Born to Dusk and Blood, a Thinblood Chronicle (PbP VtM 5e Game)
Embraced by a clanless vampire of weak vitae and now, as dusk ends and night falls, you rise as a Thinblood and must now survive against all odds.
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Play by Post (Asynchronous)
Billed Weekly / Wednesday - 11:30 AM UTC
Session Duration / 2–3 hours
Campaign Length / 1–99 Sessions
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About the adventure
Welcome to Born to Dusk and Blood, a Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition play-by-post game set in Southwest Florida! This game is a Thinblood chronicle with all player characters being made via the Thinblood character creation rules found in the main core rule book for VtM v5. The game is set during the modern nights in Southwest Florida in the United States, particularly in Charlotte, DeSoto, Sarasota and Lee counties. The sprawling subtropical landscape of Southwest Florida is made up of rural communities of ranchers and orange groves, beach side tourist towns, retirement communities and swamps and shrub pine forest. It is a place lashed by hurricanes for half the year and the sweltering heat all year round, the population made up of burnt out locals, transient tourists and aging retirees. The only noteworthy cities of Sarasota and Fort Myers hold only a shadow of Kindred power, each one ruled by a handful of struggling neonates who survived the purges of the Second Inquisition. It is a backwater in the eyes of the Kindred landscape and beneath notice of the Princes of Tampa and Miami - can you survive as one of the Thinblood in such a wasteland? The themes of the game will focus on survival in the World of Darkness, the moral dilemma of trying to maintain your humanity and old life and rising as an undead monster, personal horror and struggling at the bottom of the Kindred social ladder. The game will take over Discord and will use the Inconnu bot for dice rolls (alternatives are also possible such as Demiplane). This play by post game will be either a small cooperative group game (2-3 Kindred) or a solo or duet game (one or two players) with at least one post by the ST every day save on Sundays. This game does NOT use AI for anything and I would prefer players who don't use AI for their roleplaying posts, please.
Game style
Play By Post
Realm Building
Roleplay Heavy
Sandbox / Open World
Meet the Game Master
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Highly rated for: Creativity, Inclusive, Storytelling
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Response rate: 100%
About me
Hi there, my name is Chris, your friendly Canadian DM! I am someone who has been playing and running various TTRPGs such as Dungeons and Dragons, ASOIAF, Changeling: the Dreaming, Vampire the Masquerade and many others for the last three decades. I also am a published game writer and designer with over 50 publications (mostly from the heyday of the 3.5 DnD OGL) as well as a small press publishing company called "Mad Scotsman Games" I've run since 2003. My degree in English Literature actually ended up helping me with a career outside of teaching! Woo! I tend to be the forever DM but that works out well because I love telling immerse stories and doing collaborative storytelling with my players. If you are looking for games with a heavy roleplaying focus, deep lore and everything in between, look no further! I look forward to gaming with you all.
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Creating your character
Books Used: All characters are created using the base book character creation rules for Thinblood characters in the VtM 5th edition Corebook and the Player's Guide. All other official sources will be discussed on a case-by-case basis. If you use Demiplane, I will be able to share the books I have on there for your use! We will only be using Lore Sheets on a case by case basis and there will be no non-standard specialized skills. Please use only the base sheet ones. All characters start with TWO levels of Thinblood merits for free at character creation with the purchase of ONE Thinblood flaw (instead of the usual one for one rule). You may take an additional Thinblood flaw for one more level of Thinblood merits. Beginning Thinblood merits are capped at 3 for character creation. All characters received an additional three points of Advantages such as backgrounds, merits, etc. Standard rules apply otherwise. Character History/Backstories: Backstories should be a couple paragraphs at least but beyond that, I'm open to length. Just, please no more than one to three page(s) of backstory.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
This game will take place on Discord and use the Inconnu dice bot. Please have a Discord account for joining this game. This game is built as either a solo or duet (one player or two) or a cooperative group game. Character sheets will be done using a fillable character sheet or any other sort of character generator such as Demiplane (see below) you'd prefer, just as long as I can have a copy of the sheet as a pdf. We do have a Demiplane group set up for character generation as well and I have shared my content and pdfs for ease of creation. The link for the group will be provided once you join the game.
What Chris MacKay brings to the table
I will provide a rich setting with themes of personal horror, a struggle to survive, corruption and everything in between. We will build the game you want to play together, determining the elements we want to use. The other themes we explore will be up to the player and will be discussed during Session Zero. Combat will take place but will not be the main focus of the game - that will be heavy roleplay and collaborative storytelling. I tend to favour the Rule of Cool over using the Rules as a strict "you must do it this way or not at all" well, rule. They are guidelines and I will side with the mechanics but if we gotta twist it a bit to make it cooler for the story and players, let's do it! I will also provide access to a Demiplane campaign with shared content that includes most of the Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition books that have player options.
Homebrew rules
House rules will be posted in depth on the Discord server but otherwise are in the character creation section.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
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Safety
How Chris MacKay creates a safe table
There will be a Session Zero in which we will go over any soft and hard limits the players have as well as talk about the mutual lines and veils we want to establish for the story. Vampire can be a very heavy and horrific game but we can do it comfortably for all as well.
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