BUBBLEGUM VAMPIRES
A downloadable game
You're a vampire in an infinite urban cauldron of muck and rot, of psionics and wizards, of danger and shadows. Though you are surely terrible, great, horrifying, (etc.), half the day is an enemy to your people; so set forth through the night to make your coin, secure your dwellings, and vanquish your infinite enemies.
WHAT IS THIS?
This is a TTRPG that uses d6s, pencils, paper, and 2 or more people to play. It's about urban vampires surviving in world of wizards and psychics and cultists and beasts.
The mechanics focus on narrative over crunch, though skew towards action and blood-sucking. Built for both longer campaigns or short, self contained adventure.
This is a spin-off of Bubblegum Wizards 2, using the same core mechanics but adding a new magic system, classes, and Vibes.
WHAT AM I BUYING?
The rule book (23 pages), which includes:
- Narrative-focused dice mechanics, augmented by 5 Vibes (rich, seductive, ravenous, iconic, nocturnal) for your vampire to spec into.
- Novel sweat mechanics for sustaining damage to your body, brain, and bank respectively.
- A magic system centered around blood sacrifices and accruing vampirisms.
- 6 strange and exciting Vampire Styles, each with their own special abilities and play styles.
- 3 simple characterizing questions to help flesh out your vampire.
- 23 varied pre-generated opponents across 4 factions, each with amounts of possible blood to suck from them.
Also included:
- A printable character sheet, for those that prefer pen and paper.
- A google doc character sheet, that you can copy and fill out for yourself.
- A sample character sheet already filled out.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $4.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- Bubblegum Neighborhood GeneratorSep 25, 2023
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Your stuff rules!! It'd be really cool if you ended up writing stuff for the psychics and the cultists, just so we can get a feel for all 4 major factions, but even without that these games are wonderful.
Also, I'd love to hear the story behind the Negotiator, they seem to show up everywhere!
Thank you so much!
The Negotiator is (ironically) originally from our newest game, Greed, the first draft of which was made by my design partner CXA all the way back while we were in high school. I always thought it was a striking mechanical idea and easy to translate into other systems, so I started quietly putting it into my games as a sort of homage. After I'd done it once or twice, I liked the idea that the Negotiatior was our sort of flagship in-house monster like the Beholder or something.
Oh sick, you did it!
Is this compatible with Bubblegum Wizards in a way that would let wizards and vampires team up?
Aside from that the Vibes are different (though they are pretty easily equatable to an enterprising Clerk/Steward), they are compatible(!) and work within the same framework.
Nice to know, thank you!