V20 : Northern Nights

Canada, 1990

A call is summoned. The Blood Quiet has ended.

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Montreal, The City of Black Miracles

The snow here glows. It shouldn’t. But it does. Neon spills across asphalt and frozen rooftops like blood from a slow wound. It drips down the Metro walls. It flickers in stained glass. goes out.

The Sabbat calls this place holy. Not because it is sacred. Because it hurts.

Packs drift between collapsed chapels and rotting nightclubs. Bishops scream sermons at the wind. The Black Hand watches from crawlspaces, the Inquisition never too far behind. No one sleeps. No one repents. The Sword of Caine lives here, curled like a question, ready to cut.

Boston is gone. Providence is gone. New York fell on its own reflection. Montreal remains. Véronique La Cruelle still speaks in flame. Kyle Strathcona still writes scripture with no ink.

There are whispers of a new Crusade. There are whispers of betrayal. The city listens to both. It hums with hunger.

This is not a stronghold. This is not a haven. This is the cathedral. The last one.

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Ottawa, The City of Seven Crowns

No one chooses Ottawa. You arrive. That is all.

The streets are quiet. The windows are clean. The halls are endless. Somewhere inside, the Camarilla files its dominion in folders older than any living soul. Parliament rules the kine. The Library beside it rules something deeper.

Elysium is a reading room. There are no torches. Only fluorescent lights and the faint whine of machines that remember too much.

Six Princes have tried. All gone. Some vanished. Some removed. Some forgotten entirely. The city eats its leaders. It does not notice.

Then came Amalric, the Seventh. Not a tyrant. Not a voice. A shape. A structure. He did not rule. He rendered. And the city obeyed.

Ottawa is not still because it is weak. It is still because it does not need to move. It waits. And when it acts, it will be as if it always had.

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The Edges of the Map

Eastward lies Quebec City, sealed and whispering. The Tremere built their Chantry there in another century and never left. House Abel carved ritual into the stone. It does not open its doors. It remembers faces. The city bends inward. It is geometrically precise, and utterly unreadable.

Westward, Toronto gleams. The Ventrue hold it like a prize they do not want to share. Old money smiles from boardrooms. New blood is trimmed to fit. They govern by taste. They do not speak of Montreal. They pretend Ottawa is irrelevant. Their pride blinds them, but they are still dangerous.

Further still, the land falls off the page. Forests that hold no roads. Mountains with no names. There are things out there that hate both Camarilla and Sabbat. The Garou. The forgotten. The other bloods. Not all threats wear faces. Some wear bark. Some wear hunger.

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After centuries of conflict, the Kindreds licked their wounds for ten years. Sleeping in tension. No purges. Just paper moves and whispered rites. The Blood Quiet, they called it.

It has ended.

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What this is

Northern Nights is more than a Discord server. It is a live, text-based World of Darkness game with an automated dice and combat system, built-in character creation, and visual environments designed to immerse. It runs persistently and hosted through a Godot-made game. As such, it is an updated Mu*-like. No telnet jank here.

If you want something slower, richer, and more atmospheric than your average TTRPG server, consider stepping in. Writers, roleplayers, and Storytellers welcome.

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Enter here: https://discord.gg/xjzTSk5THc

I'm running a Hunter the Reckoning game set in 1991 Midwestern America. The town is a small farming community with a population of approximately 2000 people called Hinanak (A butchered native American word as all good Midwestern communities are). The cell has discovered that an ancient vampire, a founder of the Sabbat, has been in torpor beneath the local catholic church as a prisoner of the Society of Leopold. A town tradition used to be celebrated every year where the town would celebrate a festival to Perchta (a pagan Germanic goddess) that was in actuality a festival meant to keep her in torpor. However a local cult has killed the organizer of it and is going to awaken her. Meanwhile, other Sabbat members have begun appearing in the area due to subconsciously hearing her call. The cell (known as the Hinanak Book Club) formed when they fought and killed the first of the arriving Sabbat. The cult, made up of local government officials is organizing a holiday on the Autumn Equinox to try and free her, where the Sabbat will be coming. It's going to get messy. The Cell has been dealing with the FBI's S.A.D. who have covered up other events (A battle between two Garou brothers that resulted in the loss of one of the Hunter's arms and the death of one of the brothers as a bear attack for example). The Sabbat plan on freeing Perchta and turning most of the town into shovelheads in the hopes of using Hinanak as ground zero for the Sabbat crusade in the Midwest. I'm curious if anyone has any advice for how the S.A.D. could cover up the Sabbat attack on the town after the cell defeats them (assuming they do)? Any advice is appreciated

Hi, I'm thinking about running a game of Mage 20, but I'm having a hard time figuring out where to start when it comes to making a chronicle. I come from a background of DND and CoC - both of these systems come with plenty of adventure modules - long and short - from across the years. Similarly, there are no shortages of things like tables for NPCs and encounters, or well established areas to run things in like Arkham.

I have one book, the book for Mage 20. It's great, has a lot of stuff about wider cosmology, faction wars, tone encouragement, etc. I've also played in Mage 20 before, which is why I'm excited to run it at all. But while I'm not useless when it comes to being creative, I'm finding it very daunting to go from reading this book to fleshing out my own chronicle, my own NPCs, my own town/city full of people and places, etc. My goal is to make something street level, both to keep things simple and because I'm not really sure how to incorporate the high level conflict involving all the big players.

I guess what I'm asking for is literally anything in terms of giving me a more solid foundation to stand on. Lifelines to pull on when I need to quickly make something up. This is also my first time running anything in a modern, urban setting, so even stuff that's not specifically WoD would be useful for that context.

So far we have W:TA, V:TM, and H:TR.

Wraith is extremely slept on. But just imagine the kick the haunt and dungeon-crawling-in-the-nether focused Chronicles would get with a reboot!

They could update with splatbooks on Stygia, haunts of different areas of the Skinlands, quests based on occupational Fetters, etc.

I personally want an add-on book for players who are forging Wraiths who were Imbued in life. It's possible since Hunters are normal humans. Demon: The Fallen crossover splat, perhaps?

Long story short, I'm a 2nd game master in a huge LARP of VTM. It's not any particular edition because it's a homebrew simplified version. The thing is that I need to translate mechanics from other games like Hunter and Werewolf to be compatible with this (compatible doesn't mean balanced, it's not necessary to be balanced). I'm not even close to be a lore or rulemaster, especially out outside of Vampire. I know many will be pissed that I'm asking for help for a problem we got into by ourselves, so this post is not directed for you. It's directed to those that always want to talk about how much they know about this game but can't find someone willing to listen (I mean it as a good thing, at least this time. I'm also like this with other games). The communication would be by Reddit DM. Is there knowledge-caritative souls out there?

Also let me know if this is not the community I should be posting this on and which should it be.

Basically the title - I'm not looking for the best or most sophisticated paradigm per se, but the one you enjoyed playing the most.

I’d like to watch some of the Gehenna scenarios or something, but I’ll take any recommendations. I’m kinda interested in playing but I don’t know if I have the time so I’d like the next best thing. I don’t know much beyond having played Bloodlines so I’d love to just have more of the setting to chew on.

Have you ever wondered how the Camarilla would respond to the Cathayans invading their Domains? If so, please join us as we share our thoughts on the matter!

In all seriousness, though, I do feel like the Children of Ether might be due for a reexamination ala the Get of Fenris, given... uh... current developments in the US involving alternative science, raw milk, and all that.

Credit to RFK Jr. flaunting his Life 1 in public without fear of HIT-Mark retaliation.

So I have a group of dnd players, but I want them to be introduced to the WoD. We have played a little bit of Mage and Hunters but it didn’t really go that well because my story was bad and I don’t know how to write a campaign, so now I want to find some good Mage and Vampire adventures so that my friends will be interested

I've read some 5th edition books... not great... but mha people enjoy them...

Then i read this

STOCKHOLM – MAY 23, 2025 – World of Darkness today announced that it is rebranding to White Wolf and is now the official licensing and publishing entity for all its transmedia properties, including Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and Hunter: The Reckoning

Are you okay whitewolf? Blink if you need help 😜

Ok so bold claim here but… with just the Corebook, Houses of the Fallen, and the Player’s Guide, Demon the Fallen might be one of the best World of Darkness games.

You don’t need a mountain of supplements — those three cover pretty much everything you need to run a full, epic campaign. Fallen angels, remorse, redemption vs damnation, insane powers but real consequences. It’s heavy but in a way that gives you constant story hooks.

The Houses are brilliant for roleplay, the theme is super clear, and it works for both street-level horror and big cosmic arcs. And it crosses over with Vampire/Mage/etc in a way that feels natural, not forced.

Honestly I think it’s underrated because people assume it’s too “big” or complicated, but in play it’s surprisingly lean. Some of the best drama I’ve ever seen at the table.

“Lately, I’ve had a strange obsession with the lore of the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, and I’d like to ask how powerful vampires are depending on their level of mastery in Disciplines, or if there are other factors that affect their level of power.”

What is this discipline about? I’ve been researching, and it’s not among the most well-known. I would also like to ask about the basic regenerative ability of each vampire, as well as the one enhanced by a discipline.By the way, thank you for answering the previous question.

Yes, I'm asking about that very short-lived product, given how there's still fan support for it today, because given it used the storyteller system, I'm wondering how well it works with games in the edition it was made alongside along with how much work one'd have to do to port the stats to the current editions and make them somewhat workable.

If only because, well, it would be extremely funny to have like; M. Bison just kinda show up in a Werewolf the Apocalypse game. Also, hot take: They should get the rights to make a new edition of it and make a sister game for Darkstalkers.