Vampire the Masquerade: Love the setting but not the system

[GungHo]

In Vampire as written, combat is a failure condition. As others have noted, you can step around it by employing another system, but you do need to work some thought into the powers because dots in a discipline let you do things and set boundaries on those things in V5. It's not just a raw modifier.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

In Vampire as written, combat is a failure condition.

Yep. That’s why I said my GURPS: VtM playtest character was nominally an “Armageddon button”: he was maxed out in potence, celerity, and generation.

IOW, he’d been Embraced by a truly ancient vampire, so his strength & speed were outside the realm of any other active character in the playtest.

 

[aramis erak]

I would recommend the MET Masquerade LARP rules (By Night Studios, the version BEFORE 5e) as a basis.

Seconded, tho' the editions I have are Masquerade 2nd, and Laws of the night Revised - and I prefer the layout of Masquerade to the Laws series.

Works fine as a tabletop. Paces become grids...