Character Creation: Vampire Addendum

Please direct all questions about Vampire character creation to the Requiem Storyteller(s), Chrisie, Selena, Steven, West, Wolven Pryde.

• New Players must begin with a 'Starter' character (0-30xp)
• No FOB/new Embraces, unless you make arrangements prior to have a PC mentor who is wholly responsible for teaching and mistakes made. Otherwise, all PCs are expected to know the basics of Kindred society.
• The Anachronism Flaw is Permanently Banned from Use. Characters are required to understand modern society such as how to handle money, use a phone, take public transportation. An MP3 Player is not a magic box with little minstrals in it.

Clans

• Ventrue replace Animalism with Vigor as an in-Clan Discipline.

Bloodlines

• Banned: Adroanzi, Ahl al-Jabal, Amara Havana, Apollinaire, Asnâm, Bohagande, Brothers of Ypres, Canda Bhanu, Caporetti, Children of Judas, Corajoso, Dragolescu, Empusae, En, Eupraxus, Iltani, Kinnaree, Les Gens Libres, Lynx, Malkovian, Mayarap, Morbus, Moroi, Mystikoi, Order of Sir Martin, Sangiovanni, Septemi, Shepherds, Sta-Au, The Carnival, Usiri, Vedma, Xiao, Tianpàn

• Please also note: By Edict of the Prince of Sacramento, members of the Kallisti bloodline are banned from the Domain of Sacramento, on pain of death. That does not mean a player can't play a Kallisti, but doing so means the player accepts the risks inherent in choosing to play a character of that bloodline in this setting.^[1]

• If a Bloodline is taken at Character creation, the Willpower Dot that is used to activate the bloodline must be bought back or WP is at -1 until it is purchased back. See also Blood Potency.

Sorceries

• Some of the newer (read: power creeped) BLs, such as the Apollinaire and Iltani, bring the standard 4th Discipline in-clan but also allow for custom BL Sorcery. These sorceries (Merges, Vodoun) are removed from play, maintaining the +1 Discipline model of Bloodlines.

Disciplines

• Clan Specialties: Auspex, Dominate, Majesty, Nightmare, and Protean must be learned in-game from a teacher if the character is not a member of the Clan. They cannot be taken at creation and 'backstoried'.
• Clan Specialties: Auspex, Dominate, Majesty, Nightmare, and Protean can only be taught by that Clan's respective members. Such Disciplines gained through a Bloodline are not teachable.

• Banned: Abjurism • Bhumisparsa • Blood Tenebrous • Blut Alchemie • Hypnagogia • Lithopedia • Mérges Sorcery • Phagia • Sunnikuse • Vodoun • Web

Source Books

Most books are accepted for play; however, the following books are not allowed:

• Armory Reloaded (Some Material may be allowed, please check with your ST)
• Ancient Bloodlines
• Inferno
• Slasher
• Geist: the Sin-Eaters material
• Hunter: The Vigil material
• Promethean: The Created material
• Vampire Translation Guide

Ghouls

• No 'rogue' ghouls
• No PC ghouls
• Ghouls are considered Retainers with a +1 dot requirement (a Ghoul equivalent of a *** Retainer would cost ****)

Hollow

• Hollow^[2] Vampires are not allowed.

Red Surrender

• Red Surrender^[3] is not allowed.

References