Character Creation will be as per the Second Edition Revised ruleset with the following exceptions:
Permitted clans - Brujah, Malkavian, Nosferatu, Toreador, Ventrue. Only these clans have represenatives high enough in the Prince's regard to be granted permission to send a representative.
Backgrounds - You may not have more than five dots in a single background at character creation (after freebie points are spent). Backgrounds will be permitted to exceed your generational max, but such levels must be obtained in-game.
Generation - although you are a neonate in age, your sire is powerful and old. Generation will begin at 11 not 13. These are not "dots", its just a different starting point - you may still spend five dots in Generation
Mentor- You sire is willing to offer his advice and is an experienced player in the Jyhad. All characters will gain three dots in the mentor background for free. An additional zero, one or two dots may be spent if desired - representing either an even more useful sire or an entirely seperate second mentor.
Fame - The Fame background is banned. Prince Deuxponts does not wish to draw attention to the claims for power in Havershome and so will veto any proposed representative who is well known to the Kine.
Protected Backgrounds - You may choose to lodge zero, one or two points of backgrounds with your sire. They will protect them for you and render them immune to attack from other players. Further, the three free dots in Mentor are immune to attack from other players.
Sire - I shall require some information on your sire, who will be an important NPC in the game. At a minimum I would like brief details on where his powerbase in Edinburgh lies and how he maintains it.
Sire's Aid - I shall be awarding additional dots in Backgrounds to represent aid your sire is willing to give you, based on the description requested above. This is a two way street - if you are not adequately representing his interests, he will withdraw his aid.
Merits and Flaws - Are forbidden. For the sake of completeness I will mention that some NPCs have Merits and Flaws, but they are forbidden for PCs.
Permitted clans - Brujah, Malkavian, Nosferatu, Toreador, Ventrue. Only these clans have represenatives high enough in the Prince's regard to be granted permission to send a representative.
Backgrounds - You may not have more than five dots in a single background at character creation (after freebie points are spent). Backgrounds will be permitted to exceed your generational max, but such levels must be obtained in-game.
Generation - although you are a neonate in age, your sire is powerful and old. Generation will begin at 11 not 13. These are not "dots", its just a different starting point - you may still spend five dots in Generation
Mentor- You sire is willing to offer his advice and is an experienced player in the Jyhad. All characters will gain three dots in the mentor background for free. An additional zero, one or two dots may be spent if desired - representing either an even more useful sire or an entirely seperate second mentor.
Fame - The Fame background is banned. Prince Deuxponts does not wish to draw attention to the claims for power in Havershome and so will veto any proposed representative who is well known to the Kine.
Protected Backgrounds - You may choose to lodge zero, one or two points of backgrounds with your sire. They will protect them for you and render them immune to attack from other players. Further, the three free dots in Mentor are immune to attack from other players.
Sire - I shall require some information on your sire, who will be an important NPC in the game. At a minimum I would like brief details on where his powerbase in Edinburgh lies and how he maintains it.
Sire's Aid - I shall be awarding additional dots in Backgrounds to represent aid your sire is willing to give you, based on the description requested above. This is a two way street - if you are not adequately representing his interests, he will withdraw his aid.
Merits and Flaws - Are forbidden. For the sake of completeness I will mention that some NPCs have Merits and Flaws, but they are forbidden for PCs.