Mature Content Warning: contains graphic and written content of a mature nature, including violence, sexual themes, and strong language. Reader discretion is advised.
Chicago can be everything for a vampire like you.
Subjugate a handful of the living on Michigan Avenue. Take a few deep drinks from some of the intoxicating vessels we have around here.
Discover the nightlife. Come visit the Succubus Club, the Blue Velvet, or Red No° 5, if they'll let you in. The guest list is pretty damn exclusive.
Introduce yourself to the Ventrue Prince. Get to know his vision. Buy into it. Serve it. Stay on his good side and your immortality is going to be just fine.
Accept no substitutes: Chicago is the city of vampires.
Just ignore the purges of Anarchs, Thin-Bloods, and fledglings when it grows inconvenient, yeah? Stay invested in the Camarilla and it'll stay invested in you. Remember who's got your back and who can take that backing away in the blink of an undead eye.
Don't go digging into business that doesn't concern you.
Don't go wandering into territory you don't know, because someone will claim your skull as a trophy.
Don't screw with another Kindred's kine, or you'll find your own murdered and dropped in a dumpster, and that'll just be the start of your problems.
Carve a piece of this bustling metropolis for yourself.
You just have to accept Chicago into your heart.
Become a part of the city.
Chicago by Night includes:
- A history of Chicago from multiple vampire perspectives and accounts of the domain as it exists in the modern nights, along with systems for how to run this city like the twisted, dysfunctional machine it is.
- An introduction for the Clan of Night’s entry to the Camarilla and rules for playing Lasombra in Vampire: The Masquerade–their archetypes, curse, Powers, and new for Fifth Edition, their Discipline of Oblivion.
- Over 50 individual Kindred with biographies, ambitions, secrets, relationships, and reasons for inclusion in any given chronicle, along with fiction illustrating these characters and key locations around the city.
- A multitude of chronicle hooks covering everything from the Beast and the Hunger to Humanity and Hierarchy, and a single large chronicle in which the Lasombra make it their mission to join the elite ranks of the Camarilla.
- Coteries illustrating the factionalism of Chicago’s Kindred and new coterie examples for your characters.
- Loresheets for characters new to or already based in Chicago, providing players easy ways to integrate their characters into the book’s many stories.
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Introduction
- Jewels Have Many Facets
Four Trips to the Second City
Red Noº 5
The World of Chicago
- The Greater Chicago Welcome Center Introduction
- Olaf tells all, for those who would listen
- FIRSTLIGHT Transcript CH908A
- As spoken by an unidentified “Anarch”
- The Hottest Invitation in Town
- Text extracted from an email regarding Blankbody #441C
- From the secret recordings of Jason Newberry
- More from the mouth of Olaf
- A Final Letter
- Entelechy School Lesson #114 — The Flood
- Sheriff Damien’s Recordings #78
- The Professor’s Notes
- Where is Tia?
- Shifting Crowns
- From the handwritten transcript of Sullivan Dane
- Sheriff Damien’s Recordings #102
- From the Diary of Sun Che
- Cross-Clan Invitations
- Olaf’s Evidence
- Sheriff Damien’s Recordings #110
- From the records of Clan Nosferatu
- FIRSTLIGHT Text Message Intercept #CH832
- Text extracted from email to Blankbody #1021H
- Sheriff Damien’s Recordings #229
- As spoken by an unidentified “Anarch”
- Nights of Pleasure
- Text extracted from email to Blankbody #CodeRed19
- Blankbody Voicemail Intercept #82CH
- Alexa’s Dream Record #12
- FIRSTLIGHT Text Message Intercept #CH839
- Sheriff Damien’s Recordings #303
Welcome to the Night
The Deal
The Lasombra in Society
- Talley’s Tale
- The Sins of Clan Lasombra
Keepers Become Magisters
- The Reason from Above
- The View from Below
- The Other Perspective
The City
A Tale of Two Cities
The Fifth Star
Field of White
Truth and Lies
- Truths of Chicago
- Lies of Chicago
The Machine
Homesteading
- Homestead Traits
- Block
- Neighborhood
- Sides
- The Major Metropolitan
- The Waves of Time
The Marks
Blue Bars
The Spirit of the City
- The Avenues of Chicago
- The Block
- The Occult Scene
- The Underworld
- Dragoon
- People Person
- The Collar Counties
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Elysia
- Dignitaries and Debutantes
Red Stars
- Elysia
- The Rack
- The “East” Side
- The South Side
- The West Side
- The North Side
- The Collar
Kindred of Chicago
- The Banu Haqim
- Clan Brujah
- The Caitiff
- Clan Gangrel
- Clan Lasombra
- Clan Malkavian
- The Ministry
- Clan Nosferatu
- The Thin-Bloods
- Clan Toreador
- Clan Tremere
- Clan Ventrue
- The Outsiders
Coteries
- Coterie Format
- The Anarch Center
- Baby Chorus
- The Blood Disco
- The Chantry
- The Government
- The Nihilists
Expanded Rules for Coteries
Miscellaneous Systems
New Coterie Types
- Carnival
- Corporate
- Flagellant
- Fugitive
- Somnophile
Loresheets
- Annabelle
- Ballard Industries
- Blacksite 24
- The Blue Velvet
- The Book of Nod
- Capone Gang
- The Cobweb
- Cultivar
- Cult of Shalim
- Descendants of Lodin
- Descendants of Montano
- Fires and Floods and Devil's Night
- FIRSTLIGHT
- Kevin Jackson
- Kindred Iconography
- The Labyrinth
- Lupine Expert
- Nathaniel Bordruff
- The Painted Lady
- Revenant Family: Ducheski
- The Society of St. Leopold
- Talley
- Wauneka
Lasombra
- Who are the Lasombra?
- Lasombra Archetypes
- Disciplines
- Compulsion
- Bane
- Oblivion
Chicago Chronicles
- The Beast
- Frenzy
- Hierarchy
- Humanity
- Hunger
- You Are What You Eat
The Sacrifice
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Part One: Pave the Way
- Part Two: New Blood
- Part Three: Be Our Guest
- Part Four: Elysium
- Part Five: Bloody Bargain
- Part Six: Shadow Hunt
- Part Seven: The Sacrifice
- Epilogue
Antagonist Stats
- Malenkov
- Security Guards
- Felicity Miller
- Crook’s Meal
- Mohawk Punks
- Malenkov’s Ghouls
- Joe Q. Average
- Son’s Coterie