Bangkok by Night: Under a Blood moon | V20

Creating your character

Before you sit down at this table I want to have a conversation with you. Not a gatekeeping interview. A conversation. Bangkok is going to put specific pressures on your Kindred that the sell hinted at, and those pressures land better if I understand where your character is coming from before we start. I want to know what drew you to this city, what kind of story you are looking for, and what you want to explore. You will want to know the same about me and the game. Clan and concept are open. If you have something fully formed, bring it. If you have only the beginnings of one, bring those. We will build the rest together in the 1:1, and the work we do there is what makes the story better for everyone at the table. Modern Kuei-jin are also a viable character options and we will be using Kindred of the East: The Relentless Age should anyone want to build one. To start, send a message and I will send you my Discord, then you can friend me with one line about what drew you to Bangkok by Night. The full campaign server goes out as we approach the three-player minimum to launch.

Preparing for the session

Players need a Foundry VTT account and a Discord account. I pay for all Foundry hosting and provide every other material you will need. You do not need to own or have read the V20 corebook. After our 1:1 conversation I will send a campaign primer built for this table that covers the world, the system basics, and the Bangkok-specific elements you need to start playing. It will not overwhelm you. V20 is a dice pool system. You roll d10s equal to an Attribute plus an Ability, count successes against a difficulty, and narrate what happens. Story and character drive the resolution; mechanics support them. Your Kindred manages three core resources: Humanity, Willpower, and Blood. Most of the horror in V:tM comes from the choices you make when those resources start running low. New to V:tM? Welcome. I will teach the system at the pace of the table. Veteran of the World of Darkness? Bangkok will not work the way you expect. The Kuei-Jin Dharmas do not map to Camarilla politics. Thai spiritual elements here are mechanics, not flavor: phi, spirit houses, wat sanctity, offerings at the base of old trees. Western sects work around local power, not over it. Bring what you know; you will still find new things. Before Session 1: complete the 1:1 conversation, read the primer, install Foundry VTT, and message me for my Discord so you can send a FR.

What Yuthika 'Fey' brings to the table

Voice acting across every NPC. I am a professional voice actress with anime and video game credits. Every Kindred elder, every Kuei-Jin contact, every mortal ghoul, every street informant at this table has a distinct voice and cadence you will recognize from session to session. A teaching GM with thirty-four years behind the screen. I started at age twelve in Asia and have never stopped. I hold a PhD in Psychology and work professionally as an educator. That background is how I pace a conversation with an elder, how I hold a table's tension across a long campaign arc, and how I run a safety framework for a game this dark. New players are welcome here. Curiosity is the only prerequisite. A practical effects background applied to Kindred horror. I spent years as a costume designer and VFX artist on NBC's Grimm, and I taught foam latex and silicone prosthetic work, and stage makeup blending, on the convention circuit. When I describe a Nosferatu stepping out of shadow, a Tzimisce mid-Vicissitude, or a Kindred three nights past their last feeding, those descriptions come from someone who has built the real version with her own hands. Full Foundry VTT production. Custom maps of Bangkok's districts, in-world handouts, period-appropriate visual assets, and a soundscape that moves between ambient Krung Thep noise and whatever the scene calls for. Every court, every safe haven, and every feeding ground has its own prepared environment. The setting is home. I live in Thailand. I speak Thai. My partner is Thai and my family is in provinces across the country. When your character cuts through Chatuchak, slips into Khlong Toei, or gets sent to a wat up in Chiang Rai, the details are mine rather than researched. The phi, the spirit houses on every corner, the shrines at every intersection come from my own faith as a Shinto-Buddhist, not borrowed atmosphere.

Homebrew rules

No house rules during play. What I adjust is character generation. V20 uses a priority system during character creation where you rank Attributes and Abilities as primary, secondary, and tertiary, and that ranking locks the dots you can spend in each category. At this table, priorities are removed. You get the same total pools, but you decide where they go. Build template: 15 Attribute dots, distributed freely 27 Ability dots, distributed freely 21 Freebie points (6 above the standard 15) Flaws cap raised to 10 points (from the standard 7) The intent is creative range. Players who want to build balanced generalists, specialists who lean hard on one stat spread, or concept-driven Kindred with heavy flaw baggage all have room to do it here. V20 and Kindred of the East together contain more than enough official material to build what you want. If a mechanic or option exists in official World of Darkness material, we can almost certainly make it work in Bangkok.

How Yuthika 'Fey' creates a safe table

Your safety matters. Bangkok by Night is a horror campaign rooted in the World of Darkness. The darkness is central rather than decorative. This campaign deals with predators who were once people, power structures built on exploitation, the slow erosion of your Kindred's humanity, and the textures of political corruption and organized crime in a real city I know well. Some of the horror is supernatural. Much of it is human. Lines and Veils before we begin. You will set hard limits on content that must never appear at the table, and topics you would rather have kept off-screen instead of depicted directly. These are respected without question and without explanation required. If your Lines and Veils preclude you from being comfortable with Bangkok by Night at all, I will speak with you honestly during the 1:1 about what can be adjusted, or accept your departure with grace. Open Door Policy. If at any point the content becomes too much, you are free to step away, take a break, or leave the session entirely. No judgement. Real people come before the game. Check-ins during play. Over our three to four hour sessions I run regular temperature checks, especially after intense scenes. If things get heavy, we pause. No pushing through. Roses and Thorns at session close. We end every session with a short debrief on what landed and what did not. This keeps the table collaborative and gives me what I need to run better. Private follow-up after the session. I send a personal message to each player to check in one-on-one. Some things hit differently once you are off the VTT and decompressed, and I want you to have space to raise anything you did not want to bring up at the table. This is a dark game. It should never feel unsafe. When in doubt, say the word.