I'm in the mood to start up a VtR or VtM game, open for anyone who wishes to join it. I'm not going to limit the number of characters, since there are lots of roles that characters can fill.

Firstly, I'd like to know which one people would be more interested in: VtM or VtR? My personal preference would be VtR, but I can write up information for either one in an OOC post. We'd be using the most current editions of whichever game is chosen. I have the main books for both. Yes, I intend for dice and such to be a thing. Full character sheets will be used.

Any takers?

Ah, this is just great. Me and a friend have been looking for a Vampire game for quite a while.

Sweet deal. Do you have a preference of VtM or VtR? (And as a general question, does anyone wish for an explanation of the main thematic differences between the two?)

Here is the aforementioned friend. Concerning the game, we are more partial to VtM, and already possess the related books and sheets alike.

I do have some questions besides - is there any limit on how many characters a single player may use (apologies if this was already spelled out on the opening post and I failed to understand it)? And would there be any restrictions on character creation - say, only certain Clans, or no characters following a Path of Enlightenment, being allowed?

One character per person at the moment, but I might allow more. Depends on how many people show interest in this. If we get a small group, I'll allow multiple characters per person. If we get a larger group, just one per person. We'll see.

I won't restrict clans specifically, but I do ask for all characters to be in the Camarilla, if we go VtM. Or, at the very least, friendly toward the Camarilla.

By the bye, would there be a required minimum of participants for the role-play to begin?

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Hah, no, no, not serious in the slightest there, nobody likes Sam Haight concepts. In full seriousness, mark me interested. I'd personally prefer a game of Masquerade, as I don't have as much experience in NWoD(and have more than a few gripes with most of its gamelines besides, although Promethean will always have a spot in my heart) but it's the GM that makes or a breaks a game, not the system. Camarilla-aligned is perfectly fine by me, and the idea of being able to play any clan also perks my interest(Nagaraja are coooool...preferably the Nihilistics version rather than Vitreous but either way really).

I'd like to see a couple more people express interest before I make an OOC thread and such. I probably won't have the time to get this officially off the ground until after the holidays, so that gives people time to ask questions and other things.

It's sounding like more people are interested in VtM thus far, so let's pencil that in as the one we're doing.

Just saw this. If you're still looking, I'm interested, although I've never played VtM or the variants nor do I own any source material. However, I do have extensive D&D background so I understand the basic formula of it all.

I am absolutely still looking. I probably will never stop looking, since I intend to sandbox this a bit. You guys will be under no obligation to be a coterie, but you will be united in some respect in service of the Camarilla. (In other words, expect Sabbat antagonists.)

I intend to type up abbreviated descriptions of the necessary bits you guys need to know in order to make characters for this and understand the setting, for those of you who do not have the source material yourself. I've played DnD extensively myself, and while the core element of using dice to determine success or failure holds true…that's about all that's similar between the two of them. Lemme run through a quick example of how stats work in VtM vs. DnD, just so you can see that.

In DnD, as you know, you roll a d20 and add whatever bonus you have from your character's stats to determine success or failure, depending on what the difficulty class of the task at hand is.

In VtM, you roll multiple d10s and compare each one individually against the difficulty of the task at hand. Each d10 that shows up equal or greater than the difficulty (standard difficulty is 6) grants you a success. The more successes you get, the better the end result. The number of d10s you roll is determined by your character's stats. You have "dots" in an Attribute. You have "dots" in an Ability (aka Skill). Add the "dots" together to determine how many d10s you roll.

It's possible to crit fail a roll in VtM like you can in DnD if you roll a bunch of 1s. 1s are bad. They subtract successes from your roll. If none of your d10s get a success on their own and you have at least one 1, you botch the roll. And a bad thing happens. (Or a fun thing, depending on how you look at it. Like the time my friend's Nosferatu botched a roll to Potence-jump a tall electric fence, and he ended up hitting the fence, getting electrocuted by it, then falling back on a tree branch, breaking the branch, and getting skewered by it on landing. Fun times…)

I might be interested; and if I am, my vote is going to be placed on the Masquerade option.

Cool. It's definitely looking like VtM is going to be the winner.

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I'm willing to learn. Shoot me a mention when you have the necessary details up and ready to go.

I'll hopefully get the OOC topic set up sometime this week.

I'm interested, but for the uninitiated, how would playing it work out? Would we all need to be online at the same time? I don't want to join if it'll leave people waiting for me for hpours.

I'd rather not require everyone to be online at the same time, since that would make for a scheduling nightmare. I intend for this to be more along the lines of a normal rp, though with the occasional dice roll thrown in when the occasion calls for it.

Yo! I've started getting the OOC topic put together, but it's going to take some time. To keep an eye on the progress if you wish to, the link is here. I only ask that you keep all chatter to this Interest Check for now, until the OOC topic is finished. I have a whooooole lot of typing to do before then, but I'll work on it a little bit every day until its done.

Obviously, if you have any questions/comments, I'm perfectly willing to answer them here.

I'm definitely interested.

It might be a superfluous question, but shall our characters begin as neonates - and, if such is the case, would there be a limit for their age as vampires (say, one, ten or twenty years)?

That's a very good question. I'm trying to decide that, actually. Any input would be welcome. I'd like to have varied statuses and have some of the PCs be court officers, but if people would prefer to be a bunch of neonates, I can NPC the older vampires and have more ST-driven plot than the originally-intended more sandbox-like feel.