MAKE YOUR OWN VAMPIRE! Vampire: The Masquerade v5 Character Creation Guide
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
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Every skills distribution in V5 (jack of all trades, balanced and specialist) is worth 120 exp, so if you don't like the way it is handled in the book, then you can give your players that amount of exp to spend on their skills
its to avoid players that just put 5s at start I guess, which you can get with the +1 anyway, I know players that just centered 5s in the particular skills they wanted and zero in the rest which started to get booring, those that love to optimize...we all know those kinda players.
@@theMyouknow A five point starting skill could be neat! Sure they become a one trick pony, but in return they become a legend... a legend who's generally a fool outside their specialty. An exceptionally fitting vibe for any of the Auspex using clans imo
@@theMyouknowthen you make a House rule that forbids taking 5 in anything.
@@theMyouknowas that kind of player. I do confirm that'll indeed put 5 in either melee or firearms every. Single. Game if it was possible even tho after knowing that it's a roleplay focused game
now how do I save a RUclips comment so that I never forget this
I recorded this video before Malkavian one, so I'm publishing it first, but worry not - Malkavians are on the way! :D
Awesome (:
Awesome :)
Glad to see the character sheet in use ^_^
Outstar *the children of malkav will not drive you insane. For now.*
I wait with no breath, Ms. ElsewhereSun
*Wheeze* (the sire is Malkavian)
Solo campaign? First time I’m hearing about that.
It sounds very interesting
Sounds more like talking to oneself or writing a story... One to one with GM and only one player works great, but playing all alone isn't exactly pen and paper roleplaying anymore since all the input comes from yourself and you don't tell a story together anymore... Well, there are those books where you jump have to make decisions and according to that jump to different, numbered parts of the book, but I don't think that would even work well with Vampire and its very atmospheric and personal approach.
@@valorin5762 To be fair after watching some of the Vampire the Masquerade chronicles on youtube it probably wouldn't be a bad system for writing a show or book to use RPG systems, especially if your trying to write within that setting/offshot setting and/or using an independent/unofficial scenario to use the systems of the setting to help avoid a lot of tropes and short falls authors run into. Biggest problem would be how good you are at compartmentalizing/avoiding metaing the story and would probably require having notes on who should know what. Mind you, you would lose some of the insight that just comes from playing with different people and hence different thought patterns.
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If your somebody with an interest in creative writing or just somebody with the potential to be an ST but lacking time or an adequate social circle it could be fun. Having to constrain your story to a set of rules would also help avoid some of the problems big budget media has with letting characters be Mary Sues and letting characters that agree with your personal politics/beliefs have an unfair advantage in the world to make them look cool.
The games Night Road and Out for Blood are basically solo V5 campaigns in the form of interactive novels.
@@valorin5762 Solo campaign = 1 player and 1 Storyteller. Not just one person doing the Spongebob "Gang's all here" meme.
Malkavians confirmed in new trailer and a 40 minute video by Outstar? This week just keeps getting better for me. :D
I absolutely *love* all these vampire videos lately! Thanks Outie
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I just cant get enough of that accent.
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@@davidens8204huuuh.... hello fellow cabuck i guest ?
I had guest french, just didn't figure on the canadian part.
I think I misunderstood. I thought this guy from Québec was giving a nod that she was with the hello from Quebec greeting, but I done goofed...
Isn't she from Poland?
V5 for the win!
I played a lot of World of Darkness in the 90s and early 2000s, also live, and as much as I am familiar with the previous set of rules, Vampire 5 really is much better for me. Great approach on storytelling, integrating the narrative approach into the rules with things like killing off "blood points" and substituting it for a Hunger system, which feels much better in my opinion, also because Hunger can make you do things you didn't intent to do because the beast is surfacing. In my opinion they made the best version of Vampire ever. Very much the storytelling game I ever wanted.
Yeah, but there is not mortis or other disciplines and a lot of clan are missing too...
@@JankyDice96 1. Mortis is more important for Dark Ages anyway. You won't find it in the old rulebook either.
2. The essential clans are covered, if it's not, just create it yourself. The rules are flexible enough to make it pretty easy for you.
3. What's in the book is much more interesting than what's missing.
4. It's a roleplaying game. That's a canvas. You have to paint it yourself anyway!
This is the best guide I've seen on youtube currently for 5th edition character creation. Thank you, it was quite a gem :D
EDIT: I am a new storyteller and have new players at my table so this will seriously help us, I wanted you to know that.
Yes! This video helped me a lot! I am trying to be a role master and the most annoying thing was the merits because in the book it looks like the haven, enemies and allies part is APART from mertis and I was just melting my brain. Thank you so much for this!
I love that the LA by Night Nosferatu, Jasper, is a Blood Leech and he captures other Kindred he's been told to get rid of and just feeds from them instead.
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This was a godsend I am playing in a game tonight and this helped speed me long!
First time really learning about VtM's system and the character creation looks really cool! The little bits of lore and worldbuilding just from you explaining the Predator types are super interesting!
i just want to say thank you !
i finally picked up the vtm rulebook ( ty humblebundle ), and plan to run a solo game and i felt a little intimidated by the character sheet ! turns out, i understood most of it, but hearing someone break it down just helped a bit more ! so i really appreciate the work you put into this video !
Good job with making a new character. V5 is a damn good edition.
Thank you so much, I really like your insight in the world of darkness, and I myself I’m very new to it and, I’m creating a character but like none of my friends are interested in vtm but oh well
I am in the same boat as you as far as my friends not being interested in VtM. Life's rough when your friends are inferior beings. D':
@@Mr._Matt Same here. Some beings just don't apreciate art
As much as I love V:tM, I'm sorry to say, those price points are just obscene when considering most clans were available in the core rulebook of earlier editions, and only if you needed to play a more "exquisite" type of clan/bloodline you would need a sourcebook. But a completely seperate sourcebook to be able to play just one clan at those price points, is obscene and to me just sounds outright like a greedy developer, which is unfortunate as they probably mean well.
Tbh? Hardest part is finding local friends to play.
Storytellers. I always have a hard time finding storytellers. Thus I always end up doing it, but sometimes I just want to play.
Yup. I’m with you on that.
I’d love to play on Discord if you’re all interested ! We should look into that.
That sounds like a good idea. I'm willing to give it a shot. We'd need an experienced storyteller to keep everything together.
There are places on Discord and check at local comic shops for in person.
My friend is running this for our group in October. I wanted to get a Jumpstart so they can focus on helping others and just to be better familiar. Thank you 🎉
Thanks for making this vid, despite being a looong time VtM vetran it's always nice to deep dive and learn some tricks, especially with a new edition! Looking forward to malkav vid and possibly more clans to come!
I’m quite pleasantly surprised to see there’s an ongoing campaign set in Seattle. Based city getting the representation it needs!
Great... Now how do I find a group of people to play with.
I can narrate online for you
discord.gg/JsywAGe3
I would have given her 2 dots in Stamina, since I think most people can agree that dancing requires a lot of energy. More so if you're doing it multiple times a night as part of your job. The 1 dot attribute should have been her Intelligence, since you don't become a burlesque dancer by having a good education. :)
I have to disagree, having knovvn a fevv burlesque dancers they tend to be incredibly vvell read.
you become a burlesque dancer because you enjoy the company of burlesque dancers
That moment when malkavians get announced instead of lasombra so you gotta make a different video lol
love you Outstar
Thank you:), Anglo's tend to say Oh-sy-ris
And even that is just from a Greek translation of the name. Some choose to directly transliterate the same as something closer to Asir. Which falls in line with other names like Aset, which people in the west might know as the goddess Isis; but that name was ruined by a terrorist organization so Aset is seeing a surge in usage in media.
Made a character who is a Farmer. A fat, young Gangrel male who hunts pet cats. "This one time, the owner of the cat, a little girl, saw me and the look on her face ! I could hear her scream, "NO TREACLE!" Fucking priceless, man!"
I just love the way she pronounce the word book.
"that's great because that works both of the stage and in the bedroom"-out of context outstar quotes 2019
YES, pls do more tutorial videos on the V5 system! It's so hard to find them, and the book is so complicated :') Love your videos, thanks for the content!
Her accent is cute.
Interesting -- I was only ever familiar with the old-school V:tM way of doing things, so it's pretty neat to see what's changed since those days. I like the idea of having specific ways you feed, which gives you automatic benefits and drawbacks. And cripes, Disciplines have changed -- I remember when it was like one specific power per level! I think I prefer "pick and choose what's best for your character," though. So if I ever decide to get more into the pen-and-paper side of things again, I'll be prepared! Thanks!
I find that the V5 book is so poorly written that players can't even use it for character creation. The several parts of character creation are disjointed from the rest in the book and there is little to no explanation on how to document things like merits, contacts and advantages in the book. At best, the character creation section is incomplete and new players can't even rely on the book to help them get started.
Thanks for this ^^
Even though I'd just finished my sheet a week or so ago, it's nice to have this to share for other people (and to reference if I want to make another)
Outstar, thank you so much for the video.
I couldn’t really wrap my head around the character sheet at first.
One small correction, you don't have to take the haven merit in order to not be homeless and have to find a new place every morning. That's the result of taking the lack of haven flaw. If you take neither it's assumed that your normal living arrangements double as your haven, just without any vampire security or room for upgrades.
there are so many possible gamestyle and gameplay based on your clan, for me, I found best experience by playing Nosferatu, Ventrue and Tremere
YES another vid. Thanks :D
Thank you for uploading this video. I want to try Vampire the Masquerade and this vid is verrryyy useful!
Thanks for the nice video. I'll buy the book because of you
This is great helpful guide and yeah just like other ttrpg games the core role book is the best starter for you.
There is solo adventures in the vampire the Masquerade core book ??? So you can run solo adventures in the world of Darkness
I’ve been waiting for this!!!
The protagonist from Bloodlines 1 is Generation 8th, right? I believe that these generation means they can potentially become very powerful but it doesn't necessarily mean they're the older ones.
Yessss we got thr malkavian ! I knew it. I told you in every video, they will add them XD You honestly believed that they wouldn't add, one of the most beloved and oldest of the houses in this grame trilogy, just because if would be "too hard" XD yet here they are, back again. ❤ but it is okay to be super wrong every now and then.
I'm not sure if you watched my videos about it - they wouldn't skip a chance to have Malkavians playable, but I thought they would be a big marketing gimmick for DLCs instead of vanilla game :) I'm happy to see them in vanilla, nonetheless!
@@Outstarwalker yes 🌹 It okay. Im happy we got them 🍰
This video is still useful today! Thanks for the effort!
Finally, I understand better! Thank you so much!
Scene queen that drinks just Star Wars fans' blood but hates Star Trek fans' blood and has to give a questioner to the victims to determine how much they do know about the two franchises. 🤣
Outstanding vid Ms preggers Outstar!! Congratulations!!! 😊
Thank you so much! This was unbelievably helpful!
Clan Giovanni!
Lorgar Bearer of the Word heard Giovanni is coming out around Decemberish
Just got accepted into a VTM roleplay campaign and the first thing I see when I open RUclips is this video. Am I too much of a fan of yours or is Caine giving me a signal?
Thank you for the video ma'am.
Amazing video I really liked it! Its also funny to me how similar my first VTMB character is to the one you just made 😂
Could you explain what a solo campaign is?
yeah its the one thing that im scratching my head about. Sounds kind of crazy.
Even though I would prefer v20, I wouldn't mind giving v5 a chance.
I would like to have someone explain the differences, in detail, before I would pony up for new books though.
Daggothus v20 is basically the revised and redone version of all the previous editions.
Vampire and Pizza, I don't need more :)
Will we ever get any love tzimisce bros?
There’s a bunch of fan made sources for it
They was always my favorite clan.
Did they change the toreador bane? I was told it was they could get mesmerized by things they see as beautiful and just sort of stand there admiring said beautiful thing.
It's their compulsion now, triggered in certain moments. Curse affects them always and it's different in v5, yeah!
How does someone play a solo campaign? You mentioned playing alone?
I’ve never really role-played at all but I would imagine that doing a solo campaign is like “storytelling” in the sense that you make and play all the characters-maybe you can write a fiction story based on it. This is kinda like playing the Sims, only on pen and paper and with more rules
Watching this was really fun. Last time i looked Into a vampire book gen13 was the youngest mentioned. And 10 or 11 recommended for players XD. But i have two questions. First i read somewhere that my beloved gangrels left the camarilla. Is that true? And second you mentioned that auspex is critical to avoid for someone who comited diablerie? So it leaves a flaw easily recognized for any kindred with auspex? Which are quite a few if i remember correctly ( tremere, malk, toreador, surviving cappadocians XD )?
I love using Behind The Name
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That is a good shirt for your soon Malkavian video :D
Awesome board game only problem to find a Master Vampire or known as D&D the Dungeon Master the RPG Story teller to create a world
Awesome video dude!
Jesteś moim bohaterem Outstar :D Thank you for your videos!
This was a very informative video.
What program did use on character sheet?
I had to make my own predatory style cause as a nosferatu farmer wouldnt fit a 10th gen vampire so i used alleycat as a start im calling it snatcher you get specialty in stealth (ambusher) or brawl (grappler) add a dot in obfuscate or potence lose 1 humanity gain 3 dots in allies clan members. You are loyal to your clan you wait in an ally way hidden or dressed as a homeless hiding you face you wait for some one to pass by as you snatch them and pull them down into the sewers where you share your victim with your clan members the person dies and theres no evidence left as the rats eat whats left over
Can i expecting in the future another videos about VTM pen and paper game, basic rules and other stuff ? ( sorry for my English i form Hungary and Polak, Wegier, dwa bratanki)
Thank you so much! Subscribing is the least thing that I can do after your great video!
I don't have the Rulebook or the any of Sourcebooks yet for VTM but I'd like to see if I could a "Vampire Assassin that can do magic" type of character (if Possible).
I mean, even if you have the Book, Questions arise everywhere^^
I don't think paper is edible
so if i buy the vampire: The Masquerade core book can i play a "campaign" solo? like how does this work?
Feel like baggers are kinda just a moral cop out. Like if you bought the blood on the black market then you are contributing to a demand for blood which may or may not have come from willing donors. If you're really feeling moral about it I'd assume consentualist or farmer is the way to go.
But with farmer you have to kill an animal every time you feed, while with “consensualist” you have to manipulate people to give you their consent, or at least it’s not an informed consent, with bagger you don’t need to hurt or trick nothing.
@@willy4170 *you don't have to look them in the eye when they were hurt.
Unless it's all sourced directly from an ethical blood bank there's a high likelihood someone was hurt to get it. Even if it's from a blood bank, you still likely have to coerce someone into giving it to you.
Consentualists don't *have* to coerce someone. It's pleasurable for both parties the process is similar to getting consent for sex.
Farmers don't have to kill an animal to feed on it.
In my opinion consentualist has the best chance to be fully ethical and provides strong roleplay moments.
I don't hear any difference when she says the predator type "scene queen" or the blood resonance "sanguine".
Some of the rules are interesting but I don't like how some of the concepts seem to assume truths about your character and reality. For a simple example, why would having the siren predatory preference flesh our your character for you? Maybe I'm a person of total freedom and creativity because I know I can construct all those advantages without a rule telling me I need to. I hope its more of a guideline and that the Golden Rule is still a thing. A siren that's not very good at seduction or very beautiful can have the same amount of narrative weight as someone who is the opposite.
Would you consider doing a video like this (or something similar) to explain Lore Sheets? I'm not 100% sure how they work.
GOD SEND. FUCKING GOD SEND!
But what about the tzimisce? I love me some vicissitude horror action... making a nos pretty for a few hours or at the least making them a pretty flesh masks they aren't an obvious violation of the masquerade. Or shifting that rude persons eyes in opposite directions and taking an ear... I miss Shane.
Is it possibe to play abomination character? Like a werewolf embraced by vampire
I like your presentation. I am looking for a character creation video for Dark Ages (old stuff, I know), you should do one for that edition if you have played it, or you are going to!
When I click a dot on the v5 character sheet from the link and unclick it it wont let me reclick it.
You should talk a bit more about your Discord server. How is it organised? How do you roll? How do you handle Character information etc...
Everything is explained on the Discord alone in introduction channels! :)
I would prefer to be a Vampire Hunter.
Check “Hunter the reckoning” then
Can you make a intro on vampire the mascarade bloodlines? I'm a new fan who's totally lost
All I can say is PIZZA! :D
Vampires and a Pizza Shirt!
thanks for the link
Are devils present in the masquerade world? I'd love to have a brujah diablerize a devil and acquire hellish powers.
Is there a how to create a thin blood video?
Looking for more details on the Samadi if anyone knows
Yes! Thank you!
Is there a hunter the reckoning character sheet on the same website as the VtM one linked in this video?
It is the discord really friendly? Because all roleplaying groups i found sadly where really toxic
It's been nothing but welcoming to me so far.
Very interesting video, Outstar. I have a concern with book editions. Is Revised (3rd ed, I think), the same as V20? Cause I can get some of those bad boys to read a bit and hopefuly develop a nice vampire character. Thanks in advance, girl.
Keep that seduction level high ;)
Straight off the bat I don't like the Predator system since I rather be fluid when it comes to feeding but I'm not so sure V5 allows that.
Another thing I don't like about Kindred either is their inability to feel sexual pleasure but yet they're most likely to feel pain which makes no sense at all and why does the Siren option even exists at all?
Are you still playing and if so how can I get into playing this with a regular group
Do you know anything about the band coma that performed numb on the game hunter the reckoning
Love it, thanks
Hey Outstar any chance of getting a updated character sheet with the other clans added!? Thank you. :)