When a Malkavian speaks, listen. When a Malkavian acts, leave. When two Malkavians gather, run.

The last Malkavian I played was convinced he was still a human in an immersive VR video game, throwing MMORPG lingo around all the time and treating others like NPCs - usually the NPCs, but also the Ventrue of the party. When he went to sleep, he imagined his "normal human life" and told the others about his boring day job, the fighting with his wife and so on. Sometimes, when he was annoyed or bored, he simply stated "AFK" and went into a pseudo torpor for a few minutes.

"The glass is cracked, yet strangely clear." -Malkavian PC to Strauss in Bloodlines-

Stop sign: "....." Malkavian: " No you stop" Stop sign: "..." Malkavian: " no you stop ahhhh" Stop sign :"...." Malkavian:" ahhh nooo i won't" Stop sign:"...." Malkavian: " You have made a powerful enemy today sign"

"Just when they think they've got the answers, I change the questions." - the Madness of the Malkov Ian's

Here is a roleplaying tip for a Malky. Imagine your derangement in a filter. EVERYTHING your character experiences passes through that filter and is changed, as well as everything they try to put out into the world passes through as well and is changed. Sure, some Malkys are the ride the dinosaur skeleton naked in the middle of the museum types, but most are so deranged they are terrifying. Play your derangement. Play it hard and true. And keep playing it when your troupe are laughing at the table. Then keep playing it. Keep going even when they stop laughing and start getting bored with it. Then keep going. Keep going until they are all looking at you with worry and fear. That's when you are somewhere near home for a Malkavian. Cheers.

When I was a member of the Camarilla, we had something called "the Malkavian Special Friend." Basically, you were the mark for Clan Malkavian's pranks and problems, but if you get messed with, Clan Malkavian would come to your defense.

Playing a Malkavian is an interesting experience, if done right they are awesome, but it's so easy to mess up on them, to make them into Fish-Malks. I admire anyone who can play a Malkavian well enough to not be a Fish-Malk.

Malks have to be my favorite, for the sheer amount of variety in the clan, like every flavor jelly beans

Malkavian its my favorite clan, when being the storyteller, they add flavor to the game, and you'll never know what a malkavian player will do, and it works the other way around, the player never knows what his malkavian will do.

Most gamers treat playing a Malkavian as, "I'm so random!"

We are Clan Malkavian! Fuck the Sabbat! Fuck the Camarilla! Cousin, it is time!

best clan in the game ever!!! lovely explanation mate :)

The first and only vampire I've played so far is a Malkavian. She is very emotionally invested in the survival and wellbeing of insects in sort of a Kristoff from Frozen "Reindeers are better than people" kind of a way. Imagine her surprise when they start telling her the things they want.

This channel deserves more attention!

Best presentation I've seen regarding the mindset of Clan Malkavian.

Thanks for the shout out. Great points about the malks being so totally different from each other. Good job with the story about Cain too. Salot did indeed return. I've seen many cities in games were Malks weren't welcome. Last time I ran VTM, the prince of my city, Boston, was a Malk. excellent job.

I don't care what every online quiz says. I'm not a Toreador. I'm a Malkavian.

@Samwise7RPG Thank you! The Malkavians are a superb clan when played with respect, tragedy and an element of seriousness.

I like the way you did this presenting the Malkavians as an old malkavian and tremere player it made me very nostalgic to play once again but at the moment I am running the game my friends and I are playing.

Oh the Malkavian, we delight in playing as ourselves, with ourselves, even when when we are someone else, or we when we are no longer here.

Malkavian is my favorite clan to roleplay even though they get pretty boned in terms of disciplines and are primarily used for comic relief. As a Storyteller, I restrict Malkavians to only veteran players with good concepts...you've got to earn the right to play Malkavian in my World of Darkness. My favorite Malkavian character was called "The Vampire Batman" although he also had a secret identity during the day as the always sleeping, thousandaire playboy and welfare recipient Woose Brain. Rather than play him as raving and random-he was simply delusional about his identity and tried to the best of his ability to emulate The Caped Crusader no matter how weird or paradoxical it may seem to others. His demented delusions and vampire powers compensated for his lack of gadgets and resources. While in his mind he is wearing bulletproof Bat-armor and driving the Batmobile, he is really just wearing a trench-coat and a Batman T-shirt with matching Underoos on the back of a moped. He routinely tells the group, "No guns. I don't like guns." but then loads a magazine into his AK-47-when pressed about it he claims, "It's a Bat-a-rang." The coolest part was that by pretending to be Batman, he would find clues and analyze them in his "Bat Computer" which was actually just sticking whatever he picked up in his mouth and using-the Malkavian mind network to render surprisingly accurate crime fighting information in most cases. I also made him a legit martial arts expert with a supply of exceedingly useful everyday tools on his belt, and eventually he owned a vampire bar called "The Bat Cave." He referred to the Prince as Commissioner Gordon and everyone else on the team he called "Alfred"-just little things here and there to let you know that he was bat-shit crazy but not completely worthless and annoying.

They're more inclined to obsession than mania.

I guess that the interest in Vampire the Masquerade is fading.. but I was about to say: you deserve more views! you're great, it's fun and informative listening to you. The voice also sends his its greetings! And don't you dare not taking him seriously!

Guys, turn on the subtitles. You won't be disappointed.

This clan is a forbidden player clan in my campaigns because everyone wants to play this clan lately due to a GM I met on a convention who was able to put an EXCELLENT Malkavian on the board. Next to this, excellent video. Thanks!

Good evening, Another excellent video, quite informative.

I've been preparing my next Malkavian character for like 2 months now, and I don't expect to finish anytime soon. Feeling it will be a great story once Daniel rolls in (his name).

im very very grateful for this video. Not just for really good, interesting and understandable information in it, but for nice presentation of it. Aaaand one more 'thank you' for just an accent you have.^^ With love from ukrainian toreador-malkavian, or malkavian-toreador, it doesn't matter.:3

Now i want to get into playing Tabletop games because of your vast knowledge of the game.

@Komeister Thank you for watching!

Definitely my favorite clan, the one i enjoyed playing the most.

Wow, you did my favorite clan proud!

I know that this is an old video and whanot, but if we ever get another VTM series and you are not put as the prince of some camarilla city we should riot.

@TheVikingHill Thanks! I hope you keep watching!

I really enjoy your videos, just getting into vampire the masquerade...

Thanks for watching!

Doing some research as a complete beginner and our ST pointed to this channel. Before doing any reading I tried taking the clan quiz on the official website as I figured it'd be a fun entry and I got Malkavian. Wasn't disappointed. One of the other players got that too. Our ST response was: This is gotte be fun 😅 But I've definitely taken some good mental notes from this video. We'll see if that's the clan I pick, definitely very intriguing.

Very nice, I have to say that this is one of your better history lesson videos. I can't wait to see some of your videos when/if you get around to the Werewolf tribes. Also, would it be possible to do an addendum video at some point regarding the malkavia disease ?

@Blandhumanoid Glad you liked it!

you sir are my history teacher.

i love these vampire clan videos

@Onionkid99 Dementation isn't too far from the Discipline of Presence, in that it merely heightens emotions that already exist in a mortal or vampire.

For those whose passion is in the of seeking knowledge, then greatest curse is to have have all the answers...

What I like about Dementation is that it doesn't cause insanity per se, but rather brings that inner latent madness bubbling up to the surface. It's also unique in that many Malkavians are not only willing to teach this discipline, but will merrily do so. Of course anyone who seeks to learn it will invariably gain a dementia. Though in the Malkavian's eyes, they're doing that kindred a favor by expanding their reality just a bit...

Well thank you, that was fairly informative, and contained a few things I was not aware of.. Just one thing, though: Wasn't Malkav also a Child of Lilith, and twin Brother of Toreador?

Very kind of you to say so... What would you like to hear me say?

@EvanLovesWhiskey They'll get a video especially about them at some point.

It's a fantastic setting.

Remember that he explained Dementation came back. It's not a Sabbat-specific Discipline.

@LogicalBrutality My thanks to you for recommending!

Yes, thank you, Malkavian is my favorite clan

I sooo want to play a Malkavian in one of your campaign...

@eggmansizzle The Malkavians are up there among my favourite clans.

In that case I appreciate the compliment. Not many people come out and say such!

Glad you liked the video!

@woodwwad Saulot returned and he brought an extra eye with him! He always was good with gifts.

@tetsubo57 There were no therapists in the days and nights of Enoch, alas. Not to my knowledge, but I could say the same for many RPGs. I expect a lot of writers of games are trying to express ideas and project their characters into games, through improvisation. After all, is that not what roleplaying is all about?

Excellent enjoyable insights into Clan Malk, thanks. Im interested in how star signs compare to Vtm clans, and I've always thought that Aquarius would be a nice comparison. Unpredictable yet usually reliable. Capable yet chaotic. Looney yet deeply insightful.

Oh? Why's that? Feel free to PM if you don't want to carry a conversation through comments.

I'm glad that I inspired a malk creation. The quote I used is actually from my Elder character I made training his childe to be a true malkavian. Malkavians see the world. They can see how the sane see it but they know it's a falsehood.

Waiting with excitement.

Your videos inspired me to get into role-playing! Do you have any hints for any new VtM players?

My pleasure. I hope your family member is doing well.

@clackclickbang Isn't Saulot mentioned in Kindred of the East? Was his encounter with the Kaj-jin that journey you mentioned?

Short tip for to-be Malkavians: The Jim Carry crazy house malkavian would never be invited anywhere. It's a very unsustainable character. The Anthony Hopkins malkavian, however, would thrive. The Robin Williams malkavian might not thrive, but would at least make a great character for your group to play alongside. Think subtle and brilliant, not vulgar and random.

wish they would make more video games for this great concept...

@woodwwad Awesome. What kind of Prince was he (other than crazy)?

@hoboyho In my last Dark Ages chronicle we didn't have any Malkavians, but we did have a True Brujah who diablerised one. He ended up taking on the Malk as an alternate personality.

A Malkavian, a Ravnos, a Kiasyd, and a Harbinger of Skulls walk into a bar....

@mollytherealdeal Old World of Darkness. I could move onto new at some point, but the clans have less flavour in new. I do like the sound of that character! A very different type of Malkavian.

Sweet! Thank you, dear.

Vampire was the most popular RPG in the mid '90s.

Excellent!

Where?

@hoboyho They are a good clan to play as, providing you can do so with seriousness and an understanding of how tragic mental illness can be.

I love this!

Do not look into the mirror. You will only see an illusion. Do not destroy the mirror. You will have nothing to see. Break the mirror leaving only cracks. The cracks are where the truth really hide.

@clackclickbang Do we know when and how?

Thse that look down on those who know a little better from fist hand exsperiance. As I said I have my owen issues and I have a family member who is Para Scitz and though he can not hold down a job etc he has days/weeks where he is compleetly in controll and days when he is not. So thanks again for clearing up some misnceptions xx

Definitely my favorite clan!

What is your opinion of Dominate Malkavians? The core book says their madness is less pronounced and certainly less dangerous, and they even appear to be outwardly stable. So, does that mean that the Dominate Malks are much more lucid and reliable? I imagine them to be rather rational and sensible, although weird, as opposed to the unpredictable madness of normal Malks. I'm trying to create an obsessive-compulsive occultist Malk who is weird and friendly, rather than dangerously deranged.

Just curious, what version of VtM do you use? I use the Laws of the Night revised rules personally.

They're doing an MMO!

well, i would like to start playing a malkav, but i have a few questions... 1)are either sicero or sheogorath, good inspirations for a malkav character? 2)knowing that everyone have some "weirdness" or "mental illnes"(at least in my country it is said that more than 90% have at least something, from obsessions to depression or stress and lots of them end up with something worst because of that) making an exageration of my own, could work?(my problem is that when i get angry i think different, things that i would like when im happy are anoying, and things that i would hate when im happy i start to like when im angry, also... i lose any mercy or simpathy for anyone, and coul see someone dying without even thinking its something to care about but it does not means im violent, just that violence does not seems like something important when im really really angry, but yeah, i tend to be more violent when im angry, like anybody else) and 3)what can you tell me about malkav ghouls?

Wow, I am all caught up on your RPG videos. Well done. I don`t suppose you would give Rifts: Chaos Earth, so you can give me some advice on the rules.

Great guide! Is this new World of Darkness or old World of Darkness? I have not played the new stuff. My favorite character in a role playing game was a Malkavian, a betrayed Navy SEAL who was secretly given LSD in a mind control experiment. His team was massacred in an ambush while they were all under the influence. His commanding officer turned him into a vampire because he was the craziest one. The player who created him was quite clever.

There's that, but a Malkavian's Dementation of sufficient level can be permanent, which is a pretty long time for the vampire struck with it. It's going to be pretty hard to find something capable of getting rid of something like a paranoia, depression or newfound fear of the dark. In the middle of combat this can be deadly. Also most Thaumaturgy paths can be matched by other clan powers. Assamites and Setites even have their own Thaumaturgy paths that Tremere don't have access to.

I stood surprised in first words of your typing, i saw "Mcdonald's stated in interviews that they're only going to be using Kindred, 'and i guessed 'meat')

Hey, could you please do a video on the daughters of cacophony? I think they're kind of cool.

I used to play a Malkavian once, a former orderly in a closed mental hospital... he resided in the hospital and kept performing the same duties he had done when the institution was still open, occasionally he would find new patients, mostly vagrants, drug addicts or teens who had run away from home, he would keep them locked up and care for them, feed from them, of course they would all invariably die... I miss that guy...

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense--the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent--and you are sane -- Demur--you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain Get your own cookies. :D

I'm doing a Let's Play of that game on my other channel.

I have only played one game of Vampire: The Masquerade and did not really get it and now I know why. The game's background was never told to me. It was more like there are different clans flighting for power. These clan though the history and detail, wow. Deep game.

@WolfgangNightshadow He sounds like a very cool character. A decent sort of Malkavian!

It is.

@Stricker Good!

@dobo3k4l I've had to deal with mental illness through my studies (obviously unconnected to this) and it is never fun.

What are your thoughts on the "Gnawed"?

@Azartusfar And why I don't like cricket.