Character Creation Rules

Before creating a new character, or if this is your first character, get the Storyteller's approval for your concept before you go any farther.

After the Storyteller has given you approval, you can use these rules a guideline when building your new character, but you will need a copy of Laws of the Night as well. These are simply a reminder of how many points you get and where you can use them.

Morality Traits:
7 points to spend in Conscience, Self-Control, and, Courage. Each additional traits costs 2 freebee points. Your Humanity is the sum of your Conscience and Self-Control, rounded up. Each additional trait costs 3 freebee points.

Attributes:
15 points to spend in the Physical, Social, and Mental categories. 7 points in your primary category, 5 points in your secondary category, and 3 points in your tertiary category. See Laws of the Night for the actual traits you can choose from. Each additional trait costs 1 freebee point.

Abilities:
5 points to spend, see Laws of the Night for the abilities you can choose from. Each additional trait costs 1 freebee point.

Disciplines:
3 points to spend, see Laws of the Night for which disciplines you can choose from, and their specific powers. Each additional basic level power costs 3 freebee points for in-clan and 4 freebee points for out-of-clan,, each additional intermediate discipline costs 6 freebee points for in-clan and 7 freebee points for out-of -clan, each additional advanced discipline costs 9 freebee points for in-clan and 10 freebee points for out-of-clan. Keep in mind, in order to learn a new discipline power, you must first master the one before it, and no starting characters can have a discipline above level three unless the Storyteller gives it to you.

Backgrounds:
5 points to spend, see Laws of the Night for the abilities you can choose from. Each additional trait costs 1 freebee point.

Everything else:
Willpower is dictated by your generation, see Laws of the Night for more information. Each additional trait costs 3 freebee points.
Blood Pool is dictated by your generation, and cannot be adjusted with freebee points.
Merits, Flaws, and Derangements can be found in Laws of the Night, and must be approved by the Storyteller.

Freebee Points:
You get 5 freebee points to spend on anything you want, costs are listed above. Also, if your previous character had unspent experience points (XP), divide that number in half and round down and add that number to your freebee points to spend. For example if your previous character had 9 XP left over, you would get 4 additional freebee points to spend during character creation.