The city of New York is a bustling place during both the day and night. People go on about their business unaware of what is going on in their city. The current prince of the city has been making sure the existence of the supernatural is unknown to humans. Of course, there are other stresses that the prince has to deal with on a daily basis. Groups trying to overthrow the prince who is trying to keep the peace. Of course, lately, there have been many factions and groups trying to disturb the peace, and most importantly break the masquerade. The vampires of New York are scheming against each other, or against the other supernatural entities living inside the city. Of course, any political matters are not something that your group thinks of. Your group is mostly concerned about keeping each other safe. Your group is a bunch of outcasts who have been “adopted” by two older vampires. A male and female are of the 9th generation. Being discarded by your sire for various reasons, and being taught the ways of the kindred by them. Their reason is altruism so that the two could do some good in the world. A few months ago the patriarchy has gone missing, and your group is tasked with finding out where he is.

Your characters will be 11th-generation vampires from any of the different clans. I am mostly looking for a variety of characters that are knowledgeable in different skills. I want to explore what a “family” of vampires would be like and how dysfunctional it could be. I want to explore the drama that would come from the group being together for a hundred or so years. Experience points will be gained when completing certain tasks. These points can then be spent on either your abilities, attributes, disciplines, or background. Humanity and masquerade will be removed if you break the masquerade, or if you do something inhumane. These can be gained back from keeping masquerade and performing a humane act. During this roleplay, our character will be running into hunters, werewolves, ghosts, mages, fae, and other supernatural creatures. I want to include everything in the World Of Darkness setting.

I have a concept for a bit of a mad ventrue who's an outcast because the embrace broke his hold on reality and sort of convinced him that he was living in a medieval parody of the modern world. I was hoping to balance his madness out with true faith if you'd allow that?

@Neziul

That is a very interesting character concept. Although that would more sound like a Malkavian than a Ventrue. And how would this true faith try to help balance out the madness?

Here's the thing, my original concept was a staked and torpored medieval ventrue who had shamed his sire over a dalliance with a lasombra, to wake up in modern nights. But then looking at the power levels and the vibe that your going for, I figured it'd be safer to just make it all in his head instead of actual backstory.

Because if my original character idea did wake up in modern nights he'd be on the road of heaven instead of humanity, hed already have been taught an outdated sense of the basics of being a vampire like it was just yesterday, and he'd be much more tempted to turn antitribu and join the Sabbat. And he'd probably be afraid of technology.

But I know the clans and their stereotypes. Everybody knows that even the most normal seemingly malkavian is completely messed up in the head somehow. In alot of the old WoD rulebook and sourcebooks, breaking those stereotypes for the sake of creating unique characters and having fun is encouraged though. And the trope of "insane rulers" makes ventrue, lasombra, tzimisce, toreador and tremere decent candidates for characters with derangements as well as any malkavian.

The true faith I thought of as balancing it out because of merits & flaws. But it's really just the idea of something positive (Faith in the Christian way) having a possibility of making things happen in the game, to balance out an overall negative (being insane isn't fun, even if it can occasionally be portrayed as funny or interesting) that might limit his ability to make things happen with the ease that other characters would have. P

Idk. Maybe I should just try a different concept for this. Because I really would rather preserve my original idea. And I don't know if he'd fit well into the family of vampires idea that your going for.

What do you think???

@Neziul

Well we can discuss some other character concepts in a DM? I'd be okay with brainstorming some ideas with you. Although the first idea can be used if perhaps he strives to keep his sanity some other way. Unless you want him to be one of those hardcore catholic types lol.

What about a vampire who hunts other vampires ?

@HEAVY METAL

I mean that could work. Although they would be quite hated by the vampire community, which would kinda work with them being protected by the family.

@HEAVY METAL

I mean that could work. Although they would be quite hated by the vampire community, which would kinda work with them being protected by the family.

I was thinking of a sleazy thug type, sorta Mob boss that deals in a new drug, which contains vampire blood, "Vamoril".

@HEAVY METAL

Mmm that's a very intresting character. The patriarch of the family would probally still protect him from trouble, although he wouldn't want anything to do with the drug business. Your character could have ties to either Brujah or Giovanni gangs.

@HEAVY METAL

Mmm that's a very intresting character. The patriarch of the family would probally still protect him from trouble, although he wouldn't want anything to do with the drug business. Your character could have ties to either Brujah or Giovanni gangs.

Cool 👍 count me in 💀

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Cool 👍 count me in 💀

Good to hear.

Looks interesting. So looking from the sheet, this is more based on V20 than V5, huh? Is there like a baseline of how experienced the coterie members should be? Like newly embraced, or has been around for some years? Also, what year is this set in? Current year?

Looks interesting. So looking from the sheet, this is more based on V20 than V5, huh? Is there like a baseline of how experienced the coterie members should be? Like newly embraced, or has been around for some years? Also, what year is this set in? Current year?

They would have 100 or so years of experience in the world of vampires. So really it depends on how experienced you would like your character to be. The RP would be set in 2023 i will be adding that info and other things into the main thread.

I really shouldn't join *another* rp but I love vampire and am dying to rp with it. Would you be willing to take another?

They would have 100 or so years of experience in the world of vampires. So really it depends on how experienced you would like your character to be. The RP would be set in 2023 i will be adding that info and other things into the main thread.

So we're ancillae that have been in this adoption/coterie for about 100 years or so give or take? IIRC per V20 ancillae got extra exp at character creation, does that apply here?

I really shouldn't join *another* rp but I love vampire and am dying to rp with it. Would you be willing to take another?

Oui.

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So we're ancillae that have been in this adoption/coterie for about 100 years or so give or take? IIRC per V20 ancillae got extra exp at character creation, does that apply here?

Yes. I will have to check to see how much we would get at the beginning of the RP. If anything I'll probably give you guys 20 or so experience to spend.

Yes. I will have to check to see how much we would get at the beginning of the RP. If anything I'll probably give you guys 20 or so experience to spend.

Well, for reference, here's V20.



It's meant to be used for the 'freebie' points here



But 20 experience sounds fine, so long a it scales with the rest of NPC/Characters, I think.

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Well, for reference, here's V20.

V20 on creating non-neonate [+]

It's meant to be used for the 'freebie' points here

Freebie points [+]

But 20 experience sounds fine, so long a it scales with the rest of NPC/Characters, I think.

I will have to refresh my memory on the V20 system. But I think that should be enough, I don't want our characters to be too OP.

I will have to refresh my memory on the V20 system. But I think that should be enough, I don't want our characters to be too OP.

That as in 20 or 75?

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That as in 20 or 75?

20 XP should be enough. Or maybe I'll make it 75, I have not decided yet.