Sink Your Teeth Into These Vampire RPGs and Accessories
Whether it’s ballerinas, interviews with, sparkles, or something else, we all have favorite vampires. Let’s add a little of that to our RPGs.
Vampires as a genre have a hold on the fantasy and supernatural genres. Horror? Romance? Neither or both? Something else entirely? Vampires will pop in for an appearance. The latest example is the ballerina vampire movie, Abigail. And honestly, that’s all I need to know about that concept to be sold. But there are lots of vampire games and lots of ways to add vampires to your next game.
1. Vampire: The Requiem
Last week we talked about Vampire: The Masquerade, and that is definitely the name in Vampire tabletop RPGs. But Requiem may be just as, if not more worth checking out. The successor to Masquerade, Requiem works really hard to fix former issues and clean up some messiness, while keeping the same dramatic game at its heart. And the world of vampires is full of drama.
2. Thousand Year Old Vampire RPG
An entirely different game in nearly every possible way, Thousand Year Vampire is a solo, journalizing-based RPG. It’s a game that asks you- and your vampire- to be introspective and emotional, thinking back on the last millennia of memories. Gameplay can take hours, weeks, or anything in between. It’s designed to be played solo but can be a group RPG as well.
3. Blood Dice
We’re no stranger to the ‘faux blood splattered dice’ design. Horror games love them, and we love suggesting them for spooky games come the Halloween season. But this isn’t that. This is more of a ‘your dice are full of blood’ sort of design. Or even a ‘I’m sure that’s just red wine in their goblet,’ look. This is exactly what all of the human characters will be saying about the vampiric ones. I’m sure those fangs are just for show, don’t worry about it.
4. Vampire Minis
Not every game needs minis, but when a session calls for them, they’re nice to have. Whether you’re trying to keep the layout and map clear for everybody at the table, or just want to maintain an aesthetic, a table full of minis is always welcome in my games. This set comes with two unpainted vampires, one in attack mode and the other… sort of threatening to go into attack mode. Either way, it’s not good news for whoever opposes them.
5. Vampire Hunter
And of course, if you’re going to introduce vampires, there’s a good chance that there will be a vampire hunter running around. For some reason, this one reminds me of Vampire Hunter D, a reference that I know is aging me.
Oh hey! BoLS might make a little dolla-dolla if you decide to buy these items. We need that money to bribe the nice folks at the local blood bank. For no reason. Don’t worry about it.
