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

Kindred who spend too much time in solitude, for their connection to humanity (and
Humanity) can easily atrophy. No hard-and-fast system exists, but a good guideline can
be obtained by subtracting the Kindred’s Humanity from 11. Every time the resulting
number of years passes in a game without the character making any signifi cant human
or Kindred contact, the player must make a degeneration draw.
HUMANITY AS MORALITY
In rules terms, a trait called Humanity represents the balance of power between the Man
and the Beast. Humanity is the specifi c form that the general Morality trait takes for vampires.
The trait measures the connection a Kindred feels to her leftover mortal feelings and to her
capacity to empathize with other beings. The lower a character’s Humanity goes, the less she
cares and the more brutally she tends to act.
Humanity uses the same order of sins presented in the Mind’s Eye Theatre rulebook (which is
reproduced here for your convenience). Just as with mortals, when an undead character performs
an act that carries an equal or lower rating than his Humanity, the player draws a certain number
of times equal to the level of the sin as indicated to fi nd out whether the character suffers moral
degeneration. If the draw series succeeds, the character manages to feel shame, regret or at least
some human response. If the draw series fails, the character feels nothing except satisfaction
at getting what he wanted… and a little more of the Man slips away and the character has less
with which to fi ght the Beast in the future. His Humanity drops by one. For what it’s worth, the
threshold for further moral crises drops too, so the player might not need to draw for degeneration
as often — if the character can resist committing more heinous acts in the future.
As a character’s Humanity degrades, he grows less concerned with the world, yielding ever more
to the Beast. He becomes capable of virtually any depraved act against another person. When
Humanity is lost because of a sin the character committed, draw the character’s new Humanity
as a test pool. If the draw succeeds, the Kindred fi nds some kind of bulwark of sanity at his new
level of Humanity. If the draw fails, a derangement manifests in the character’s mind. Derangements
are mental and emotional “scars,” in this case brought on by the character’s stress, grief
or even remorselessness over acts performed. Derangements are detailed at length on p. 268.
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3.9 — HUMANITY AND SINS
Humanity Threshold Sin Draws made
10 Selfi sh thoughts (e.g., Draw 5 times
hurting someone’s feelings)
9 Minor selfi sh acts (e.g., Draw 5 times
cheating on taxes)
8 Injury to another, accidental or Draw 4 times
otherwise (e.g., physical confl ict)
7 Petty theft (e.g., shoplifting) Draw 4 times
6 Grand theft (e.g., burglary) Draw 3 times
5 Intentional mass-property damage Draw 3 times
(e.g., arson)
4 Impassioned crime Draw 3 times
(e.g., manslaughter)
3 Planned crime (e.g., murder) Draw 2 times
2 Casual/callous crime Draw 2 times
(e.g., torture, serial murder)
1 Utter perversion, heinous acts Draw 2 times
(e.g., combined rape, torture
and murder; mass murder)