I am on record as to saying that Storyteller's should not stat all their SPCs, including very important SPCs. I talk in my article about Populating a City about how many stat blocks a Storyteller would have to come up with. I think that's a lot of busy work that will largely never come up, a lot of wasted time that could be better used creating interesting relationships, plots, personalities, twists, and problems for your players. But I still like rolling dice! So let's talk about what I do instead.
Thoughts about successfully telling stories and creating chronicles in the World of Darkness V5 systems, especially Vampire the Masquerade V5 as published by Paradox.
Friday, October 17, 2025
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Using Kumu for World of Darkness Relationship Maps
Relationships and Characters are the critical data for a World of Darkness Chronicle. They are the engine that makes the story run. But they are hard to keep track of at scale - Chronicles rapidly grow to dozens of SPCs when you've got a whole city to run.
I am a big proponent of Storyteller tools - I have a whole article on what I use. I started my most recent Chronicle with World Anvil, but I found keeping Storyteller Player Characters (SPCs) in World Anvil very difficult. The thing that matters most is the relationships between characters and that was hard to do in World Anvil, so I had to go looking for a new option.