• Turns and Scenes: A turn is a post. You do NOT have two turns in a row. You do not get another turn until either the tagged person replies, or a GM post happens. A scene is a longer period (usually as long as it takes for everyone to do what they want in a particular place). Some vampiric powers function for a single turn, while others last the whole scene.

• Attributes represent inherent capabilities, such as Strength, Intelligence or Presence.

• Skills represent learned abilities, like Firearms or Medicine. A word or phrase in parentheses next to a Skill indicates a Specialty, an area of the overall Skill in which the character is particularly talented. If you are asked to roll a dice pool in which your character doesn’t have the right Skill, you suffer a penalty of either -1 (for a missing Physical or Social Skill) or -3 (for a missing Mental Skill). If, on the other hand, you have a relevant specialty in the Skill in your dice pool, you get a +1 modifier.

• Willpower represents your character’s reserves. You can spend one point (and one point only) of Willpower on any roll, and you get three additional dice in your dice pool. Alternatively, you can spend a point to raise your Defense trait by two against a single attack. Willpower is valuable, and you regain it only for acting in accordance with your character’s Virtue or Vice (see individual character descriptions). Willpower is ranked from 1 to 10, unlike most of other traits.

• Blood Potency represents the inherent power of the character’s vampiric nature.

• Vitae: This is the amount of blood the vampire can hold. You spend Vitae to activate different vampiric powers. The less vitae the more often you need to feed. The more vitae, the less you need to feed.

• Disciplines are special vampiric powers, which are explained in the character’s description. These are usually not unique to the character.

• Merits are special edges a character has, such as Contacts or Resources or Stunning Looks. The effects of each are explained in the character’s description. These are usually unique to the character.

• Defense is how well your character can defend herself and how well she can dodge blows.

• Speed is the number of yards a character can move in one combat turn and still perform an action. A character can run up to twice his Speed rating yards in a turn if he sacrifices his action. Speed will most likely come into play in a chase.

• Humanity is a measure of your character’s morality, of how far he has succumbed to the Beast. Your character can lose Humanity over the course of play. Humanity is ranked from 1 to 10, unlike most of other traits. When you reach 1 you are nothing but a mindless blood-sucking beast. If you are at 10 you will pretty much hate yourself every single time you have to feed. Note that it is VERY rare for any vampire to ever have a humanity higher than 8. If they're a 10 they will literally be unable to consume human blood because of their guilt. And thus they will either lose humanity eventually or they will become weak and die.

• Avoiding Damage in Close Combat: Your character’s Defense trait represents his instinctive ability to duck and weave and make close-combat attacks harder, and so serves as a penalty to incoming attacks. If your character hasn’t yet acted this turn and is willing to forgo that action, he can dodge, which doubles his Defense for the rest of the turn if he continues to not attack but just defend. If your character is attacked multiple times in the same turn, however, it becomes harder for him to avoid being hurt. Remember that and play to what you believe is common sense.

• Avoiding Damage in Ranged Combat: Unless a ranged attacker is close enough that he could just as easily attack in close combat (a few feet), or is throwing a weapon, Defense doesn’t apply. To avoid damage in a firefight you can either find cover (hide behind something solid) or fall prone (drop flat to the ground). In both instances it will be harder for the attacker to hit you. Obviously use common sense. If you fall prone right in front of them, that wouldn't do much good, now would it?

• Range: Every ranged weapon has three ranges listed in yards in the format short medium/long. An attacker suffers no penalty when her target is within the short range. If the target is at medium range, she suffers a -2 penalty. At long range, this penalty goes to -4. Now this obviously isn't literal, dont sit there with a pen and paper. Just remember that at long range you will be far less accurate than at medium range and at medium range you will be far less accurate than short range.

• Damage Types: There are three types of damage, each more serious than the last: bashing, lethal and aggravated. Bashing damage generally results from blunt or stunning attacks. Lethal damage generally results from cuts, gunshots and other more serious attacks. (Note that, because they have no functioning internal organs to damage, Kindred take bashing damage instead of lethal from gunshots.) Aggravated damage generally results from especially vile supernatural attacks.

• Healing: Mortals recover from damage thanks to rest and medical attention. Kindred need to spend Vitae to heal.

• Blood Consumption: Kindred have a trait called Vitae, which represents the amount of blood in their system. They automatically spend one point of Vitae to rise every night, so eventually they must feed from the living. They also spend Vitae for other effects. Most young vampires can only spend one Vitae per turn and hold at most 10 Vitae. A vampire without any Vitae left suffers a lethal wound when she rises (when she would normally spend a point of Vitae). Any other effects that require Vitae expenditure fail if the character has none to spend.

• Reduced Damage: The Kindred anatomy is animated by a supernatural curse, not the functioning of delicate organs, so it takes a lot to inflict serious damage upon them. Firearms inflict bashing damage to Kindred instead of lethal damage. Blades and arrows still inflict lethal damage, however. In addition, a vampire does not fall unconscious if she loses her health. She remains able to act but still suffers a -3 wound penalty. Additional damage upgrades existing wounds as normal. If all a Kindred’s health is depleted by lethal damage, she enters a coma-like state called torpor.

• Healing: Kindred do not heal like mortals. Instead they must spend Vitae to do so. One point of Vitae heals two points of bashing damage or one point of lethal damage. The vampire can take other action in the same turn as healing bashing or lethal damage. Aggravated damage is much harder to heal. It takes five points of Vitae and two full nights per point of aggravated damage to heal.

• Physical Augmentation: Vampires can boost their Physical Attributes (Dexterity, Strength, Stamina) for a moment by spending Vitae. Certain Disciplines allow for more efficient use of this ability.

• Fire and Sunlight: Vampires suffer terrible damage from exposure to fire or sunlight. Both anathema cause a number of automatic points of aggravated damage per turn, depending on their intensity and the amount of exposure. A cigarette lighter held to one’s skin or a hand held in sunlight that is filtered through heavy drapes would inflict only one point per turn. Being tossed in a wood fire or looking out a window on an overcast day would inflict three points per turn. Being caught in a chemical fire or fully exposed under direct sunlight would inflict five (or more) points per turn. Some different clans are more or less sensitive to sunlight and fire than others.

• Daytime Slumber: Vampires are overcome by a crushing fatigue upon the rising of the sun and remain immobile (and to all appearances truly dead) until sunset. If they are attacked during the day, they can rise, but it is extremely difficult: remember this and play your characters accordingly. Also, it is possible that they will lose humanity if they are forced to rise during the day as it may be more of an animalistic instinct reaction than a thoughtful reaction.

• The Masquerade: One of the Kindred’s firmest traditions is the Masquerade, an edict that they hide their existence from mortals (and thus act as mortals would when in their company). This law is more than a social edict, however. It reflects an inherent part of the vampiric nature. A Kindred’s reflection (and any photographs or video) appears slightly blurred or grainy. This is not enough to stand out at first glance (viewers often assume there’s a flaw in, or dirt on a lens or mirror) but it is enough to make identifying individuals and their features very difficult. Kindred can suppress this effect for a scene if they have high enough willpower.

• Frenzy: The Beast within all Kindred is violent and savage, and it can overwhelm the conscious mind with overwhelming anger, fear or hunger. If your character is about to enter a frenzy you can only stop it one way: You must first have at least 5 or higher humanity. Secondly, you must have your character attempt to compose himself three times. The first time he will succeed in stopping it slightly. By the third time, if he succeed, he will stop the frenzy from happening and will gain a point in humanity. The GM (me), however, will decide whether or not you succeed or fail in your attempts. You will simply RP that your character is attempting the three times nad you will explain what he does to compose himself. If the player manages to accumulate a total of three successes, the frenzy subsides. If, however the player fails one of these attempts, the character immediately enters frenzy. Hunger frenzies are triggered only when the character has four or fewer Vitae in his system. Anger frenzies are triggered by especially infuriating circumstance (public humiliation, the triumph of a rival, being assaulted) or the Predator’s Taint. Fear frenzies are triggered by being near fire or sunlight or by the Predator’s Taint. The Storyteller can increase or decrease the number of successes needed for a frenzy to subside depending on the intensity of the trigger. A vampire in frenzy attacks, runs or feeds (as appropriate) at the exclusion of all else. These vampires can’t do anything complex, but the Beast’s savagery does give them some advantages. They gain immense strength, speed and agility, making them next to invincible for a few minutes. The frenzy usually subsides once the thing that triggered it is either destroyed or out of sight.

• Predator’s Taint: Vampires know each other on sight because their Beasts rise to the challenge of another predator’s presence. Normally this reaction feels like nothing more than a simple undercurrent of tension. When Kindred meet for the very first time, though, this tension is so acute that it can cause frenzy. The nature of the frenzy (anger or fear) is determined by the relative Blood Potency of the vampires. Vampires with lower Blood Potency than those they face must resist fear frenzy; vampires with equal or greater Blood Potency must resist anger frenzy. This risk of frenzy can be decreased or eliminated by circumstances that make meeting other Kindred less traumatic, such as when the newcomer makes an immediate offer to help or the meeting occurs in a place where the characters both feel safe. In general, a single success is needed to resist frenzy caused by the Predator’s Taint. Sometimes Vampires will have disciplines that affect the Predator's Taint.

• Losing Humanity: A Kindred’s worst fear is giving in completely to the Beast. The more heinous sins they commit, the stronger the Beast grows and their Humanity trait falls. At Humanity 7 (where all characters start), theft or any worse misdeed can cause moral degeneration (a loss of Humanity). When the character commits such an act, the GM lowers their humanity based on the severity of the sin. The worse the sin is, the more points are deducted. Characters with reduced Humanity justify their sin to themselves instead of repenting, and they become that much more callous. It will now take a worse sin to cause another roll to degenerate. At Humanity 6, only grand theft or worse can spark such a roll. At Humanity 5, it takes intentional mass property damage or worse. At Humanity 4, it takes an impassioned crime such as manslaughter. Characters who do lose Humanity also risk becoming unhinged mentally. This can be any form of minor but pervasive mental disorder, such as depression or a phobia. The player should roleplay this new character quirk.

• Dealing with Mortals: Kindred are no longer truly human, and as they degenerate, they tend to lose the instinctive understanding of social cues among the living. When dealing socially with the living, a Kindred’s Humanity trait serves as her maximum. Thus a vampire with a humanity of 10 would blend in perfectly with mortal society. however, a vampire with humanity of 1 would be as noticeable as Count Orlock staring you straight in the face.

1. The Lord's Servant: The servant of the Main lord of our Domain. He is quite young for a vampire but still quite powerful. He is very understanding and sympathetic to the new Vampires. Age: appears late 20's but is really about 60-70 years old.

2. The Vampire Hunter: Either a Jedi, Sith or Bounty hunter (or former Jedi, sith or bounty hunter) that is dedicated to hunting and erradicating Vampires. He will continually follow our main characters and make their lives difficult by trying to kill them and turn them into a lovely pile of smoking ash.

3. The Lord of the Domain: Played by me, this is the most powerful vampire of the domain. His name is Lord Dastchel. He is a former Correlian who moved to Coruscant many many years ago. his age is unknown.

Power (9 points)

---Intelligence
---Strength
---Presence


Finesse (9 points)

---Wits
---Dexterity
---Manipulation


Resistance (9 points)

---Resolve
---Stamina
---Composure

Mental (10 points)

---Academics:
---Computer Use:
---Security:
---Creation: (weapon, armor, gadget)
---Investigation:
---Awareness:
---Medicine:
---Occult:
---Politics:
---Science:
---The Force: (only available to Jedi or Sith)


Physical (10 points)

---Athletics:
---Brawl:
---Drive/Fly:
---Firearms:
---Lightsaber: (only available to Jedi or Sith)
---Stealth:
---Survival
---Weaponry: (range and melee combat)


Social (8 points)

---Animal:
---Empathy:
---Expression:
---Intimidation:
---Persuasion:
---Socialize:
---Streetwise:
---Subterfuge:

Merits (9 points)

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Flaws (6 points)

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Size: (height and weight)
Defense: (1-10)
Speed: (1-10. 3=average human speed. 10=nearly 20 times regular human speed.)

Disciplines (this shall be assigned to you)

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Willpower: (1-10)
Vitae: (10-100)
Blood Potency: (1-10)
Humanity: (1-10. average is 7)

Yuul_Shamar posted:

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OOC: a couple questions

1. are kindred jedi/sith still force sensitive?
2. Do we start off kindred or are we normal and then bitten during the first nite?

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Yuul_Shamar posted:

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OOC: quick question, are you mehket or daeva? it says mehket on the top but at the bottom its says weakness(daeva).

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