Chicago by Night Kickstarter for Vampire: The Masquerade 5E

 Hey folks,

I'd like to take a moment to talk about my favorite tabletop roleplaying game of all time, Vampire: The Masquerade, which hit it's heyday! I'm not normally one to take time to advertise for someone else but I got to say I'm really excited about the VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE supplement CHICAGO BY NIGHT 5th Edition Kickstarter which is currently ongoing.

Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/chicago-by-night-for-vampire-the-masquerade-5th-ed/description

I've had my ups and downs with Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition, which I generally love but also disagree with some of the choices regarding. However, I universally loved Vampire: The Masquerade 20th anniverary and the work by Onyx Path Publishing in bringing such supplements as Beckett's Jyhad Diary to fore. Onyx Path Publishing is getting to do one more supplement for the new setting with the update of Chicago by Night to 2018.

For those of you unfamiliar with Chicago by Night (or even Vampire: The Masquerade), it is the first setting of the game after its initial release in 1991. Vampire: The Masquerade had established the bare bone essentials about how the game was supposed to be played: You are a vampire, you are trying to maintain control over your hunger, and you live in a society of other vampires that keeps hidden from humanity.

Chicago by Night took that nebulous concept and crystalized it by creating a vibrant and fantastic collection of almost a hundred NPCs with fantastically intricate relationships to one another. It was a living (unliving?) community where there was no one who was just a target. If you did harm to one person, you got in trouble with their friends and if you befriended one vampire then you made an enemy of another. It was a huge influence on later works in the setting, including Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

I'm really excited about this work and if any of you are fans of Vampire: The Masquerade or want to start tabletop gaming then I suggest you give a donation to this work. You don't even have to get a copy of the book as they're kindly releasing it for reading in its draft form to backers who donate just a small amount of money. I love every bit of it I've read so far.

You can read my interview with Matthew Dawkins about the Kickstarter and sourcebook here: https://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2018/11/interview-with-matthew-davenport-about.html