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This Reference, if used with the one provided on page 34 of the World of Darkness Rulebook, can be utilized to quickly and easily follow the steps of creating a Dragon character. Method Choose the method through which your character obtained her Heart. Five Methods exist. Slayer (The Rabid Monster): violent, forceful, impatient; +1 Strength Finder (The Inquisitive Monster): curious, determined, driven; +1 Intelligence Challenger (The Devoted Monster): skilled, tactful, arrogant; +1 Wits Trickster (The Noxious Monster): deceitful, cunning, treacherous; +1 Manipulation Inheritor (The Entitled Monster): favored, pompous, ambitious; +1 Presence School Choose the school of thought that your character follows. Ten schools are available, though the latter five require the “Scholar of the Five Evils” Merit. If you do not choose a school, you must take the “True Heart” Merit. Embers Ash (Destruction): anarchists, demolitionists, saboteurs Blood (Oath): prosecutors, judges, executioners Bone (Health): pacifists, humanitarians, menders Sweat (Pain): workaholics, contractors, tanks Tears (Mind): zealots, mediators, puppeteers Saintly Devils Wrath (Destruction): prey/predator Pride (Oath): sheep/shepherd Greed (Health): ascetic/abyss Lust (Pain): abstainer/addict Sloth (Mind): brigadier/bum Furnace The default Furnace rating of an Oroboroi character is one dot. Three Merit dots may be allocated towards this rating, raising it to two dots of Furnace for three Merit dots or three dots of Furnace for six Merit dots. Breath An Oroboroi character begins play with a number of points of Breath equal to her Ethics. Character Character Creation Creation Quick Quick Reference Reference Merits Dragon Merits include Graft (● to ●●●●●), Hoard (● to ●●●●●), Lair (varies; special), Scholar of the Five Evils (●), and True Heart (●●●). Normal human characters, but not Dragons, can take the Dragon-Born (●● to ●●●●), Bond of Brood (●●●●●), or Pilot Light (●●●●●) Merits. Experience Point Costs Trait Cost Attribute New dots x 5 Skill New dots x 3 Skill Specialty 3 Common Aspect New dots x 5 Method Aspect New dots x 6 Non-Method Aspect New dots x 7 Primary Philosophy New dots x 6 Ancillary Philosophy New dots x 8 Merit New dots x 2 Furnace New dots x 8 Ethics New dots x 3 Willpower 8
36 36 Prelude Prelude An optional private session between player and storyteller, the Prelude is a chance to explore your character’s life before the Oroboroi. Think of it as a test drive, to see how your skill and attribute choices fit, and how your creation reacts under different forms of pressure. It also lets you explore the reasoning behind your character’s Method. A Prelude doesn’t necessarily have to run like a normal session. It can be used as a brainstorm to develop a rich past for the character, a pre-emptive exposure to the system if you’re a new player, or even just a warm-up for a new or out-of-practice storyteller. Nothing on your sheet is concrete during the prelude, if during the course of it you find your character has greater bursts of mental prowess but is troubled under stress, you may wish to move a point of Resolve to Intelligence. These tweaks are acceptable, but it’s best to do it before the chronicle begins. Preludes can also be run with the entire group simultaneously, but it may become more hectic than expected. If the storyteller prefers, two sets of pre-chronicle sessions could be held, one on the individual level and one regarding the troupe’s union as an Oroboroi Den. Example Example of of Character Character Creation Creation After reading this book, Frank decides to take over his gaming troupe’s World of Darkness campaign, which had disbanded a few weeks before at the end of the last chronicle. He decides to reuse the setting from the previous game, but have each player create a new character. All of the players are familiar with the setting, as it is being recycled from the last game. With this, Frank states that the characters can use any reasonable concept, so long as they have not possessed their Oroboroi Heart for more than a year. Jesse comments in jest about playing a serial killer, but to his surprise Frank explains that could be a viable concept. Intrigued, Jesse decides to elaborate. Jesse’s character is likely going to be a mixer in the group, so Frank demands a concept that the other players approve. Jesse’s first attempt, “Creepy Janitor”, was rejected as being hackneyed and stereotypical. “Philanthropic Sadist” fared a little better, but Frank decided to veto it for his own reasons. Finally, Jesse settles on “Sinister Bartender” and refuses to budge. The other players don’t mind, though, as they think it’d work well with their concepts. Jesse begins to flesh out his character’s background. He determines the Bartender started his business as a vain attempt to shake his own addictions, but as the booze left his system he found… other outlets for his stress. The grit of the character creation process, along with its justification, has been removed in compliance with the Dark Pack agreement. A gap will be provided here in the final draft to maintain internal page references and give room for your own notes should you print a copy of this game. Here the character creation process begins to flow a little less smoothly. Jesse has not played Dragon the Embers before, and so he is not very familiar with the rules involved. Frank explains that it is mostly like the other supernatural templates, but Jesse requests access to the Dragon book anyway. The first choice to be made is Method. Jesse flips forward to page XX and quickly skims the five available Methods, settling on Trickster as it feels the most appropriate for his sinister Bartender. He tells Frank that his character acquired the Heart several days after cleaning up one of his ‘projects’, as it sat unharmed in the incinerator when he dumped the personal
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possession of a Trickster. The unde
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attacks work as well (they just att
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Each point manifest grants the Drag
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manifest, that Skill gains the 9-Ag
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To get new Philosophies or new leve
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program) it must roll Durability -
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into their character. She may move
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Action: Instant Roll Results Dramat
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aware of the target's Health stat,
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efore she can move on to the final
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trailblaze a new emotional connecti
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Failure: The Wrath Dragon is not as
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Dramatic Failure: The Wrath Dragon
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accumulate towards her goal. If the
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Success: Each success keeps the pai
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as soon as they wake. The long and
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pain for a number of minutes equal
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memories (known as scars) and toy w
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Chapter Three: Special Rules and Sy
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apply her Defense, and assume Aspec
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matter, and she becomes more and mo
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where one Oroboroi excels over anot
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should feel a sense of accomplishme
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leave the Dragon under attack hangi
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Storytelling Hints: A knight should
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highly addicting, though, and soon
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Deep Deep Deep Ones Ones To the Oro
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have to be purchased in sequence, e
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“A dreamer is one who can only fi
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killed by the denizens of this plac
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that the Dreamer’s “Health” a
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to survive the death of one believe
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elieve he’s woken. The dreamscape
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types of damage. If they have been
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a state brought a great deal of dif
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out their personality. Lay out thei
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Index (Both the Index and any Inter
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