Vampire: The Masquerade: The Bad Night
The night belongs to the nightstalkers. Play a Vampire in a real-world city, navigating the politics of the undead, facing threats, and sating Hunger.
About the adventure
A Vampire: The Masquerade V5 chronicle, set in your city (or city of choice). Story custom-tailored to your coterie, with a full setting and roster of NPCs detailed out for your interaction. The city is your coterie's playground: what will the Prince (or Baron? or Bishop?) assign you? Will you listen? What could possibly go wrong?
Meet the Game Master
About me
2024 CRiT Awards Nominee for Best Indie GM. Willing to traverse between the Dark-and-Discomforting and the Weird-and-Ridiculous? Then let's play a game. Regular GM for D&D 5e, VtM and Hunter v5, Don't Rest Your Head, and Kult: Divinity Lost sessions, but also a major fan of independent games and one-pagers. Been playing games since I was 9, been on a camera doing it since 2020 (ATL By Night, Adjacent By Night, Midnight in the Diner of Good and Evil, and many more). Check out the YouTube link below for examples of my GMing on stream.
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Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Storytelling
Inclusive
Creativity
Zak is great, I have run in a few of his games and he knows the game system inside and out, even complex games like Mage the Ascension. Always willing to help the players if they don't understand a system and guide them in the right direction to tell an amazing story. In short, sign up for one of Zak's games, you won't be disappointed!
Character creation
Creating your character
All characters will be base-level creation stats (childer, neonate, or ancillae, pending discussion with GM), plus 15 additional XP to build. Characters can be created on your own and submitted for approval, or they can be created during a session 0.
You are Kindred, Anarch or Independent, on the move from town to town. You are stopping in a town tonight to fuel up both your vehicle and your Hunger.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Webcam preferred, microphone necessary. Familiarize yourself with the base rules of Vampire the Masquerade V5 ahead of game, though session 0 can be used for rules clarification (and rules can be explained during gameplay). Pregen characters available upon request, personal character creation highly encouraged. You will need at least a dozen d10s, designating 5 for your Hunger dice. Special VTM dice exist for purchase, or you can designate your d10s normal vs Hunger as you wish. Digital dice rollers are acceptable.
What Zachary Vaudo brings to the table
Pregen characters supplied as-needed, breakdown of the rules supplied as-needed.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Internet
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Zachary Vaudo creates a safe table
RPG Consent list for lines and veils/red-yellow-green cards will be sent in advance. Session 0 will be for character-creation as well as discussion of any topics to avoid vs skirt around Post-session will be checking in on players to ensure lack of bleed and proper decompression. X/N/O preferred messaged.