Vampire Creation Rules

Allowed Clans and Covenants

All 5 clans and 5 player covenants (Circle of the Crone, Invictus, Ordo Dracul, Lancea Sanctum and Carthian) are open at this time. Some bloodlines are accepted at creation as a restricted item. You may also choose to work toward a bloodline in character.

The most proliferate covenants at this time are Invictus and Circle of the Crone. The next most popular Lancea Sanctum and Ordo Dracul with Carthians being quite scarce. Please keep this in mind when writing a character. (more information on clans and covenants)

Status

Characters cannot start with more than 2 dots in Clan or Covenant Status, and cannot start with any dots in City Status (New York).

Starting Experience

All Vampire characters start out with an additional 35 experience points. You can divide that xp up any way you like with a few exceptions.

* No more than half starting xp can go into disciplines
* Brawl, firearms and weaponry are capped at 3 dots at creation.
* Attributes are capped at 4 at creation

Character Age

You may write characters at any age you like with a few exceptions.

* Characters under 5 years or over 100 years old are considered restricted.

* You must buy blood potency as appropriate to your character's age.

* You must write an acceptable background based on your character's age.

* We do not approve characters who were abandoned and "learned on their own" or similar backgrounds. Characters should have a period of time with their sire learning Kindred society that is realistic for Kindred characters (5 years is an extreme minimum for this).

Note: We will have a one time only blood potency bonus after six months of play as a long term character bonus. In order to get it, you must write your character six months prior to when the potency bonus would happen. For example 49 years and six months old. This will not happen again in six months, this is one time only and may never be repeated with the same character.

Character Background

All characters are required to write a short background regardless of age. The minimum requirement for characters under fifty is: one paragraph for mortal life, one paragraph about their Embrace and time with their Sire, and one paragraph for your character's post-Embrace years. Characters over fifty, however, have a different standard for writing. You must write one paragraph for your mortal life, one paragraph about their Embrace and time with their Sire, one paragraph for their post-Embrace years under fifty AND one paragraph per decade of your characters life over fifty.

Ex: Melinda is 80 years old. She must write a 5 paragraph background; one for mortal life, one for her embraced years under 50, one for 50-60, one for 60-70 and one 70-80.

More on this can be found here: ( Character Background Page )