Thousand Year Old Vampire - A Solo RPG Review
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- Step into the lonely world of an immortal vampire in this solitaire RPG. With a single D10 and D6, you pass through the centuries gaining and losing assets, friends, and eventually your own memories. Here's my thoughts on playing this journaling Roleplaying Game.
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00:00 Intro
00:22 What is TYOV?
01:23 The Book Itself
02:59 Character Creation
05:00 Vampire Creation
06:41 How to Play
10:36 Overall Thoughts
12:52 Outro 
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Creator here: I am really enjoying how perfectly Seth has called me out on "memories are a single sentence" and "this character sheet example isn't really that great."
Hi Tim! You didn't leave much for me to criticize. You did a fantastic job making a beautiful game.
Dude... the message on your website is very bigoted and hypocritical. Seriously, you are projecting very hard and act as guilty as those you blame.
@@SSkorkowsky sounded cool, but the author has a lot of hate and likes margianilizing people. Just look at his website, he has a whole manifesto there. In it he even claims all creative types(that would include you) "universally hate" people who have any disagreement with his personal politics. Obviously that is a ridiculous claim, but it still is in very poor taste. I just want you to be aware there are apparently some strong implications dealing with this person.
@@SSkorkowsky But I kid you not: I put that character sheet in thinking "This isn't a usable thing but someone won't have the slightest idea how to organize their character sheet. This'll get 'em started."
To some extent it's also the fault of English, a-la those run-on sentences in Regency novels. Maybe that's when the vampire learned to write. :)
I especially love Jack checking in through the ages to mention tips and tricks
I'm pretty sure this vid holds the record for the most Jack costumes
@@SSkorkowsky the most Jack costumes so far....
Has Jack sent in the invoice yet for his wardrobe use yet?.... he strikes me as the kind of guy that keeps all the receipts from filming ........and that he steals Cigars from your desk when you leave the room..... I say as I see.... A would best mark the Liquor bottles as well with a felt tip.... but hey, you know your your NPCs better than I do..... I just say as some of mine I think when to the same finishing schools.
Sort of reminds me of the movie ‘Orlando’.
@@dmeep Yeah, it made me wonder just how big Seth's costume collection is.
Seth in a helmet with fake teeth going "this is a pretty dark game intended for mature audiences" got me laughing so hard
That book looks incredible.
Also, props to the costume changes throughout the ages.
Moment that really stuck with me when I played this game was my vampire getting the prompt to sell his oldest possession, and I realized that at that point his oldest possession was his journal that contained his original name.
Ouch
I have actually played this before! But, perhaps appropriately, I... don't remember what happened in my playthrough, and I lost the journal I wrote as part of it. Whoops!
Are... are you a 1,000-year-old vampire?
Using this as a resource for making characters for Vampire the Masquerade when I’m feeling stumped would be really useful.
I've used it. Great way to flesh out elders' backgrounds.
This was actually a very good idea
This definitely looks like a great resource for creating a vampire villain. Imagine a COC campaign where the investigators come across these old journals during their adventures, slowly piecing them together. Learning about this vampire’s origins and life only for the bloodsucker to arrive and want his memories back. That would be awesome.
Also of note, the ink on the spine of the book is glow in the dark.
Wait! What?
_Runs off to check_
Holy crap! It glows in the dark!
Yup, I found that out on accident. I emailed the author and he said it was meant to be a little easter egg.
Wow, thanks! I have had that book for 3 months now and never noticed! 🤯
Now I wonder if there's anything that glows under a UV light.
Sticker on front:
Bibliotheca Regia Hafniensis
De Forbudte bøgers værelse
Translated from Latin and Danish:
The Royal Library of Copenhagen
Room of the Forbidden Books
I've only played through one game of this so far. I spent time as a lord in Eastern Europe and as a wizard in Venice. But after fleeing to the New World, things didn't go well and I ended up dying on a park bench in LA sometime around 1980.
Seth your alter-ego Jack showing up as a vampire in different historical costumes is really great, love your content.
Thank you very much.
Another Ennie-class video: that art piece for the Vampire Creation slide - just magnificent Seth!
Thank you very much. Though all the art came from the rulebook. I merely Photoshopped them into proper slides
I had fun with this game
Played an ancient Turkic Khan who was cursed for killing and eating his dad out of desperation. His mark was that storm clouds followed him wherever he went, as Tengri was so disgusted by him that he refused to shine light on him.
He learned how to speak and write Farsi, which is how he was able to keep a journal.
It was badass. His whole tribe/horde became kind of infamous, as his Mark made it that members had to travel far in order to escape the oppressive darkness.
He lost his horde eventually, and Temujin (Genghis Khan himself) put him down. The last entry I set up as a "controversial, supposedly lost fragment of The Secret History of the Mongols" where I went into detail about it.
"Go on, Temujin. Strike me down. I'll always be Khan here" were his last words.
Needless to say, I enjoyed it
A Seth Skorkowsky calendar of one of he's characters each month plugging one of his #1 game recommends each month would almost be worth buying.
Yeah i kinda wanted to say the same, so im for it!
Jack the NPC could easily have a calendar of his own
Seth please make a calendar! I missed out on the Tabletop friends merch. I would love a calendar from you!
The skits in this video are especially funny, and the costumes are very impressive; fangs really suit Jack.
A calendar, eh? Featuring all of Seth's characters? That could be fun.
Love this video. Did a great job of pointing out how the system works, and some "how to" on it. Also loved the costume changes each time we checked in with Jack.
This does remind me of a game I go through Itchio called "The Wretched." It's a sci-fi "trapped on a ship with an alien monster trying to get in" story. Uses playing cards and a "wooden block tower" to help give prompts for scenes. Intended to be recorded, but I could also see it as text logs. It would be a great way to set up a "lost derelict" plot for a Traveller game. Run through the game to a conclusion, then have the players find the ship, with all the logs, and let them have fun with the monster on the ship.
That feeling when you see a new Seth's video 🎉 and it's about an RPG I've been drooling on for months, too!
I really enjoyed the game, but I also didn't feel like playing again. It was interesting, but the book was probably the best part. I plan to gift my copy to someone who I think will love it more than I did. Still, a very interesting experience and I think most people interested in RPGs should at least try it out.
Bought a copy as a gift for a friend based on your review. You give great inspire and honest feedback.
Hope they enjoy it
Perhaps Jack should only feed on alcoholics🍷😅
Solo RPG's are so underrated.
Finally got around to teaching us how to play with ourselves, eh Seth?
I'm a man of my word
I'm so excited to see you review 1000 Year Old Vampire! I purchased it when it came out & have had so much fun with it. Made some amazing vampires along the way, too. I can't speak highly enough of it.
This feels like Varney the Vampire the Role Playing Game. This is interesting, and I could see it's use for background and history. Nice review.
The costume changes for Jack were excellent.
I know what a doge (duke) is, but internet memes have so tainted my brain that every time I hear the word I think of that dog. So I just kept imagining Seth's character pledging his service to a cheerful-looking dog in sunglasses.
Yeah, you sold me. Currently downloading the .pdf of it. This looks fantastic!
Im not much of a journaler but man I want that book its gorgeous. Thanks for the video Seth!
"Gary The Ghoul's Reflections On His Life, Times, and Cuisine Through The Ages."
I enjoyed the game. I did a play-through where one of my resources was a Bavarian castle over a little village and I went from a manor Lord to a sinister thing that dwelt beneath the castle ruins while my legend became a thing of dark myth.
This is gonna be such good supplemental/backstory material for Vampire: The Masquerade NPCs!!!
Ooh. I love this book and it had not even occurred to me to use it to make up a thoroughly fleshed out villain for my CoC group.
Bibliotheca Regia Hafniensis
and the "De forbudte bøgers værelse" - to you non danish readers out there, The Forbidden Books Chamber/Room
apart from the forbidden books, the latin is an old ownership mark that was used by the Royal Library in Copenhagen -just something you may find interesting.
Love this channel. Every video is somehow cozy and warm. Just calm talking and quality reviews. Thank you, Seth!
I was having a good day. Then I saw Seth put out a new video; now I'm having a *great* day!
Great t-shirt. The most important memory should be the time when he chopped the fire giant's head... through the boooooone!
01:15. Time to go ask a Tzimisce to give me more grey matter....
10:30. "American Psycho" Vampire?
I had a great time playing this last year. Like Seth I also scoffed at the warning at how dark and distressing it could be but then surprised myself at how much it affected me when characters died after having a long history in the story.
My character lasted about six hundred years. I played as an English peasant farmhand almost killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and then saved via undeath by a mysterious vampire. There was an antagonist vampire called Mar who harassed me over a couple of hundred years until I wrapped a heavy chain around him and left him on a riverbank for the sun. I was almost discovered by a vampire hunter in Kent, England but I managed to poison him to get rid of him.
Years later his descendent tracked me down in Germany and befriended me, said he forgave me for killing his ancestor and then staked me and cut my head off in my sleep.
Man, you put together the most engaging and informative reviews I've ever seen on RUclips! I've always been curious about this game, so it's nice to see a positive review. Adding it to my "to buy asap" list
Seth delivers again. Thanks Seth.
i played this game when it was recommended on the shut up and sit down channel, it was such a blast!! i personally played a vampire who was about to die from the bubonic plague and had buboes they had to hide along with their mangled arm from when they were turned into a vampire, it was so fun to get myself to dig through older history that i probably wouldn't have otherwise!
The skits! The skits! Oh.. those are so good. Really, I am like bedridden by pain and having a lot anxiety from work, and can't sleep because of that. But those skits gave me so warm and kind laughs. Thanks:)
A long time ago (not thousands) we had a discussion about Vampire the masquerade and other setting where the characters play immortals. This is difficult to comprehend and both for the GM and for the players to have a feeling how it should be played. In a way it is also hard to understand even how the life was for some one in the 1920 like in CoC. So this solo game is a perfect way for a player or a GM to come up with a understanding how it could be to be immortal. Usually this type of games risk to be another action game, but I like to a deeper understanding (even not perfect) how it could be. Great job Seth and @timh4168
I gotta say, i have never expected you to do this one. Love it as always
Put me down for one of the "12 Months of Skorkowsky" Calendars
Love this game, was a big surprise to see this featured on the channel!
He did it!
Seth finally told us about him playing with himself! XD
But, seriously, I LOVE solo RPGs and this is a great example of how rich this kind of games are. It's certainly not for everyone, but I believe everybody should at least try one once and see how it goes.
Tip: try The Solo Investigator's Handbook for Call of Cthulhu or Legacy of Cthulhu, a Brazilian post-apocalyptic game about the rise of the Great Old Ones.
Solo RPGs are gaining a foothold and It's not a bad thing. The wonder of "Choose Your Own Adventure" combined with cinematic soundtracks. Play it when you want to and get immersed in your own sweet time. I highly recommend Sound Realms. Other than that, here is a reference .. "And we wept, Precious, we wept to be so alone. And we only wish to catch fish so juicy sweet. And we forgot the taste of bread... the sound of trees... the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name."
TYOV is one of my all time favorite rpgs, played it about a half dozen times now and I've had a lot of great experiences with it.
Right when you started talking about the utility of this game I immediately thought about making elder vampire npcs for vtm, and then Jack said it.
Definitely seems like a good exercise and I'm curious to check it out for the prompts and art for making more believable npcs.
Please for the love of Nosferatu, do NOT make the Mark your skin glitters in sunlight!
It will going to be I "become a bat themed dark vigilante"
The dark curse leads you to that eternal hell: High School...for _eternity_
I played today for the first time. Spent one hour creating my vampire and played for another hour to try to get the hang of it. I realized I totally messed up the experience/memory mechanic and decided to start over. This video helped a lot.
I don't know if enough games exist for a single player RPG series, but I would watch every video.
Really love this book. It’s absolutely beautiful. Tim did a great job. I’d like to mention that he’s been working a sequel for a while now and he plans on crowdfunding it in February. There is also a spin-off multiplayer game, “500 Year Old Vampire”, in the works.
I was going to buy a copy, then I read his not to prospective buyers and it changed my opinion.
I'm buying this.
The losing memories hits the mark for me. Whenever I run games, I make a point to have ancient characters have holes in their memories.
"God knows he aint pretty enough for an OnlyFans" is the biggest laugh I've had at anything for a long, long time :P
I dont get solo rpgs. I love the interactions with the other players, but I love that it exsists.
I used this in combination with Vampire the Requiem to create and elder vampire background and motivation for events in a modern game. The elder I made got imprisoned actually by an organization and I used that for plot threads in modern nights VtR. We did not get to finish the Requiem chronicle; however, it was still fun.
I don’t normally watch your pregen adventure video but I was quite excited by this one. It looks very cool.
Very interesting single-player game review. Your books 📚... loved the Vuldacan Series, nail biters for sure! Loved Ashes of Onyx, now need to get Mountain Daggers and Sea Quills. ❤
Great review! Also I picked up your Mountain of Daggers as an audiobook and I really enjoyed it this summer. Really helped the work day go by quick.
RC Bray did a fantastic job with those. Also... deep in my channel's videos, the very first one is a short story I read for a podcast years ago called The Mist of Lichthafen. It's not a Black Raven story, but it a heist adventure set in the same world. You can check that out (though I'm not as good of a reader as RC Bray)
Checked it out and enjoyed it. I think you undersell your own voice talents 😁
Very cool idea for a game; I hadn't heard of this game before now, but I'm definitely going to check it out. Thanks, Seth!
Gonna try this one out. Thanks!
I fully expected the video to end on Sympathy for the Devil
❤❤❤ awesome review as usual
Jack actually looks pretty legit as a Vampire.
Thanks for the heads up Seth, got no friends anymore, so I've been digging into solo RPGs for half a decade now, so this kind of content really is my jam. I've never tried journal RPGs before although I chronicle my games in diary form ever since I've played with people after each session so I'll give this a try.
This was an awesome surprise. I played this almost non-stop last year.
HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS UPLOAD SOONER D: I ususally watch all of your Videos and I have been obsessed with TYOV for months, I can't believe I missed you talking about this!
Edit: I find it fascinating how little time you spent on an entire game playing with only the single sentence prompts. I chose to put an additional journal entry down for every prompt, spanning 1-2 pages, sometimes less, and thus I only really did 3 or 4 prompts per session - it took a few months to get through the game.
Nice mail armor aventail. I suppose it's large enough to be described as a bishop's mantle. You need full mail armor.
Hey I played this one great to see you review it!
Great review! This one sounds amazing!😎🧛♂🦇🔥👏
I came from the mythos podcast about vampires... gotta love synchronicity.
Wow, that book looks amazing! If I ever pick this up, I don't think a PDF would do the experience justice. I'd love to get a copy even if I don't actually play the game, I'd just end up reading through it and looking at all the details.
Love your reviews of systems
Thank you fir covering this. It not only sounds interesting but I had never been given an explanation on how these sorts of RPGs are played.
Also, something seems amiss with the publisher's website when I try to visit it.
Hmm. Link should be working but the site seems to be having trouble. Maybe a rush of traffic? I dunno.
Appears to be back up.
An interesting note from the author on there.
I ran with how much detail I could put in
I had to stop after my daughter, my most constant enabler, died of old age and then the blood god that sired me stole a wish making trinket, then my enemies destroyed my memories of her via my diaries.
The depression and absolute despair I felt after that for my vampire was very real.
A Jack the NPC calendar could be pretty dang funny/cool. #JustSaying
What a great idea...this as a way to roll a long term villain
I also tried to play solo rpgs, but couldnt finish my story of 1000YO vamp. But I couldnt finish Lichdom either. My vampire was pretty cool, but I found out I had trouble keeping it short and wanted to expand on what happened to my also heart-eating japanese courtesan whose chest had become a huge thoothy maw with a freaking long tongue rolled up around her spine. See? I suck at short sentences lol.
As you said, I think i'd rather write a short story rather than follow prompts but the game itself is expertly made.
Loving the wardrobe in this vid!
I feel like you are looking at my bookshelf Seth! I have had this for a couple of years now but as all things go, just haven't found the time to play it. It's an absolutely beautiful book. Thanks for the video, now gonna watch it ;)
Oh also! I bought a leather bound journal book to write in for this as I couldn't see myself ruining such a beautiful book.
I think that was the best of Jack’s parting lines to date
Honey wake up! There is a new RPG Review!
I've never heard of this game, but it now has me very intrigued.
Check the website, the author has a note for all possible buyers. You should probably read it first.
My man you just made my day ❤️ Seth you have a great book there to write
This game needs a fan-made Inkle version. With the pdf in hand, it cannot take more than a week or so to make ❤❤❤
This looks like so much fun. Gotta give this one a try.
Speaking of vampires, have you ever played Vampire or any other World/Chronicles of Darkness games? I’d be stoked to hear your take on them in a game review.
This sounds awesome, I need to get this to go through it at least once.
I know VtM isn’t your thing, Seth, but in case you ever try it I’ve got three words for you:
Jack the Toreador
Great video! I'm curious about TYOV and this has helped shed some light on it. My friends and I have used Microscope to help make custom worlds/history for our RPGs, the idea of using this to help make a BBEG sounds awesome.
Also, we need a calendar that has the different characters/scenes you do in the skits!
You should go to the authors website and read their note to prospective buyers before purchasing their product, it literally says he wants people to read it first.
Awesome video!
I'm working on my own homebrew drawing upon multiple TTRPG system (D&D 5e is the base) so this would help with creating villians, anti-villians, and maybe the occasional anti-hero
Check the authors website, he has a note for anybody interested in buying his product.
I got a chuckle from the reference to "Night at the Opera" in the outro.
Holy hell! Seth, just spotted the Pendragon Starter Set back there. Review at a point?
The cover of this book looks like a Beautiful journal.
I just read dameron and loved it, immediately picked up houncier and finished that. I'm grabbing the rest asap.
Shocking, Seth likes the book's built in handouts
Seth may not be pretty enough to do a calendar, but Jack...! C'mon... free your inner Jack and give us 12 months of awesome scotchy advice on how to survive Mythos encounters. I dare you!
Oh cool solo play. Been looking at that for Travaller. Only way I get to play I think.
I have a copy of Solo for Traveller, but haven't done anything with it.
@@SSkorkowsky maybe I beat you too it! You have people to play with, even is your Psion is below average!
He really is a terrible Psion.
Seth, do is there any way Mongoose would give your viewers a discount or perhaps a black friday sale? There's a significant number of books I'd like to purchase, but I'd also like to get them at kickatarter prices, which I have missed out on. Or do you know when there will be the next Mongoose kickstarter for Traveller?