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[Vampire: The Masquerade] So what do you want from Chicago by Night 5E?

Started by CTPhipps, November 12, 2018, 12:57:21 AM

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CTPhipps

November 12, 2018, 12:57:21 AM
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/chicago-by-night-for-vampire-the-masquerade-5th-ed/description

I'm a backer of this Kickstarter and have bought the opportunity to decide the fate of Prince Maxwell (of both Requiem and Masquerade fame) among others. So, yes, I'm very pleased by this work as I was a HUGE Chicago by Night fan way back in 1992. This is the chance to leave a mark on canon and I'm curious what Al Capone and Eletria's fates are going to be thanks to their backers.

The Chicago setting for me is the litmus test for any edition of Vampire: The Masquerade. 1st Edition more or less established how to run games. It gave us things like Sheriffs, Harpies, Seneschals, and more or less how to run princes (which is to say as complete assholes). I always felt it was a mistake not to make a 3rd edition of the book with Revised. By that point, V:TM had moved away from city-based chronicles and there was the question of how useful a city book was. For me, I always found it an easy-toolkit to adapt NPCs from and have used the Chicago Kindred in Saint Louis, New York, and even London (obviously adjusted backstory wise).

But I felt like it kind of lost some of the vampire flavor to have such characters which so many players had encountered. I felt DUST TO DUST was a poor ending to the Chicago Chronicles (technically Gary) as it felt slightly mocking in tone. Modius and Juggler were such beloved characters, I felt they needed a better send off.

For me, what I'd like from Chicago by Night 5E is a "hybrid" book. I'd like a book which can be useful for V20 games via the updating of the plot to 2018 but not such a way that won't necessarily rely on things like the Beckoning and Second Inquisition. I also am hoping it can be used for 5E because I think the biggest problem with that game right now is the fact we don't quite know how to play in that universe. Basically, we don't know how Elders, Methuselahs, and Anarchs interact. So I have an impossible set of contradictions but I'm hoping Chicago by Night will spell out how the setting has changed in a way so that players get a sense of grounding.

How about you?
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