History TableTopGame / VampireTheMasquerade

* VampireProcreationLimit: In order to produce a vampire, the sire must exsanguinate a human to the brink of death, then feed them a few drops of vampire "vitae" and make a huge effort of will to revive them (represented by the permanent loss of a [[HeroicWillpower Willpower dot]], which must be bought back with ExperiencePoints). Feeding vitae to a healthy human temporarily empowers them as a Ghoul instead.

At direct war with the Camarilla are the Sabbat, a sect of vampire anarchist religious fanatics who say to hell with hiding from humans. Oddly, there are only two clans wholly steeped in the Sabbat (with the rest of the ranks filled by outcasts from their parent clan): the [[WickedCultured wickedly stylish]] [[CastingAShadow Lasombra]] and the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality cold, alien-minded]] [[BodyHorror Tzimisce]]. There are four clans who fancy themselves independent: the Assamites, Middle Eastern [[ProfessionalKiller vampire assassins]]; the Followers of Set, [[TheCorrupter vice-peddling schemers from Egypt]]; the Giovanni, an inbred [[BigScrewedUpFamily family of Italian vampire aristos]]; and the Ravnos, [[TheTrickster nomadic, illusionist thieves.]]

At direct war with the Camarilla are the Sabbat, a sect of vampire anarchist religious fanatics who say to hell with hiding from humans. Oddly, there are only two clans wholly steeped in the Sabbat (with the rest of the ranks filled by outcasts from their parent clan): the [[WickedCultured wickedly stylish]] [[CastingAShadow Lasombra]] and the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality cold, alien-minded]] [[BodyHorror Tzimisce]]. There are four clans who fancy themselves independent: the Banu Haqim, Middle Eastern [[ProfessionalKiller vampire assassins]]; the Followers of Set, [[TheCorrupter vice-peddling schemers from Egypt]]; the Giovanni, an inbred [[BigScrewedUpFamily family of Italian vampire aristos]]; and the Ravnos, [[TheTrickster nomadic, illusionist thieves.]]

** With the advent of the Second Inquisition in 5e, vampire society is having to content with the newer and even more aggressive organization FIRSTLIGHT, an international Black Ops organization with access to cutting-edge weapon technology, and a detailed knowledge of vampire abilities, due to having captured and experimented on quite a few of them. FIRSTLIGHT poses a danger as they have access to international intel and can monitor online communications, and tend to send the heavy artillery. Even more dangerously, FIRSTLIGHT are acutely aware that vampires have the ability to compromise commando structures by Dominating people or otherwise manipulate them, and have specialized in operating in sleeper cells that blends in with the normal populace. If there is something that really makes elder vampires rest very uneasily, it is the thought of heavily armed commandos backed by predator drones coming out of the blue to kick down your door and expertly assassinate you and your underlings with incendiary rounds and napalm, and then retreating to disappear amongst the faces of 7 billion people.

** [[HumanoidAbomination Ur-Shulgi]] of the Assamites [[note]]known as the Banu Haqim in more recent editions[[/note]] is a terrifyingly powerful Methuselah of the Clan who likes to emphasize just how inhuman he's become over the course of his millennia-long unlife by refusing to wear clothes except on special occasions. For added horror and revulsion, ur-Shulgi is an eyeless UndeadChild CoveredWithScars.