The Next Evolution of the Vampire: The Masquerade Tabletop RPG is in Pre-Alpha | IGN Exclusive Preview

Vampire: The Masquerade 6th Edition might be on the way for fanged fans of sitting around a table and rolling dice to drink blood, like myself. To be perfectly clear, White Wolf would not say the words "V6" or even "Edition" to describe what we were looking at during our exclusive sit-down. My suspicion is that they're saving that reveal for Gen Con later this year, where they're booked to have a big presence. But the thing they are working on is certainly 6th Edition-shaped, in my estimation, and they did make it clear that what is being officially called "a new Vampire: The Masquerade project" is not simply a revised version of 2018's 5th Edition (usually called V5). It's something with a broader scope. So what can we say for sure? Well, it's a tabletop roleplaying game with character sheets, of which we saw a small peek but weren't allowed to take pictures. There seems to be a lot more emphasis on a character's visual representation than any previous official VtM sheet, with a huge box for a portrait right at the top that takes up maybe a whole third of the first page. And it definitely looks to be running on some iteration White Wolf's in-house Storyteller System that they've b