The
below page contains some information on the Vampire game that is for
current vampire players only. Others are asked not to read this. If any player/PC shows
knowledge of this information that should not have it, IC or OOC, they
will be treated as meta-gaming.
BASIC DESCRIPTION OF DC VAMPIRE POLITICS --
OCTOBER 2006: As the genre opens, the last
full court (Invictus held) of
Washington, DC was destroyed or run off by unknown forces. The Prince,
his Council, and their minions, scattered or killed; the Elysium destroyed.
Those coming to the city are left to carve out some semblance of order
before it is lost for a long time to come. Theirs is also to discover
who wiped out an entire court, in one of the most powerful cities in
existence for both Vampire and Mortal, and why it was done. And, whether
or not they are still a threat to those who have come to rebuild...
There has been IC progress since this event, but your PC
must explain in your BG or do the work in RP how you come to find this information
out. The times of Worldwide politics and news in Vampire kind is over;
just like in the real world, if you live in Chicago you don't
automatically know the scoop in L.A. or NYC or Florida or Paris without
making some calls, networking, etc.
Things to
bear in mind about the current state of various factions, when creating a Kindred character for this Chronicle:
Effective January 2010: Currently the Lancea Sanctum are the Covenant in power
in DC. There is a Circle of the Crone presence. There are
underrepresented Invictus, and there are currently no more Ordo, nor
Carthians.
You will be able
to access it after your vampire PC is approved.
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Territorial Lines
(Canon & Game)
The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and
surrounding blocks belong to the Lancea Sanctum.
Chinatown belongs to the Invictus.
An unnamed but requested area in the suburbs belongs
to the Crones.
None other have asked for territory or held it long
enough to matter.
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RESTRICTIONS:
Restrictions are things that are legal by the book but for game balance or other reasons, the STs want more strict control over how much it is in play in this game. The below are not allowed. Forbidden means not ever; restricted means we have in the past or we may in the future but
not now.
NPC restrictions mean that you may not play one as
anything other than an NPC (meaning a char that the ST's dictate their
actions, regardless of who runs it).
Do not make a Vampire PC that has
lived in DC very long. Due to issues with the storyline in play, that
would either be impossible or make your PC a criminal. Please make
someone who comes to DC from elsewhere, with an agenda.
Restricted Backgrounds:
Kindred with Law Enforcement, Federal Agent or Military
Employment AFTER Embrace (or anything related that might want an IC
Background Check).
Forbidden Backgrounds:
Restricted Character Classes:
Restricted Clans:
- PC’s:
All Bloodlines require special extra ST approval,
to keep game balance. There will not be a higher percentage of Bloodline
PCs than there are the main 5 Clans. If that happens, Bloodlines will be
closed until balance is restored.
NB: As of January 2010,
Bloodlines are not allowed.
- CLANS:
As of January 2010, Clans Daeva & Nosferatu
are CLOSED. Ventrue, Gangrel, and Mehket
are still open.
NB: Yes, you may play a Bloodline of a closed clan, but only when Bloodlines are being accepted at all.
- NPC Class Only:
TBA.
Forbidden Clans:
Restricted Covenants: Belial's
Blood and VII (NPC only).
January 2010:
Circle of the Crone is
closed. Lancea Sanctum is allowed but is ST approval only; Invictus and Ordo Dracul are open. Carthians are restricted.
Forbidden Covenants:
Unaligned
Restricted Disciplines:
Coils of the Dragon: Ordo PCs
only
Crúac: Circle of the Crone
PCs only
Theban Sorcery: Lancea
Sanctum PCs only
Disciplines outside the 3
listed as normal for your Clan or Bloodline (at Creation).
Restricted Merits:
OTHER RESTRICTIONS:
STARTING
Blood Potency higher than 1: ST Approval & with Background Explanation
Only.
If you make
a PC class character over 100 years old, it must have torpored/slept at
least once already. You may NOT take the optional starting XP from Pg.
92: that is an optional rule.
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"Until
death do us part? Fine. I died about five years ago." -- Mike
-- CREATING A V:tR CHARACTER:
Please use the
character sheets we have posted HERE.
1.
Name: Put the name of your character. Make
sure it is not on the Blocked
Names List.
2. Player:
Put your name (and preferably also your email address).
3. Chronicle:
Put "Washington DC By Night." (or DC By Night or 11th Hour)
4. Concept:
This is open-ended, but you can see
examples on pg. 34 of WW55002.
Concepts are
usually a 1-3 word root-level label for who your character is at the core as a
person (not
in a supernatural sense), usually succinctly matching their personality and
their function.
Examples might be: Ambitious
Journalist, Angry Young Man, Drifter, Intellectual, Lost Waif, Party
Animal, Politician, Misguided Prophet, Radical Politician, Socialite. These are stereotypes, and
needn't be literal; details would be covered in your background.
Architects of the Monolith, Beni
Murrahim, Bron, Cassians, Dragolescu,
Icarians, Licinii, Macellarius, Malkovian,
Malocusians, Melissidae, Nahualli, Rötgrafen,
Sotoha
8. Covenant:
Choose from - The Carthian Movement, The Circle of the Crone, The Invictus,
The Lancea Sanctum, The Ordo Dracul, or The Unaligned. Belial's Blood
and VII are NPC class only.
9. Coterie:
Name of local group (or names of members) you primarily hang out with,
align yourself with, or identify with. If you do not yet have one, you
may leave this blank for now.
10. ATTRIBUTES
**NB: For
Attributes, Skills and Merits, there is no longer a 3 pt. max cap
for stats in the "initial stage" (since there is no freebies stage
in 2.0).
However, if you
buy 5 dots of anything in Attributes, Skills or Merits at Creation,
the 5th Dot costs 2 points, not 1.
(See
left side pg. 34, WW55002 for more details.)
Attributes are broken down
into Mental, Physical and Social, but also across the other way,
into Power, Finesse and Resistance. (See pg. 47, WW55002 for details.)
Starting dots for Attributes
are 5/4/3.
MENTAL
PHYSICAL
SOCIAL
POWER
Intelligence
Strength
Presence
FINESSE
Wits
Dexterity
Manipulation
RESISTANCE
Resolve
Stamina
Composure
11. SKILLS (Mental/Physical/Social): You will have 11/7/4 starting dots
(+3 Specialties).
(See pg. 53, WW55002 for more
info.) Mental skills you don't have dots in will cost -3 to your
dice pool for a roll using that stat. Physical & Social are -1 for
unskilled.
(M = Mental, P =
Physical, S = Social; PR = has Prerequisites)
Haven Bonus - Size
(1- 5) PR
Ghouls WW25110 pg. 71
Haven Bonus - Security
(1- 5) PR
Ghouls WW25110 pg. 71
Haven Bonus - Location
(1- 5) PR
Ghouls WW25110 pg. 71
Inherited Ghoul (2)
PR
Ghouls WW25110 pg. 71
Regnant (1- 5) PR
Ghouls WW25110 pg. 71
Sense Sympathy (3)
PR: Emp 3 *ST Restricted Merit
Ghouls WW25110 pg. 73
Sexualized (2) PR
*ST Restricted Merit
Ghouls WW25110 pg. 73
VAMPIRE-ONLY MERITS:
(M = Mental, P =
Physical, S = Social; PR = has Prerequisites)
Geomantic Nexus
(1-3) PR: Ordo Dracul Only
Ordo Dracul
WW25120 pg. 202
Haven (secured
location) (1-5)
Vampire: the
Requiem WW25000 pg. 100
Security
(1-5)
Vampire: the
Requiem WW25000 pg. 100, Promethean:
the Created WW60000 pg. 96, & Mage: the Awakening
WW40000 pg. 86
Size (1-5)
Vampire: the
Requiem WW25000 pg. 100, Promethean:
the Created WW60000 pg. 96, Mage: the Awakening
WW40000 pg. 86 & Changeling:
the Lost WW70000 pg. 95
Temple (secured
location) (1-5) PR: Crones Only
Circle of the
Crone WW25305 pg. 42
Temple Library
(1-5) PR: Temple Merit
Circle of the
Crone WW25305 pg. 42
13. FLAWS
In WOD 2.0,
flaws do not actually cost points, and are included more for optional
character balance.
You DO get extra
experience (*as the ST subjectively deems earned) for playing your
flaws well in RP.
Vampire Flaws
include:
Addiction (explain in BG)
Hard of Hearing
Aloof
Lame
Amnesia
Mute
Behaviour Blind
Notoriety (explain in BG)
Coward
One Arm
Deformity
One Eye
Dwarf
Poor Sight
Embarrassing Secret (explain in
BG)
Racist/Sexist
Forgetful
Speech Impediment
14. Clan
Weakness: List that here.
15. EQUIPMENT: List any
equipment you carry, especially any that would require dice, and their dice mods.
16. DISCIPLINES:
Choose from:
Animalism, Auspex, Celerity, Cachexy, Coils of the Dragon, Coils of Blood,
Coils of Banes, Coils of the Beast, Crúac, Dominate, Getsumai, Majesty,
Nightmares, Obfuscate, Protean, Resilience, Theban Sorcery, or
Vigor. You must fulfill requirements for any restricted disciplines
listed in the above Restricted section.
17. HEALTH (12 points): No
need to fill anything in.
18. WILLPOWER:
19. VITAE (20
pts. Max):
20. BLOOD
POTENCY (10 pts. Max): Refer to bottom of Pg. 99 of
WW25000 for Effects of the
various levels of Blood Potency. Starting BP higher than 1 must be
justified in your Background questions.
You can email sheets to any ST in the channel.
You are responsible to check with the ST to see if they has received your character.
The above-named ST is just designated as more well-versed in the genre
but you can and may be guided by any ST on staff.
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"Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately, and so shall we;
for no creatures under God are as we
are, none so like Him as ourselves. "
- Lestat de Lioncourt, Anne Rice's
"Interview With A Vampire"
VAMPIRE SOURCEBOOKS IN
USE:
White Wolf
#
Title
ISBN
#
Description
WW25000
Vampire: The Requiem (Saturday 21
August, 2004); 304 pgs.
(Covenant Guide)
Carthians (Thursday 27 April, 2006); 224 pgs.
ISBN: 1-58846-262-5
COVENANT - the young
idealists and passionate revolutionaries of the Damned
WW25304
Mythologies - The Legends of the Damned (Friday 09 June,
2006);
WW25700
Vampire: The Requiem
Storyteller's Screen (Thursday 28 October, 2004)
ISBN: 1-58846-599-3
Storyteller's Screen
WW25701
Vampire Character
Sheet Pad (Wednesday 08 September, 2004)
ISBN: 1-58846-598-5
Paper Character Sheets
WW25702
Vampire: The Requiem
Dice (Monday 20 September, 2004)
ISBN: 1-58846-597-7
Dice
VAMPIRE: THE
REQUIEM FICTION
(**NOT VALID SOURCEBOOKS
FOR CHARACTER CREATION INFO**)
WW11235
A Hunger Like Fire
(Vampire: The Requiem Novel #1) (Thursday 09 December, 2004);
288 pgs.
ISBN: 1-58846-862-3
Persephone Moore in Chicago
WW11236
???
WW11237
Blood In, Blood Out
(Vampire: The Requiem Novel #2) (Thursday 24 February, 2005);
288 pgs.
ISBN: 1-58846-866-6
Ever since his Embrace,
Duce Carter has been a firebrand among the Kindred of Chicago,
fanning the flames of revolution against the city’s Prince and its
hidebound elders. But when Chicago’s Carthians turn on Duce in the
wake of a brutal assassination attempt, the only person he can go to
for help is none other than Persephone Moore, the Prince’s only
child
WW11238
Marriage of Virtue &
Viciousness (Vampire: The Requiem Novel #3) (Thursday 23 June,
2005); 288 pgs.
ISBN: 1-58846-872-0
Word has spread among
Chicago’s Kindred that Prince Maxwell is to grant an indulgence, a
one-night lift on the ban imposed on destroying fellow vampires. The
Damned scurry for position and ready their long-delayed revenge. But
no vampire’s rage is more consuming than that of Solomon Birch, the
fallen zealot of the undead church known as the Lancea Sanctum.
Download these
books and other WW Books
(even Out of
Print!) on PDF LEGALLY:
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"One
thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn
vampires."
-- Grandpa, "The Lost
Boys" (1987)
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"How do we seem to you? Do you find us beautiful, magical? Our white skin, our fierce eyes?
'Drink,' you ask me; do you have any idea of the thing you will become?"
- Louis de Pointe du Lac, in Anne Rice's
"Interview With A Vampire"
VAMPIRE THEMED MEDIA:
BOOKS: "The Vampire Chronicles" by
Anne Rice, "Dracula" by Bram Stoker, "I Am
Legend" by Richard Matheson (1954),
The Harry Potter Series, "Lost
Souls" by Poppy Z. Brite, "Blood Is Not Enough" Anthology edited by Ellen
Datlow, Day of the Jackal [Assamite/Assassin mentality], "Bloodwar: The Masquerade
Of The Red Death" by Robert Weinberg
MUSIC: "Bloodletting" by Concrete
Blonde, "Night Moves" by Marilyn Martin, "After Dark" by Blue Oyster Cult,
"Blessed
Are You" & "Dracula"
by Iced Earth
POETRY: Baudelaire, "The
Vampire" by Rudyard Kipling
TELEVISION: Buffy The Vampire
Slayer, Dark Shadows, Forever Knight,
Hellsing (& another Hellsing
Link), "Kindred: The Embraced" (1995)
Homer: Y'have any idea what it's like to be a big man on the inside
and have a small body on the outside?
Severen: You have ANY idea what it's like to HEAR about it every
NIGHT?
-- "Near Dark,"
1987
Quintessential V:tR Archetypes in Media
& Myth: (needs revision for 2.0)
Hannibal Lecter: the
perfect Malkavian (with shades of Ventrue)
The gang (David, Star,
etc.) from "Lost Boys": Brujah
Louis from "Interview
With A Vampire": Toreador (in attitude)
Drusilla from "Buffy":
Oracular Ability Merit in use
Severen in "Near
Dark": poss. Brujah, if not outright Anarch or shades of Sabbat
Malfoy & House Slitherin in "Harry
Potter": Tremere (in attitude)
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"Ah,
come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature
encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the
diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers."
