Hi all, this is an AP for my brand shiny V:tM game using the Giovanni Chronicles as the source. Last Wednesday we went through the chargen process and started with the actual playing. We've been wanting to play some Vampire goodness for some time (me meaning my missus Victoria, and myself), we had a free evening, so off we went.

FROM NOW ON THERE ARE GIGANTIC AND ENORMOUS SPOILERS OF THIS CAMPAIGN, SO PLEASE REFRAIN FROM READING THIS THREAD IN CASE THAT COULD BE INCONVENIENT FOR YOU.

Now, on to the good stuff.   

The Giovanni Chronicles is a campaign that remained unfinished the first time I tried to run it. We managed to run the books I – III, but me moving to another city prevented us from playing the fourth (and best IMO). So, I've veer wanted to run the full saga despite the fact that the books I - III are quite railroady, and the second is an obnoxious piece of shit that you have to run in order to get the following goodness.

Lately, Victoria has also been interested in playing a ghoul, or some kind of character who is an addict, slave or something of the sort. The 4th book gives you that.

The players
I was GMing the game, and had at the table two players: Victoria and Montse, who was visiting us. Montse has played a fair share of Vampire: Requiem before, and Victoria is also familiar (at least passingly) with both oWoD and WoD games.

So, generating the PCs only required a brief explanation of rules.

The setting
What to do, oh what to do.

For this game I had to answer two questions. First, which set of rules I was going to use. Second, where should I start the chronicle.

For the first questions, I opted for the laziest answer. Though I have found some interesting conversions here and there from Masquerade to Requiem, I didn't have the time or the willpower to look for them and think about them, so I decided to run it straight from the book, and in case I deemed it necessary I could do the conversions later. So, we got prepared or some old-school V:tM action. Weird.

The second question was easy. For the books I – III the players create and use a coterie of vampires Embraced in 1444, that probably spend some centuries getting revenge from the Giovanni for what they did to them. A big part of the time they're also puppets of the nascent Camarilla, which uses them as expendable agents. In the 4th book you ask the players to create some mortals that will be abducted into the twisted Giovanni family and clan, who will have the former PCs as antagonists from 1929 to 1999. Sweet. So, one could think that the best way of running the chronicle is as intended, so the players know the story of the Kindred PC before they move on onto the Giovanni PCs. But I decided to screw that, and instead use this approach.

We would play the first part of the 4th book (covering 1929 to 1959), and then would switch back to play the 1st book in 1444, creating the coterie of Kindred who would oppose the Giovanni coterie (called from now on the Sons of Isaac). So, I would get the goodness of running the most interesting book first, the girls would get their addicted, twisted slave PCs, and I would skip the bore of going through the books I – III, at least for now. I'm even considering to discard playing those books and just creating the coterie myself

Next post: chargen and presenting the PCs.

My apologies for putting this thread on the wrong forum. I'm sorry.
The PCs
From  now on, I'd like to apologize to any Italian poster who can be offended by our ignorant use of your language and your culture. I'm sorry.

Victoria created Sharon Jackson. Sharon is related with the Giovanni family via the Scottish branch (the Dunsirn) being the bastard child of a Dunsirn who was on a business trip to Boston. She is black, because Victoria found that it would be really shocking: to be accepted in the family despite her skin colour. Sharon is a whore and ocasional dancer, really beautiful and talented for singing and acting. Regarding her looks, think of Antonia Thomas, the hottie from the TV show Misfits. Andreas Giovanni chose her for the shock value and because he likes th psychological experiment of seeing how much she can take from the racist family members.

Montse created Cesarina Antonella Giovanni, a real Italian mamma, who abandoned Italy after his husband was assasinated in one Mafia vendetta or other. Her elder son, Alfredo, stayed over there and kept care of business, so she could keep an affluent lifestyle and be part of the good society. She resents heavily that the old money families of Boston won't let her be part of them because she's an inmigrant, but at least she's quite influential in the Italian community. The family is EVERYTHING to her, and that's why Andreas is interested in her.

Seeing that the two PCs are heavily social, I proposed them to create a PC / NPC who could help them on the fighty stuff. To avoid the NPC becoming a pet GMPC, I decided that the NPC would be a complete moron (so as to not make many decisions) and would depend on one of the PCs. So enter Giacomo Antonella Giovanni, younger son of Cesarina, strong as an ox and dumb as a wooden plank, the worst Italian stereotype made flesh. Giacomo is fascinated with the mafiosi lifestyle, has 26 years and (to his mamma's despair) haven't set for marriage yet. This guy would not only provide the much needed muscle, but also be an endless source of problems to throw in front of the PCs. Andreas Giovanni chose him because it would be a pain in the ass to keep her mamma's condition as a secret to him, and because he makes perfect ghoul stuff.

Next post, our first session. The first taste of the Blood, and the corpses start to pile up. Oh my...