Populating a City with Kindred

When building a Chronicle, unless you are setting it in a City created by someone else, one of the first major jobs a Storyteller has before them is to populate that city with Storyteller Player Characters (SPCs). SPCs are the key mortals, with Kindred, with ghouls, with other supernaturals. Depending on the city size, there could be hundreds of potential Kindred - a ridiculous number. We deal with this by focussing on the characters that matter and leave others for later creation.

"Splitting the Party"

In a lot of game systems, "splitting the party" is considered a bad thing, setting the group up for a painful encounter. In Vampire - and most other WoD games - it is just how the game is played, given the nature of the world. Let's talk about why that is and how to handle the challenges inherent in doing so frequently. I'm concentrating on Vampire here as far as flavour, but the techniques here should work with any game.

Advice for New Storytellers

I answer quite a few Reddit posts about how to get started in Storytelling in the World of Darkness. Here's some advice that may help new Storytellers in general. This advice is biased towards Vampire, biased towards V5, but is largely version agnostic or even system agnostic. It is a list of 15 things. They could probably each be an article by themselves, but I tried to keep things short and sweet.