I really like the Ventrue. Aside from digging their whole general tone, they have something fairly simple that's actually pretty rare in games, in that they are a manipulator class that are also not made of glass. Lets say you are an assassin. If a normal minion overlord is leading a band of thugs towards you, or a Giovani is leading a pack of zombies, what do you do? Obviously you strike directly at the head, bypass the minions and come to grips with the leader as quickly as possible, who you will then obviously shred since they put all their points into minion control. With a Ventru however, you dance past the blades of their followers and burry your knife into the Ventru's chest, only to realize that they just don't give a fuck. The next thing you know you are being suplexed back into the waiting arms of their toadys. Start your character with 2 points in Fortitude, 1 in Presence and build from there, focusing on Charisma, Manipulation and Stamina, then throw in just a little Potence and keep building your Fortitude up. You don't even have to get Presence up that high for it to be effective as long as your social stats are solid. And this is all exponentially more effective if your character has money. Assuming you are the kind of RP'r who has leadership of the party in the first place you will become an iron hard center of the party who can draw fire to himself, shrug it off and then manhandle his enemys at his leisure while your team cuts them apart. Its delicious. You will ruin a lot of good suits this way though so be warned.
Another excellent installment of the Vampire Clan Guides. I remember that a fellow player described the Ventrue as the high school rich kids, the Brujah as the jocks, the Tremere as the nerds, the Toreador as the popular kids, and the Nosferatu as the ugly misfits. The popularity of this game was a way to role play high school stereotypes.
I just came to this video because I'm going to have my first entry into these types of in-depth roleplaying games with Vampire: the Masquerade as a Ventrue vampire, and I must say that I am quite hyped to join the hobby.
*A wind blew, or mayhaps it be a long winded sigh, emanated from the Ventrue in his study. His sharp blue eyes quickly sized up the Mallavian in his room. The madness he saw growing in the room budged his tie from perfect order, requiring fixing.*
@tetsubo57 I don't think anyone that played in our LARP really drank blood if that's what you're saying and it wasn't my intentions to imply such. It's just a game as stated in the book's disclaimer and we didn't take it too serious. Given our community's interest in the game we just ignored the number cap of 1/100k in order to include everyone that wished to play.
@tetsubo57 Well the alternative would be to reduce the number of LARPers would just wouldn't be fair on the players now, would it? Better to will the suspension of disbelief and enjoy the tale.
:D I don't go to conventions. I wish to go. I know this should be said privately. But, I have anxiety problems, so I rarely go out. ^^ I'm from Norfolk. :)
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Once read somewhere that the Ventrue and Gangrel are related somehow, can't quite remember where, but apparently Ennoia and Vedhartha had something going on, whether romance, friendship, or something else, I don't know.
And you have a very good voice. English is not my native language, but It's easy for me listen to your guide. :) thank you for that! I tried to read books of the clans, but It's rather difficult for me. I think It will be fun to play The Masquerade in english. Heh, that what some good voices do! Like Jacks, Gary's or yours!:)))
Is a kindred not entitled to the vitae of his own herd? NO says the Toreador, it belongs to the beautiful, NO says the Nosferatu, it belongs underground! NO says the Malkavian, it belongs to fish!? I chose a different answer. I chose... Ventrue! Where those with 5 dots in generation would not be constrained by those with 0. Where those with Charisma and Intimidate would Dominate those with Dexterity and Melee! Where those with high Willpower will stomp those with high Humanity!
Well, not quite. They have a certain class of people they can drink blood from which doesn't have to be well-off people. Can be gays, naked kids, catladies, senators...Hell, I think theoretically you could be a Ventrue that can ONLY drink from lowlives.
@@teaartist6455 You know, unfortunately I have never played in a game where this was an issue, especially considering you have Dominate and Presence. That was the one problem I always had with this game, and I started playing it when I was just a kid of about 11 playing with young adults, is that feeding in general was never really made an issue. I suppose this is because of ambitious storytellers who always wanted to delve into the political aspects of the game, so every week when we would play, it would take place mostly in real time at the weekly Camarilla Elysium meeting and we rarely dealt much with humans. So unless you had a particularly weak character, or some flaw like Permanent Wound that would cause you to need more blood than a normal kindred, it was a foregone conclusion that you would be fully fed before our weekly session. But even then, with disciplines, it was always easy, especially for Venture. I did have a storyteller who tries to rectify this by having players roll survival+whichever stat fit how our character approaches feeding before each session. And for Ventrue, this was +1-3 difficulty depending on the exact nature of your weakness plus where we were selecting our meal from. But this difficulty was also reduced by your abilities in Presence and Dominate. But still, these things could all be negated by a couple of dots of Herd, which virtually everyone took in any game where feeding was an issue.
FizzlyIRL I was gonna say the exact same thing. I'll explain further through each Clan's Disciplines... Lasombra are the overt display of power: 1. Potence is a noticeable display of physical power acting on the world. 2. Obtenebration is a very noticeable display of supernatural power. 3. Dominate is often used very openly by the Keepers. Ventrue are the subtle display of power: 1. Fortitude is a display of power directed inward to resist force. 2. Presence is a subtle display of power to encourage, not force, one's will on others. 3. Dominate is more often used in subtle displays by the Blue Bloods.
You are true about the clan Ventrue gentleman, i played VTM: Bloodlines, and that fucken prince Lacroix seemed convincing and responsible until the middle of the game.
You sir are most certainly a Ventru or at the very least a Tremere, now I will not pretend to know the game to its full but when I first played Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, the first charter I ever made was a male Ventrue, the kingly gaze & chivalric character, honorable warrior, knghtly virtues. There is just something about them that I love, as Dracula patriotic devotee & scholar, this is something I can really relate to them, but the main inspiration for me to play this clan was the late sir Christopher Lee & Gary Oldman. Still one of the ranks the I would love to be given to me was either Jarl/Earl, Count, Baron, Count, Viscount, still of all the clans they for me come in 1st place, fallowed by the Gangrel in 2nd & the Tremere in 3rd. Any how my thanks for sharing such light in to this clan & the lore about it.
one of the guys in my group likes to slip "did you know autodefenestrate means to throw ones self from a window" and then simply slip the command "autodefenestrate" in to a later conversation
O clã Ventrue é o meu preferido, eles são os Nobres da Noite, os verdadeiros Sangue Azul fazem de tudo para manter a Camarilla e manter a ordem, adoro o conceito do clã
I've just found this channel, and I am mesmerized. Great work. Do you plan on doing videos for other aspects of the World of Darkness (Mummies, Werewolves, Hunter, etc.)?
@clackclickbang I wasn't really talking about LARPers. Silly hobby. :) I was discussing the in-game justification for there being enough vampires in the world to have these huge bloody (pun intended) clans. You might be able to pull off 200-300 vampires world-wide total. Tops. Which still makes them a credible threat as a supernatural enemy but doesn't allow enormous clans.
@haydenstag If you want them to be hidden, completely as they are., that number is way too *high*. You would need a much lower number. Remember, the general public knows *nothing* of the 'real world'. Those people you knew weren't really sanguivorous. If even one had tried it, they would have been found out in short order.
@haydenstag I was assuming there were no actual blood drinkers in your group. I was just making the point that being one, and remaining hidden, would be nigh impossible.
It was thanks to this video that I decided to make my first ever character a ventrue, His sheet is setting on my desk right now and I can't wait to use him.
I drew on three from a room over a find the young men’s youth most pleasing. It is a great wonder how I lost control of my Giovanni cohort after pouring a thaumaturgy transfusion into her.
3:55 You said that the antediluvians committed diablerie upon the 2nd generations? Was that a mistake or did you mean it? Because as far as I know they didn't know about diablerie back then nor is any of them 2nd generation and/or any non-antediluvian childer of them is a 3rd generation (which would be the result if an antediluvian being 2nd generation embraced someone).
So there is a 2nd generation vampire and non-antedeluvian 3rd generations? That's the first time I hear about that. Interesting. I'll look this guy up.
The book of nod as well as the many rule book says the 3rd generation all attacked and slew the 2nd generation I think it was after the flood while Caine was absent.
@woodwwad I couldn't agree more. They have the ultimate tag team of social disciplines, and that's why I love the manipulative bastards. I think a Ventrue neonate may well do that. Imagine the boardroom meeting and the Ventrue in attendance wants to make someone lose face in a way that isn't lethal but is humiliating. Defecate would be another good one word command.
@tetsubo57 I think the older books said something like one vampire for every 100 thousand humans in a given city population. I always thought that seemed kind of low since the city I was living in at the time (1997) had a population of only 325,000 and our LARP had about twenty people pretending to be kindred.
@hammeredshitsteak I very much agree about the Shadow Lords, and even the Red Talons to an extent. I do think the Ventrue are playable though, as not every one of them is a mastermind. The quote perfectly sums up the Ventrue. Perfectly.
it happens you were more focusing on the next part of the content you were saying about the clan. Besides its not untrue to say that the Venture may consider themselves that and of course some would have been from the Patrician class. Its a stretch but a purely logical one.
My Friend the Emperors for Rome ... Came after the Fall of the Carthage. Granted there were Kings/Tyrants ... for the Republic or Rome but technically according to history The Emperors were after the Fall of Carthage (The third punic war) by more then a century.
I've never played a vampire game where there would be a ventrue PC. To me they have all just seem'd like such good material for villany rather than as a young vampire on the "adventure". The same way say shadow lords are in werewolf. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of a ventrue is Patrick Bateman from American psyko :) "I have all the characteristics of a human beign: Blood, flesh, skin, hair. But not a single, clear, indentifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust."
@Komeister Both of those guides are good, as are the clanbooks. Ghouls: Fatal Addiction and the Gilded Cage are two of my favourites, next to New York and London by Night as good city sourcebooks with lots of intrigue.
Ventrue is like Lasombra, but without shadows. Lasombra is a bit smarter than Ventrue, they had Church on they side. And not a single man could be a King without Church!:)
I don't believe I've ever read that.. I thought the Ventrue were happy enough (or distracted enough with the nascent Sabbat) to just stand back as the clan was wiped out.
As the biggest users of the discipline I seek advice on Dominate. Currently I'm playing a Tremere neonate for the first time and even Dominate 1 provides lots of interesting opportunities. However, my imagination tends to get stuck on the one word commands. Aside from basic stuff like "STOP whatever you are doing" and "DRINK this delicious (blood) whiskey" or "UNLOCK this particular door."...what are some more creative/'everyday' uses of Dominate 1. Would love to see a video series that gets into the uses of disciplines because there are some very cool 'nonstandard' uses of those powers out there.
I like this video series about the clans and bloodlines in V:tM, but I'm somewhat confused about a couple things you mentioned. Nothing specific I can think of off the top of my head, and not in the Ventrue video particularly. But, there were some references you made that had me scratching my head, and considering I've been playing since '92, hats off to you.
Excellent job with the presentation here of the vid, a wonderful of the exploration of the clan. You really know your VTM history well. Adding details like the founders names is really a good addition as is the names of so many other ventrue that you mention throughout the video. The addition of presence to dominate really makes both dis really powerful, as they burn through your willpower. I don't think ventrue make people wet themselves, that was a bit silly.
Zer0Morph on behalf of Team Camarilla International approve the Gentleman's Guide to Vampires series! Great stuff man, you are a master at your craft. Have you ever considered voice acting? The Final Nights mod could sure use more voices for new characters. :)
@tetsubo57 Roger that. The dynamics of vampire survival has always interested, especially in relation with their chosen community of residence. We had tried to craft a story to fit our game to explain a lot of the issues away (controlling the majority of the police), because in relativity we were just in for the fun. I guess most would consider a lot of the plot points implausible, but we never focused on the difficulties for too long.
Another perfect installment of the Gentlemen's guide to Vampires. How do you get this extensive background knowledge? Is it all in the clanbooks? I only read the Vampire Rulebook and am halfway through the Storytellers guide and I want to increase my lore knowledge. Do you have any recommendations? I will start a Vampire campaign (in oWOD setting) somewhere in the beginning of 2012 and could really use some hints. :)
I really like the Ventrue. Aside from digging their whole general tone, they have something fairly simple that's actually pretty rare in games, in that they are a manipulator class that are also not made of glass.
Lets say you are an assassin. If a normal minion overlord is leading a band of thugs towards you, or a Giovani is leading a pack of zombies, what do you do? Obviously you strike directly at the head, bypass the minions and come to grips with the leader as quickly as possible, who you will then obviously shred since they put all their points into minion control.
With a Ventru however, you dance past the blades of their followers and burry your knife into the Ventru's chest, only to realize that they just don't give a fuck. The next thing you know you are being suplexed back into the waiting arms of their toadys.
Start your character with 2 points in Fortitude, 1 in Presence and build from there, focusing on Charisma, Manipulation and Stamina, then throw in just a little Potence and keep building your Fortitude up. You don't even have to get Presence up that high for it to be effective as long as your social stats are solid. And this is all exponentially more effective if your character has money.
Assuming you are the kind of RP'r who has leadership of the party in the first place you will become an iron hard center of the party who can draw fire to himself, shrug it off and then manhandle his enemys at his leisure while your team cuts them apart.
Its delicious.
You will ruin a lot of good suits this way though so be warned.
Well said.
@@shezyam460 Honestly it's a pity Fortitude isn't better than it is. That's really the limiting factor here, in that you can only really get so tough.
Ventrue, Tremere and Malkavians are my favourite. ^^ Hehe.
This is a cool video.
And you're a cool guy!
Another excellent installment of the Vampire Clan Guides. I remember that a fellow player described the Ventrue as the high school rich kids, the Brujah as the jocks, the Tremere as the nerds, the Toreador as the popular kids, and the Nosferatu as the ugly misfits. The popularity of this game was a way to role play high school stereotypes.
I just came to this video because I'm going to have my first entry into these types of in-depth roleplaying games with Vampire: the Masquerade as a Ventrue vampire, and I must say that I am quite hyped to join the hobby.
Ventrue and Malkavians are cousin clans :) hello Cousins from your humble Malkavian Family Member
(Deep sigh as I straighten my tie)
*A wind blew, or mayhaps it be a long winded sigh, emanated from the Ventrue in his study. His sharp blue eyes quickly sized up the Mallavian in his room. The madness he saw growing in the room budged his tie from perfect order, requiring fixing.*
@haydenstag You're quite correct. One to every 100,000 is the Camarilla set limit.
Man your videos are great now i have a better understanding about clans,and now i really want to play the game:D
One of the most underrated clans (though I'm fond of them all!). Blue Bloods are a lot of fun to play -- plus, they look damn good in a suit.
@tetsubo57 I don't think anyone that played in our LARP really drank blood if that's what you're saying and it wasn't my intentions to imply such. It's just a game as stated in the book's disclaimer and we didn't take it too serious. Given our community's interest in the game we just ignored the number cap of 1/100k in order to include everyone that wished to play.
I talk about this stuff when I'm on the pull. It always works.
@MeesterWolf99 I'm split between the Setites and the Tremere..
@tetsubo57 Well the alternative would be to reduce the number of LARPers would just wouldn't be fair on the players now, would it? Better to will the suspension of disbelief and enjoy the tale.
@SirPercivalGallant Certainly there's no reason a Ventrue couldn't be that way. Ultimately any description could be said to be a stereotype.
I'm from England, too. :D That is, if you are really from England. ^^
You have compelled me. ^^
I am indeed from England too! Message me - we may be local and may even attend the same conventions.
:D I don't go to conventions. I wish to go. I know this should be said privately. But, I have anxiety problems, so I rarely go out. ^^ I'm from Norfolk. :)
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The Gentleman Gamer Good thing I have facebook. :D Really? Norwich is only 30-40 minutes from where i live. XD Yeah, anxiety sucks. >u
Once read somewhere that the Ventrue and Gangrel are related somehow, can't quite remember where, but apparently Ennoia and Vedhartha had something going on, whether romance, friendship, or something else, I don't know.
@DirtyBriefcase Thank you!
And you have a very good voice. English is not my native language, but It's easy for me listen to your guide. :) thank you for that! I tried to read books of the clans, but It's rather difficult for me.
I think It will be fun to play The Masquerade in english. Heh, that what some good voices do! Like Jacks, Gary's or yours!:)))
@mollytherealdeal You've got a point there. Those are some decent stereotypes.
@23penguins32 Thanks Dudeski!
@Vladdaimpaler12 It's on the list, I assure you!
King is not always associated with human social structures.
Do Tzimisce just hate everyone?
@tetsubo57 And thus loses some of the flavour of the setting. I prefer to just accept it as is and enjoy the game.
ventrue in french means fat belly. Amusing.
Me too!
The Ventrue Antitribu are based chads
Of course! And everyone hates them.
Dominate is by no means sucky.
Is a kindred not entitled to the vitae of his own herd? NO says the Toreador, it belongs to the beautiful, NO says the Nosferatu, it belongs underground! NO says the Malkavian, it belongs to fish!?
I chose a different answer. I chose... Ventrue! Where those with 5 dots in generation would not be constrained by those with 0. Where those with Charisma and Intimidate would Dominate those with Dexterity and Melee! Where those with high Willpower will stomp those with high Humanity!
Onionkid99 nice bioshick reference.
If ever you want me for voice acting, just let me know.
My favorite clan because... I don't know, I just think they're cool.
Agreed.
Well, not quite. They have a certain class of people they can drink blood from which doesn't have to be well-off people. Can be gays, naked kids, catladies, senators...Hell, I think theoretically you could be a Ventrue that can ONLY drink from lowlives.
@@teaartist6455 You know, unfortunately I have never played in a game where this was an issue, especially considering you have Dominate and Presence. That was the one problem I always had with this game, and I started playing it when I was just a kid of about 11 playing with young adults, is that feeding in general was never really made an issue.
I suppose this is because of ambitious storytellers who always wanted to delve into the political aspects of the game, so every week when we would play, it would take place mostly in real time at the weekly Camarilla Elysium meeting and we rarely dealt much with humans. So unless you had a particularly weak character, or some flaw like Permanent Wound that would cause you to need more blood than a normal kindred, it was a foregone conclusion that you would be fully fed before our weekly session.
But even then, with disciplines, it was always easy, especially for Venture.
I did have a storyteller who tries to rectify this by having players roll survival+whichever stat fit how our character approaches feeding before each session. And for Ventrue, this was +1-3 difficulty depending on the exact nature of your weakness plus where we were selecting our meal from. But this difficulty was also reduced by your abilities in Presence and Dominate.
But still, these things could all be negated by a couple of dots of Herd, which virtually everyone took in any game where feeding was an issue.
Sebastian LaCroix ✌😂
I started watching to learn more of V:tM. I subscribed because I can see Call of Cthulhu on your shelf.
Ventrue or Lasombra?
Lasombra may be more powerful, but the Ventrue consolidate its power much better.
rrodrigues338 I'd rather be a Lasombra than a Blueblood. :P
+rrodrigues338 They're two sides of the same coin.
FizzlyIRL
I was gonna say the exact same thing. I'll explain further through each Clan's Disciplines...
Lasombra are the overt display of power:
1. Potence is a noticeable display of physical power acting on the world.
2. Obtenebration is a very noticeable display of supernatural power.
3. Dominate is often used very openly by the Keepers.
Ventrue are the subtle display of power:
1. Fortitude is a display of power directed inward to resist force.
2. Presence is a subtle display of power to encourage, not force, one's will on others.
3. Dominate is more often used in subtle displays by the Blue Bloods.
You are true about the clan Ventrue gentleman, i played VTM: Bloodlines, and that fucken prince Lacroix seemed convincing and responsible until the middle of the game.
Your way of talking and explain are wonderful... you should be a great master. :D
long non-life to the best clan of rulers!
You sir are most certainly a Ventru or at the very least a Tremere, now I will not pretend to know the game to its full but when I first played Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, the first charter I ever made was a male Ventrue, the kingly gaze & chivalric character, honorable warrior, knghtly virtues.
There is just something about them that I love, as Dracula patriotic devotee & scholar, this is something I can really relate to them, but the main inspiration for me to play this clan was the late sir Christopher Lee & Gary Oldman. Still one of the ranks the I would love to be given to me was either Jarl/Earl, Count, Baron, Count, Viscount, still of all the clans they for me come in 1st place, fallowed by the Gangrel in 2nd & the Tremere in 3rd.
Any how my thanks for sharing such light in to this clan & the lore about it.
I'm currently playing a Ventrue who's a gentleman thief. Think Arsene Lupin.
one of the guys in my group likes to slip "did you know autodefenestrate means to throw ones self from a window" and then simply slip the command "autodefenestrate" in to a later conversation
O clã Ventrue é o meu preferido, eles são os Nobres da Noite, os verdadeiros Sangue Azul fazem de tudo para manter a Camarilla e manter a ordem, adoro o conceito do clã
@fearnation99 You know those kinds of people that poke pieces of fruit up their bottoms? That's you, that is.
I miss videos like this Gentleman Gamer.
If people get on my Patreon and pay me to make videos like the ones I made ten years ago, I'll consider going back to them!
Mithras rules in London but who rules in
‘The city of London?’ You know, that Banking paradise......
A whole clan of littlefingers
I've just found this channel, and I am mesmerized. Great work. Do you plan on doing videos for other aspects of the World of Darkness (Mummies, Werewolves, Hunter, etc.)?
Ventrue?
More like VenFALSE!
YES!
I'm glad these videos are easy to understand!
Ventrue: *Gets staked by a human hunter*
Also Ventrue: "Ugh...really?" -_-
@clackclickbang I wasn't really talking about LARPers. Silly hobby. :) I was discussing the in-game justification for there being enough vampires in the world to have these huge bloody (pun intended) clans. You might be able to pull off 200-300 vampires world-wide total. Tops. Which still makes them a credible threat as a supernatural enemy but doesn't allow enormous clans.
@haydenstag If you want them to be hidden, completely as they are., that number is way too *high*. You would need a much lower number. Remember, the general public knows *nothing* of the 'real world'.
Those people you knew weren't really sanguivorous. If even one had tried it, they would have been found out in short order.
I am clan Tremere. And we are like kings unto the immortal kind. We may draw of the vita from others by will alone, without biting. Kneel.
@haydenstag I was assuming there were no actual blood drinkers in your group. I was just making the point that being one, and remaining hidden, would be nigh impossible.
It was thanks to this video that I decided to make my first ever character a ventrue, His sheet is setting on my desk right now and I can't wait to use him.
I drew on three from a room over a find the young men’s youth most pleasing. It is a great wonder how I lost control of my Giovanni cohort after pouring a thaumaturgy transfusion into her.
3:55 You said that the antediluvians committed diablerie upon the 2nd generations? Was that a mistake or did you mean it? Because as far as I know they didn't know about diablerie back then nor is any of them 2nd generation and/or any non-antediluvian childer of them is a 3rd generation (which would be the result if an antediluvian being 2nd generation embraced someone).
Ask Haqim of the 2nd Generation...
So there is a 2nd generation vampire and non-antedeluvian 3rd generations? That's the first time I hear about that. Interesting. I'll look this guy up.
According to the Revised version of the Assamite Clan Book, Haqim is of the 3rd Generation.
The book of nod as well as the many rule book says the 3rd generation all attacked and slew the 2nd generation I think it was after the flood while Caine was absent.
In the WoD, what is the estimated world population of vampires? How about the other supernatural beings such as the weres?
not self styled. We rule by strength. You follow by bits and pieces. Come to us and we will give you strength.
@woodwwad I couldn't agree more. They have the ultimate tag team of social disciplines, and that's why I love the manipulative bastards.
I think a Ventrue neonate may well do that. Imagine the boardroom meeting and the Ventrue in attendance wants to make someone lose face in a way that isn't lethal but is humiliating. Defecate would be another good one word command.
@tetsubo57 I think the older books said something like one vampire for every 100 thousand humans in a given city population. I always thought that seemed kind of low since the city I was living in at the time (1997) had a population of only 325,000 and our LARP had about twenty people pretending to be kindred.
@hammeredshitsteak I very much agree about the Shadow Lords, and even the Red Talons to an extent. I do think the Ventrue are playable though, as not every one of them is a mastermind.
The quote perfectly sums up the Ventrue. Perfectly.
it happens you were more focusing on the next part of the content you were saying about the clan. Besides its not untrue to say that the Venture may consider themselves that and of course some would have been from the Patrician class. Its a stretch but a purely logical one.
My Friend the Emperors for Rome ... Came after the Fall of the Carthage.
Granted there were Kings/Tyrants ... for the Republic or Rome but technically according to history The Emperors were after the Fall of Carthage (The third punic war) by more then a century.
I've never played a vampire game where there would be a ventrue PC. To me they have all just seem'd like such good material for villany rather than as a young vampire on the "adventure". The same way say shadow lords are in werewolf.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of a ventrue is Patrick Bateman from American psyko :)
"I have all the characteristics of a human beign: Blood, flesh, skin, hair. But not a single, clear, indentifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust."
@Komeister Both of those guides are good, as are the clanbooks. Ghouls: Fatal Addiction and the Gilded Cage are two of my favourites, next to New York and London by Night as good city sourcebooks with lots of intrigue.
Ventrue is like Lasombra, but without shadows. Lasombra is a bit smarter than Ventrue, they had Church on they side. And not a single man could be a King without Church!:)
@Backfromthedeadguy Indeed they do! In my current game one of the characters is a Ventrue and can only feed from mortals who resemble her sire.
I don't believe I've ever read that.. I thought the Ventrue were happy enough (or distracted enough with the nascent Sabbat) to just stand back as the clan was wiped out.
this a blatant breach on the masquerade. i hope you know the consequences.
Didn't the Ventru have such refined taste that they could only feed off of certain types of victims (chosen at character creation)?
@gwenaverr The Assamites claim Haqim was. The Ventrue claim Veddartha was. The Salubri claim Saulot was.
@SirPercivalGallant It's a shame that the actor who played Luna died in an auto accident.
You are indeed correct! As I studied Roman history I shouldn't have blundered into that one.
@woodwwad Presence is a good underrated one. Animalism is the most ignored though.
Indeed they do. Sometimes they claim lineage from Enoch rather than Irad. It depends on the Ventrue.
I would be more than happy to do some voice acting. Just drop me a message on here.
Thanks for saying so! I'm glad you like them. Feel free to discuss vampires with me any time.
That's like asking which nationality is the most trustworthy. Impossible to say.
As the biggest users of the discipline I seek advice on Dominate. Currently I'm playing a Tremere neonate for the first time and even Dominate 1 provides lots of interesting opportunities. However, my imagination tends to get stuck on the one word commands. Aside from basic stuff like "STOP whatever you are doing" and "DRINK this delicious (blood) whiskey" or "UNLOCK this particular door."...what are some more creative/'everyday' uses of Dominate 1. Would love to see a video series that gets into the uses of disciplines because there are some very cool 'nonstandard' uses of those powers out there.
@23penguins32 And a bit warm down your front, I wouldn't wonder.
lol the "urinate" was a tremere not a ventrue but nice use of the reference
@Onionkid99 An Objectivist Ventrue would do very well indeed.
I like this video series about the clans and bloodlines in V:tM, but I'm somewhat confused about a couple things you mentioned. Nothing specific I can think of off the top of my head, and not in the Ventrue video particularly. But, there were some references you made that had me scratching my head, and considering I've been playing since '92, hats off to you.
Excellent job with the presentation here of the vid, a wonderful of the exploration of the clan. You really know your VTM history well. Adding details like the founders names is really a good addition as is the names of so many other ventrue that you mention throughout the video. The addition of presence to dominate really makes both dis really powerful, as they burn through your willpower.
I don't think ventrue make people wet themselves, that was a bit silly.
@clackclickbang Note to self, name of next Ventrue NPC.
I don't really understand this vampire world... too many clans
Oh they will. They aren't immune to the Rotschreck.
It's an automatic effect that alas, cannot be switched off.
@SirPercivalGallant It was a good series too.
Thanks for the videos. I hate reading, but I love World of Darkness. You're living breathing Cliff Notes.
@clackclickbang totally agree
@cptmachine It's damn good, I do recommend it.
Thank you for this :-D Thinking of playing a Ventrue in our larpgame and your video/s really helps!
@JustMEheart How can I help you with that?
Zer0Morph on behalf of Team Camarilla International approve the Gentleman's Guide to Vampires series! Great stuff man, you are a master at your craft. Have you ever considered voice acting? The Final Nights mod could sure use more voices for new characters. :)
An excellent insightful guide, the ventrue TRULY a favourite of mine. Look forward to the next one :)
@Samwise7RPG Thank you for watching, Tim!
from what i read salibre was cains fravorite
@tetsubo57 Roger that. The dynamics of vampire survival has always interested, especially in relation with their chosen community of residence. We had tried to craft a story to fit our game to explain a lot of the issues away (controlling the majority of the police), because in relativity we were just in for the fun. I guess most would consider a lot of the plot points implausible, but we never focused on the difficulties for too long.
Another perfect installment of the Gentlemen's guide to Vampires. How do you get this extensive background knowledge? Is it all in the clanbooks? I only read the Vampire Rulebook and am halfway through the Storytellers guide and I want to increase my lore knowledge. Do you have any recommendations?
I will start a Vampire campaign (in oWOD setting) somewhere in the beginning of 2012 and could really use some hints. :)