Loot and Scoot Incorporated vs Vampire: The Masquerade
Compare Loot and Scoot Incorporated and Vampire: The Masquerade side by side. See differences in complexity, dice, genre, cost, and more.
| Loot and Scoot Incorporated | Vampire: The Masquerade | |
|---|---|---|
| Genre | Scifi, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic | Horror, Modern |
| Play Style | Beginner-Friendly, Comedy, Deadly, Dungeon Crawl, Inventory Management, Mission-Based, Resource Management, Tactical | Social Intrigue, Faction Play, Urban Fantasy, Corruption, Drama, Investigation, Lore-Heavy |
| Core Mechanic | When an action is uncertain, roll 1d6: a 5–6 fully succeeds, a 2–4 succeeds with a minor complication, and a 1 fails with a major complication. Advantage or disadvantage adds dice and keeps the highest or lowest result. | Roll a pool of d10s (attribute + skill), count successes (6+). Hunger dice replace regular dice in the pool: their 10s trigger Messy Criticals and their 1s trigger Bestial Failures, making the Beast an ever-present threat. |
| Dice | d6 | d10 dice pool |
| Complexity | Medium | Medium |
| Accessibility | Medium | High |
| Runnability | Low | Very High |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Cost | $ | $$ |
| Publisher | Ultimate Hyper Games | Renegade Game Studios |
| Year | 2025 | 2018 |
| Best For | Groups that want cooperative extraction missions built around real-time pressure, hazardous grid movement, and campaign bookkeeping. | Drama-heavy campaigns exploring themes of addiction, power, and losing your humanity. |
| Highlights | Timed Mode uses a real countdown for salvage shifts, then converts the final escape into a 30-turn countdown. Encumbrance ties each recovered item's size and carrying method to movement, forcing the crew to balance profit against escape speed. Death triggers automated cloning that consumes organic material and CloneChips, keeping lethal hazards in play without ending the campaign. | Hunger system mechanically integrates the vampire's predatory nature into every dice roll. Clan membership and sect politics structure who a character allies with and opposes, giving the social game mechanical weight. Humanity and Stains system tracks moral erosion with narrative consequences. |
| Considerations | The salvage phase is designed around mapped grid movement, and Timed Mode requires active timer management. Characters begin without mechanical build choices or an advancement track, so equipment and optional cloning mishaps carry most long-term differentiation. Campaign play centers on debt and hauling logistics, making economic bookkeeping part of every cycle. | Hunger dice inject swingy results at the worst moments, since a Bestial Failure can surface on a critical roll. Play leans heavily on social and political maneuvering, so groups expecting frequent combat will find that side of the system thin. Choosing a clan and predator type at creation assumes setting knowledge the player may not have yet. |