Vampire: The Masquerade is getting a D&D 5.5E crossover product, coming to D&D Beyond this year

White Wolf is the latest publisher to join D&D Beyond's third-party marketplace. Today, D&D Beyond announced its next slate of partner content, coming out later this year. One of the new products is Vampire: The Masquerade - Bound by Blood (5.5e), a new product published by Ghostfire Gaming, presumably under license. Bound by Blood will contain a new Kindred class for 5.5E (a reference to a commonly-used euphemism for vampires in the World of Darkness campaign setting), as well as a new Dark Ages adventure.

Vampire: The Masquerade isn't the first rival game to Dungeons & Dragons to post 5.5E content on D&D Beyond. Chaosium previously released a Call of Cthulhu product on D&D Beyond earlier this year, and Pathfinder released a 5E version of their popular dungeon-crawler adventure Abomination Vaults, which is set in the Pathfinder setting of Golarion. D&D Beyond serves as the largest marketplace for D&D products on the internet, and is possibly the biggest TTRPG marketplace as well, so it's not a surprise that other publishers are partnering with Wizards to get their content on the marketplace.

What's curious is the nature of the relationship between Ghostfire Gaming and White Wolf, which owns the World of Darkness setting. White Wolf has been beefing up its TTRPG studio to bolster production of various World of Darkness games in recent years, notably hiring away Jess Lanzillo from D&D. They have a publishing relationship with Renegade Games, who currently publishes various Vampire: The Masquerade products along with Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Hunter: The Reckoning. What will be interesting is whether Ghostfire Gaming plans to continue publishing Vampire: The Masquerade content for D&D, or if this is a one-off publication.

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[EthanSental]

Huh, nothing really since 2013 by Bradstreet. Wonder what's happened for him.

Since 2013 for Vampire related products? Maybe white wolf can’t afford his rate now for their mainly digital products and that’s just a guess on my part.

 

[Weiley31]

No Cappodacians, color me surprised. But we get Gangrel, Lasombra(No surprise since they were BIG players in the Catholic Church during the Dark Ages IIRC), and Toreador so I'm happy.

This maybe the first thing I purchased from Beyond, outside of their Annual Drops collections when they come around to releasing it.

 

[Benji]

It's been a few decades, so my memory of Dark Ages is fuzzy at best.

It's Giovanni that didn't exist. Tremere are likely not included becuase thaumathurgy is more complicated to replicate than other disciplines.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The Giovanni clan was created oficially in 1444 but before was a bloodline and they appears in Vampire: Dark Ages. And let's remember this kindred not necessearialy are in our world.

In the first editions there were "exclusive disciplines": Quietus(Asshamites/Banu Haquim), Serpentis(Setites/Ministry), Necromancy(Giovanni), Obtenebration(Lasombra),Dementation(Malkawian, of course), Chimestry(Ravnos), Thaumaturgy(Tremere), Vicissitude(Tzimisce). The disciplines of V5 are different. Lasombra and Hecata have got "Oblivion".

If there are blood points and beast this should mean the disciplines will be "new"more than adaptation. Let's remember the game rules are different.

Other point is if this title is wellcome and become enoughly popular, we are going to see homemade subclasses and even from other franchises, for example Innistrard or Warhammer Fantasy

 

[Benji]

The Giovanni clan was created oficially in 1444 but before was a bloodline and they appears in Vampire: Dark Ages. And let's remember this kindred not necessearialy are in our world.

In the first editions there were "exclusive disciplines": Quietus(Asshamites/Banu Haquim), Serpentis(Setites/Ministry), Necromancy(Giovanni), Obtenebration(Lasombra),Dementation(Malkawian, of course), Chimestry(Ravnos), Thaumaturgy(Tremere), Vicissitude(Tzimisce). The disciplines of V5 are different. Lasombra and Hecata have got "Oblivion".

If there are blood points and beast this should mean the disciplines will be "new"more than adaptation. Let's remember the game rules are different.

Other point is if this title is wellcome and become enoughly popular, we are going to see homemade subclasses and even from other franchises, for example Innistrard or Warhammer FT

The Giovanni clan was created oficially in 1444 but before was a bloodline and they appears in Vampire: Dark Ages. And let's remember this kindred not necessearialy are in our world.

In the first editions there were "exclusive disciplines": Quietus(Asshamites/Banu Haquim), Serpentis(Setites/Ministry), Necromancy(Giovanni), Obtenebration(Lasombra),Dementation(Malkawian, of course), Chimestry(Ravnos), Thaumaturgy(Tremere), Vicissitude(Tzimisce). The disciplines of V5 are different. Lasombra and Hecata have got "Oblivion".

If there are blood points and beast this should mean the disciplines will be "new"more than adaptation. Let's remember the game rules are different.

Other point is if this title is wellcome and become enoughly popular, we are going to see homemade subclasses and even from other franchises, for example Innistrard or Warhammer Fantasy

The Giovanni aren't present in dark ages, clan cappodican is still active. I get what you're saying about it not being 'our world' in that these supplements might not be world of darkness setting but if that is the case why try to use world of darkness vampires at all? I'm still trying to get over what is going to be the disconnect between how unthreatening a werewolf is in dnd to in v:tm and wondering how that is gonna look when some player wants to bring their character across.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Since 2013 for Vampire related products? Maybe white wolf can’t afford his rate now for their mainly digital products and that’s just a guess on my part.

No, nothing at all after a cursory internet search.

Last post on Deviantart 2011.
Web page cited - gone.
Wikipedia entry cites last work in 2013.

13 years ago, like he disappeared. Curious, that's all. Probably got a job as a stockbroker or something.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

His Instagram account is active as of June, when he was going to a convention. And he made reference to doing recent-ish DC and Marvel covers.

I suspect he just doesn't want to kill himself doing comic book interiors, which have to be churned out at a rapid pace, or be nickel-and-dimed by the RPG industry when he can do covers and presumably commercial art gigs, which pay a lot more.

A ton of big name comic book artists in the 1990s switched over to doing magazine covers and the covers for computer game boxes and other commercial art. Better pay, better schedule, and no becoming a stockbroker.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

His Instagram account is active as of June, when he was going to a convention. And he made reference to doing recent-ish DC and Marvel covers.

Ah, Insta. Should have thought of that - but so should my search results

 

[abazaba]

A ton of big name comic book artists in the 1990s switched over to doing magazine covers and the covers for computer game boxes and other commercial art. Better pay, better schedule, and no becoming a stockbroker.

Yeah. Joe Madureira (aka Joe MAD!) whose art I really like, also seems to have switched from doing comic book work (like 'Battle Chasers', or 'Age of Apocalypse' 1995) to things like doing concept art for video games (like 'Darksiders').

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah. Joe Madureira (aka Joe MAD!) whose art I really like, also seems to have switched from doing comic book work (like 'Battle Chasers', or 'Age of Apocalypse' 1995) to things like doing concept art for video games (like 'Darksiders').

Yeah, J. Scott Campbell made the same leap. Neither of them were particularly speedy, even at their comic book height, so taking a much bigger payday to do other, slower stuff is a no brainer.