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This book collects new character-building options, powers, guides for playing together and alone and virtually, and new ways to use the old rules of Vampire: The Masquerade. The Players Guide is the perfect companion to the core Vampire: The Masquerade rulebook!
Features:
- Consolidates 7 clans of Kindred not included in the core Vampire: The Masquerade rulebook: Banu Haqim, Hecata, Lasombra, The Ministry, Ravnos, Salubri, and Tzimisce with their iconic Discipline powers including Oblivion and its Ceremonies!
- Collects previously published Discipline Powers, Blood Sorcery Rituals, and Thin-Blood Alchemy Formulae, plus includes over 40 new additions.
- New systems and advantages for coteries, including clan coterie merits for each of the 13 great clans plus Caitiff, Duskborn, and Salubri.
- Revisits all aspects of character and coterie creations, including streamlined guidance for new or experienced players.
- Guidelines and advice for non-traditional chronicles, including: all Thin-blood, troupe-style, virtual play, and play without a Storyteller.
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Table Of Contents
Opening
Blood Spatters
Words to Unlive By
Clans
Banu Haqim
- Who Are the Banu Haqim?
- Disciplines
- Bane
- Compulsion: Judgment
- Banu Haqim Archetypes
Hecata
- Who Are the Hecata?
- Disciplines
- Bane
- Compulsion: Morbidity
- Hecata Archetypes
Lasombra
- Who Are the Lasombra?
- Disciplines
- Bane
- Compulsion: Ruthlessness
- Lasombra Archetypes
Ministry
- Who Are the Ministry?
- Disciplines
- Bane
- Compulsion: Transgression
- Ministry Archetypes
Ravnos
- Who Are the Ravnos?
- Disciplines
- Bane
- Compulsion: Tempting Fate
- Ravnos Archetypes
Salubri
- Who Are the Salubri?
- Disciplines
- Bane
- Compulsion: Affective Empathy
- Salubri Archetypes
Tzimisce
- Who Are the Tzimisce?
- Disciplines
- Bane
- Compulsion: Covetousness
- Tzimisce Archetypes
Clan Bane Variants
- Banu Haqim: Noxious Blood
- Brujah: Violence
- Gangrel: Survival Instincts
- Hecata: Decay
- Lasombra: Callousness
- Malkavian: Unnatural Manifestations
- Ministry: Cold-Blooded
- Nosferatu: Infestation
- Ravnos: Unbirth Name
- Salubri: Asceticism
- Toreador: Agonizing Empathy
- Tremere: Stolen Blood
- Tzimisce: Cursed Courtesy
- Ventrue: Hierarchy
Characters
Vampire Traits and Types Summary Sheet
- Predator Types
- Attributes
- Skills
- Disciplines
- Backgrounds
Instant Vampires
- Play Style
- Motivation
- Embrace
Discipline Powers
- Animalism
- Auspex
- Celerity
- Dominate
- Fortitude
- Obfuscate
- Potence
- Presence
- Protean
- Oblivion
- Oblivion Ceremonies
- Blood Sorcery
- Blood Sorcery Rituals
- Thin-Blood Alchemy
Predator Types
- Extortionist
- Graverobber
- Grim Reaper
- Montero
- Pursuer
- Trapdoor
Backgrounds
- Allies
- Contacts
- Fame
- Haven
- Herd
- Influence
- Loresheets
- Mask
- Mawla
- Resources
- Retainers
- Status
New Merits and Flaws
- Merits
- Flaws
Castoffs
Castoff Summary Sheet
Caitiff
- Caitiff Merits
- Caitiff Flaws
Thin-Bloods
- The Thin-Blood Chronicle
- Organization
- Thin-Bloods and the Sects
- Blood Destiny
- Thin-Blood Archetypes
- New Thin-Blood Merits and Flaws
Ghouls
- In the Half-Light
- Fatal Addiction
- The Role of Ghouls
- Ghoul Archetypes
- Creating a Ghoul Character
- Special Situations
Mortals
- Why Play a Mortal?
- Imbalance
- Dangerous Attraction
- Mortal Archetypes
- The Role of Mortals
- Creating a Mortal Character
- Storyteller Options
Coteries
A Greater Purpose
- The Players’ Characters
- Coterie as Cloud
Coterie Types
- Blood Cult
- Cerberus
- Champions
- Commando
- Corporate
- Day Watch
- Envoys
- Family
- Fang Gang
- Fugitive
- Gatekeeper
- Hunting Party
- Maréchal
- Nomad
- Plumaire
- Questari
- Regency
- Saboteur
- Sbirri
- Vehme
- Watchmen
Coterie Systems
- Changing Coteries
- Coterie Advantages
- Expanded Domain Creation
Clans and Coteries
- Banu Haqim
- Brujah
- Gangrel
- Hecata
- Lasombra
- Malkavian
- The Ministry
- Nosferatu
- Ravnos
- Salubri
- Toreador
- Tremere
- Tzimisce
- Ventrue
- Caitiff
- Thin-Bloods
Chronicles
More Forms of Play
- One-Shot Play
- One-on-One Play
- Troupe-Style Play
- Solo Roleplay
Online Styles of Play
- Actual Play
- Virtual Tabletop (VTT)
- Online Text-Based Roleplay
- Virtual LARPing
- TikTok Style
Convictions
- Sample Convictions
Touchstones
- What Is the Relationship?
- Touchstone Ideas
- Using a Touchstone in your Chronicle
- Losing Your Touchstone
- No Touchstone?
Memoriam
- Shaping Memoriam
- Playing Memoriam
- One-Roll Memoriam
- Optional Rule: Badly Failed Memoriams
Projects
- Streamlined Project System
- Ideas For Projects
- Collaborative Projects
Considerate Play Guidelines
- Culture and Religion
- Romance, Seduction, and Sex
- Playing With Malkavians
- Power Differentials
Loresheets and Appendices
- Bankers of Dunsirn
- Children of Tenochtitlan
- Flesh-Eaters
- Harbingers of Ashur
- La Famiglia Giovanni
- The Gorgons
- Nasyon San An
- Vampire Traits and Types Summary Sheet
- Advantages Master List
- Coterie Sheet
Consolidated Antagonists
- Tzimisce Servitor Ghouls
- Revenants