If a character achieves their Ambition and the chronicle continues,the player should decide on a new Ambition, ideally one that has emerged during play or one that follows on the realization that their first Ambition left something undone or incomplete. An Ambition is not something vague like “end racism” or “achieve world peace,” but instead focuses on something specific, like “bring True Death to (insert notably racist elder from your chronicle here)” or “end the Gehenna War in the Ukraine.” If an Ambition is unlikely to happen or would end the chronicle if achieved, it can still provide rich story juice – it only needs to be theoretically achievable. An Ambition must be measurable in game terms (“My Ambition is to achieve Humanity 10”) or a concrete achievement in the world of the chronicle (“My Ambition is to liberate Chicago from the Camarilla”).

It provides motivation for the player and story hooks for the Storyteller.

By contrast, Desires are more immediate: short-term wishes for revenge, satisfaction, or satisfaction through revenge.Ī character’s Ambition keeps them acting and moving both night by night and in the chronicle. Think of Ambition as a long-term goal: an aspiration (if you still breathed), a life’s dream (if you still dreamed, or had life). Ambition and Desire are related, but not identical.

Maskerade beats and hooks