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Vampire: The Masquerade: The Bad Night

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.

TYPE

One-Shot

EXPERIENCE

Beginner

AGE

18+
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?

3 NEEDED TO START
$20.00

/ Session

Details

Once / Monday – 11:00 PM UTC

Jul 7

2–4 Hour Duration

0 / 5 Seats Filled

GAME MASTER

Zachary Vaudo

any/all

5.0

(7)

This game will begin once 3 players have joined

Each player will be charged when a session starts.

Meet the Game Master
Streamer
LGBTQ+
Neurodivergent
Cosplayer
Voice Actor

3 years on StartPlaying

57 games hosted

Highly rated for: Storytelling, Inclusive, Creativity

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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Reviews (7)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Storytelling

Inclusive

Creativity

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Benn

Played 56 sessions

He's just solid all around. Knows the rules but also knows when they should be broken. Steps into NPCs with ease. Encourages player creativity and input. An excellent experience!

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M.A C.G

Played 50 sessions

The game was pretty easy and there were very nice "on-the-spot" decisions by Zak that made the game great and fun. Zak knows how to pull you into the story and how to make the world very interactive.

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Biscuit

Played 1 sessions

Zachary was an absolutely phenomenal story teller and world builder. I was on the edge of my seat for our entire session and could not have been more thrilled with my overall experience. I would recommend him to any and all players in a heartbeat!

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Benji

Played 1 sessions

Zachary was great at balancing a dark setting with character agency. Would totally recommend Zach for any horror game!

Storyteller Steve (Vancouver by Night) avatar

Storyteller Steve (Vancouver by Night)

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!

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Danae Keener

Immersive! Great voices and well-prepared. VtM can have some rough subject matter and he was careful to tailor the experience to his players' needs.

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.

The current party

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

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.

Content warnings
Blood
Character Death
Classism
Death
Extreme Violence
Violence
Fire
Gore
Language/Cursing
Memory Erasing
Mind alteration
Mind Control
Real World Religion
Trauma
Safety tools used

Frequently asked questions