Now it retreats into a maze of neo-feudal conspiracies to protect itself against the deadly threat of the Second Inquisition, struggling to enforce the Masquerade in the face of modern technology. Once it was the mightiest faction of vampires in the world, a stronghold of immortality. As the eldest vampires begin to vanish, the Ivory Tower starts to crack under the weight of its own decay. The global blood opera of the Camarilla story continues. You walk this razor's edge every night.ĭark designs, bitter enemies, and strange allies await you in this World of Darkness.
If you refuse to deal with it, it will overcome your mind and drive you to terrible acts to slake it. You are a vampire, struggling for survival, supremacy, and your own fading humanity-afraid of what you are capable of, and fearful of the inhuman conspiracies that surround you.Īs a vampire you suffer the pangs of the Hunger, the relentless and terrible thirst for human blood. So yeah, you totally use it as a cynical psychological crutch.About This Content Vampire: The Masquerade, The Camarilla Vampire: The Masquerade is the original and ultimate roleplaying game of personal and political horror. Humanity is less about being a good person, now, and more about trying to cling to a sense of self, any sense of self, in the face of overwhelming hunger and violent, selfish insanity. You can also replace specific crimes with supernaturally enforced compulsions and banes (such as being repelled by holy symbols or incapable of crossing a threshold without invitation). My understanding is that Blood and Smoke humanity is like a more structured and marginally universal version of this- its a list of crimes you can't violate without risking your sanity, yes, but its also things like failing to interact with mortal society for too long, or being reminded of your undead nature in a poignant and painful way. Instead, you have a rough list of the character's convictions and potential breaking points for his worldview and sense of self- both things that he thinks are wrong and disrupt his ability to see himself as a good person, and things that could happen to him that play on his insecurities and fears, and so damage his psyche when they occur. Click to expand.Note that, since God Machine Chronicle, Morality is no longer a thing in the nWoD at all.
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