I'm starting up a WoD campaign with only a core rulebook at my disposal. Can reddit come up with interesting supernatural/mythical creatures I could use in my story?

My friends and I playtested the new WoD rules while Vampire: the Requiem was still in the earliest stages of development. Our GM only alluded to the existence of supernaturals without leaving any overt hints as to their true nature. In fact in that campaign I played a conspiracy nut who thought Vampires were super soldiers developed by the US Government. Later on we turned it into a VtR game once we started getting material for that game that was ready to playtest. But to this day I still feel that playing regular humans in the WoD produced some of the best roleplaying sessions we've had to date. There's something to be said for letting your players imaginations run wild. Especially when you have a PC like mine who was fueling the other player's paranoia about the strange things going on around them with halfbaked batshit crazy ideas. ;)

So my suggestion would be to not come up with anything. Just leave vague hints for your players and they might end up doing all of the heavy lifting for you.

If you could plausibly include an Anus Shade, I'd be impressed.

The Returned. Humans who have attained a sufficient level of mystical mastery to be reincarnated when they die. The Returned are born again within minutes of their death, retaining some or all of their mystical power. The oldest and most powerful retain all of their memories.

Skinwalkers. People who, by dark arts, can wear the skins of others and assume their identities. They take on the voices and traits of those they have killed and skinned, and with practice are nearly undetectable.

Wendego: Cursed to crave human flesh, the wendego are the dark mirror of the warewolf. Immortal until the curse is broken, they gain sustenance and regenerate as long as their terrible hunger is satisfied.

Invae. Alien insect spirits that can seem human. Working in hives and using humans as hosts for their eggs or young. Their warriors are fearsome, and a large enough hive might only be stopped by all-out warfare. They work in secret taking over cities from within.

I personally prefer WoD games that aren't based around a menagerie of supernatural beasts. I ran a WoD campaign based very loosely on The Lost Room miniseries. I'd suggest checking out the miniseries if you haven't already seen it, but the concept is:

• Some mysterious event imbued numerous mundane objects with supernatural powers.
• Some of the objects are very powerful, others are just odd curiosities.
• Owners of the objects tend to be mystically attracted to each others' presence.
• Various factions are vying for control over the objects, including one who thinks they should be destroyed, one that worships them as religious relics, and a variety of criminals.

Have you read any of The Dresden Files? It's full of great stuff, same with The X-Files and Supernatural TV shows.

Hmm. Here's an idea. The players some how get involved with Echoes. Echoes are caused by events so terrible that they recur again and again. Kind of like a haunting but rather than ghosts it's the event that haunts, manipulating whoever is present. The players keep bumping into them and find that all of these events lead back to one person who is still alive. This guy that is immortal and responsible for all of the terrible events. I'd make him a Dorian Gray type immortal rather than a vampire or something just to be different. I guess this would come out as kind of mystery horror.

The SCP Foundation might have a few entries of interest.

When I used to play Werewolf, we had a rusalka that my pack used to use as an informant. They're not friendly creatures most of the time, but we played it so that if you satisfy their need to drown someone, they're quite talkative and since they're fish-women, they can provide you with some odd information, like where bodies, cars or guns have been dumped, or where that forgotten secret underwater entrance is.

The interesting part comes from forcing your players to bring the informant a sentient sacrifice. We got good at capturing fomori for this purpose, but once we got a kinfolk to sacrifice themselves so we could find where Fenris had thrown his axe into the earth, beneath Long Island sound.

The Others Did you know that there is another world which exists right next to our own? A Mirror world. The inhabitants of that world are "different" rarely they find the ability to reach across the barrier between worlds and enter ours. Well, a small group of such creatures is working to some nefarious end that threatens all of humanity.

Gonna do WoD from the PoV of humans? And are you doing it on here or where? If you're interested I've been looking for a good WoD game online for a long time now, used to play with some friends but now we've all moved and it's hard to find anything anymore. Used to play vampire primarily but werewolf can be pretty fun too.

The nWoD Book of Spirits might be useful, since they're a lot of variety between them.

I once read a short SF story about a colony of blind/deaf people who stumbled upon some form enlightment. They communicated mainly by touch, and as a consequence the normal restraints on physical contact were absent (everybody nude of course). They were portrayed as very open-minded, happy, efficient etc. but uninterested in the outside world and non-individualistic. That contrast was unnerving. Halfway through the story hints appeared that they mastered some deeper insights and a kind of power, and it ends after the larger part of the colony disappear in some kind of ritual, the white light hinting that it was probably Good what happened. The main character is blinded as a gift and gets to live happily ever after.