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

example of character creation
can take their full measure. Of course, while she is conducting services, she will likely use a
title of some kind, but for the most part she is simply Maggie.
STEP TWO: ATTRIBUTES
Alyson must now prioritize and assign Maggie’s Attributes. Based on her concept, Alyson
decides that Mental Attributes would be Maggie’s strong suit, so she sets them as primary. Of
course, in her role as a priestess Maggie also has a need to conduct rituals and relate well to others,
so Alyson selects Social Attributes as her secondary category. This leaves Physical Attributes
as tertiary, which doesn’t make Alyson very happy. She envisioned Maggie as a bit more rugged
and athletic than that, but decides she will simply focus on improving those Attributes later.
Alyson now has fi ve dots to allocate among Mental Attributes. She decides that Maggie
has always had extremely keen senses, which have only improved following her Embrace. She
allocates two dots to Wits, raising the total to 3. She sees Maggie as having a very strong devotion
to her beliefs, and spends another two dots on Resolve, raising that to 3 as well. That
leaves one dot for Intelligence, for a total of 2. Maggie’s no idiot, but she’s still relies much
more on instinct and intuition than analytic reasoning and book learning.
With four dots to assign to Social Attributes, Alyson decides that Presence is the most
important quality for Maggie — she sees her as having a very striking appearance as well as a
compelling personality, a natural leader of other Kindred and an excellent priestess as well.
She therefore allocates two dots to Presence, raising it to 3. She spends one dot each on
Composure and Manipulation, making her average in those areas — Maggie is reasonably
well-centered and good enough with words, but primarily uses her appearance and sheer
personal charisma to win over others.
Finally, Alyson turns her attention to the Physical category to fi nish off her Attributes.
She decides that Maggie kept herself in decent if not excellent shape throughout her life,
but her studies have kept her from being as active as many other members of her clan. She
therefore decides to allocate one dot to each Physical Attribute, making Maggie thoroughly
average across the board, with a total of 2 in Strength, Dexterity and Stamina. Again, she’d
like to improve these numbers somewhat, feeling that Maggie would be a bit more athletic
than this, but that will have to wait for now.
STEP THREE: SKILLS
Like Attributes, Skills must also be prioritized and chosen. Alyson decides to go with a
slightly different prioritization as she used for Attributes, placing Social as primary, Physical
as secondary and Mental as tertiary. Maggie has balanced herself quite well in life, allowing
training and natural talent to bolster her weaker areas while using her strengths to bolster
what would otherwise be fairly normal abilities.
With 11 dots to assign in Social Skills, Alyson tries to imagine what would be most important
to Maggie, both from her breathing days and since the Embrace. Three dots go to Persuasion
— Maggie is a very strong personality and very hard to argue with when she puts her mind to
it. Looking over the rest of the list, Alyson decides to make Maggie well-rounded socially, and
puts two dots each into Expression, Intimidation, Socialize and Subterfuge. If her formidable
skills at debate and seduction don’t win someone over, she’s got a potent arsenal of other skills
at her command as well, and knows quite well when to switch from one approach to another
to get what she wants. Given her clan’s rather savage and unsophisticated reputation, this is
bound to give her an unexpected advantage when dealing with many of her fellow Kindred,
and Alyson intends to take full advantage of it.
Perhaps to compensate for her somewhat average Physical Attributes, Alyson decides that
Maggie has plunged into the more visceral practices of her clan, asking her sire to train her
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