Anatomy of Failed Design
Vampire: the Masquerade
Organizations
So you want to play politics, right? I mean, that's the entire reason we're trying to play Vampire: the Masquerade and not Nightlife. It's the lure of being able to
socialize as one of these creatures of the night rather than just having a series of setpiece fights and then announcing that your character is flouncing off to the rock club to rock out.
To make this work, you're going to have to have an elite club that you can socialize in as well as meaningful political differences that you can have arguments about.
Clan Politics
Each of the bloodlines was presented as a political block, which was terrible. In general, each coterie was going to be 3-5 vampires from
different clans. So by setting the clans up as political blocs, it meant that it was really hard to get anything done. Putting the clans as the major unit of political will meant that you were essential role protecting teams. As in, if one player was on a team, they would tell another prospective player that they should play a different team altogether because doing otherwise made their special powers less special at the table. So when the Brujah and the Ventrue butt heads, the Brujah
player character and the Ventrue
player character have to pick sides or ignore the plot, and both of those are shit for a cooperative storytelling game.
Lots of other politics was internal to a clan, and that was also bad. Characters who weren't Brujah had very little stake or say in who did or did not become Brujah Primogen. This meant that when Brujah political infighting came up, the Brujah player would have things to do and interact with and the Ventrue player would go play Smash Brothers until something happened that his character was allowed to have a say in.
Vampire needed factions that all the player characters could be on at the same time. And it mostly didn't have that. As such, the game actually ended up working much better as a sprawling LARP than a tabletop RPG. Only when games got really big could the Brujah all get together and hang out in a clique. Then you could actually have groups of players working together to advance the Brujah agenda because they were all fucking Brujah. But if the political units had been set up such that all the player characters of the sort of multi-clan coterie you'd expect to see in a 4-6 player tabletop game could be on one without straining against the setting, the game would have worked much better.
All Those Fucking Factions
The Tremere alone boast more than a dozen secret subfactions. A chantry is full with 8 vampires in it, there are more than one secret society per person. It got so bad that the revised edition Tremere has a whole page worth of ranting about all the secret factions that they
got rid of in the edition roundup. Sadly, they purged the secret order of Tremere nudists from the game world, but there are still more secret societies than there are Chantries in the United States.
No, I'm not going to put a picture of a bunch of naked witches here. But I was sorely tempted to do so.
Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand posited the existence of at least five different double plus secret groups named “The Black Hand.” The simple demographics of all this meant that none of these “organizations” amounted to more than just some dude and whatever cultists he could scare up.
We're not even talking about Charles Manson and his followers, we're talking Simon and Hecubus.
Now, there is certainly
room for tiny little cults of ne'er-do-wells and blackguards. That is, in fact, a pretty solid story arc that you might want to use. There's like some evil cult in town, and they do various stuff, and you want to stop them so that you can [protect the masquerade] [take all their stuff] [save the world from their crackpot demon summon scheme] [have sex with the hot man-meat they have dominated into being their butler]. That
works. It's one of the few stories that Vampire can actually
tell without everyone tripping over their own dick about how Stacy is playing a Ventrue and Robyn is playing a Brujah. But
none of these organizations are depicted like that. You are presented House Goratrix and House Rodolfo as if they are major international secret societies, rather than
literally Goratrix or Rodolfo and however many followers they can get to show
to their house.
Vampire needed little cults as things roughly the size of the player character groups to serve as antagonists. And they needed to have some international conspiracies that you could oppose in a more long term campaign scenario. But mostly it needed to
differentiate these things. As it was, when I get told about the Tlacique, who are Setites who pulled a Joseph Smith to preach to the Native Americans and turn them pale, are they supposed to be like five guys with an awesome hideout full of traps or a major force to be fought episode after episode? What about the grey-alien-faced Kiasyd, who are a bookish faerie cult inside the Sabbat? Are
they supposed to be major players? Fuck if I know. No one knows. No one
can know, because none of this shit makes sense or is even complete.
White Wolf apologists would have you believe that the fact that there were way more of these splinter groups than could possibly exist was a
feature. That there were more listed than could exist because there were more listed than
did exist, and some of them were just legends. White Wolf apologists would also have you believe that the fact that the game never bothered to mention whether these groups were Cobra Command or The Pit of Penultimate Darkness was a feature. That your storyteller could expand or collapse any of these groups to the strength and numbers required of her plot. But that is all bullshit. You are not even having a cooperative story or a shared world if none of the organizations have persistent traits from one reader or game table to another. Fuck.
The Camarilla
The Camarilla was the original organization that you were part of. It has a structure similar to a political party in that there's a regional supreme leader but also various statesmen who have no
specific enumerated powers but may or may not all the shots. Also there are a bunch of specific titles that in different areas may have real powers or might just be ceremonial positions given to people to make them shut up and stay out of trouble. I think it was supposed to be based on court intrigue as imagined by Atlanta area art wanks who had recently graduated college, but really the closest real world analog is the Chinese Communist Party.
So your local party head (the Prince) may or may not be a despot who rules with an iron fist. They might be a puppet that the local movers and shakers (Primogen) trot out for dog and pony shows when the party higher ups (Archons and Justicars) come in to see how the central committee's (Central Committee) orders are being followed up on. Then there are various treasurers and whips (Harpies and Sheriffs) who have titles that have vague job descriptions and may or may not do anything. Which is not an unrealistic setup for an evil organization of puppetmasters to have! But it's not exactly conducive to player generated actions, because there's no real levers to push or pull on to get anything done.
So you want to become Prince. Uh... good for you? There isn't even a sample city charter to see what the procedures for appointment might be. Do you get a mandate from the masses? Is there a farcical aquatic ceremony? I don't know. No one knows. Big LARPs tend to have made some sort of charter for determining these things which is generally “each clan gets one Primogen elected by that clan and each Primogen gets one vote one who is Prince after each coup.” And yeah, that sounds suspiciously like Junta, but it works well enough (for the LARPs) and it would have saved everyone a shit tonne of time had that (or something equally or more functional) been codified at the beginning. Not that the default LARP setup works terribly well in tabletop, but at least it's
something.
As mentioned, the Camarilla was the
original organization. As in, if you read the first book you were one of the seven original clans and you were part of the Camarilla. Then it came time to add expansion material, and for reasons that make no fucking sense to anyone they decided that all the expansion material should apply to vampires
not in the Camarilla. So there were Setites and Giovanni and Lasombra and shit, but they were all non-Camarilla clans and most of them were kill on sight in any Camarilla city. This is a design decision that makes no fucking sense
at all. You're writing and selling expansion material, don't you want people to fucking use the shit you're writing? What the fuck?
So the theory was that the Camarilla as described in the first book never mentioned any Assamites or (sigh) Ravnos or whatever the fuck, so if they existed in the World of Darkness they would have to be in other sects where Camarilla vampires could hunt them for sport.
To this day it fucking astounds me that no one in White Wolf figured out that they could expand things by having the Camarilla have different main clains in different parts of the world. Like, North Africa could have essentially no Nosferatu or Toreador and get Setites and Assamites instead. Then you could throw open the damn flood gates for the players to play expansion clans as long as they wrote in their backstory that their sire or grandsire was from one of the relevant regions. It could even be a plot point that Assamites who went to New Orleans were nominally beholden to the Nosferatu Primogen even though they aren't actually the same can and don't have similar goals. If you
really wanted to go crazy, you could have done the expansion clans in some sort of organized way where they covered regions and conceptual space instead of wasting an entire clan on making a version of the Gangrel that is 666% more “Gypsy” per pint.
But even though that would have been trivially easy and work a whole lot better than what they actually did, what they actually did was to announce that all the expansion material they ever wrote was “not in the Camarilla.” This made it all “optional” in a Camarilla based campaign, but what it really did was to make playing in the Camarilla swimming pool more and more unattractive as more and more options were introduced to the
world but not to the
Camarilla. Conservation of detail also made the Camarilla seem like a smaller and smaller institution as all the extra crazy bullshit got added. With all the Sabbat and Independent Clans and Blackulas and Chinese Vampires running (or hopping) around, people eventually started asking “Why were we supposed to care about the Camarilla?” and no real answer was forthcoming. In White Wolf's haste to spurge out more shitty content, they definitely lost sight of the original claim that the Camarilla was supposed to be the conspiracy you were supposed to care about.
The Sabbat
Um... basically this.
The Sabbat were mentioned as the gratuitous villains of the first book. They were nebulously bad and had bad goals and bad motives. They didn't make sense and they weren't supposed to. They were a source of vampires that you could fight in dungeons & dragons style home invasions and still have the other vampires in your society flip the fuck out because you're a mass murderer of people who count (vampires). Because Sabbat vampires were generic supervillains and you could kill those assholes with impudency!
Now as such things naturally do in a game where you play blood drinking monsters, people asked why they weren't allowed to play as the “bad guys.” This is a good question! The Camarilla vampires are already vampires, and they are pretty bad. And some of the authors responded to this by coming up with new facts about the Sabbat to make them
more bad. These didn't all work together, and were often as not written by people who had different ideas of what bad was. So the Sabbat are strictly hierarchical Catholics who are dangerous Anarchists who worship Satan and are also Atheist Communists and various other -ists and you know what? Who cares. The Sabbat doesn't make any fucking sense. The original reason that the Sabbat are supposed to be kill-on-sight types is that they are opposed to the Masquerade. But there's never been a coherent or even half-coherent drunken mumbling explanation as to how the Masquerade exists for 72 straight hours after a major Vampire organization flips the table over and says “Fuck This Shit!”
How do the Sabbat not get from step 1 to step 2? No one knows!
When they did go ahead and try to make the Sabbat actually playable, they among other things announced that the Sabbat had a place for
all the clans and bloodlines. Seriously. All of them. No matter how fucking obscure, they were all upons. They all get clan symbols too. Some of them have special clan symbols to note that they are the edgelord
Sabbat version of the clan, and some of them are new symbols. Depends on how creative the graphic designers were feeling. The original Tzimisce symbol was jut an illuminated T stamped into a wax blob. Then they changed it to like a shitty looking dragon on a castle and a much better looking snake eating its own tail. Anyway, here are some bullshit Sabbat clan symbols.
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This isn't even half of them. This isn't a quarter
of them. The rabbit hole is... very deep.
Anyway, the big innovation of the Sabbat were that they had a “pack” structure, where all the vampires that got embraced during a time period would be rounded up, forced to do a blood ritual to bind themselves together, and then go do stuff. This is the um... only time that V:tM presented a cogent reason why the player characters in a tabletop game would actually do stuff together according to the demands and conceits of a cooperative storytelling game. Other innovations included having a shovel to the head ritual that allowed newly made vampires use alternate morality rules that let them drink blood and kill people and gave out more starting discipline dots. Baby steps, but the Sabbat player-side rules were basically concrete attempts to make Vampire: the Masquerade into a more playable game.
Of course the “...and then what?” problems of the Camarilla are still here in force. I have no idea what you're supposed to do in a Sabbat game other than swing flaming chainsaws at Camarilla vampires. The titles have church themes, so a Primogen is a Priest, a Prince is Bishop, and so on. But I still have no idea how in abstract you are supposed to contest these things or what you can do once you acquire them.
But the real elephant in the room is edgelordism. Sabbat descriptions go off on rape fantasies and cannibalism rants and torture fics distressingly often. A lot of written material for the Sabbat is some emo dark fic from Atlanta. It's gross, in every sense of the word. So if someone said “Hey, let's play a Sabbat game!” you had to ask yourself whether they wanted to play Sabbat because they were generally more playable than the Camarilla and got to play with more of power creep options and setting improvements? Or did they want to play a Sabbat game because they wanted to have a captive audience for their necrophilia fanfics.
The Inconnu
Inconnu is a real word in French that means “an unknown person or thing.” I'm just gonna assume there is a context for that picture and move on.
In the original writeup, the Inconnu were a major force. A secretive sect composed entirely of enigmatic elders who rarely interfered and had a secret agenda (not to be confused with the silent agenda). They were supposed to show up and do mysterious things and say enigmatic stuff.
...And that's as far as it got. The other shoe never dropped. Authors who wanted to write about ancient conspiracies headed by big penis NPCs pretty much just
wrote their own, and you ended up with a proliferation of weird bullshit like the Black Hand. Eventually some authors got tired of constantly talking about the Inconnu as if there was a point to them without ever deciding on what that point might be – and the sect got killed off. They died off camera without any of their riddles being solved or ever having impacted anything to any great degree. Robbed of meaning and purpose, the fans responded to their destruction with a collective “meh.”
I should point out that so few fucks were given about these assholes that McWoD spelled the name wrong throughout the entire book and no one at White Wolf noticed or cared.
Anarchs
They reject the complex rules of vampire society. That's why they have the most complicated sect symbol. Either that or they were written later and the graphic designers had gone fucking nuts. One of those two.
The Anarch Movement is different from the Anarch Revolt, which is an early name for the Sabbat because vampire history is clumsy and written by a bunch of freelancers without a setting bible in the days before wikis. The Anarch Movement is a sect that rejects sects and all the rules and horseshit that comes with them. In the original writeup they had taken over Los Angeles and San Francisco, which is why the players were supposed to never go to California and instead spend their nights in Atlanta and Chicago.
At its best, the Anarchs did a sort of Lost Boys / French Revolution vibe. But I was never sure why we needed an entire
sect for that concept when we had Brujah to do that. I mean, a city could still be Camarilla and be taken over by Brujah and it would structurally be the same thing, right? Anything you wanted to say about revolutionary idealism giving way to zealous extremism or selling out or whatever could just be done with a Camarilla city that happened to have a bunch of Brujah in it. Narratively they served no purpose.
Figuring out what you were supposed to
do in an Anarch city was even harder than it was in a Camarilla or Sabbat town. It's like a Camarilla city except instead of the Prince who has far reaching ill-defined powers, you have a Baron who has limited ill-defined powers. Generally, no one bothered.
Anarchs claim the highschool field.