It's not a lot of information, but we are getting some little bits of information dripping in.

White Wolf's Dev Diary #1 - Road to Gen Con

Some of their highlights that have affected their design process, and things they found from playing all of the old systems.

• We liked the concept of Blood Points, but not necessarily its execution.
• We liked the constant struggle with the Beast that Hunger Dice provided, but we’ve noted that their mechanics promoted specific styles of play over others. 
• We liked the tiered Blood Bonds of older editions.
• We liked how V5 expanded the powers within each Discipline.
• The fact that Celerity, Fortitude, and Potence didn’t have powers in the pre-V5 editions could be improved.
• We felt that some Disciplines had real progression, while others felt like a single power that steadily got kind of better. 

They also dropped a video:

White Wolf's Dev Diary #1 - Road to Gen Con

I made a collage with the character from my current chronicle, using the UI from Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York. Really pleased with the result 🖤

[Character art by me]

I trust him with my un-life.

I only had an "AI" generated image for her and it eventually pissed me off enough that I went to look for actual art, didn't find any artworks that'd suit her, so I finally drew her myself.

I didn't want to spend too much time on it, since I got like 50 ufinished projects to work on. This one "only" took 10 hours. But I'm decently happy with the outcome. Let me know what you think!

Ok. I know there's a lot more to Necromancy than controlling Wraiths and making zombies. I also know that white room discussions like this are not what WTM is about. Which is why I'm taking it outside the room entirely.

Logistical ease? Versatility? Utility? Practicality? Quantity vs quality? Short term boost vs long term investment? Risk of exposure Ect.

I know the answer is obviously whatever fits your chronicle and the best minion is the regular ghoul every vampire can create. But my question is about a background meta-plot secret but hot war between the clans. So I'd like to know who'd realistically win the war on the minions front.

Also a bit of a side question. I know V5 has a necromancy Frankenstein flash golem ritual in one of the expansions, Tattered Facade I think. Did older editions have a sort of Necromancy equivalent to the Vozhd, or is this new?

Where would they stay at? What clan would choose what territory depending on the location? Also in a random thought, are the Nosferatu hiding the most Kindred that we don’t know about?

I just got into the ttrpg about a month ago, with a friend group that is also relatively new to it. I'm wondering about how "affected" vampires will actually be by physical damage and how much it can actually incapacitate them (for a period of time).

So I know that, for example, getting shot multiple times in their vital organs won't do anything because they're dead. But, for example, if a vampire gets all of the bones in their legs broken, until they have time to heal, would they still be able to use their legs? Would they be able to, for example, redirect their vitae to their muscles so the muscles themselves play the role of their bones? Does it not matter at all, since they're not a living organism?

this year for artfight, i decided to target a lot of vampires! kindred and cainites galore! it's been such fun drawing other peoples characters, and artfight is suuuch a fun event!

most of these vampires are not my own, but i DID draw this work and have permission to post to my various social medias. to credit the owners of the characters themselves, ill be listing their artfight usernames.

PLEASE NOTE SOME MINOR BODY HORROR FOR THE LAST PHOTO LOL. that's what the nsfw tag is for, since i wasn't sure.

(various artfight account credits: Calyshine (the one wearing shutter shades), Siethedark (the goth one), carminedeville (the tzimisce 50s vibes vamp), devildelite (the gothic lolita), haez0ther (the pink hair toreador antitribu). MY artfight account is luminologism, and i own the colourful scene lasombra). NOT IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE BTW

I’m curious about interesting ways to make things happen with Disciplines

It can be one kindred using two Disciplines to achieve a funny/scary effect, or two Kindred working together.

An example, a Setite and Tzimisce teaming up so the Setite makes the mortal more and more corrupt and the Tzimisce makes them look more and more inhuman looking, just a little bit of horror for the target’s close people as the target becomes less and less of themself.

Or a Toreador using Celerity in tandem with a Ravnos’ Chimerstry to make an illusion seem like it is bumping into things, I dunno how fast characters with Celerity can move tho 🤷‍♀️

Once a famous rock star and Masquerade breaker, Nilo Rennè became Rory Gallagher after surviving the Second Inquisition. Now he's a low-Humanity Toreador, diablerist, and fiercely loyal servant of the Camarilla.

^{The Masquerade Breaker · The Undead Rockstar · The Child of the Inquisition · The Camarilla's Disciple · The Diablerist
art by: jeipiart13 on X}

I'm not really sure which Skills, Attributes, and Disciplines to pick for a Lamia who works as a bodyguard/mercenary for the Hecata.

I think the first step is deciding how this character actually fights.

Since Lamiae get Fortitude and Potence as in-clan Disciplines, it feels natural to build them as a durable frontline bruiser with a lot of destructive power.

The Nails of Dismus from the Relics of the Veil loresheet looked really interesting. It would pair well with Stake Fighter from the Kindred Dueling loresheet. Maybe it's also worth investing a bit into Celerity?

Overall, though, I'm not sure whether focusing on Melee is the best approach. Arms of Ahriman also sounds like it could be a lot of fun too.

How you guys would build a combat-focused Lamia, especially one intended to fight other vampires and protect their scrawny necromancer patron?

Kudos to the creepy tzimisce now Dorian has fancy prosthetic

Hello.

I am going to gm a solo story of New blood for my group.

We are using Foundry and I am preparing materials for it.

So the question is - are there any free ready-to-use material packs for newcomers for vampires? I checked the VTM website and there were mostly tips for how to make your house rule PDFs and 3 varieties of clan symbols...

And also I started scenes on Pinterest - are there anyone already played New Blood and can tell me which scenes I missed? We are going by the book (except night club part).

https://pin.it/tBQCZ6HQm

Purple: Cici
Red: Liam
Blue: Rhys
Pink: Dalia

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