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Hi,
How does one create a character alias?

Rictor

Chronicle: Chicago by night
Sire: Gengis
Concept: outlaw biker (think sons of anarchy)
Ambition: Become someone important.
Desire: Do something that matters.
Predator: alley cat
Clan: Brujah
Gen: 13
Blood potency: 1

Str: 3
Dex: 3
Sta: 4

Chr: 2
Man: 1
Com: 2

Int 2
Wts 2
Res 3

Physical
Brawl 4
Firearms 3
Melee 2
Craft 2
Drive 2
Athletics 1
Larceny 1
Stealth 2
Survival 1

Social
Streetwise 3
Intimidation 2

Mental
Medicine 1
Awareness 1
Investigation 1
Occult 1

Humanity 6
Health 7
Willpower 5

Merit: criminal contacts 3
Merit: retainers 3
Merit: resources 5
Merit: Mawla 5
Flaw: stake bait 2

Disciplines
Celerity 2
Potence 2

Touchstone: Kurt his younger brother
Conviction: always deliver on promises

This was my first attempt at V5 character creation so there may be mistakes.

Both concepts are people who join groups seeking safety in numbers and would likely be looking to join a coterie after finding themselves neonates in the world of darkness.

Hi,

I am interested in joining the Chicago by night chronicle. I am familiar with the old Chicago by night up until the events of the end of the module Under a blood red moon. I really know. I thing about V5 or current Chicago by night.

I could run a brujah or a gangrel in the current chronicle as I don’t think you have either based on my review of the thread.

Character concepts I was thinking of could be a gangbanger or an outlaw biker.
Let me know your thoughts.

Discusion Thread

Looks like we might have all the takers we're going to have for this one. If any you have someone else in mind that might be interested, please send them this way.

Hi,

ST Shadow,

Do you have a house rule or custom regarding how you handle the requirement of the material Components for thaumaturgical rituals? Is there a limited presumption of the characters having the tools of the trade on hand?

I wanted to outfit and equip my character and his ghoul with 1910 weapons and other gear/equipment/items/possessions. I took 5 resource dots in character creation, how do you deal with resources and character purchases/finances?

Also, how does one send a DM on this site or check to see if one has received a DM?

Thanks.

KnightOfTheDinnerTable wrote:

Gaston Flambeau

Concept/background: A war mage formerly of the Order of Hermes and House Flambeau, forcibly embraced by the renegade Tremere elder Lord Casmir as one of the children of Isaac.

The war mages of house Flambeau are one of the 12 founding houses of the order of Hermes and they are masters of the forces sphere well known for their innate connection to fire magic. House Flambeau was allied with house Tremere for many years until the start of the Massasa war when they became the most ardent foes of the Tremere.
In addition to destructive magic, the Flambeau war mages are masters of martial arts and mundane weapons.

Gaston has mostly come to terms with his vampiric existence but he still mourns the loss of his avatar and his expulsion from the order. He still hopes to one day find a cure for his vampirism but does not expect this will ever actually happen.

** spoiler omitted **

I just activated messaging.

KnightOfTheDinnerTable wrote:

Merits

Discipline prodigy (Thaumaturgy) 5pt merit (all thaumaturgy difficulties are reduced by 1 for all paths and rituals but never less than a 4 difficulty)
Ability aptitude (melee) 1 pt merit (all melee difficulties are reduced by 2)

Where are these from?

I googled “wod merits and flaws” and there was voluminous results. I’m not sure specifically which set of lists but it would have been first page of search results.

A proposed character sheet submitted for review.

Gaston Flambeau

Concept/background: A war mage formerly of the Order of Hermes and House Flambeau, forcibly embraced by the renegade Tremere elder Lord Casmir as one of the children of Isaac.

The war mages of house Flambeau are one of the 12 founding houses of the order of Hermes and they are masters of the forces sphere well known for their innate connection to fire magic. House Flambeau was allied with house Tremere for many years until the start of the Massasa war when they became the most ardent foes of the Tremere.
In addition to destructive magic, the Flambeau war mages are masters of martial arts and mundane weapons.

Gaston has mostly come to terms with his vampiric existence but he still mourns the loss of his avatar and his expulsion from the order. He still hopes to one day find a cure for his vampirism but does not expect this will ever actually happen.

Demeanor: Bravo
Nature: Bravo

Str 3
Dex 6 (lightning fast)
Sta 3

Chr 2
Man 2
App 5

Per 2
Int 3 (languages: native French, Italian, english, Egyptian)
Wts 2

Talents
Alertness 4
Athletics 1
Brawl 4
Intimidation 1
Empathy 1
Streetwise 1

Skills
Etiquette 1
Performance 1
Melee 6
Ride 1
Stealth 1
Firearms 4
Survival 1
Craft 1
Larceny 1

Knowledges
Occult 6
Law 1

Disciplines
Lure of flames 5
Path of blood 3
Celerity 1

Backgrounds
Generation 5
Resources 5
Ghoul 1 (Ethan, a former confederate soldier)

Conscience 1
Self control 4
Courage 5

Humanity 5
Willpower 10

Flaws
Infamous sire (Lord Casmir, conspiracy of Isaac) 1pt flaw (others may view him with suspicion due to his lineage)
Clan enmity (Giovanni) 4pt flaw (plus 2 difficulty to all social interactions with Giovanni and they may even attempt to do him harm)
Mystical aura 2pt flaw (his aura shimmers with magic and gives away that he is a mage with even 1 success at reading his aura)

Merits
Discipline prodigy (Thaumaturgy) 5pt merit (all thaumaturgy difficulties are reduced by 1 for all paths and rituals but never less than a 4 difficulty)
Ability aptitude (melee) 1 pt merit (all melee difficulties are reduced by 2)

Rituals
Level 1 wake with evenings freshness
Level 1 tame the maddening flame
Level 2 extinguish
Level 2 eyes of Babel
Level 3 translocation of the vessel
Level 3 incorporeal passage
Level 4 mirror walk
Level 5 unquenchable flame of mars

Freebie points: 5 on dexterity, 10 on secondary path, 5 on willpower, 2 on backgrounds. Flaws 7 points, 1 on backgrounds, 6 on merits.

Concept thus far is a war wizard.

In V20 character creation, when allocating dots to an ability is 3 the limit unless it’s raised beyond 3 with freebie points? Or nowadays can you just plunk 4 or 5 dots into an ability with the pool of dots available ?

Thanks for the V20 list of abilities. I’ll remove dots in quick-draw, mediation and mage lore. I should get the anachronism flaw OOC.

Once upon a time, a dot or two in academics granted the scholars tongue, Latin.

This is an example of my not knowing what it is that I don’t know about V20. My rough draft character is heavily invested in linguistics as a knowledge when that knowledge apparently no longer exists.

WW,
Unless V20 is really different from orig and revised WOD, you can take linguistics as a knowledge.

Hi,
Will all characters be presumed to be able to read and write and do basic math or given the time period, will characters need a dot in academics to have basic literacy?

Hi,
As this is my first foray into play by post, I have a question with regard to game mechanics in the chronicle. How are actions that would be determined with dice rolls in a table top game handled in the play by post chronicle? Does the story teller consider the declared action and the dice pool of the character and make a judgment call on a result or is there some virtual dice mechanism?

My character has a reason for path of blood being his secondary path and not his primary path due to the circumstances of his embrace and initial lack of formal training as well as his prior history as a forces adept of house flambeau. So I was also planning on having a path other than blood as the primary.

In the next week or so, I will get an actual campaign thread up and running.

Sounds great. As to why my character is still barely an ancillae when by embrace date he should be an elder, after the events of 1444 he tried to experiment with a magical cure for his vampirism that involved complete immersion in quintessence at a node while a mage friend from his breathing days tried to restore him with the life sphere. The resulting explosion killed his mage friend and left him in torpor for centuries until he was pulled by mystic forces from torpor in 1666 and was compelled to rejoin with the other children of Isaac. After the events of 1666, he went on a quest that lasted nearly a year to try to cure his vampirism that took him to the deep umbra trying to find Pangea and ultimately to the gates of Arcadia where he was denied entrance to the realm of the fea. When he felt a mystic pull to return to the material plane it wasn’t a year that had passed it was nearly two centuries as time had passed differently. After the events of 1888 he has remained with the Tremere until the beginning of the chronicle in 19**.

Hi,
I am interested in participating in a play by post chronicle. I am very familiar with the old world of darkness but I do not know the V20 system so I could have some blind spots with regard to game system mechanics. I am also new to these forums and how things are done here.

I’ve read your chronicle concept and the character idea that came to mind is an order of Hermes mage that was captured by Claudius Giovanni and offered as a meal/play thing to Casmir and was embraced as a Tremere neonate during the events of the last supper. The character only sees his siblings in darkness once every few hundred years so it would just be background. While the character serves and has sworn an oath of fealty to house Tremere, he has never given up hope of somehow finding a cure for the curse of vampirism and restoring his avatar. The only path for this very slim hope is acquiring more magical knowledge and lore and the only way for him to do that is by serving the Pyramid.

Let me know if you have room for one more character in the story and if so, if the character concept works.