Chicago Chronicles random tables. Generated from the vault’s current canonical sources, including live Mythic lists and story oracles from session-state.md.

Mythic and Tourniquet Core

FATE CHART (Mythic GME 2E — d100 roll-under)

Roll d100 (percentile). Compare to threshold from the chart below. Roll ≤ threshold = Yes. Roll > threshold = No. Exceptional results: ExYes = roll ≤ threshold/5 (round down, min 1). ExNo = roll ≥ 100 - floor((100-threshold)/5) + 1. Example: threshold 50 → ExYes ≤10, Yes 11-50, No 51-90, ExNo 91-100. Example: threshold 65 → ExYes ≤13, Yes 14-65, No 66-93, ExNo 94-100. Example: threshold 35 → ExYes ≤7, Yes 8-35, No 36-87, ExNo 88-100.

Fate Chart (Odds vs CF — cell = Yes threshold, roll d100 ≤ this = Yes):

Interpreting: Yes = expectation confirmed. Exceptional Yes = yes, intensified to next logical level. No = next most expected outcome. Exceptional No = opposite of Yes, or opposite intensified. LORE VALIDATION ON EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS: Before narrating an ExYes or ExNo, PAUSE. Check: does this outcome contradict published source material (BbF structure, NPC timelines, faction politics, canon events)? If yes, find a lore-consistent version that preserves the QUALITY of the exceptional result (same narrative impact, different specific form). The oracle says WHAT happens (yes, intensified). The GM must validate HOW it happens against established lore. Do not narrate first and retcon later. Random Event trigger: doubles on d100 (11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99) where the single digit ≤ CF. The Random Event occurs IN ADDITION to the Fate answer (roll still answers the question). When to ask: binary outcome matters, NPC action/knowledge uncertain, coincidence/luck in play, consequences unclear. Don’t ask about PC actions or controlled narrative elements. Fate Questions as RPG rules: treat CF as 5 regardless of actual CF. Treat Exceptional results as regular Yes/No unless the rule uses degrees of success. Recording format: **Fate:** [Q]? Odds: [X]. CF: [Y]. Threshold: [T]. d100: [roll]. **[Answer].** [+Random Event if doubles ≤ CF.]

Quick Yes/No Oracle (d10+modifier) is retained for low-stakes checks where you don’t want to risk Random Events.

RANDOM EVENTS

Trigger: doubles on d100 Fate roll (11, 22, 33…) where single digit ≤ CF, or Interrupted Scene. Generate: roll Event Focus (d100), then interpret Event Meaning through current Context. The GM (LLM) produces a contextually appropriate interpretation combining an Action concept and a Description concept based on the Event Focus result and the adventure’s current situation. Event Focus Table (d100):

If rolled Focus references empty List, use Current Context instead.

SCENE TESTING

Scene Check procedure is in HOW TO RUN A SCENE (step 2). First scene of adventure is NOT tested. Altered Scene methods: (1) next most expected scene, (2) tweak one element, (3) test alteration as Fate Question, (4) Scene Adjustment Table:

Automatic Interrupt: when you have no idea what happens next, skip CF roll and make next scene an automatic Interrupt.

THE SCALE

Range: -8 to +8. Carries between scenes. Resets to 0 ONLY after triggering Major Trouble or Major Grace. The Scale interacts with every action roll the character takes (not soak or willpower rolls).

Adding Points

On any action roll:

• Each die showing 8, 9, or 10 adds +1 to the Scale
• Each die showing 1, 2, or 3 subtracts -1 from the Scale
• Dice showing 4-7 do not affect the Scale
• Subtract 1s first (per normal VtM botch rules); subtracted dice don’t count for Scale

Triggers

Burning the Scale

If adding or subtracting 3+ points and those points will not drive the Scale to ±8, you may burn them instead.

• Grace Burn (+3): Player chooses one — +1 die to next roll, free Discipline activation (if plausible), or +1 NPC disposition shift. Reset Scale to 0.
• Trouble Burn (-3): GM chooses one — -1 die to next roll, Discipline complication, or -1 NPC disposition shift. Reset Scale to 0.
• Must burn ALL points from that roll (cannot partial burn).
• Offer burn concisely (one line, end of roll narration). If player doesn’t address within their next message, bank automatically. Don’t re-ask or interrupt narrative flow with repeated burn offers.

Trouble (d10)

Grace (d10)

ORACLES

Story Oracle (d10): Custom 10-entry table in session-state.md. Roll before Trouble/Grace to tie results to personal storylines. Entry 10 is always “(something new).” Remove resolved entries; fill empty slots with new story elements or roll Reason Oracle.

Reason Oracle (d10): Why is something happening?

Quick Yes/No Oracle (d10+modifier) — use for quick, low-stakes checks where you don’t want to risk triggering a Random Event. For narrative Fate Questions during play, use the d100 Fate Chart instead: Odds modifier: Slim to none -4, Not Likely -2, Don’t Know 0, Likely +2, Very Likely +4. Roll 1d10 + modifier. 6+ = Yes.

Threats Oracle (d10):

Clan Oracle (2d10): First roll = sect, second = clan.

Encounter System (CbN adapted for Gary): Roll 2d10, sum for Theme (2-20). Then 1d10 for specific encounter.

Gary Location Map: The Rack = The Torch, Rack strip. Elysium = Modius’s mansion. The Hive = Downtown Gary. The Barrens = Wasteland, Telton Cemetery, Docks, abandoned factories. Haven = Darius’s haven.

Location Oracle (d10 twice — first roll picks table, second picks entry; table 10 is blank for custom locations):

Personalities Oracle (d10 twice — first roll picks table, second picks entry; blank slots on tables 9-10 for custom archetypes):

City District Oracle (d10):

NPC Behavior (Mythic GME): Know + unimportant = improvise. Know + want to test = Fate Question. No idea = generate via context. Yes=expected. ExYes=expected+intense. No=next-most-expected. ExNo=opposite/intensified. Random Event=additional action. Threading over inventing: When oracle results require new NPCs or complications, FIRST check: can this be achieved by connecting existing NPCs in a new way? Prefer threading existing characters into novel configurations over introducing standalone new ones. Cross-faction connections produce the strongest engagement. Published adventure check: When a Fate Question or Random Event touches a PUBLISHED adventure (BbF, Blood at Dawn, Ashes to Ashes, etc.), check the published source structure before narrating. Adding to published material is fine; contradicting it breaks continuity.

Chicago / Gary Encounter Tables

Ashes and Blood — Chicago Encounter System

“Gary was a cage. Chicago is an arena. Bigger cage, more animals, better lighting. Same blood on the floor.” — Darius Cole, internal

Sources: Chicago by Night 1E (Chapter 5 Encounters), Ashes to Ashes, Blood Bond, Succubus Club, Mythic GME 2nd Edition (Picard), Tourniquet Revised (Parigo).

Usage: Roll 2d10 and add for a Theme (2-20). Roll d10 for a specific encounter. Each encounter has a location type in parentheses. Use the Chicago Location Map below to place the scene.

Scope: Acts II and III of the campaign. The coterie has left Gary. Chicago is Lodin’s machine, the Succubus Club is the social center, and two Methuselahs are playing chess with every Kindred on the board.

How It Works

Roll 2d10 and add the results for a Theme (2-20). Then roll d10 for a specific encounter within that theme. Each encounter has a location type in parentheses — use the Chicago Location Map below to place the scene in a specific district.

When an encounter says “Roll Characters List,” roll d25 against the Chicago Characters List below. When it says “Roll Story Oracle,” use Darius’s Story Oracle from Ashes-and-Blood.md or session-state.md.

Tone shift from Gary: Chicago is larger, faster, more layered. Gary had seven Kindred and twelve blocks that mattered. Chicago has dozens of Kindred, six Primogen, two Methuselahs, organized crime, federal surveillance, and the Sabbat probing the perimeter. The encounters reflect this density. More factions, more angles, more ways to be destroyed by someone you never saw coming.

The dominant register is decadence — excess, corruption, sophistication covering rot. The Succubus Club is the symbolic center: a nightclub built on top of a Methuselah’s tomb, where Blood Dolls offer their wrists voluntarily and the music never stops. Gary was industrial collapse. Chicago is imperial decline.

Chicago Characters List (d25)

Weighting rationale: Lodin and Ballard double-weighted as the Prince and his enforcer, the two figures most likely to intrude on any scene. Chuc Luc double-weighted as the offscreen sire whose pipeline operations drive Darius’s arc. Helena and Menele split across separate slots because their interests diverge. The Sabbat and hunters occupy single slots — they’re present but peripheral until Act III.

Chicago Threads List

Thread notes: Act II threads (slots 1-21) are active from January 1992. Act III threads (slots 22-25) activate in April 1992 when the Sabbat announce themselves. Ashes to Ashes double-weighted because the kidnapped Prince dominates the first week. The Methuselah game double-weighted because Helena and Menele touch everything. Chuc Luc’s pipeline double-weighted as Darius’s operational spine.

Chicago Location Map

Theme Table (2d10)

Encounter Tables (d10 per theme)

Use these as prompts. “The characters” = the coterie. Adapt freely.

THE BEAST

CONSPIRACY

DESIRE

DIABLERIE

FOOLS

HEROIC

HORROR

INTRIGUE

INTRODUCTIONS

MASQUERADE

NOSTALGIA

PARANOIA

PREMONITIONS

PURSUIT

ROMANCE

SECRETS

THREATS

VENGEANCE

WEIRDNESS

Chicago City Oracle (d10)

Key Chicago Locations

Brief reference for locations that appear repeatedly in the encounter tables. Full dossiers should be created in Locations/Chicago/ as they come into play.

The Succubus Club. Nightclub at the center of Kindred social life. Three levels: the main floor (dance music, mortals and Kindred mixing, feeding happens openly if you know where to look), the balcony (reserved for elders, Portia’s permanent table), and the Labyrinth (underground, Blood Dolls, drug-adjacent Vitae culture, and deeper still the entrance to Helena’s vault). Gengis tends bar and enforces the peace. The subsonic pulse from below has been getting louder. The club is simultaneously the safest and most dangerous place in Chicago: everyone is watching, and everyone has something to hide.

The Cave. Horace’s Malkavian bar. Dark, strange, performance-art atmosphere. Houdini does escape acts. The clientele skews Malkavian and the conversations are difficult to follow. Useful for weird encounters, information that arrives in riddled form, and the feeling that reality is thinner than usual.

The Prudential Building. Lodin’s base of operations. Top floors. Glass and steel and the view of a city he owns. Security is layered: mortal guards, ghouled police, Dominated building staff. Getting an audience with the Prince requires an invitation. Getting out requires his permission.

Sears Tower, 107th Floor. Lodin’s former haven. Sealed since the events of Ashes to Ashes. The seven-ton vault door was ripped open by someone with Potence 7+. The crime scene is technically cold, but whatever happened there left a psychic residue that Auspex-sensitive Kindred can feel in the elevator.

The Anarch Brewery. Abandoned brewery on the North Side. Damien and the Brujah anarchs use it as a headquarters. Fortified, watched, and full of Kindred who remember what Lodin did in 1968. The architecture is industrial and the politics are revolutionary.

Cabrini Green. The Robert Taylor Homes and surrounding projects. Kevin Jackson’s domain. The Bloods gang is his mortal army. Feeding is easy here. Getting out with your conscience intact is harder. The poverty is real and the desperation makes every mortal a potential meal for Darius’s Ventrue restriction.

The Tremere Chantry. Nicolai’s headquarters. Location shifts depending on the source, but functionally: a secured building in the Loop or Near North with warded rooms, bound spirits, and Gargoyle sentries. The Tremere don’t invite visitors. They summon subjects.

The Art Institute / Opera House. Elysium locations. The Traditions apply here with extra force. No violence, no feeding, no politics conducted above a whisper. In practice, everything is politics, and the whispers carry more weight than the shouting outside.

The Stockyards / Industrial Corridors. South Side. The old Union Stockyards, meatpacking plants, abandoned factories. Nosferatu tunnels connect to the sewer network beneath. This is where bodies are hidden, where the Nosferatu trade information, and where things that don’t belong in polite Kindred society get done. The smell of old blood never quite fades.

Chicago NPC Quick Reference

Voice and roleplaying notes for NPCs who appear in the encounter tables. Full dossiers should be created in NPCs/Chicago/ as they become active in play.

Notes on Chicago Encounters

Scale: Gary had one prince, one nightclub, and seven Kindred fighting over scraps. Chicago has a Prince who rules through the police department, six Primogen who scheme behind his back, two Methuselahs older than Christianity, a Sabbat infiltration in progress, and nightlife venues where Kindred feed openly on willing mortals. Encounters should reflect this scale. A conspiracy in Gary was two vampires whispering. A conspiracy in Chicago involves shell companies, wiretaps, and the federal government.

The Succubus Club: Chicago’s social center. Three levels: the dance floor (mortals and Kindred, loud music, feeding opportunities), the balcony (elders watching, Portia/Helena in her usual seat), and the Labyrinth (underground, Blood Dolls, the entrance to something beneath). Most Rack encounters default here unless specified otherwise. Gengis tends bar and knows everything. Sir Henry haunts the corners. The music covers the screaming.

Act II vs. Act III tone: Act II encounters trend toward investigation, political maneuvering, and the coterie establishing themselves. Act III encounters grow more violent as the Sabbat announce themselves. When running Act III, weight the d10 rolls: on a result of 9-10 in any theme, consider adding a Sabbat element. Bach’s bikers, Jefferson’s influence through Emily, the Creation Rite’s shadow over every encounter.

The Ventrue feeding restriction in Chicago: Darius can only feed on people who owe debts they can’t pay. In Gary, the entire city qualified. In Chicago, the Gold Coast and Magnificent Mile are full of solvent professionals. Darius’s hunting grounds narrow to Cabrini Green, the South Side, Chinatown’s gambling debts, and the service workers crushed between rent and the wrong end of the L line. This restriction should make hunting scenes feel different in Chicago: harder, more targeted, requiring Streetwise or Empathy rolls to identify valid prey.

Cross-referencing with Gary tables: If the coterie returns to Gary for any reason, use the encounter tables from Forged-in-Steel-Mythic- GME-Setup-v3. If a Chicago encounter generates a Gary-connected NPC (Modius, Lucian, Juggler), the scene occurs in Chicago but the NPC’s presence raises immediate questions about what’s happening back home.

Supplemental Oracles

Threat Oracle (d10)

Clan Oracle (d10)

Reason Oracle (d10)

When the encounter calls for a motive and none is obvious, roll d10.

Source Material

• [[Chicago by Night]] — Encounter system adapted from Chapter 5
• [[Ashes to Ashes]] — Scene locations
• [[V20]] — Mechanics reference

Unchanged Sections

The following sections from Forged-in-Steel-Mythic-GME-Setup-v3 are unchanged and should be used as-is with the Chicago encounter system. They are not repeated here:

• VTM Solo Rules (player-facing rolls, resisted actions, combat, Quick NPC generation, experience, Humanity tracking)
• The Scale (-10 to +10, Trouble/Grace charts)
• Mythic GME Cheat Sheet (Fate Chart, CF adjustment, Random Event Focus, Scene Check)
• Replacing Overlapping Systems table
• Play Loop flowchart
• Darius’s Story Oracle (d10)
• Sable’s Story Oracle (reference her PC file)

Chicago City Oracle (d10)

Mortal Noise

Chicago 1991 Headlines

Use one headline at scene open to add mortal friction unrelated to the Jyhad. The city should keep moving even when Kindred politics are quiet.

Live Mythic Lists

Darius Threads

Sable Threads

Shared Characters

Live Story Oracles

Darius

Sable