shyster099 Год назад

    I seem to recall Malkav terrified even Brujha. I think it's in the lore somewhere

  • @CrimsonButterfly91
    @CrimsonButterfly91 5 месяцев назад +1

    Playing one now in 5th edition working to get to full madness network Dementation powers with dissociative identity disorder fun as a painter and artist

  • @yaakovnhadassah5327
    @yaakovnhadassah5327 7 лет назад +1

    Its so nice to stumble on here in the middle of the night only to see we are still going strong. My dolls told me you were all here but it took a while to understand as i drew on their mouths backwards and the directions they Gave Me kept getting myself Lost. I triED tosleep for SO LOng but release Wouldnt come even wHEn I brIbed it with a box of thumbtax. ThuMbtax dont seem liKe much to you I believe but WHen you Know how to cultivate them INto something solid, something real then things start to happen. Press ouch! press press Ouch!!! and they laugh then Cry but always give in. then the fun can Begin! WHo wants to argue with a Little giRl whEN it cOMes to Thumbtacks right?

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  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  12 лет назад

    Thanks for watching!

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  12 лет назад

    I'm doing a Let's Play of that game on my other channel.

  • @TheGentlemanGamer
    @TheGentlemanGamer  12 лет назад

    Excellent!

  • @brimstoner8908
    @brimstoner8908 10 лет назад

    Hey are you planning to do an update with the By Night Studios stuff? I would love to hear a small recap using some of the adjusted rules for each guide.

    • @TheGentlemanGamer
      @TheGentlemanGamer  10 лет назад

      I should be doing so! I've ordered the book.

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