Vampire - McCartney By Night (V20 Beginner Friendly)

Creating your character

Character creation will be handled as part of session 0. I have some house rules around character creation which I will provide as part of the set up. Access to all materials needed for character creation will be supplied.

Preparing for the session

As long as you have a Discord and Roll20 account you're good to go! That and an idea for a good HUMAN character.

What Iain brings to the table

While I use some house rules, the game will largely be run as per the V20 rules. I am very roleplay heavy and less likely to include combat. If you want to play a combat monster I'm not the storyteller for you! All of my games are theatre of the mind, but I make heavy use of ambient sound and music to help create atmosphere. I am interested in letting players get deep into their characters, so expect plenty of opportunities to roleplay to your heart's content.

Homebrew rules

You can choose to play one of the following clans or a Caitiff (if you want everyone to look down on you): Brujah Gangrel Malkavian Nosferatu Toreador Tremere Ventrue Please don’t ask to play anything else - I’m not allowing any bloodlines, Sabbat clans, or any of the independent clans. All characters will start on Humanity - no paths. When assigning points to attributes, no attribute may start higher than your lowest stat plus 2 (IE if your strength is only 1 your other physical stats may be no higher than 3). The only exception to the above is the Nosferatu’s appearance of 0 - ignore that when doing this calculation. No ability may start higher than 3 during the “assign abilities” stage of character creation (but they can go higher through the expenditure of freebie points later) Raising an ability to 4 costs an additional freebie point, and raising an ability to 5 costs an additional two freebie points. Likewise, no background may start higher than 3 during the “assign backgrounds” stage of character creation (but they can go higher through the expenditure of freebie points later). No discipline may start higher than 2 during the “assign disciplines” stage of character creation but ONE discipline can be raised to 3 with freebie points (no higher though) Every point of willpower bought with freebie points over 5 costs a cumulative extra freebie point (e.g 2 points for willpower 6, 3 points for willpower 7, 4 points for willpower 8 etc) On the topic of disciplines, during the “assign disciplines” stage of character creation you may only buy in clan disciplines When buying disciplines using freebie points (or if you’re choosing to play a Caitiff) you may spend them on the following: In clan disciplines Animalism Auspex Celerity Dominate Fortitude Obfuscate Potence Presence I don’t make use of combination disciplines in my games so they are not available to purchase Blood sorcery paths and rituals may only be purchased by those who have them as an in clan discipline Characters with Thaumaturgy / Necromancy get a free level 1 ritual when they first put dots into the discipline - all other rituals must be learned in game. No character may start with more than 1 point of status if they choose to buy that background. We are keeping things simple and ONLY using the V20 main rulebook - which I will provide access to. Please don’t ask for anything from any other supplements - you know what the answer will be. ;) I will include a list of merits and flaws that CANNOT be chosen during character creation as part of the house rules document. There are a plethora of flaws that give “-X to social rolls”. Unless you have a very good reason for taking multiple you may only take one. A full houserule document will be provided.

How Iain creates a safe table

We will be having a session 0. In addition, there will be a lines and veils document sent out. Vampire IS a horror game, but we don't want to be triggering anything in real life!