All of the following information can be found in greater detail in Laws of the Night Revised.

Background/Inspiration
Why is Background first? Because it's the most important part of your character. Just like a real person, your character has a past. What he or she has done in the past reflects what he or she is doing now and what he or she will be doing in the future. Characters who have well developed backgrounds really are easier to play. You will be able to use parts of your background to help you react to situations, to explain odd quirks of your character and to more fully “get into character”.
 

• All characters will be neonates. All characters will be starting characters built as per instructions presented in Laws of the Night Revised.
• Your character may have been a vampire for any length of time, but has only been active for 50 years, plus 5 years per Generation below 13th. Therefore, a Kindred of the 8th Generation may have been active for up to 75 years.
• Your character may have arrived in the city anytime after June 2000. See the history of the city for reasons why your character would have picked up stakes and moved, or invent your own. This can be a crucial part of your character's background, as vampires rarely move on a whim, unless of course your playing a Gangrel or a Ravnos. Your former location is very important too, if others are from the same city.
• Your background should also include other things that motivate you, whether they be goals, ambitions or simply personality quirks.

Clan
- Brujah & Brujah Antitribu: 5 total
- Toreador & Toreador Antitribu: 5 total
- Ventrue & Ventrue Antitribu: 5 total
- Nosferatu & Nosferatu Antitribu: 5 total
- Malkavian & Malkavian Antitribu: 4 total
- Tremere: 3
- Giovanni: 3
- Assamite & Assamite Antitribu: 1 total
- Followers of Set: 1
- Gangrel & Gangrel Antitribu: 4 total
- Ravnos & Ravnos Antitribu: 2 total
- Tzimisce: 3
- Lasombra: 3
- Samedi: 1
- Salubri Antitribu: 1 total
- Daughters of Cacophony: 1
- Caitiff & Panders: 8 total
 

• The following Clans may NOT be chosen to play: Lasombra Antitribu, Gargoyles, Harbingers of Skulls, Blood Brothers, Kiasyd, True Brujah, Old Clan Tzimisce, Baali, Nagaraja, Serpents of the Light, Salubri or any rare, obscure or invented bloodlines.

Attributes & Abilities

• Standard prioritize Physical/Social/Mental (7/5/3). Assign 5 Abilities.
• You may take an Attribute Trait or an Ability Trait at x2, but no higher than x2 at any stage of character creation.
• With Freebie Points, you may raise your Attribute Categories by 2 and raise your Ability Traits to the maximum of 10 Abilities, keeping in mind the x2 limitation.

Disciplines

• Assign 3 Disciplines, Sabbat assign 4.
• Characters may only start with in-clan Disciplines. NO EXCEPTIONS!!! Caitiff and Panders may choose their Disciplines, but only from the 8 cardinal Disciplines (Animalism, Auspex, Celerity, Dominate, Fortitude, Obfuscate, Potence and Presence) to count as “in-clan”. If Caitiff/Panders players are undecided, default Disciplines are Fortitude, Potence and Presence.
• Players may purchase one (and only one) Intermediate Level of a Discipline during Character Creation, but this must be done with Free Traits. Clan-Specific Disciplines (Protean, Thaumaturgy, Obtenebration, etc...) may not be taken past the Basic Levels during Character Creation.
• Tremere may actually choose which Path of Thaumaturgy they wish to learn as their primary Path. Tremere players must begin with Blood Mastery, but if you wish for a second option, you may give the Storytellers a brief character concept and the Storytellers will give you another possible primary Path. This decision is open to minor negotiation, but if you choose not to take this second option, or if you choose not to cooperate, you must begin with Blood Mastery.
• Giovanni must begin with Necromancy: Sepulcher Path as their primary Path, and further Paths may not be purchased during character creation.
• For each level of Thaumaturgy/Necromancy purchased you may select one Basic Ritual.
• No Tremere may learn Dark Thaumaturgy and no Giovanni may learn either Mortuus or Vitreous Necromancy.
• Malkavian Antitribu may begin with Dementation. Camarilla Malkavians get Dominate instead. Each level of Dementation a character possesses bestows an additional Derangement, above and beyond any beginning Derangments, upon the practitioner. Derangements bestowed in this manner will be chosen by the Storytellers.
• Storytellers reserve the right to deny advancement in certain Disciplines for various reasons.

Backgrounds

• Assign 5 Backgrounds, Sabbat assign none. No Background may be bought higher than x5.
• Players may start with no more than 3 Retainers. Ghouls (or revenants for Tzimisce and wraiths for Giovanni) may be created by the player, or by the Storytellers if you prefer. If you wish to have a ghoul that will be with you, you need to find someone to play him or her. This is not the responsibility of the Storytellers. Players may, if they wish, choose not to play a vampire, and instead play a ghoul (but more than likely not a revenant or a wraith). In this case, you will need to find someone who has taken the Retainers Background.
• No player may start with Influence in any field higher than x3, even after free Influence given to you by your Clan. No more than 8 total levels of Influence may be taken during Character Creation, and no more than two areas of Influence may be taken x3.
• Fame may not be purchased higher than x2.
• Storytellers will create your Mentor, in the event that you buy this Background. Certain exceptions can be made to this rule.
• Only a few people will be allowed to play 8th Generation. This limit will be kept secret.
• Characters may begin the game as 8th Generation, but realize the drawbacks to being such a low Generation (such as being Diablrie-fodder), and remember that more goes into being an elder than simply Generation. Just because your 8th Generation doesn't meant that you're an elder. The minimum age “requirement” for an elder vampire is around 250 years. Such a combination of age, Generation and Status is what makes a vampire an elder. Simply bear in mind that the benefits of being 8th Generation have lost a lot of glamour since the conversion from second edition to revised.         Click Here for elaboration.
• A ghoul must purchase the Domitor Background once per Generation of his or her Regnent below 13th.
• Only Malkavians and Caitiff and Panders of the 14th and 15th Generation may take the Insight Background.
• Certain Backgrounds may not be purchased: Age, Arcane and Military Force are good examples of these.

Virtues and Morality

• Assign 7 Virtues, Sabbat assign 5.
• Camarilla and minor Bloodline characters must follow the Path of Humanity.
• Sabbat and Independent characters follow their default Clan Path of Enlightenment (Assamite: Path of Blood, Giovanni: Path of the Bones, Followers of Set: Path of Typhon, Gangrel: Path of Humanity, Ravnos: Path of Paradox, Lasombra: Path of Night and Tzimisce: Path of Metamorphosis).
• Antitribu may choose their Path of Enlightenment, but may not choose a Clan default Path (except Assamite Antitribu may follow the Path of Blood and Ravnos Antitribu may follow the Path of Paradox).
• Independent Clans and minor Bloodlines may chose to follow a different Path, but not Clan default Paths (except Samedi may follow the Path of the Bones), but must assign 5 Virtues instead of 7. Lasombra and Tzimisce may do this for free.
• No character may follow the Path of Evil Revelations. Period.
• No character may follow any Path that someone has invented. If you want to follow a Path that is not in the book, then find it, show it to a Storyteller and we'll think about it.

Status

• Status may not be bought during character creation.
• Camarilla characters begin the game with the status of Acknowledged. Sabbat characters begin the game with the status of Initiated. Independent clans, minor Bloodlines and Caitiff do not begin with any status.
• Characters beginning the game after the first session will not begin with any status at all.

Negative Traits, Freebie Points and Derangements

• Players may take as many Negative Attribute Traits as he or she wants, but will get points for only 5. Any traits after 5 will be taken for the sake of role-playing. Negative traits awarded by Clan (such as Nosferatu’s Repugnant x3) do not count toward this limit.
• No player may take a Derangement for free traits. If you would like to take a Derangement for the sake of role-playing, then you must consult a Storyteller. This will be permitted only to those whom the Storytellers feel are responsible role-players (playing them out). This is completely at the discretion of the Storytellers, and can be revoked at any time.
• Allocate 5 Freebie Points at the end of character creation.

Merits and Flaws

• You may take as many Flaws as you would like, but you will only get the maximum 5 traits out of them. Any further Flaws will be taken for the sake of role-playing.
• Merits and Flaws are strongly suggested by the Storytellers.
• Merits and Flaws should ALWAYS be cleared with the Storytellers before taking them. Many of the Merits and Flaws are banned (meaning no one may take them) or restricted (meaning only a few certain people can take them), but the list is far to long list here. Always consult the STs before purchasing any Merits or Flaws.
• No character, after free points, negative traits and flaws, may have more than 15 Freebie Points to spend.

Character Points

• Character Points may be used to gain 3 Free Traits. Multiple Character Points may be spent, but each Character Point beyond the first is worth only 2 Free Traits.
• Free Traits gained through Character Points do not count towards the max. (15) Free Trait limit.
• Character points are granted twice per year, once at the beginning of the second university semester and again at the end of the game. They will only be awarded to players who have maintained perfect attendance AND played the same character for the entire semester.

Freebie Point Costs

Gaining Freebie Points:
- Freebie Traits – 5
- Negative Attribute Traits – 1 per Trait
- Flaws – level of Flaw
- Lower Morality Rating by one (this can be done only once) – 2
- Character Points - 3 (2 for each CP after the first)

Spending Free Traits:
- Attribute Traits – 1
- Abilities – 1
- Basic Disciplines – 3 (in-clan only)
- Intermediate Disciplines – 4 (in-clan only)
- Backgrounds – 1
- Virtues – 2
- Willpower – 3
- Morality Trait – 3
- Merits – cost of Merit

Character Creation Quick Start Rules
 
Camarilla and Independent Characters
- Attributes: Prioritize Physical, Social and Mental (Primary/Secondary/Tertiary; 7/5/3)
- Abilities: 5
- Disciplines: 3 (in-clan only)
- Backgrounds: 5
- Virtues: 7
- Willpower/Blood: by Generation
- Morality Traits: average of Consciance/Conviction and Self-Control/Instinct (rounded up)
- Free Traits: 5

Sabbat Characters
- Attributes: Prioritize Physical, Social and Mental (Primary/Secondary/Tertiary; 7/5/3)
- Abilities: 5
- Disciplines: 4 (in-clan only)
- Backgrounds: 0
- Virtues: 5
- Willpower/Blood: by Generation
- Morality Traits: average of Consciance/Conviction and Self-Control/Instinct (rounded up)
- Free Traits: 5

Ghouls
- Attributes: Prioritize Physical, Social and Mental (Primary/Secondary/Tertiary; 6/4/3)
- Abilities: 4
- Disciplines: 1 (see Ghouls)
- Backgrounds: 5 (must buy a number of levels of the Domitor Background equal to the number of levels of the Generation Background Regnent posesses)
- Virtues: 7
- Willpower/Blood: 2/10 (only 5 Blood usable)
- Morality Traits: average of Consciance/Conviction and Self-Control/Instinct (rounded up). Must play Humanity.
- Free Traits: 5

Revenants, Familiars and other weird-ass Retainers
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