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Vampire: The Masquerade

5th Edition
Personal horror and political intrigue in the World of Darkness
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Social IntrigueDramaRoleplay-HeavyAtmosphericFaction PlayInvestigationCollaborativeCharacter-DrivenUrban FantasyCorruptionLore-HeavyNoir
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Portuguese
Diced10 dice pool
System FamilyStoryteller
Cost$$
LicenseProprietary
PublisherRenegade Game Studios
Year2018
Complexity Medium
Accessibility Medium
Community High

Core Mechanic

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.

Best For

Drama-heavy campaigns exploring themes of addiction, power, and losing your humanity.

Highlights

Hunger system mechanically integrates the vampire's predatory nature into every dice roll. Detailed social and political frameworks with clan-based faction play. Humanity and Stains system tracks moral erosion with narrative consequences.

Considerations

Hunger dice introduce high randomness at critical moments, dense lore spanning 30+ years can overwhelm new players, predator type and clan choice during character creation require setting knowledge to make informed decisions