LFG & GM Vampire: the Masquerade, Wednesday or Thursday

I'm looking for a group to join for wednesday or thursday night (central time) games for V:tM. I have not played the pen and paper game but have played open roleplay for it for for several years, and am familiar with the rules and am heavily into the lore. EDIT: I figured I'd change the title to refect that I am not GMing, just a lone player looking to start or join a group.

I could play wednesday

I could play Thursday!

I'd like to play, though I never have before. I'm on EST and can play both wednesday and thursday. I think this is a strange place to ask though, V:tM is a very story based game and probably wouldn't translate well to Roll20

Depends entirely on how you use the tools you're provided. If the place is used creatively, it could create for a very good environment.

I think this is a strange place to ask though, V:tM is a very story based game and probably wouldn't translate well to Roll20 I'm currently running a very story based game and I've not found roll20 to be an obstacle.

I didn't mean to imply it would be an obstacle, just that it wouldn't be necessary because grid based maps don't come up much in V:tM

How does Roll20 affect it at all? You don't need to put in maps and grids. You can replace it with atmospheric and character pictures. Plus roll20 let's you use dice, which amazing WoD uses. Anyone willing to run a game? I haven't played in 4-5 years and never ST'ed in White Wolf games or otherwise I would ST for the group.

I can possibly run a character, but not a chronicle... In other words, I'd love to play.

Didn't think of atmosphere and character pictures. I guess there is an advantage to playing on Roll20, even for WoD. Regardless, I'm interested in playing. I have a character in mind, but would like to hear what kind of chronicle we're playing first.

I have been dying to start playing VtM .... especially with the 20th ann. book.

Not to mention the ability to pass notes, keep details on file, all sorts of things, it's still a great environment. Also... Say you mind control a person... the GM can give control of movement on a map to said dominated person, easy adaptations.

How many Vampire games do you see use detail maps? White Wolf games are a lot more RP friendly and less movement restrictive than say d20 games.

Does not mean you can't.

I think everyone appreciates a detail map due to the fact of referancing everything from multiple other things. Like I know two of my characters for an VtM LARP needed in-depth knowledge of layout to do such things from "demolitioning a building with the right amount of C4 placed strategically around the building so it could be stated it was leveled for 'construction purposes'" to "how many arms merchantist can I fit in the trunk of this car?". Also, the classic "do i have line of sight to my target via my sniper nest and do anyone else have line of sight to me?". So I would say that location do things is greatly appreciated. Then again, I am a odd ball for using small details.

Yup. It's a great tool for however you want to make use of it. If you wanted to make it a more adventure-type setup you could easilly adapt the speed system applied in NWoD to a means to track combat on a grid, or for other purposes, even to keep distances during a chase for foot or wheeled.

For my game (which isn't VtM but is similarly story based) I've run four sessions and so far I've used four maps: 1) Centre of the city 2) District where the players live & spend most of their time 3) Mansion the players live in 4) a town house that some villains were holed up in that the characters attacked last session. I've got 18 pages that are either a single NPC portrait or portraits of a group of NPCs who are commonly encountered together (like one of the important NPCs, and his bodyguard and manservant) and as the game is pretty role-playing focussed it's these pages that do the bulk of the heavy lifting. Even though I've got maps movement is pretty abstract in what I'm running (like WoD) so we use a bunch of pins to designate where characters are and all spend heaps of time scribbling all over the maps to indicate obstacles, movement, direction, bad guys etc. It's just a matter of finding a way to telling the story you want to tell with the tools available, if the tools aren't enhancing the game it's pretty simple to just not use them (as we've chosen to do with the turn tracker).

I considered an overlay of a town that could be used to see who controls what in a game like vampire, what your pack patrols for wolf, what areas you affect as a Promethean, there's plenty, I love the possibility, and you don't even have to pay to get things laminated for dry erase. :P Now that we've derailed this topic thoroughly.

Happy there's a discussion going on, and it looks like there's a good supply of would be players. Now we just need someone willing to be ST.

Happy there's a discussion going on, and it looks like there's a good supply of would be players. Now we just need someone willing to be ST. Seems to always be the issue.

I would love to play WoD I only recently got the 20th anniversary and I haven't played it yet regretfully. As a newbie to the series I wouldn't be fit for the role of ST for such a lore based game, even though the DM role is what I usually fill when it comes to other pen and paper games. It's to bad that finding a game master tends to be the hardest part, I haven't played a pen and paper game as a player longer then a single fleeting session in years. Mind you that is just within my real life group of players.

I'd offer to run something but I'm guessing I'm on the opposite side of the world from most of you.

I'd be happy to assist to some degree, but not wanting to be the primary ST in any fashion. Worst case, you could always use a handful of creative liberties.

Just making a bump here as I'm not quite ready to give up on this.

One more bump before I give up on this for now..

Eternal Vigilance - a multigaming guild with it's own community of RPGers - has a Vampire campaign which is trying to get off the ground currently. The time is tentatively set for 7pm EST on a weekday. It's still very much in the mix. Feel free to take a look at the forum post about it. <a href="http://www.evcitadel.com/community/threads/21-30-est-weekday-8pm-6pm-weekend-vampire-the-masquerade-whitewolf.28326/" rel="nofollow">http://www.evcitadel.com/community/threads/21-30-est-weekday-8pm-6pm-weekend-vampire-the-masquerade-whitewolf.28326/</a> Here's our guild recruitment ad on the Roll20 site, if you would like more info on EV and what we do. <a href="http://community.roll20.net/discussion/1497/eternal-vigilance-guild-vtrpg-portal-now-recruiting-multiple-campaigns-lf-players#Item_48" rel="nofollow">http://community.roll20.net/discussion/1497/eternal-vigilance-guild-vtrpg-portal-now-recruiting-multiple-campaigns-lf-players#Item_48</a> Best of luck! Ardis VTRPG Portal Commander

Eternal Vigilance - a multigaming guild with it's own community of RPGers - has a Vampire campaign which is trying to get off the ground currently. The time is tentatively set for 7pm EST on a weekday. It's still very much in the mix. Feel free to take a look at the forum post about it. <a href="http://www.evcitadel.com/community/threads/21-30-est-weekday-8pm-6pm-weekend-vampire-the-masquerade-whitewolf.28326/" rel="nofollow">http://www.evcitadel.com/community/threads/21-30-est-weekday-8pm-6pm-weekend-vampire-the-masquerade-whitewolf.28326/</a> Here's our guild recruitment ad on the Roll20 site, if you would like more info on EV and what we do. <a href="http://community.roll20.net/discussion/1497/eternal-vigilance-guild-vtrpg-portal-now-recruiting-multiple-campaigns-lf-players#Item_48" rel="nofollow">http://community.roll20.net/discussion/1497/eternal-vigilance-guild-vtrpg-portal-now-recruiting-multiple-campaigns-lf-players#Item_48</a> Best of luck! Ardis VTRPG Portal Commander Wow, thanks for the info, I'll definitely check it out :) Hopefully it works out for wednesday or thursday though, those are the only days that'll work for me right now x.x

Better say that as a reply in the post then, and drop an introduction in this thread while you're at it :) <a href="http://www.evcitadel.com/community/forums/forum-introductions-public.20/" rel="nofollow">http://www.evcitadel.com/community/forums/forum-introductions-public.20/</a>

I'd be interested in that if it were running on this site, I have plans to run my own stuff but not before experiencing the interface as a player. So while it looks like a great opportunity, I'm going to pass.

I'd be interested in that if it were running on this site, I have plans to run my own stuff but not before experiencing the interface as a player. So while it looks like a great opportunity, I'm going to pass. We use the Roll20 virtual table for all our games Brendon. When you say "running on this site" is that what you mean? Or are you referring to the Roll20 forums?

Yar, I mean that I want to be using the R20 interface. if that's the case I may have to take some time this weekend to check it out.