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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[LuisCarlos17f]

I have said this title is only a "pilot episode" and after analyzing the number of sales they will decide the strategy for the next steps. My theory is some update to fix the power balance (for example, what happens when a twisted DM chooses to use "bloodless" enemies like constructs, oozes, plants, elementals, infernal or undead?), and the next title will be a sourcebook with more vampire clans and other about the werewolves.

This kindred has been designed to be played into your homemade setting and this mean to face monsters and no-human enemies. Let's remember a simple fire elemental would be the horror for a kindred.

Maybe the masquerade works in a different way. In your homemade fantasy world everybody knows vampires exist but teorically all in the region were hunted and terminated , or at least they aren't currently in your zone.

Could szlachta and vozhd (ghoul monsters created by tzimize) appear in any future sourcebook?

What about the revenants (ghoul families)?

 

[EthanSental]

Odd timing as I was going to my kindle to read a comic and low and behold a Thomas Jane co-written comic called the Lycan was in a recommended group and the cover to number 6 in 2025 was Bradstreet!

Edit to add, 6 issues that are free for prime members.

 

[Maxperson]

As DM I'll it.

 

[Maxperson]

Brujahs wage their battles to destroy the evil forces of the Toreadors.

As they try to find their way home to Cainertron.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

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').

He didn't just "do the concept art"- Joe Madureira founded the video game studio that made the Darksiders franchise.

 

[abazaba]

He didn't just "do the concept art"- Joe Madureira founded the video game studio that made the Darksiders franchise.

I am aware of that. But 'founding a company' requires a different skillset (and is a totally different thing) than creating 'art' (however you choose to define that). My post was focusing on that.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

I am aware of that. But 'founding a company' requires a different skillset (and is a totally different thing) than creating 'art' (however you choose to define that). My post was focusing on that.

I mean, he founded two companies to make video games. It's clearly the man is passionate about it and considers video games an artform.

 

[abazaba]

I mean, he founded two companies to make video games.

Two companies ? I was unaware of that. You mean 'THQ' and 'THQ Nordic' (what a quick look on Wikipedia gives me) ?

It's clearly the man is passionate about it and considers video games an artform.

I was not claiming the man is not passionate about what he does.

For what it's worth: I own two books with his designs and concept art: 'The Art of Darksiders' I and II. I love the way things look, even though I have never played the games.

 

[EthanSental]

Joe Mads art, early in his career in comics, for dc and marvel I used to enjoy but now looking back. Not so much, sort of like Wayne Reynolds fantasy art. But looking at that Art of Darksiders has a different vibe than the over-over the top musculature in comics for super heroes and I like it! I didn’t know if it so thanks for sharing!

 

[abazaba]

Joe Mads art, early in his career in comics, for dc and marvel I used to enjoy but now looking back. Not so much, sort of like Wayne Reynolds fantasy art. But looking at that Art of Darksiders has a different vibe than the over-over the top musculature in comics for super heroes and I like it! I didn’t know if it so thanks for sharing!

No problem. But to me, the style in those books is exactly the same as what he did in something like 'Battle Chasers' (or his work for Marvel).

Also - but not having anything to do with Joe MAD! himself - the style of the mini's sold over at 'Artisan Guild' have a similar feel to me (even though they may just be ripping off Joe's style).