Welcome to the World of Darkness in D&D

Last week, we revealed our partnership with Ghostfire Gaming and Dungeons & Dragons, and today we are happy to share more details about the upcoming player pack. If you’ve ever been curious about Vampire: The Masquerade and want to get a taste of it in a D&D setting, this is for you. Play as the Kindred class, pick your favourite subclass, choose from new backgrounds, and more, all custom-made for D&D Beyond with the flavour of Vampire: The Masquerade. Pre-order it here.

What is Bound by Blood?

You are Kindred, a vampire, stalking the brutal world where power and blood decide who survives until dawn. Rise from fledgling predator to ancient terror across levels 1 to 20. Embrace six iconic Kindred clans as subclasses, wield devastating new powers, uncover dark Backgrounds, master more than two dozen blood-soaked feats, and arm yourself with equipment forged for creatures of the night. Step into the World of Darkness for Dungeons & Dragons 5.5E with Vampire: The Masquerade: Bound by Blood. 

Inside, find a trove of Vampire tools ready to weave directly into any 5.5E campaign, from grim lore and supernatural horrors to rules steeped in gothic intrigue and blood-bound ambition.

Included is One Last Goodbye, a 5.5E-compatible adventure for 4th-level characters set in Northern Britannia, 700 CE. Your coterie journeys to the isolated village of Knock Glade to mourn a mortal descendant laid to rest far too soon. But grief is only the beginning. Something ancient stalks the moors around the village, and the thing that killed her still hungers in the dark. 

Bring your coterie to the table on D&D Beyond.

Every part of this book is seamlessly integrated with D&D Beyond. Create a Kindred from levels 1 to 20 in the Character Builder, track Blood Points and the Beast alongside Hit Points, and explore Disciplines, Backgrounds, and feats directly in the compendium.

Run One Last Goodbye on the official Maps VTT with three fully supported locations, and bring six new monsters, including the adventure’s climactic antagonist, into the Encounter Builder and Combat Tracker. Two new Storyteller-inspired systems, Masquerade Level and Narrated Feeding, add tension and narrative depth while fitting cleanly into the existing 5.5E ruleset.

• A full 1-to-20 Kindred class. Play one of the first vampires, fuelled by Blood Points, Disciplines, and the ever-clawing Beast. 

• Six iconic clan subclasses. Brujah, Gangrel, Lasombra, Nosferatu, Toreador, and Ventrue, each with its own clan bane and signature Disciplines.

• A complete Dark Ages adventure. One Last Goodbye: four nights in a grieving village that hides something silent, patient, and hungry, ending in a climactic confrontation no coterie walks away from unchanged.

• Five new Backgrounds. Ghoul, Ritualist, Scholar of the Hunt, Thrall, and Touchstone, designed for Kindred-adjacent stories.

• 25+ Origin & Kindred feats. Reach across clan lines and claim the signature powers of another bloodline.

• Kindred-specific equipment. Gear made for killing the undying, surviving them, and feeding when neither option holds.

• Two new tension systems. Masquerade Level and Narrated Feeding mechanics bring World of Darkness texture to fifth edition combat and exploration.

We are excited to Embrace more players into Vampire: The Masquerade and bring them into the World of Darkness. 

Gen Con is just around the corner, and the White Wolf team has so much more to share about what they've been working on in the shadows.

If you aren't able to be at the Future of White Wolf panel on Thursday, July 30th, we'll be sure to share all relevant information on the World of Darkness website, as well as our social media.

The White Wolf team