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V5 Vampire Player's Guide (Unofficial)

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Embrace all new possibilities for your character with our Vampire Player's Guide. Designed to deeply expand the options for characters, the book allows players to make unique kindred supported by game mechanics as well as tools for Storytellers to flesh out non-player characters. This resource provides a trove of new advantages, flaws, predator types, and disciplines designed to fit within the rules of Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition. 

This book contains: 

  • Over 100 merits, flaws, and backgrounds and alternate character creation rules to utilize them
  • 18 predator types and rules to create your own
  • 59 disciplines

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Fredrick R December 06, 2023 4:55 am UTC
Is the same as the 2022 V5 Players Guide?
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Elmer G December 30, 2023 1:28 am UTC
No, this is a homebrew book on the Storyteller's Vault.
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Brandon H October 25, 2023 7:54 am UTC
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Thanks for updating your product, I really like it. I have noticed a few things that seem to be missing from the pdf. It looks like several of the predator rolls are missing from the predator types near. Also the images seem to be lower resolution than the previous upload? I really do like the formatting more though, so thank you
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Jamie H April 01, 2023 4:01 pm UTC
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Might be a bit late to be sending this but on page 7, the bloodstain graphic is covering the part about making your own predator type.

Not sure how no one else in the comments noticed this? It feels pretty blatant.
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Summoned S April 03, 2023 10:21 pm UTC
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Doesn't seem to be an issue for me, but I went ahead and removed the graphic altogether on the update just in case. Thanks for letting me know!
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Jamie H April 10, 2023 6:59 pm UTC
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Cool! Also noticed something else.

On page 15, the Jack of All Trades and Lore Master merits have the same text. I think the former got copied over the latter.
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Summoned S April 19, 2023 8:39 pm UTC
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Fixed. Thank you!
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Duane R February 23, 2023 4:04 pm UTC
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Bought it, paid for it, won't download at all. Tried multiple browsers on multiple machines (Windows AND OSX).
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adam J February 23, 2023 7:55 pm UTC
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Same here, doesn't seem to be any way to download this. I saw it going around on twitter so I thought I would give it a shot but there doesn't seem to be any way to actually access it.
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Summoned S February 23, 2023 10:44 pm UTC
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Sorry for the issue. It looks like the upload did not complete correctly and has now been fixed.
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robert C January 26, 2023 9:03 pm UTC
Little predatory to name your homebrew after an announced, but not yet released official supplement.
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Summoned S January 31, 2023 9:17 am UTC
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The product information shows that this was published several months before anything regarding an official supplement was announced.
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Nikolas F July 08, 2022 5:35 pm UTC
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Hey, is there a way to contact you privately?
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Summoned S July 12, 2022 12:36 am UTC
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Absolutely. You can send a DM on twitter or email business@tablegoth.com
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Robert M September 12, 2023 1:03 pm UTC
I debated whether or not I wanted to keep this on my list and eventually purchase... Then I see this comment and recognize that you're TableGoth. Now I know I'm going to buy it.
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Summoned S October 30, 2023 8:51 pm UTC
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That's awesome. Thank you!
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Talia H April 18, 2022 10:15 pm UTC
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Tablegoth has been very gracious about my various personal internal & external disasters keeping me from doing a full review of this wonderful guide, full of great resources, that he's created for us V5 fans. While a few feats and flaws may need adjustments, he is very open to that and updating this title accordingly. I'd give the book a solid 4.75 just because there's always room to improve anything, but this is a 5.0 in the rough if you will! The merits & flaws aren't the only great things, many of the new predator types are quite innovative (I especially enjoy the "Confidant") & some disciplines are just delicious, like the Oblivion power "Abyssal Pulse" which can wreck technology just like the protagonist in "Shadows of New York" can chose to do. I reference this PDF almost every day that I create or play with character creation, and it's an absolute steal at $5.00! Please show him some love & buy a copy, I think you'll be happy you did!
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Mike M February 17, 2022 8:39 pm UTC
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Suggestion: 237MB for a 50pg PDF is... excessive. I opened it in Acrobat Pro DC, hit "Reduce File Size" and dropped it to 6.8MB with no noticeable loss in quality.
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Summoned S February 21, 2022 8:58 pm UTC
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Excellent suggestion. Thank you!
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Landon B February 15, 2022 2:49 pm UTC
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1.) Were all, or at least half, of the merits tested before converting over to this system? I think a lot of them sound interesting, but some of them seem over-priced. Example: High Humanity (3 Dots) starts you off with one extra humanity for the game. In actual play maintaining humanity 8+ is tough since one Stain turns into a 50/50 roll on one dice (Remorse test done at end of session).

2.) Why is Discipline Competence (6 Dots) so expensive? In Cult of the Blood Gods, at storyteller discretion, the Hecata bloodlines can spend 4 background dots to gain their alternate disciplines as a 4th in-clan discipline (pg. 202 CotBG). Also the 4th dot of the Low Clan Loresheet gives a player a fourth in-clan discipline: while limited to “low clans,” over half the clans were considered “low” in the dark ages that the loresheet references.

3.) Why does Unstakeable (6 Dots) exist? Protean 5 has two powers that are meant to get over the weakness of stakes and Blood Sorcery has a Level 3 ritual...See more
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Summoned S February 21, 2022 8:56 pm UTC
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I encourage Storytellers and players to adjust anything they wish to fit their game better. Adjusting the cost of advantages is one of the easiest change to make and encouraged. I tried using the official material as a guideline and think it stays close to that. I am not saying this is the best way, but it feels the most in line with V5. That being said, VtM in general is hardly a game about balanced mechanics and a merit that may be 'broken' in one chronicle can be non-consequential in another. I agree with your takes and encourage you to change them to fit your games while hopefully getting some inspiration from the options at least.

To address specific examples, let's look at High Humanity. I've played games where the players were hardly concerned with Humanity scores while in others achieving the highest humanity possible was their primary ambition. This merit is less interesting in the first game, and incredibly valuable in the other.

As for the options that other clans or characters...See more
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Garth W January 23, 2022 6:57 pm UTC
Is this basically another homebrew of people converting over all the min-max powers from previous editions?
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Summoned S January 25, 2022 5:17 pm UTC
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I'm going to treat this like a genuine question for the benefit of actual good-faith customers. Nearly every discipline is original and there are no direct ports from previous editions. As stated in the description, the design philosophy revolved around creating more options so characters could be more mechanically unique rather than provide new "min-max" options to simply make deadlier kindred.
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Garth W January 25, 2022 8:04 pm UTC
Because I asked a question I'm not a consumer?
Good to know.
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Summoned S January 26, 2022 6:20 am UTC
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Good-faith was the qualifier to focus on here. "Bad faith is a concept in negotiation theory whereby parties pretend to reason to reach settlement, but have no intention to do so." Please examine if this applies. If not, then no offense should be taken. The question was answered.
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Talia H April 18, 2022 10:24 pm UTC
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No, many of the merits & flaws are unique to V5 rules (like "Remorseful" which helps you on remorse rolls), and many were created by TableGoth. The book also suggests capping the new merits & flaws to 7-dots so it doesn't become a major issue. It helps me make a closer representation of many character concepts I already liked. But remember, as a storyteller you can allow some things and reject others, or tweak them. The book is presented as a resource, it's not a substitute for a great ST or players, just an aid. And at just $5.00 he's made it accessible to nearly anyone! Besides, the author is very open to constructive criticism and edits and thus has my full support. Renegade would be wise to take a look at a copy before they release their player's manual later this year, IMHO!
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martin R December 02, 2021 7:00 pm UTC
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Addictive vitae's process begins with a copy of the text from the previous ritual.
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Summoned S December 06, 2021 6:32 am UTC
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Fixed! Thank you.
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Andrew E November 20, 2021 4:17 am UTC
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Sorry to bother you and I'm not sure where I should put this, but on page 19 the flaws Death's Kiss and Deep Sleeper seem to be the same thing.
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Summoned S November 21, 2021 4:02 pm UTC
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Thanks for letting me know! An update will be released this evening with fixes to this and a couple other errors.
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Jay H November 18, 2021 11:10 am UTC
Is there a chance we can get any previews of the content? This sounds interesting, but I'd be reluctant to buy something without being able to see the sort of thing I'm paying for.
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Grzegorz R November 18, 2021 1:05 pm UTC
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I second that!
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Viktor V November 18, 2021 5:25 pm UTC
III- time !
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Summoned S November 18, 2021 7:38 pm UTC
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Apologies. Forgot to check a box for the previews. An alternative preview is now available for download so you can get a glimpse at each section and some samples.
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