Hamilton By Night: Shadows in the Hammer (NSFW Solo PBP Game)

Creating your character

Books Used: All characters are created using the base book character creation rules in the VtM 5th edition Corebook and the Player's Guide. All other official sources will be discussed on a case by case basis. Sea of Time and Additional Creation Points: We will be using the neonate rules from the Sea of Time part of the game. Basically that means you start with 15 experience points to round out your character. Thin blooded characters and fledglings will ALSO have the 15 experience points gifted on character creation. We will only be using Lore Sheets on a case by case basis and there will be no non-standard specialized skills. Please use only the base sheet ones. All characters start with an additional point in a clan Discipline (or one of the chosen three for Caitiffs etc), to a maximum of three points during character creation. All characters received an additional three points of Advantages such as backgrounds, merits, etc. Standard rules apply otherwise. Clans: All clans in the two rulebooks used are allowed. The common clans in Hamilton are: Brujah, Hecata, Toreador, Tremere, Malkavian, Nosferatu, Ventrue, Caitiff. All others exist but are few in number. Sects: We will be playing as Camarilla or Anarch sect aligned characters. No Sabbat allowed. Independent characters are allowed but will be at a disadvantage since Sects play heavily into the game setting. We will be using the standard Merits and Flaws rules presented in the Corebook. Please work in a reason why your character has these traits in their backstory. There is a list of some that are banned or restricted: Banned merits: Uncle Fangs Restricted Merits: (Please contact the ST to discuss): Loresheets (must have ST approval before selecting) Unbondable Object of Power Untouchable Banned Flaws: Methuselah's Thirst Ingrained Discipline Flaws (we will not be using these) Befouling Vitae Restricted Flaws: (Please contact the ST to discuss): Bondslave Organovore Blatant Diablierist Walking Omen Word-Scarred Faith Proof Character History/Backstories: Backstories should be a couple paragraphs at least but beyond that, I'm open to length. Just, please no more than one page of backstory. Artwork: Please find some visual art or reference for your character. I will provide the same with locations, npcs and other setting elements.

Preparing for the session

This game will take place on Discord and use the Inconnu dice bot. Please have a Discord account for joining this game. This game is built as either a solo or duet game (one player or two) or a cooperative group game. Character sheets will be done using a fillable character sheet or any other sort of character generator such as Demiplane (see below) you'd prefer, just as long as I can have a copy of the sheet as a pdf. We do have a Demiplane group set up for character generation as well and I have shared my content for ease of creation. The link for the group will be provided once you join the game.

What Chris MacKay brings to the table

I will provide a rich setting with themes of personal horror, political intrigue and everything in between. We will build the game you want to play together. The other themes we explore will be up to the players and will be discussed during Session Zero. Combat will take place but will not be the main focus of the game - that will be heavy roleplay and collaborative storytelling. I tend to favour the Rule of Cool over using the Rules as a strict "you must do it this way or not at all" well, rule. They are guidelines and I will side with the mechanics but if we gotta twist it a bit to make it cooler for the story and players, let's do it!

Homebrew rules

House rules will be posted in depth on the Discord server but otherwise are in the character creation section.

How Chris MacKay creates a safe table

There will be a Session Zero in which we will go over any soft and hard limits the players have as well as talk about the mutual lines and veils we want to establish for the story. Vampire can be a very heavy and horrific game but we can do it comfortably for all as well.