Dice Mechanics || How to Play Vampire the Masquerade

The experts at TableGoth explain the dice system for Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition.
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[@controllerfreak78]

I’m running a vampire game in a few weeks after having only played D&D 5e for 5 years, and this is very helpful. The game seems to give the Storyteller a lot more creative Liberty with the results of checks which is both really cool and a little nerve wracking

[@controllerfreak78]

@@SummonedStories Had our first session last week, it went great! We all still didn’t completely understand some of the rules, but we were able to work around it. Thanks for your support and for the helpful videos

[@grindcoreninja6527]

I'm literally in the same boat except it was 4 years of 5e, I hope I have a similar outcome, any advice?

[@Mallachaii]

Ordered the books. Just trying to learn the new system while still running my ongoing Curse of Strahd game. Will be prepping this for after the campaign, however

[@ketaminejohnson1973]

I’m very late to the party, but thank you so much! After partaking in other systems as a player, it is very difficulty learning to be a storyteller in vampire! My players also are new to this system and you’ve made the dice make so much more sense. The rulebook is dense but manageable

[@cttrajanundertalenerd5187]

Thanks so much for this video with live examples too! It helped me understand the mechanics super easily - im about to try running the game for the first time in a few days and i really needed this!

[@cttrajanundertalenerd5187]

@@SummonedStories it was great! We had at least two messy criticals which was really fun to work into the narrative and despite having only played dnd and coc before, the players seemed to pick up the multi-d10 system quite easily! They also killed two security guards for food but oh well, they hid the bodies at least? XD

[@LeftoftheProjector]

Most of my confusion is now gone. great video

[@Tredok]

This is cool, honestly barely anyone talks about how to play the D10 system, so i could not understand it properly. I think you should also explain what numbers does the cross, cross with two stars, the skull represent in the dice.

[@emme198]

thank you for making this, especially with die examples, ive seen a few vids about the dice mechanics but having a visual really helps.

[@SummonedStories]

We're definitely visual learners and figured others could use the examples as well. Glad it helped!

[@AxSxMxC]

This is very useful! Breaks it down nicely. The V5 core book is a horrid mess and explains this horribly.

[@AxSxMxC]

@@SummonedStories Your efforts are greatly appreciated. I've started running this system recently and I always send new players to your channel :)

[@thefitgm335]

I wish we could get a v5 compendium book that fixes all the craziness going on.

[@wrathmooregames]

@@thefitgm335 Seriously. Still plagues me to this day.

[@101stumphead]

Here today because of how messy the core book is Too many ttrpg's think they have to write their rules like a novel and full it with fluff Just Give Me The Rules

[@karlomisura2207]

Thank you very much guys, planning on running my first VTM game and I just had difficulty navigating the handbook to find what I need for a beginner.

[@karlomisura2207]

@@SummonedStories The game went amazingly we had a session 0, now were on our 3rd game 😊

[@VeyVox]

I just started writing my own chronicle and this helps a lot^^

[@QueenLizby]

on automatic success: my first thought on this topic is asking my players "what size is your dice pool for this roll? oh it's double? well normally you'd automatically succeed but I have to ask, what's your hunger at right now?"

[@ZyroShadowPony]

Glad this exist. Second dnd group dropped and wanted to try out a new system rather than finding a second dnd group all over again

[@rognirim9948]

Very clear and to the point, much appreciated!

[@Sanguivore]

Super helpful video! Thank y’all!

[@DWRoelands]

TableGoth is wonderful.

[@vicentejaliquetabletopgame5567]

Very helpful thank you both

[@mrk0per]

Nice video! Thank you :)

[@elyondrist7271]

amazing video, clear delivery and examples. You helped one VTM noob a great deal. Thank you very much

[@caleb2079]

Billy butcher and vampirella advise on how to be a nerd

[@SummonedStories]

I need you to write our video descriptions from now on

[@PeachPlastic]

My gratitude is your today, this is so very helpful! I actually took notes! :D One question about the 'charisma performance' roll: Why did you roll 5 regular dice when your charisma stats were at 4? Did I miss something?

[@wolf_quill]

I dont think im understanding hunger dice. How do you know how many to add to the roll ? Does it depend on the hunger level?

[@Aerakade]

Exactly.

[@fatalfury66]

So I am having an issue. I just got the 5e core. On page 206 it gives an example of mary with her pool of 4, hunger two. she rolled a 1 on both hunger dice, and a miss on the first normal dice and a 10 on the second one, two beastial failures, and a sucess. it says she cannot pass this check vs a 3, but she can though? if she rerolls the miss and gets a 10 then it would be a crit for four success vs the check of 3. is the example on page 206 wrong? two beastial failures and two 10's means she gets two successes. plus two more for the crit, the other examples make since but its like they forgot you get 4 for a crit instead of just two

[@fatalfury66]

@@SummonedStories ty for the help :) its my first time with the game and i wanns make sure i get it right:)

[@fatalfury66]

@@SummonedStories Yeah, im loving the concept of the book and the mythos. Alot of intrigue! i may need to go rewatch the lost boys and interview with a vampire lol

[@deathdealer13cat]

I always thought that if you rolled at least 1 success no matter the difficulty it would prevent the bestial failure

[@rampagegage2259]

Is that billy butcher?

[@LuisDonez-z9g]

What if you had one critical I need black dice and the rest are blank?

[@SummonedStories]

One critical equals one regular success. You'll need a pair to count as that sweet sweet critical that equals four successes.

[@LuisDonez-z9g]

@@SummonedStories thank you very much. My uncle is trying to teach me how to play and I wanted to make sure he wasn't cheating lol

[@SummonedStories]

@@LuisDonez-z9g This is my favorite reason someone has watched so far

[@LuisDonez-z9g]

@@SummonedStories I don't think he was cheating lol he's pretty much telling me the same thing as the vid. lol

[@blktom]

Thank you for the video! My group use to do MET and I was huge into 2nd Ed/Revised, but the 'Rule of One' and the poorly written disciplinces and mechanics made a great concept game suffer... then Requiem came out and they threw the baby out with the bathwater and it killed White Wolf for us. I didn't even know V5 came out and have been looking into it before taking the plunge. Do you have comparison videos or is that before your time?

[@deathknizzle]

Is it “best ial” or “beast ial” failure

[@SummonedStories]

Bestial, but in my experience our brains really want it to be Beastial sometimes.

[@DestinyAVM]

Question: What if the only successes are on hunger dice? (No Critical and no failures) Is that a normal success or is that a bloody or success? I have had this happen a couple times in my last game. I couldn't find anything specific in the book and in the video you always had at least 1 normal (black die) success in all of successful rolls. Any advice?

[@DestinyAVM]

@@SummonedStories Thank you!

[@joshuastrickland5264]

So I am interested in the actual dice mechanics. I think the odds(?) of getting X successes out of N dice is (x/N+1). But I am having a hard time with criticals. With 2 dice, you have a 1/100 chance, but how does this change with more dice? It should be more likely, but 3/1000 seems like worse odds...

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

For crits you'd calculate the odds inversely (how likely you are not to get a crit). So to not get at least one 10 you have a: 9/10 (90%*10) with 1 dice or 1/10 to get one 10, 81/100 ((90%*100)-(90%*10)) with 2 or 19/100, 729/1,000 with 3 or 271/1,000, And so on. For two or more 10s, it's probably faster to just use something like omnicalculator as becomes very long and tedious very quickly...

[@ravenshadowz2343]

The link for the dice is not working any longer.

[@ravenshadowz2343]

@@SummonedStories, you're very welcome! :)

[@saucygibbonstudios6127]

how do disciplines come into dice rolls? The book says half your blood potency rounded down when using disciplines. So if I was blood potency 1 and I wanted to use an Potence ability, would I add 1 dice to a Strength + Brawl Dicepool regardless of my level in Potence? In LA by Night they are adding their discipline rating to their dice pool. would that be their over all rating or just the rating of the power they are using? If i had level 3 in Celerity and used a level 1 power, would i add a rating of 1 or 3 to my dice pool? one character wanted to jump around the room while shooting, for that he used Composure + Firearms + Potence (using soaring leap) Is having a: Attribute + skill + Discipline pool allowed? are there any pages in the book you recommend i re-read or double check

[@saucygibbonstudios6127]

@@SummonedStories thanks

[@ericproctor3545]

I’ve played many WOD games over the years and I’m looking to start a 5E Vampire game. One aspect that I’m struggling with is that two of my players who are black find parts of the mythos sorta glosses over vampire interactions with minority groups. It keeps things very superficial at best. I’m looking for suggestions to address this. I can see their position but don’t think it was anything intrinsic to the developers. I actually feel that it was purposely done so as not to insult. I’ve seen games where the creators tried and I was just insulting.

[@GoforKrogh]

Wow this is significantly harder than second edition. It might be my brain fog but I did not get this... 😬

[@SummonedStories]

It's very similar, though Hunger is slightly more complicated than Blood Pools. This is also probably as thorough of an explanation you can get, but not the easiest to digest. I've actually be toying with the idea of making updated versions of some of these videos for that exact reason

[@trainer1kali]

❤

[@Eviliv3Play]

This seems needlessly convoluted. It's never explained clearly, after having read the core rulebook and this being the second video I have watched. This game would benefit from some serious restructuring and simplifying. It is a barrier to play.

[@SummonedStories]

It's pretty simple compared to most TTRPGs. Some fans think this is already too simplified compared to previous editions. Though the complex nature of the hobby as a whole is definitely a barrier in general. If comparing it to a rule-lite game, I'm sure it can feel daunting. Especially if you're running the game. Like most games, you can pick this up easier by playing it than anything else. If you're like me, the game will be 90% roleplaying anyway.

[@plebula_9894]

Great video but I have to mention this guy looks like butcher from the boys sweet beard!

[@Girlhead]

What is that music in the opening of your videos?

[@SummonedStories]

An excellent question. Had a computer crash and haven't been able to find the original source since.