2: Vampire: The Masquerade
Vampires and live music fit together well. Nightclubs are a vampire setting archetype and the dangerously alluring rock god translates really easily. David Bowie played a vampire first seen at a Bauhaus gig in The Hunger, The Vampire Lestat became a megastar, Chill’s first non-Dracula vampire hunting adventure was Death On Tour, and Vampire: The Masquerade suggested a band as a coterie in the original rulebook and had vampire-run clubs and a Kindred band in Chicago almost immediately.
I ran a game about one for friends recently:
Last Dance
Concept
A local alternative band fronted by vampires, with more established bands on the scene and some conflicts with other clubland Kindred. We could have gone famous but decided to stay street.
Members
Vincent, Malkavian (Cacophony) lead singer given to fugues
Preston, Toreador guitar god trying to be less of a deadbeat dad
Mo, Caitiff drummer with a runaway sire
Casey Chaos, mortal keyboard and moral qualifier
Daisy, Ventrue manager and cat herder
Statistics
Hope 1
Ego 1
Fanbase 1
Cash 0
Performance Traits
Technique 3
Power 2
Stagecraft 2
Likely to focus on Band Member Scenes and shun Publicity Stunt Scenes
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