You might see throughout this website reference to someone’s generation. For example, I, Harbinger Eve, the creator of this website am a 8th Generation player. The woman who embraced me into house games was a 7th generation. The creator of the player sheet was a 4th generation player named Christian (who as far as I have been told is a deranged Malkavain psycho). If you have been introduced to this game by me, then you would be a 9th generation player. If you, as a presumably 9th gen, were to get your friends to play this game, they would be a Tenth gen.
What exactly does all this mean?
Well World of Darkness, and in particular Vampire the Masquerade, has a storied tradition of LARP1. If you’ve seen some Goth kids larping vampires, chances are they were probably playing VTM. This is encouraged by White Wolf themselves, who included LARP rules in the core rule book as well as separately published LARP rulesets. For years the main core audience of VTM were LARPers and gaming nerds.
The whole concept of generations is a little bit of VTM lore and gameplay. TLDR; Caine was the first vampire. The people he turned into vampires, Enoch, Irad and Zillah were the second generation. The people they turned into vampires were the third generation and so on and so forth.
So in essence, whoever started this whole tradition of House Games is “Caine” and your generation just represents how many players were in the chain of players before you. It doesnt signify anything other than that. Some people may be tempted to treat it as more but dont its just a fun little larping thing. Its very 5 degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Side note, I know very little about the overall history of this game other than it sprung up somewhere in Cali during the 2000s and I got introduced to through some friends on Discord. Theres a bunch of, frankly, ancient drama between the various cells I really don’t want to be apart of.
Anyways it can be fun to play into LARP a little bit when talking about this game. Thus all the talk of me being a Harbinger, my og play group being a Treme Chantry, etc. There used to be multiple play groups of House Games all over the US, but as far as I know its just ours (if I can even get this thing off the ground) and the Los Angles cell that are still active (which knowing the kind of people who play there I want nothing to do with.) 2Thus the title of Prince, since we would be technically the Arizona play cell; and in VTM the Camarilla leaders who rule over cities are Princes.
Anyways just remember its all just a bit of optional fun and don’t take any of it too seriously. At the end of the day we are a bunch of gay nerds playing make pretend with dice together.
8th generation Harbinger, Childe of the Balefire Chantry, Prince of Phoenix
- LARP is short for Live Action Roleplay. ↩︎
- [Addendum (DEC 2025): Since writing this I have learned of the Contract the RPG, a game that is part of the same tradition that we are selves belong too, created by some of the original people behind the House Games. Their system seems cool and is entirely free from the copyrightable WOD. We will continue to create our own revision. However but we wish nothing but success upon our brotherly storytellers.] ↩︎