Dark Metropolis for Beginners

Some players will be more familiar with roleplaying, livegames and Vampire: the Requiem than others. For those who don't have much experience with any or all of these things, here's a quick primer on what this game is all about!


What is a live game?

You create a character for yourself and take on their role! Players get together in a set of rooms and talk and act in character to tell their stories. If you’ve done tabletop roleplaying before, it’s similar, but with a room full of people rather than a small group around a table. Plus, you get to dress up! Think of it as a mix of improvisation, murder mystery, and collaborative storytelling, with the Storytellers making the framework and the players driving the talk and action.


What is Vampire: the Requiem?

Vampire the Requiem is an urban horror roleplaying game set in the World of Darkness, a sinister reflection of our own world where hidden supernatural forces influence events from behind the scenes.

All the player characters (PCs) are vampires, grasping for survival on the city streets of the modern world. Vampire: the Requiem is about conflicts and alliances between vampire clans (families) and covenants (political and religious groups). Where groups collide - then it gets interesting.


A few Vampire: the Requiem terms:
-Kindred: vampires
-Kine: humans
-Vitae: blood

You'll pick up more as you go, but these are the essentials.


What is Dark Metropolis?

Dark Metropolis is a game that focuses on vampires that haven’t been vampires for all that long - 10 years or less, pretty much a blink of the eye to a potentially immortal vampire. They have less political power, less influence, and fewer allies, but on the other hand they’re more in touch with the modern world which makes them very useful pawns for the Elders who rule the city. You would be one of these pawns, and it would be up to you whether you want to play that game, or try to make your own way in the city.

It’s going to be a highly collaborative game - your character’s story will be woven by you, by the Storytellers, but also by the other players, and you’ll contribute to their game as well. This way players and Storytellers are all working together to make the game the most dramatic, and the most fun, that it can be!


When is it all happening?

We are running a couple of character development sessions - the first one is on Saturday October 25th at 6 PM, in Congregation Hall Room 01.20.  The second character development session will be in November - date to be announced. If you can’t make the first one, you are still more than welcome to come to the second one!

These sessions, especially the first, won’t be focused on any rules of the game, or loads of specifics about the setting. Instead we’ll be thinking about what might make the game enjoyable for you, and will help you think about what kind of character would therefore be fun to play.

The first game will be in January 2015 - if you can’t make any character creation sessions in the Autumn but want to see what it’s all about in the first game, we’ll have lots of pre-made characters that you can try. Come see what it’s like!


Want to know more?
Peruse our introduction post for Dark Metropolis, and have a look at our clan and covenant posts for inspiration for your character and an idea of what the world of Dark Metropolis is all about!