Vampire: the Ebony Kingdom - MrGone's Character Sheets

player rolls [Wits + Stamina] to rouse (though no more dice can be
rolled than the vampire's Aye), and spends a point of blood to
animate if the roll is successful; it take four turns for an undead to
fully rise from her torpid state, minus one turn for every success on
the aforementioned roll (four or more successes allows the creature
to rise immediately). If the subject was attacked while slumbering,
the vampire gains a +2 bonus on the roll to rouse herself.
While awake during the day, the vampire's dice pools are limited
to her Aye rating while attempting any action – dice in excess of
this are simply lost.
Forced Torpor
When a Laibon is reduced to zero Health by lethal damage,
she enters a more severe form of torpor. This state is like
normal torpor in that the vampire appears to be a corpse, but she's
entirely helpless and can't rouse herself until she is fed blood and
can heal. Needless to say, Disciplines are unavailable to a torpid
vampire, save Fortitude. If the body is destroyed during this time,
the character suffers Final Death. How long a Laibon remains in
torpor, assuming she's not revived prematurely by being fed blood,
is determined by the rating of her highest Virtue (Aye or Orun).
Virtue Rating
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Length of Torpor
One day
Three days
One week
Two weeks
One month
Six months
One year
One decade
Fifty years
One century
Final Death
Final Death is the fate of the unfortunate individual that
has all her Health boxes filled with aggravated damage or is otherwise
destroyed. Game over, and no continues. No one knows the
ultimate fate of such an unfortunate soul, but her story in the Ebony
Kingdom has ended forever.
Mental States
Frenzy
Frenzy is when a Laibon's rage or hunger overwhelms his
faculties and he becomes like an animal, unthinking and driven to
fulfill the violent urges of his Beast. This is a constant danger for
Kuta, who exhibit poor restraint and haven't yet learned to cope
with the trials of the world or the treacherous politics of their kind.
Hunger, a fight in which blood spills or the vampire is wounded,
humiliation, or even an act of disrespect... all these can end in an
episode of Frenzy. Resisting this state requires one or more successes
on a reflexive Willpower roll.
A character in the throes of Frenzy is in a near-mindless
rage, and he pursues, devours and kills to the exclusion of all else;
such creatures feed and slay far beyond what's necessary if given
the chance. A frenzying vampire may target enemies or strangers
instead of allies, but this is no given or even that likely. Discipline
use beyond “basic” physical effects (using Celerity, Potence,
popping claws, etc.), are out of the question, as are the use of
Mental or Social Skills; Laibon in Frenzy may instinctively pump
Physical Attributes. On the plus side, the crazed monster ignores
all wound penalties and is near-immune to mind control or emotion
manipulation: three dice are subtracted from rolls to influence
him with Disciplines or other supernatural powers. The presence
of substantial fire or any sunlight will cause a Frenzying vampire
to immediately and automatically “switch” to Red Fear.
Frenzy lasts for as long as it takes to get the job done: if
the character lost control due to hunger, Frenzy lasts until he feeds
past satiation; if the trigger event was a fight, Frenzy remains as
long as any enemies remain standing. (Of course, priorities can
change quickly in a fight.) It takes a minute or so for a vampire to
calm down, during which he's on a hair trigger and is given a wide
berth by the wise. A Storyteller may allow a player to steer her
rampaging Laibon away from an ally or bystander and toward a
more suitable target nearby with a straight Composure roll. If the
Storyteller feels there's a compelling reason a frenzying vampire
would regain control of himself prematurely (he's fed to satiation
or killed the enemy that threated him), the player must spend a
Willpower and roll Willpower; even one success restores the character
to sentience, but failure indicates the Frenzy intensifies and
lasts for an entire scene, during which no further attempts to steer
behavior or regain lucidity are allowed.
The Red Fear
This state is similar in many ways to Frenzy, and is
potentially as dangerous to anyone nearby. However, the major
drive for the vampire consumed with this state is self-preservation,
driven by overwhelming terror rather than anger or hunger. A
Laibon in this state attempts to get away from the trigger – fire,
sunlight, angry pack of Ajaba, or whatever – and get to a place of
safety... and woe to whoever is between he and escape. Red Fear
is especially likely to be triggered when the character suffers aggravated
damage, or is threatened by the same (especially fire or
sunlight). Red Fear normally lasts until the character feels
entirely safe, and then he can usually compose him-self in under a
minute. A vampire in the throes of the Red Fear can be provoked
into Frenzy, especially if he's attacked or lots of blood is spilled.
Mechanically, Red Fear is treated like Frenzy.
Resisting Red Fear requires a reflexive Willpower roll.
Derangements
Derangements are debilitating manifestations of insanity.
A character may resist the compulsion to act according to his derangement
by spending a Willpower point; how long this lucidity
lasts (a turn, a scene or something in between) depends on the nature
of the character's madness and the situation at hand.
I intended to create a stand-alone set of rules for V:tEK,
but rather than reprint the derangements here, I'll point you to the
list in V:tM, pg. 222. Or, look at the ones in WoD, pg. 96, if you
prefer. Mix and match, even; go crazy with it.
Players can buy off derangements. There are two ways
to do this: Willpower expenditure and experience points. If the
Storyteller allows, both exp and Willpower can be used to buy off
a Derangement, distributing the costs between them.
The Willpower Method: When a character first gains a
derangement, roll a die and add the character's Resolve to the result:
the result is the derangement's strength. (Yes, Resolve works
against the Laibon: his mind subconsciously resists being changed,
even for the better.) The strength of the derangement is the number
of times he must resist acting on it (which requires spending
Willpower, as described above). Players should keep track of the
Willpower they spend against the derangement somewhere on the