{"id":1617398,"date":"2026-06-26T15:15:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/z7ZChNrLP43BDiUFZABCzb"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:15:42","slug":"vampire-the-masquerades-dd-crossover-is-a-condescending-cave-in-to-people-who-are-afraid-of-trying-something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/vampire-the-masquerades-dd-crossover-is-a-condescending-cave-in-to-people-who-are-afraid-of-trying-something-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire: The Masquerade&#8217;s D&amp;D crossover is a condescending cave-in to people who are afraid of trying something new"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Vampire: The Masquerade is getting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/dungeons-dragons\/\">Dungeons &#038; Dragons<\/a> rulebook\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/a-proper-vampire-class-is-coming-to-d-and-d-via-a-vampire-the-masquerade-tie-in\/\">titled Bound by Blood<\/a>, this tome&#8217;ll contain a Kindred class (with six subclasses), a 4th-level adventure, some extra systems to make being a vampire in D&#038;D make any sort of sense, and a bunch of new feats. <\/p>\n<p>I will start off with something kind before I unleash the ravening beast inside my TTRPG-loving heart: It&#8217;s probably neat for D&#038;D players to have a supplementary book that lets players fully commit to being a vampire, especially given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/baldur-s-gate-3\/\">Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3<\/a> put spawn in vogue (and with good reason, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/baldurs-gate-3s-astarion-neil-newbon-on-acting-the-truth-of-trauma-as-a-survivor-theres-a-lot-of-stuff-that-came-very-close-to-home\/\">Astarion&#8217;s a great character<\/a>). I also like new feats because I&#8217;m a character-building little munchkin. Also, the art is very pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m breaking the lock on the cage and setting my inner feral beast of the night free: Are you goddamn serious? What are we <em>doing <\/em>here?<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"god-damn-these-vampires\">God damn these vampires<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1600px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"TzUCQpqrr2m8KvjLQRoqRX\" name=\"astarion cover art crop\" alt=\"Cover art painting for the novel Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion showing a vampire with white hair and red eyes wearing a Victorian-like jacket and holding a gold chalice overflowing with blood.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/vampire-the-masquerades-dd-crossover-is-a-condescending-cave-in-to-people-who-are-afraid-of-trying-something-new.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Random House Worlds, Wizards of the Coast, Eleonor Piteira)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My irritation, to be clear, isn&#8217;t with White Wolf for this move\u2014it&#8217;s rough out there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/bankrupt-supplier-with-unsold-ttrpg-and-d-and-d-books-files-to-move-its-inventory-without-paying-publishers-which-is-a-giant-pain-if-youre-anyone-but-hasbro\/\">if you aren&#8217;t big old Hasbro<\/a>, and I hardly blame the TTRPG publisher for cobbling together some homebrew so it can cross-pollinate with the bigger boys. It&#8217;s a profitable move, one can hardly blame the business practice. They&#8217;ve got an eye-roll out of me, but not much more.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;m exacerbated with the entire industry as a whole because, look\u2014I think D&#038;D is a fine game. I&#8217;ve played a ton of 5e and I&#8217;m currently in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/d-d-2024-s-player-handbook-first-impressions-a-great-upgrade-but-a-mere-echo-of-the-brave-step-forward-it-could-ve-been\/\">D&#038;D 2024 ruleset<\/a> campaign with my cousins. I&#8217;m playing a Stars druid and having a lovely time. I&#8217;m an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/movies-tv\/i-had-my-doubts-about-critical-roles-new-13-player-d-and-d-campaign-but-its-latest-episodes-have-me-fully-bought-into-its-grand-ambitious-promise\/\">avid watcher of Critical Role<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But the overarching prison of one system that is halfway decent at doing dungeon-crawling turn-based combat and not much else isn&#8217;t great. The main advantage of D&#038;D is that it&#8217;s just crunchy enough to satisfy numbers dorks like me and just rules-lite enough to please less optimisation-hungry players.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;re not gonna burn up like a vampire exposed to the sun by learning some new rules once in a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>But if you want the best version of what it&#8217;s offering, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/board-games\/after-dming-a-bunch-of-d-and-d-5e-swapping-over-to-pathfinder-2e-has-felt-like-hanging-out-with-a-cool-ttrpg-uncle-that-lets-you-smoke-weed\/\">Pathfinder 2e exists<\/a>. If you want satisfying turn-based combat, there&#8217;s LANCER. If you want to tell a story, there are PBtA systems like Masks. If you want to do horror, there&#8217;s Mothership. And if you want to do vampires\u2014guess what! There&#8217;s already Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition! It&#8217;s right there!<\/p>\n<p>D&#038;D is the &#8220;let&#8217;s just have pizza&#8221; of systems, but there are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/i-love-dandd-but-im-so-much-better-at-dming-after-playing-other-systems\/\"> so many different, wonderful, and interesting rulesets<\/a> out there and I don&#8217;t think we should be propping up Hasbro&#8217;s efforts to get its grubby little fingers into everything. Not just because of how the company operates, but for the sake of the hobby itself.<\/p>\n<p>If you wanna buy this thing to tack on some character options for, say, a Curse of Strahd campaign\u2014or even just your own homebrew D&#038;D thing with vampires? Go ahead, you&#8217;ll probably get a lot of use out of it. But if you want to play a game with a bunch of vampires, I implore you to play some Vampire: The Masquerade. You&#8217;re not gonna burn up like a vampire exposed to the sun by learning some new rules once in a while.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"db822d0d-fa2e-443e-a449-b0606721c528\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Baldur's Gate 3 romance\" data-dimension48=\"Baldur's Gate 3 romance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"E4JL5DbKeweC5p7opWdx2K\" name=\"baldurs-astarion-square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/vampire-the-masquerades-dd-crossover-is-a-condescending-cave-in-to-people-who-are-afraid-of-trying-something-new-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/baldurs-gate-3-romance-options-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"db822d0d-fa2e-443e-a449-b0606721c528\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Baldur's Gate 3 romance\" data-dimension48=\"Baldur's Gate 3 romance\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 romance<\/strong><\/a>: Who to pursue<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/baldurs-gate-3-multiplayer-co-op-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 multiplayer<\/strong><\/a>: How co-op works<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/baldurs-gate-3-endings\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 endings<\/strong><\/a>: For better or worse<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/baldurs-gate-3-multiclass-builds\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 multiclass builds<\/strong><\/a>: Coolest combos<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: The greatest you can play now<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/vampire-the-masquerades-d-and-d-crossover-is-a-condescending-cave-in-to-people-who-are-afraid-of-trying-something-new\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampire: The Masquerade is getting a Dungeons &#038; Dragons rulebook\u2014titled Bound by Blood, this tome&#8217;ll contain a Kindred class (with six subclasses), a 4th-level adventure, some extra systems to make being a vampire in D&#038;D make any sort of sense, and a bunch of new feats. I will start off with something kind before I unleash the ravening beast inside my TTRPG-loving heart: It&#8217;s probably neat for D&#038;D players to have a supplementary book that lets players fully commit to being a vampire, especially given Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 put spawn in vogue (and with good reason, Astarion&#8217;s a great character). I also like new feats because I&#8217;m a character-building little munchkin. Also, the art is very pretty. Now I&#8217;m breaking the lock on the cage&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/vampire-the-masquerades-dd-crossover-is-a-condescending-cave-in-to-people-who-are-afraid-of-trying-something-new\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1617399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,34],"class_list":["post-1617398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vampire: The Masquerade&#039;s D&amp;D crossover is a condescending cave-in to people who are afraid of trying something new | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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