May 28, 2025 2:20 am
The who and the what now?
[Character Creation] The Embrace
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May 28, 2025 3:11 am
MaJunior says:
I mean... we could make a case for being embraced in the early 00s. (The real case is, "I want 15xp to start with," but umm... I as a player was born in '78, so I was in my mid to late 20s in the 2000s -- totally reasonable time to be embraced. 😁)
Emberskyes don't feel too old I'm born in '69.
More seriously, I haven't thought of this game scenario as being meant for more experienced characters who've been around for a while. That'll be a pitch for a different game really, eg Ancillae running around in a larger metaplot between Camarilla vs Sabbat, or dealing with methuselahs.
So back to contextualising, my frame of mind for starting a V5 game is to see how this system plays out from the start, and how it grows along the way. I'm enjoying all the happy hankerings for the many other things we could play thanks to the richness of Vampire, but V5 dials back a number of things, so we won't be going there for now. Just making sure I've got everyone's expectations aligned. You're gonna have to earn those xps!
May 28, 2025 10:14 am
Qralloq made this one, posted under Custom Character Sheets, and I've taken the liberty to paste it here too.
[ +- ] Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition
Create character
| Concept: | |
| Ambition: | |
| Clan: | |
| Desire: | |
| Predator: | |
| Generation: | |
| Sire: |
| Humanity: | |
| Willpower, Max: | |
| Blood:, Max: | |
| Health: | |
| Hunger: | |
| Blood Potency: | |
| Experience: | 0 |
| Physical | |||
| STR | d10 | ||
| DEX | d10 | ||
| STA | d10 |
| Social | |||
| CHA | d10 | ||
| MAN | d10 | ||
| COM | d10 |
| Mental | ||
| INT | d10 | |
| WIT | d10 | |
| RES | d10 |
| Talents | |||
| Athletics | d10 | ||
| Brawl | d10 | ||
| Craft | d10 | ||
| Drive | d10 | ||
| Firearms | d10 | ||
| Larceny | d10 | ||
| Melee | d10 | ||
| Stealth | d10 | ||
| Survival | d10 |
| Skills | |||
| Animal Ken | d10 | ||
| Etiquette | d10 | ||
| Insight | d10 | ||
| Intimidation | d10 | ||
| Leadership | d10 | ||
| Performance | d10 | ||
| Persuasion | d10 | ||
| Streetwise | d10 | ||
| Subterfuge | d10 |
| Knowledges | |||
| Academics | d10 | ||
| Awareness | d10 | ||
| Finance | d10 | ||
| Investigation | d10 | ||
| Medicine | d10 | ||
| Occult | d10 | ||
| Politics | d10 | ||
| Science | d10 | ||
| Technology | d10 |
| Chronicle Tenets |
| Touchstones & Convictions |
| Clan Bane |
Backgrounds
Virtues
| Conscience | |
| Self-Control | |
| Courage |
Disciplines
Background
May 28, 2025 4:26 pm
I'll be a bit before I can dig in today. Got to meet some landscapers at my parents property.
May 29, 2025 5:08 am
All good, not rushing anyone at this stage. We agreed in this game that chargen is part of the fun.
Oh and you can still do the sleeping beauty thingy, works well for a HK setting, wake up to find China's taken over everything.
Oh and you can still do the sleeping beauty thingy, works well for a HK setting, wake up to find China's taken over everything.
May 29, 2025 10:37 am
I am creating a character who is more aligned with Camarilla but I am taking consensualist, so I am wondering, how dangerous would be Masquerade breacher flaw? I am planning to keep a haven and mortal retainers; will it still be considered a breach if my character feeds inside a haven or secured location?
May 29, 2025 2:30 pm
I'm thinking the whole idea of a breacher flaw is to suggest that there's always a danger of being found out or snitched upon, even if the character takes precautions to feed discreetly or only amongst trusted partcipants. Perhaps someone blurts it out inadventently, perhaps some evidence is left behind. How much the Camarilla might want to pursue the matter is part of the tension of the flaw: maybe your character isn't a priority, or maybe they've heard enough. One dot in the flaw isn't too big a deal probably, but who knows.
May 29, 2025 3:10 pm
Drunk vampire, "Yeah, remember when Clark did x? God that was funny." Table goes deathly silent. "Oh shit."
May 29, 2025 3:10 pm
I've been noodling on a character I'd like to play. I've settled into a digital artist with a penchant for leading edge VR tech, perhaps South Korean, who was pursued by a Tremere who experienced a transcendent glitch during a session, but was then embraced by a Toreador. She now holds VR parties as a 'digital medium' which given her something of a celebrity status in connected circles.
She has a theory involving the Walled City in Kowloon, and spends a lot of time searching the tunnels and park where the Walled City was searching for digital remnants of 'The Architect', a being she knows not the nature of. She says she's looking for a glitch in reality that will reveal the face of God.
(Okay, maybe she also works as a Malkavian, if anyone else would prefer Toreador.)
She has a theory involving the Walled City in Kowloon, and spends a lot of time searching the tunnels and park where the Walled City was searching for digital remnants of 'The Architect', a being she knows not the nature of. She says she's looking for a glitch in reality that will reveal the face of God.
(Okay, maybe she also works as a Malkavian, if anyone else would prefer Toreador.)
May 29, 2025 7:48 pm
My character concept is a Ventrue audit officer of a well-known corporate firm. He has been slowly climbing through the firm and trying to take it over. He keeps tabs on all the information, politics, and financial records of whatever is happening in Hong Kong. He wants to collect dirt on everyone so that he can indirectly control the economy of the city (ambition).
May 30, 2025 1:42 am
Emberskyes says:
This character generation system is like reading stereo instructions.They took out a lot of the choice.
It used to be, you got a pool of points and could arrange them however you wanted, with some generalized guidelines/caps. It allowed for a lot more customization, but was a lot more complex. Now they let you choose one of three arrangments, and that's that.
May 30, 2025 2:14 am
OK, I think I am mostly finished!
Agatha Chen. Ventrue dominatrix, Siren predator
https://gamersplane.com/characters/custom/33029/
Agatha Chen. Ventrue dominatrix, Siren predator
https://gamersplane.com/characters/custom/33029/
[ +- ] Agatha Chen
May 30, 2025 2:47 am
I'm thinking of going in with either blood magics Tremere or hand to hand Bruja. I was a tourist who died in Hong Kong.
May 31, 2025 2:27 am
Emberskyes says:
This character generation system is like reading stereo instructions.load next