White Wolf is again in a giant manner this spring. The publishing firm behind the World of Darkness sequence of tabletop role-playing video games, which incorporates Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Hunter: The Reckoning, and several other others, has a giant Vampire: The Masquerade-shaped shock debuting at Gen Con 2026. The actual-play sequence Dimension 20 is presently working its first Vampire: The Masquerade marketing campaign. And now, Vampire: The Masquerade is formally crossing over with Dungeons & Dragons, bringing a complete new vampire class to the sport.
Vampire: The Masquerade—Certain by Blood is an formally licensed complement created by Ghostfire Gaming that brings a Kindred (VtM‘s title for vampires) class to Dungeons & Dragons 5.5e. Based on the product description on D&D Past, Certain by Blood is a “full vampire class powered by Blood Factors, Disciplines, and the ever-clawing Beast inside! Included on this launch is a heart-pounding Darkish Ages journey.”
Paradox Interactive, which owns White Wolf, added extra context in a publish on its web site: “This challenge was lovingly created by Ghostfire Gaming, the gifted group of designers and D&D specialists behind the wonderful Grim Hole. What they’ve constructed is a full vampire class for fifth version Vampire, with Blood Factors, Disciplines, the Beast, together with a Darkish Ages journey, and it’s an effective way to carry a bit of the World of Darkness to a desk that already lives in 5E D&D.”
At present, there isn’t any official vampire class in Dungeons & Dragons. A personality could be bitten by a vampire and turn into stricken by vampirism, and there’s a form of half-vampire “Dhampir” lineage out there within the Van Richten’s Information to Ravenloft sourcebook, however neither of these are a completely fleshed-out character class. The Kindred class might be good for you should you’ve at all times needed to play a vampire in D&D, relying on how properly Ghostfire integrates Vampire: The Masquerade‘s mechanics into the very totally different Dungeons & Dragons system.
Vampire: The Masquerade—Certain by Blood pre-orders open later this month, and the product will launch on D&D Past someday in July.
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