How to make a Character in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition 

Bookmark 0:00 Tools for Sheet 0:54 Character Concept 3:25 Attributes 4:54 WP and HP 6:05 Skills 9:25 Specialty 11:37 Clan and Disciplines 14:47 Predator Types 19:30 Discipline Powers 22:30 Background, Flaws, Advantages 26:15 Touchstones and Convictions 28:55 Chronicle Tenets 29:10 Humanity 29:25 Age and Blood Potency 30:30 Ambitions and Desires 31:35 Sire

I found the way the sourcebook jumped back and forth between topics and kept cross referncing quite confusing so this helped a lot. And now I have a neat character idea for a game none of my friends play XD

This is awesome Josh!

"they don't have to be criminals" *laughs in Ravnos*

FINALLY SOMEONE EXPLAINS HOW THIN BLOOD WORKS ! Thank you ! We're starting a thin-bloods campaign with my friends and they just brush over it in the rulebook it's hard to find info !

Awesome video. I'm new to 5E, but the LA by Night Chronicle has me pumped to play. Another great thing about the character sheet is that people who might be stuck on how to craft a backstory can really get a framework on what is important to emphasis and what you shouldn't stress over. Also shout out to Jason Carl for being one of the best storytellers I've seen...just in case he's in the shadows of the comment section making a note.

I would love a video on making a Tremere. I’m a little confused about rituals and wards.

Is it just me or Josh's accent's simply marvelous? I could hear him say "differently", "dots" and "flaws" all day. Great video btw

Recently I've had an idea for a Salubri, but I didn't know how to set up a character sheet. Thank you for having made this, even tho it was out for so long!

Very useful! I knew most of it already, but seeing it actually gone through and filled out was hugely beneficial for bringing all the rules together in my head.

Character name: Napoleon Dynamite Clan: Gangrel "I'll do whatever I wanna do! Gosh!"

I play Ventrue and loved the video. Very good explanation on how to create a character for one of the best in my book role play games out there. I'm a huge fan of white wolf with the werewolf series, vampire the masquerade, and of D&D.

I'm just getting started in Vampire, and this really helped me get a grasp on things. Thank you!

Wow what perfect timing. My girlfriend and I just picked up the rulebook today and we're gonna get started by creating a character for her to test the waters. Your videos have been a huge help in getting started!

Haven’t played in years. Doing Session Zero tonight as the StoryTeller! This has made getting ready to help everyone create their characters much easier! Thank you!

Thank you for this video! Im gonna be playing my first game soon as a Hecata vampire. A Necromancer type lass. Really excited to try it.

The video was very helpful. I just started getting into the game after being a longtime fan of the V20 setting. Still trying to find a group to play with but can’t wait to start!

Well explained, clear and concise. Well done

Thanks Josh I got into vtm recently but couldn't find a good character creation video this helps tremendously.

Bless you for filling out the r20 sheet

This is an amazing video. Very helpful and I love the character you built. Thanks so much 😊

In one, no not playing a group yet so couldn't get to the cotery part, idea I worked on I had one of those Gym Guys, works as trainer, loves to run in the park etc character. So mostly physical with some intelligence and social skills but mostly physical. It made a really interesting character going from that idea. A Gangrel had been tracking that guy a while and pounce, done! The idea to go from an "innocent" human that is turned for some reason kinda feels nice. It means your character has now to deal not with only vampirism and its powers but also the fact that they have to hunt humans. The Psychology behind that is delicious. Sure a thief could be turned into a vampire, but not sure how much humanity the human had to begin with.

I still have some of the old (v2) rulebooks. I love this game so much. Played vtm and met back in the day.

I really want to play a Tzimisce who managed to escape the Sabbat and is looking to join the Anarchs, they were lured into the cult as a pre-med student and just wants to make the world a better place in slightly off-kilter ways.

I want To make a character who was embraced to be someone's "forever", who didn't realise the consequences

Blaine sounds almost like a concept I had for a Brujah character. An Ex-Cop/Vigilante!

Very nice and informative Video thanks! I never really cared that much about V5 but with the book about the hecata i might get into a V5 game finally when i can play my favourite Clan again! :)

Love from a Vaush and new WOD fan!

loads of thanks, really helpful

perfect timing Josh, i was just making a charater :D

The character concept I had was for an English ex-sabbat shovelhead who flees to the states after The Second Inquisition's purge of London. In life he was a ballet dancer who attracted the attention of a sabbat pack priest while performing at a show. Embranced against his will by the Tzimisce priest to be a personal dancer and concubine, my character was forced into vaulderie to keep him obedient. Escaping London after his Sire's execution, he hates the Sabbat with a passion and has sworn to never be blood bound again but has a weakness to it, like the flaw in the video. Once he's in the US, he poses as a gangrel using his vicissitude to impersonate protean abilities, so the camarrila and anarchs don't murder him for being tzimisce.

You're the goat for this. Thanks

I’ve wanted to play this game for a lil but now cause it seems super fun. I’ve been wanting to play an ancient female vampire named Ma’at who’s main goals r surviving and also kinda raising baby vamps. Her back story is that she was born a couple years before the old kingdom Egypt began and was raised with her sister. Her father died in a war and it was just the three of them until her mom died of sickness and her and her sister had to sneak and steal to survive. While they lived on “the streets” of ancient Egypt she formed a band of other orphaned children for survival and because she always had a generous heart. An ancient vampire name Ashkira watched her for many nights and was impressed with her generosity and stealth abilities and turned her and her sister. Since Ma’at is an ancient vampire she is given a certain level of respect that she very much likes, but has also never abandoned her heightened survival instinct which has led to her living for so many millennia. Also she’d be clan bruja because I’m a huge fan of the idea of this like 18 or so female vampire in like heels or platform knee high boots and stuff like lifting grown men and jumping off buildings and running silently through the night. If I played I’d have her searching for her sister whose disappeared and also checking in on some of her “children” I.e vampires she’s sired or just baby vamps she’s helped adjust and learn. She’s considered the like go to vampire in the society

I recently made a Collage Drop-Out Malkavian for my first character! :D

Big help thanks

Really useful video :)

Thank you so much for making this video! =D

This is super helpful. I'm sending it to my play group for the campaign I'll be running.

The breakdown of Blane here seems like a variation on EE's character

I'm just getting into VtM... Been DnD for years, but VtM looks very interesting. This video (pardon the pun) is bloody helpful!!!

Thank you so much for this!

I’ve been toying around with the idea of creating a Brujah that was turned in the 1920’s He was a British volunteer soldier who fought alongside the CNT-FAI (the anarchist faction)in the Spanish civil war and was embraced after sustaining a severe wound during the conflict

So apart from the guns part you have made Angel from buffy and the spin of Angel. My main from way back when i was not disabled was Lucifer but a vampire not the devil himself, and i made that guy 10 years before the show but it fits him to a tee, i didnt remember this till someone pointed it out to me about a month back, and its really quite odd seeing a almost carbon copy of a character you made walking around on screen, even the actors looks aren't that far off from how i imagined him.

The video was a great help! Using it I made a Mancunian Tremere named De Bouvoir :3 Lives in the cellar of a dilapidated church with their burgeoning library for company, only drinks from the sleeping, indebted and suspected by Tremere at large and they are a Carna adherent to boot; Few friends will they find amongst what remains of Clan Tremere in Europe. They are afflicted by a lack of physical courage and as such perfer to go unnoticed when not outright hidden by the local Anarchs (though De Bouvoir's sympathies do lie in that direction they lack the guts to come out and admit it, and act in a vaguely mercenary fashion as such) and what remains of the Tower in the UK, and their immediate goal at present is simply to gather materials and tools of the Kindred that have fallen in to the hands of the kine, who believe them mere antiquities, with a driving desire to escape the ties that bind them to their old Tremere Chantry, ties both magical and psychological, that are proving problematic since the Chantry's destruction at the hands of the 2nd Inquisition.

A Tremere who was fascinated with the Occult and offered up their whole family as sacrifice in order to be turned. Something like that. Want it to be someone who went to deep into the rabbit hole and then became obsessed to the point of changing their morals. Maybe a Journalist at one point. Would have to out a lot more thought into it

Very interesting but it leads me to many questions!

I love this. You explained everything in the clearest terms I've seen, but a quick question about Touchstones: I plan on making a campaign where all three characters were close in life, but didn't have many other friends. Is it possible that if a vampire keeps their humanity high enough and shares a close bond with another vampire, for them to act as a Touchstone?

A little helpful extra information. If you order a rule book off of White Wolf's website, you can add on a couple of free copies of the character creation sheets.

It's been over a year and this video is still the best video to explain character creation I can find period. I would love to see a thin-blood character creation video!

hahahahahha " For Brujah... let me check here, I believe it's ANGRY"!!!

LaSombra, always. I would say Anti-tribu, but it seen like they might merge with main LaSombra in Chicago by Night. As for the sheet it is easy, once my Narrator announced he would start a new game, with no limits to creation points, but you could only get what you - the player - had in real life. As I realized I had less points than a just made characters I decided to turn my life into the character I would like to play. That was back in 3rd Edition, and I haven't transfered the sheet to 5E yet, but I was 4~5 skill points away from my goal, and becoming a vampire enhances some of your stats, so if I were to become a LaSombra I would close my sheet :) -and yeah, i read the clan books, the Clans most likely to embrace my character self would be the Ventrue and the LaSombra antitribu

So I have a Nosferatu and I want to give him the discipline of Bond Famulus but I don't have any skill points in animal kin and only 1 in Charima. Can I still take the ability?

Thanks for de vid man. Can you make a tutorial explaining how i can use this character sheet in roll20? Thanks again

hey uh, could you link where to find that Roll20 character sheet because I cannot for the life of me find it anywhere on the website? Plz help :.)

I'm not too familiar with the game, but it's caught my and a friends interest and we kinda want to try it sometime. She said she might want to play a character that's more of a rebel or something similar, so I ended up coming up with an idea we both like that could work with that. The idea was that our characters are brothers, she'd go the older brother and likely be something like a Brujah and be the more stonger assertive brother, and I'd be the younger, meeker brother, not sure what clan, but was thinking something like our characters were both going to university, the older brother on a sports scholarship or something and mine would be a medical student or something. I like the idea of having more mental or magical disciplines, but not sure about being one of the social clans.

Thank you so much for this

Always did love Clan Tzimisce and using Vicissitude, usually to horrifying effect. There's no horror like body horror.

I love this! Very helpful! I want to make a a Tremere character that's a former Pagan (Wicca) Coven leader and who is an Osiris Predator but I'm not sure how to go about it...

i just recently found out about Vampire and i just got the handbook, could you make more videos like this? the book is all encompassing so it can get pretty hard to navigate at times

Got an even better idea for a character. A luchadore teradore!

A simple bookstore owner who showed kindness to a aven familiar and ends up nearly dying only to be saved by the Gangrel who wanted to return the favour. I like the idea of an owl-like Gangrel who owns and runs a small bookstore at night, I also just like the Gangrel clan

I think the VtM5e character sheet is my favorite character sheet. The ironsworn character sheet is a close second. I really like the mechanics. How would you convert a d20 character sheet into one of these storyteller WoD character sheets?

Interesting how you and Outstar actually look like vampires 😏

If I get the chance to play V5 I'll probably make some sort of paranoid investigative journalist Malkavian who outwardly presents as a Fishmalk to make others underestimate him.

Thanks

i'd advice against inverting the colour on Willpower. Certain rolls depend on how much Willpower you have (Frenzy as an example and the Willpower roll button). Both rolls are calculated as undamaged Willpower, by inverting the colours it will roll 11 dice rather than 4 - dmg. The Max WP and Max Health are there merely as reminders, so you don't have to keep working stuff out. Also if the ST declares you lose one permanent WP (for what ever reason) you can make note of it there. Health isn't used for any rolls directly so feel free to do what you want.

awesome intro video; what software are you using and is it available online (iOS)?

FINALLY getting the group together, now that we are all vaccinated, and this was very helpful! Thnx! Also, Josh is kind of adorable. :)

I couldn't put my finger on where I had seen you before! Just found out that was on Stellaris youtubers' war! Awesome to see that you're also role-player!

8:00 I thought you were limited to 3 points in abilities at initial assignment, and anything past that had to be bought with freebies?

I'm looking to ST my first chronicle with my session 0 coming up next weekend so this is perfectly timed. My players are all tabletop virgins so I'm planning on doing a short introductory story, 5-10 sessions, before throwing them to the wolves (figuratively and literally) of WoD. Do you have any plans to make an ST tips and tricks video or should I just post my random questions on any video? As for character creation: How important is the relationship map? I personally have mixed feelings about it and don't know if I should just skip it or not.

My character is a Brujah, who in human life was a Wild West Sheriff in a city his family build, and has a strong sense for Justice, and a brutal old School way of ditching out such. He hated the Camarilla at its height, and thrieves now with The Second Inquisition is stomping them Hard and good. Justice though is a fine Line for him here, as there in his point of view are good people in both human and kindred, and The Second Inquisition might be a mean to end the oppressing of the Camarilla, but also another oppressor, he wants to see be torn down. So he kinda working and fighting both sides of the fence do to speak, giving him a big target on his back. He is a consensualist, as in line with the justice, so he is a Masquerade breacher, who - if his donor as he calls them, not victim - can’t be persuaded to keep quiet, then a lingering kiss, is putting people in line, however not that good with justice, making people addicted. What I like playing this character is that gritty old School outline on justice, not really fit for Modern justice, and justice in general is a very subjective point of view, leading to kinda shady, dodgy and conflicted decisions and actions.

I have seen many comments arguing about the different editions whenever I looked into buying one of the physical guidebooks, now I'm confused which one to get. 🥺 I know nothing about roleplaying but a decent amount of lore and just want to learn so I can then figure out how to find people to play with. But it feels as though there's an invisible requirement to somehow know things in advance. 😭

Wait, one of my friends is actually named Blaine (but with an i) McCoy. That’s craaazyy, WHAT!!!

I do not find the Character-creator that you are using! It looks very great so i want to try it :D Any Links to it? On Roll20 i cant find it, or do i need a pro sub?

Composure 1. Yup, that sounds like a cop. XD

I have a question about mechanics doing conflict. It says that you spilt the pool when attacking multiple opponents. But what if you want to attack one, and defend against another, does that mean you use a full dice pool for the attack and then a full dice pool for defense? Thanks in advance! I appreciate your content!

In your opinion in a game like vampire, would it be more important initially load heavily "talents" and "skills" when it comes to play/action since they are more used in rolls, instead of "knowledge" in character creation?.

is it me or does it looks like really like a more detailed Mind's Eye theatre ?

i love to play the ultimate urban Predator, a City-Gangrel, but an independent one, not one who is into the Sabbat. He is a kind a Spy and works hand in hand with the Nosferatu. His dark secret is his love to a female Gargoyle, she ist hunted by the Tremere and the Tzimisce for her special blood. Its a kind of dramatic Bonny&Clyde Story, of course they are bloodbounded. Well all the shit that a Camarilla Prince wishes as a future Sherif ;)

Great video. I am starting out as a ST for VtM 5e starting this week. I have sent this video to players as homework. Question - where on the roll20 site can you find that character sheet? I tried the form fillable PDF and didnt like it so I made my own using Google Sheets. I would like to give my players options though. Looking forward to more of your videos!!!

This is fascinating, as I've only just become aware of this game (and World). As I was watching this I was wondering if would be possible to create a Nosferatu spy/assassin character, who was a martial artist & musician in life? He'd have to be stealthy, fast, agile. Good at hand to hand combat, & performance/disguise. He'd be an old fashioned feeder I think, but I'm not sure of his flaws yet. Does that sound plausible?

My concept was for a beautiful female assassin named Morrigan. Probably a Caitiff whose posing as a brujah or a toreador who wants to look after and teach stray childer and possibly climb the kindred society ladder to a powerful position

How do you Access the Character sheet in roll20?

I'm seeing online that roll20 only has 20th anniversary and 2nd addition but not one for V5. Can you help me figure out how to use blood dice and related powers on it or is there a bitter system?

Had a bit of a question about flaws and merits at creation. Can you take additional flaws past the mandatory 2 dots. And in return gain another dot of a merit? I feel like i have seen that in my readings but havent been able to find a definite answer. Thanks for the great video ive been sending it around to my hopeful coaterie.

I'm starting a scenario were my players start as humans and doenst know they will become vampires. Are there any good transover from human to vampire that needs to be handled by the players, fx touchstones and so on?

I have a question about advantages . I ve chosen alleycat as predatory type which gives me 3 points in criminal contacts which requires 4 points in resources.Does tha mean that i have spent all my points or do i still have some?

I had an idea for a Nosferatu Child, cursed with unlife because his mother killed his sire's brother. Scarred by the fact that, upon becoming a vampire, he fed upon his mother until she died in a blind thirst for blood. His sire was executed by the Camarilla for his actions. The poor child spent the better part of a year locked away in his room at the church of a Nun who was a vampire. He tried to starve himself to final death, but would blackout and awaken surrounded by empty blood packs and dead rats. He finally got over his actions enough to join in vampire society.

Why is it every form-fillable PDF never allows me to fill it out once downloaded

I like the idea of a gangrel who hates their unlife. Not because they have to drink blood and take the night shift, they would have loved to be embraced by a ventrue or tremere. In life they were a doctor or a yuppie housewife or a professor, just someone who is very uptight and out of tune with nature, and they did something to piss off the wrong vampire. A gangrel that thought it'd be a fitting and amusing punishment to make their new undead nature conflict with their refined clean-freak personality.

is there a link to the roll 20 maker? i cant find it

How interesting you mentioned Ex-Cop, Josh! My last character was a Brujah Ex-Cop/Vigalante. Although he was far from the stereotypical Brujah, his hatred of the establishment and confining laws & regulations gave him common cause with the rest of his clan.

Hey Josh (Strange Adventures ) Can you do other character background creations. Like do one on a character that's a High School Student, who is an Outcast, whose parents were good parents, but had to move to the big city and ended up being killed in a car accident or murdered and she ends up being passed from one home to another. Eventually she becomes homeless and ends up quitting school. Unknown to her a Gangrel Vampire has been watching her and how she's been treated by other kids her age. One night he turns her, but for whatever reason he's not around to train her and she ends up finding out on her own how to feed. Having the background she has, she refuses to drain people to death unless the person has done something really bad and she thinks they deserve it.

I'm still trying to find someone to play this game!

What about lore sheets it seems as the book says you have dots you can put into a lore sheet but not how many. I am not for sure if a lore sheet was meant to selected with regular merit points or if you get special points only for lore sheets

I allow thinbloods to get a predator type, I just don't let them get any discipline for it. As a matter of fact, I am not sure even vampires get "new" powers if they pick a predator type that has them, I only thought you could increase any of those powers by one if they have it? I may be wrong tho, but lore wise, the disciplines are bound to your clan blood and you can't get new ones unless you feed of some lick from another clan. Again, might be wrong on that. If I am, I'd appreciate if someone points out where it's stated, im not at the point of running my campaign yet, but when I do, I want to make sure. I tried just giving the chapter a quick-read another time, but can't point out any specifics about how the predator discipline bonuses work... Though, to be fair, I think ill homebrew it to fit the lore even if the rules say you can just get new powers by picking a habit.

Stupid question, perhaps, but... Can vampires get a second hand blood bond by feeding on another vampire's ghouls?

I've thought about getting back into VtM with the last version I played was I think V3. And for character I might do a reboot version of the character I did before that being a cop who was embraced by the Ventrue but preferred being out on the streets and amongst humans rather then being fancy in buildings talking politics and protected innocent humans from both human threats and supernatural threats. Basically the so-called gatekeeper who acted as the humans' shadowy guardian angel. Yes my character got around the blood thirst by carefully feeding on criminals including corrupt politicians.

Anybodys knows if the 5th Edition will be translated in german?