If you’re attending a full LARP experience and taking you costuming a step further… it can often mean you are imagining getting dressed as the character before you attend Elysium. Even at your tabletop games! Even a simple suit jacket or a collapsible fan that your character uses helps create a tangible connection that you are ‘donning’ the persona of the character. So how do we fade away from our real life personas and become our immortal characters? The Daily LifeĬostumes are hands down, one of the most iconic and often seen Vampire methods for getting into character.
Today, we can find everything from LARPS, Tabletops, Con Events, Discord servers, immersive video games-so clearly, this is a thing. There are entire communities for the entire World of Darkness line that is dedicated to getting into character and running scenes. It is very similar to a Vampire: The Masquerade Live Action Roleplaying troupe in this regard (albeit a very small one). By Night, we see the characters like Jaspar and Victor play every Friday in full costume, speaking as their characters, acting like them, and taking elements of their personalities. No matter the game, players have to be in the minds of their characters for this effect to work (otherwise you are just staring at a sheet of paper with stats). All tabletop RPG games can feature these elements, and even a dungeon crawl can feel like a terrifying and haunting experience. In order to keep the characters invested, storytellers have to play off their players. As a character focused RPG with elements of horror, conspiracy, intrigue, and sadness the storyline only matters if the characters are invested. Vampire: The Masquerade has a very pretentious (at times) and a difficult balancing act between human and monster. If you’re as excited about it as we are, but aren’t familiar with the universe, here’s a crash course get you up to speed.
By Night is diving into the Vampire: The Masquerade’s Fifth Edition and the World Of Darkness it resides in.
Our RPG show, Vampire: The Masquerade – L.A. Twenty-seven years ago Vampire: The Masquerade was released in 1991, and it’s been through a few iterations thus far along its journey.
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