Vampire: The Masquerade — Out for Blood

Casually dealing with my headache while this E girl throws a fit on my front porch. (Her domination didn't work on me)

Vampire: The Masquerade — Out for Blood is an text-based urban dark fantasy thriller adventure based on the popular World of Darkness franchise of tabletop role-playing games. in Out for Blood, you create and portray the grandchild of an ill-fated Hunter. Your character inherits their grandparent's small-town business in Chicago, Illinois and is tasked with resolving an ongoing turf war between local vampires hiding in town whilst, at the same time, staying out of trouble and out of debt. With this premise in mind, this game honestly plays more like a Hunter: The Reckoning chronicle than a Vampire: The Masquerade game, especially since your character starts out as a mortal. Furthermore, depending on how well you develop and navigate your character, you can spare them from being embraced into vampirism. As an example, during my initial playthrough of this game, I developed and portrayed a kind-hearted and down-to-earth thrift store owner with high Composure, Intelligence and Resolve. Though my character started out as a soft-hearted outsider, I ultimately developed them into a compassionate and sharp-witted Buddhist whose courage and True Faith led them to vanquish the Camarilla ancilla and her vampiric influence. This game is well-structured in a twelve-chapter narrative, fleshed out with a diverse cast of characters as well as various scenes which pay homage to numerous pre-existing horror media, from classic vampire novels to 1980s horror cinema: Bram Stoker, Stephen King, John Carpenter, Stanley Kubrick, you-name-it! This is what makes Out for Blood a charming supernatural rollercoaster to remember. If I had one thing to complain about this game, it's that I wish this game probably incorporated Hunter Edges and Perks. Then again, this game was published before Hunter: The Reckoning had its long-awaited 5th edition released. Therefore, if this game were to receive a sequel or a re-release, I would love to see additions from Hunter's 5th edition made.

Considering the absolute glut of good VtM RPGs, this is fine. I liked the writing, I enjoyed the fact it's progressive in both letting you be queer, and having multiple queer characters in it. For some reason though, it won't let me romance more than one character without forcing me to either choose one or none of them. ♥♥♥♥ that. It's a text-based RPG. You can't get away with saying it would be too much work.