Because of the serial nature of the
Chronicles that I run, I can’t really pick out a single adventure that was my
favorite. My goal has always been to
connect individual sessions together; each session grows out of the previous
creating the Chronicle. One of my
favorite plots however that ran over the course of an entire Chronicle was the
conflict caused by a pretender Elder who was trying to rise from Primogen to
Prince.
Colin claimed he was a two hundred
year old French vampire, but in truth he was a recently Embraced history
professor specializing in French history.
Prior to the start of the game, Colin was able to persuade the entire
city that he was a powerful Ventrue, and he was so successful that the Ventrue
recommended that he be the Primogen.
Colin surrounded himself with a variety of henchmen and thanks to his
access to Backgrounds like Resources, Contacts, and Allies, Colin had an iron
grip on the city. But Colin wouldn’t
happy until he was the Prince.
Colin was a great villain for a low
powered Vampire the Masquerade game for new players. The risks were relatively low since Colin
couldn’t call in favors from outside supernatural beings, but he was powerful
enough to be a problem for the players especially with his allies. The players were forced to figure out the
mystery of this character who they could not confront directly because of his
supposed power. However, as the
adventure progressed, the PCs learned more, eventually breaking into his
sanctuary, and discovered the truth of this pretender. This reveal led to a gunfight in the streets
of Baltimore and Colin being shot murdered by a group of very angry PCs.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Amateurs. That's the kind of dirt you WANT to have on the guy who would be Prince. Help him take over, and he'd be like an automatic Boon machine!
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