Vampire The Masquerade: Chicago By Night
The best you can hope for is a good death. God forbid you achieve power.
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$35.00
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Weekly / Sunday - 1:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 3–9 hours
0 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Vampire is a game of personal horror (and potentially personal growth) for adults only. This will not be for the faint of heart. Your characters will not be heroes. You will not be saving the world. We will be dealing with mature and disturbing themes. This will not be comfortable. The game will be run over Zoom (free for you). Sessions will be 3-4 hours 1/week depending upon story needs. The game will be roleplaying focused and narrative based in the "Traditional" roleplaying sense. Don't be afraid to cry. This will be a sandbox game where characters will begin as humans and progress naturally as the story takes them. There is an overarching meta-plot/story with which you may or may not choose to intersect or engage with. Pray that it does not choose to engage with you!
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Theater of the Mind
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(8)
5 years on StartPlaying
2 games hosted
Highly rated for: Storytelling, Creativity, World Builder
Average response time: 23 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
Epic, cinematic, narrative-driven, roleplaying Experiences! With a background in stage, film and TV, both in front and behind the camera--Russell’s interests centre on the power of roleplaying games to create unique, shared experiences--that exceed the expectations of his players. With thirty-five years of experience running tabletop roleplaying games, Russell's philosophy as a DM is to create "the illusion of total agency" for his players. He is equally at home running team-building exercises as he is teaching screen-acting, kicking in doors or slaying ogres. Presently, Russell also offers a free video service to those who wish to rewatch their sessions and also keep a permanent record online. (Either public or private facing depending on the group’s preferences). Examples of hundreds of professional sessions can be found on Russell’s youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@rolestream under Playlists. You can also watch and interact with Russell and the Vaingate Chronicles cast, live every Friday night on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/rolestream Learn more about RKDM at http://www.rolestream.com
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Creating your character
We will use roll20 for running characters and rolling dice. Characters will be created in collaboration with the GM and other players. Group bonds must exceed their conflicts.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
I will give you a complete onboarding walkthru with links and pdf documents. You do not need anything to get started except Zoom, a microphone and a camera.
What Russell brings to the table
Zoom account. Roll20 Account. Sourcebooks. And I will stream the game on twitch.tv/rolestream and then upload it to the rolestream archives on youtube. youtube.com@/rolestream where you can check out over a thousand hours of previous games and sessions.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Microphone
Internet
Platforms used
Safety
How Russell creates a safe table
Code of conduct will be supplied upon application.
Content warnings
Safety tools used