{"id":747807,"date":"2026-06-20T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/747807\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:54:09","slug":"vampire-the-masquerade-officially-joins-dungeons-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/747807\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Vampire: The Masquerade’ Officially Joins ‘Dungeons & Dragons’"},"content":{"rendered":"

White Wolf is back in a big way this spring. The publishing company behind the World of Darkness series of tabletop role-playing games, which includes Vampire: The Masquerade<\/a>, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Hunter: The Reckoning, and several others, has a big Vampire: The Masquerade-shaped surprise debuting at Gen Con 2026<\/a>. The actual-play series Dimension 20<\/a> is currently running its first Vampire: The Masquerade campaign. And now, Vampire: The Masquerade<\/a> is officially crossing over with Dungeons & Dragons, bringing a whole new vampire class to the game.<\/p>\n

Vampire: The Masquerade\u2014Bound by Blood is an officially licensed supplement created by Ghostfire Gaming that brings a Kindred (VtM\u2018s name for vampires) class to Dungeons & Dragons 5.5e. According to the product description on D&D Beyond<\/a>, Bound by Blood is a \u201cfull vampire class powered by Blood Points, Disciplines, and the ever-clawing Beast inside! Included in this release is a heart-pounding Dark Ages adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paradox Interactive<\/a>, which owns White Wolf, added more context in a post on its website: \u201cThis project was lovingly created by Ghostfire Gaming, the talented group of designers and D&D experts behind the excellent Grim Hollow. What they\u2019ve built is a full vampire class for fifth edition Vampire, with Blood Points, Disciplines, the Beast, along with a Dark Ages adventure, and it\u2019s a great way to bring a piece of the World of Darkness to a table that already lives in 5E D&D.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, there is no official vampire class in Dungeons & Dragons. A character can be bitten by a vampire and become afflicted by vampirism, and there\u2019s a sort of half-vampire \u201cDhampir\u201d lineage available in the Van Richten\u2019s Guide to Ravenloft sourcebook, but neither of those are a fully fleshed-out character class.\u00a0The Kindred class could be perfect for you if you\u2019ve always wanted to play a vampire in D&D, depending on how well Ghostfire integrates Vampire: The Masquerade\u2018s mechanics into the very different Dungeons & Dragons system.<\/p>\n

Vampire: The Masquerade\u2014Bound by Blood pre-orders open later this month, and the product will release on D&D Beyond sometime in July.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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