Renegade Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Chicago by Night Sourcebook – Black

Overview

Renegade Game Studios presents Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Chicago by Night Sourcebook, a richly crafted expansion designed to deepen the urban gothic atmosphere of your campaigns. Set in a city that feels alive with history, power plays, and hidden dangers, this book helps Storytellers chart a modern nocturnal domain as a living, evolving machine. The tone invites exploration and tactful maneuvering, giving you options to tailor the experience to your table without locking you into a single path.

What’s inside

Chicago by Night offers a multifaceted look at the city’s vampiric society, told through multiple Kindred perspectives and accounts of how the domain operates in the contemporary nights. It introduces the Clan of Night’s entry to the Camarilla and provides rules for playing Lasombra within Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition, including their unique Discipline of Oblivion. Expect a blend of lore, concrete play options, and dramatic setups that you can weave into your ongoing chronicle.

• Overview of Chicago’s vampiric history and current night-to-night dynamics
• New Lasombra content aligned with the 5th Edition ruleset and the Oblivion Discipline
• Biographies, ambitions, secrets, and relationships for 50+ Kindred, plus fiction featuring key places
• Fictional depictions and location sketches to anchor scenes and encounters
• Chronicle-ready hooks and coteries illustrating factionalism and group potential

Character and plot tools

The sourcebook includes practical aids to help you integrate characters into Chicago’s intricate web. Lore sheets tailor characters to the city's neighborhoods and power centers, making it easier to weave them into the book’s stories and transitions between sessions. This is particularly useful if you’re introducing new Kindred to an established chronicle or building a new arc from a rich municipal backdrop.

• Lore sheets for new and established Chicago-based Kindred
• Chronicle hooks spanning themes like Beast, Hunger, Humanity, and Hierarchy
• A prominent Lasombra-led chronicle that explores elite political maneuvering

Gameplay feel and use

The material is designed to support a range of storytelling approaches—from intimate political machinations to sprawling city-wide campaigns. While it opens doors to powerful factions and dramatic betrayals, it also leaves room for stealth, investigation, and urban survival. The content suggests possibilities rather than guarantees, allowing your table to map its own path through Chicago’s nocturnal landscape.

Why choose Chicago by Night

Fans of intricate lore, vivid city icons, and character-driven plots will find the setting richly textured. You can leverage the supplied material to deepen tone, generate compelling character threads, and craft memorable sessions that feel rooted in a recognizable, dangerous metropolis. The book aims to be a versatile companion for Storytellers who value atmosphere, party dynamics, and a sense of place without prescribing a single course of action.