Dragon: The Embers Core Book - MrGone's Character Sheets

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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