Mind's Eye Theatre - Vampire The Requiem.pdf - RoseRed

character creation
All vampire characters receive the Blood Potency advantage at one dot for free. Blood Potency
can be increased with Merit-point expenditure at a rate of three to one at character creation. That
is, a player may spend three of his character’s seven Merit points for Blood Potency 2, or spend six
of his character’s seven Merit points for Blood Potency 3. Blood Potency is described on p. 127.
STEP SIX: SELECT MERITS
A beginning character has seven dots worth of Merits, which may be distributed at the player’s
discretion. These traits should fi t the character concept — a Daeva socialite isn’t likely to have the
Stunt Driver Merit, for example, unless her background involves it somehow. A Storyteller may
encourage or disallow certain Merits, or even provide a dot for free (perhaps representing a political
contact crucial to the chronicle). The fi fth dot in any Merit costs two dots to purchase.
STEP SEVEN: DETERMINE ADVANTAGES
Rules regarding advantages can be found on pages 43-54 of the Mind’s Eye Theatre rulebook.
What follows concerns itself less with game mechanics and more with the importance
of certain advantages to vampire characters.
WILLPOWER
Vampires lead unlives of constant struggle, fi ghting against their base, predatory natures
to retain control of their slipping connections to humanity. Fighting the Beast within them
calls for a measure of self-reliance often lacking in ordinary mortals, making large amounts of
Willpower a great value. Vampires’ dangerous emotional situations can lead to violent, mindless
frenzy (p. 253), and they hold their bestial tendencies in check through sheer force of will.
Vampires’ experience points can be spent to recoup lost Willpower dots. See p. 121 for
more information on spending experience.
A player may spend Vitae in the same turn in which he spends a point of Willpower. For
more on spending Vitae, see pp. 218-221.
HUMANITY
After the Embrace, a vampire begins to lose touch with those elements of her nature that
make her human. These qualities erode over time as the vampire becomes more jaded and
the world evolves without her. For this reason, the concept of Morality as outlined in the
Mind’s Eye Theatre rulebook is replaced with Humanity here.
As an optional rule, Storytellers may allow those players applying the vampire template
during character creation to trade dots of Humanity for experience points. This trade-in
refl ects some heinous past behavior the vampire engaged in and learned from (accounting
for the added experience points), but which also scarred her deeply (explaining the loss in
Humanity). At the Storyteller’s discretion, players may sacrifi ce one dot of Humanity for fi ve
experience points, dropping their characters’ Humanity scores to as low as fi ve (for a maximum
of 10 extra experience points).
VIRTUES AND VICES
The Virtues and Vices available to mortal characters are the same as those available to
vampires, though they manifest in different ways. For instance, a character who suffers the
Vice of Wrath might be prone to frenzy, while one indulging in Gluttony might leave a trail
of exsanguinated bodies in her wake, fi nding it diffi cult to stop feeding before victims’ hearts
stop. On the other hand, a character with the Virtue of Hope might dedicate his nights to
achieving Golconda, while a character with the Virtue of Justice might carefully choose his
victims from among those deserving punishment (such as rapists or murderers), becoming
a crusader of the night.
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