#PRESENCE VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE CRACK#

Like many of the best RPG Antagonists, they can instill a real feeling of paranoia to a campaign, where everyone could be (and probably is) working for them. The Antediluvians make the best antagonists when they aren't seen. Even hoary old elders who have spent centuries accumulating wealth and resources may be nothing but a pawn to an Antediluvian, who remote controls him from a tomb beneath some mountain halfway across the world. Besides Caine, who, depending on who you believe is either dead, sleeping, or driving a taxi around Los Angeles, these alien beings are the very masters of the chessboard of the night. The Antediluvians, to a man, have discarded humanity entirely, and in doing so have become things that are very certainly not human. They're really a representation of what it means to have failed the main aim of the game, that is, to retain one's humanity and reconcile that with one's unholy nature. Each vampire, from the oldest elder to the youngest neonate wants to feel like the apex predator on top of the food chain, and the Antediluvians are there to remind them that they aren't. Vampires like to be in charge, and they like to feel powerful. When the Ventrue dominate the minds of the kine, they feel their founder's dread gaze pouring through them, breaking the mortal's will. The Tzimisce know, whenever they use Vicissitude, that their founder bubbles just beneath their skin. Each one of them is an ancient, genocidal monster that wants to turn the earth into their own personal buffet. The Antediluvians aren't really active characters, but their presence should be felt. Each one represents what their clan could be, and represent the father whose sins their children inherited. In the modern day, the 13 Antediluvians are little more than legends and folklore. Caine, being a bit perturbed by this, cursed them all, and sent them away. His childer, paying no attention whatsoever whoopsied another 13 vampires into existence, who decided to thank them by eating them all. He then told his childer not to sire any more vampires, because Caine, being the intelligent man he was, realized that vampires outnumbering humans would be quite a bad thing, given that they needed them to live. Well, more accurately, he turned three, Zillah, Irad, and the unimaginatively named Enoch. There, he did what every other emo teen does when gifted with phenomenal supernatural powers and a healthily homicidal attitude and turned a bunch of people into vampires. There's so many themes to be tackled here, but this is RPG Antagonists, so I'll start on the biggest, baddest fish in the sea, the Antediluvians.ДЇor the uninitiated to the backstory, Caine, the first vampire, cursed by god for his unorthodox approach to family bonding time, fled the land of Nod and founded his own city, Enoch, possibly with or without blackjack and hookers.

#PRESENCE VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE CRACK#

So today we'll be taking a crack at one of my favorite RPG's of all time, the one that set the tone for a decade, and probably one of the coolest vampire stories ever, Vampire: The Masquerade.

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