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

• What are your habitual feeding grounds?
Do you frequent a particular place to feed? Do you consider this territory yours alone, or do others
use it? Do you compete with others to feed? What is your preferred prey? Will you risk hunger to fi nd
this type of prey? Do you ever kill when you feed? Do you have a specifi c herd? Do you seduce your prey?
Kidnap them? Intimidate or beat them? Do they come to you?
• What motivates you?
Are you bent on revenge? Do you long for your mortal life, or to again look upon the sun? Do you
have ambitions within Kindred society? Do you wish to Embrace any childer? Are you involved with
inter-covenant confl ict? If you could have any one thing in the world, what would it be?
A FINAL NOTE
Those without motivation are likely not to have survived the Embrace at all, or to struggle
for survival in subsequent nights. Although a vampire’s values often differ greatly from those of
a human, stemming from his experience with death and rebirth, he must still have something
worth existing for, or he would likely watch the next sunrise and be done with it. Give thought
to where your character has been and where he’s headed. Is there some overarching, ultimate
goal or possibly several small ones? While The Requiem is a Modern Gothic Storytelling
game, these beings do not sit around each night lamenting their sad existence and wishing it
would all just end. Once you have an idea of what it is that your character wants to achieve,
you have come one step closer to making him a complete, realistic personality.
EXAMPLE OF CHARACTER CREATION
Alyson plans to participate in Peter’s Requiem chronicle. Peter tells Alyson that the chronicle
focuses on a struggle to defend the sovereignty of Philadelphia from a number of different external
forces, each attempting to destroy the city’s independence as part of their own power plays. He
then informs her that even while the city’s vampires are defending their territory against these
outsiders, the different clans and covenants within the city are making their own moves to establish
dominance in this valuable territory when the dust settles. He has designed his chronicle to be
a delicate balance between the ruthless politics that divide the different factions in the city and
the need to confront these mysterious external threats as well, so characters will have to watch
their backs even more so than normal. He suggests that Alyson develop a character who has some
fi erce loyalties, but who also knows how to play the amoral political game when she must.
Peter hands Alyson a copy of the character sheet, and informs her that he will be allowing
the players to choose their own clans and covenants, since he will not be running the Embrace
during play. He also tells her that he wants to keep such elements as bloodlines and sorcery
rare, so she should consult him if she wants her concept to go that direction. Alyson agrees,
puts on an inspirational CD and spends a few minutes brainstorming.
STEP ONE: CONCEPT
Alyson’s fi rst responsibility is to come up with a concept for her character. She decides that
she wants to play a modern pagan priestess who was Embraced when she became dissatisfi ed
with the “tame” practices she was involved in, and delved a bit too deeply into darker and
bloodier rites. Alyson decides that the Embrace was given to her by her sire as a test, to see
if she was really a true believer. Not only did she pass, but now she revels in her predatory
nature. Alyson’s character has turned her back on her mortal life, using her former friends as
a food source and taking every opportunity to study her newfound supernatural powers.
Not wanting to name her character after herself, Alyson decides to eschew more sinister or
pretentious names and fi gures her character still goes by her mortal nickname, Maggie. She
has deliberately kept this deceptively harmless sounding name to put others at ease so she
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