Masquerade V5 Character Creation Guide

Character Creation Summary

While these rules can be found on page 136 of the Masquerade V5 core book this will be a simple guide for character creation. It is suggested to use the full creation rules based on pages 138 - 151

Core Concept

• What was your characters name in life?
• What did they do? Where and when were they Embraced?
• What is their name now?
• Where are they now?
• How old are they?
• What did they do when they were alive?
• What did they want to be?

Clan and Sire

• Pick your Clan and complete any necessary approvals if needed
• Make Character Ties for your Sire or create an NPC Sire with your Storyteller

Attributes

• - One Attibute
• - Three Attibutes
• - Four Attributes
• - One Attribute
• Health = Stamina + 3
• Willpower = Composure + Resolve

Skills

Pick one Skill distribution

Jack of all Trades

• - One Skill
• - Eight Skills
• - Ten Skills

Balanced

• - Three Skills
• - Five Skills
• - Seven Skills

Specialist

• - One Skill
• - Three Skills
• - Three Skills
• - Three Skills

Specialties

Give a Free Specialty to the following Skills, provided you have a single dot in that skill

• Academics
• Craft
• Performance
• Science
• One More of your choosing

If you have not taken a dot in these skills at creation, you will still gain a free specialty upon purchase of your first dot.

Disciplines

• Choose 2 of your In Clan Disciplines. Put in one and in the other.
• For the first dot of each discipline, pick a level 1 power
• For the second dot of the main discipline, you can choose either a level 2 power or another level 1 power for this slot.
• If you have chosen to play a Caitiff, You can pick any 2 disciplines to do the above, please speak with your storyteller about these disciplines before choosing them.
• If you have chosen to play a Thin-Blood, do not pick any disciplines.

Predator

Unless freshly embraced or unfortunate enough to be a Thin-Blood, Vampires have a Predator type. These are the main ways your Kindred will feed. Given a situation they will usually default to this way of feeding. For predator types go to page 175 of the V5 core book.

• Add one of the listed specialties to your sheet, If you do not have the associated skill for the specialty. Add a single dot in that Skill instead.
• Add one dot to a listed Discipline, then pick an associated power.
• Apply any associated Advantages or Flaws.

Advantages

Vampires

• Spend 7 points on Advantages in addition to those gained by your predator type.
• Take 2 points of Flaws in addition to those gained by your predator type.

Thin-Bloods

• Spend 7 points on Advantages in addition to those gained by your predator type.
• Take 2 points of Flaws in addition to those gained by your predator type.
• Take 1 - 3 Thin-Blood Merits
• Take the same amount of Thin-Blood Flaws.

Convictions and Touchstones

• Select one to three Convictions, examples can be found on page 172 of the V5 core book
• Create an equal amount of Touchstones. Touchstones must be living Mortals.
• Set your Humanity to 7, then add or remove Humanity based on your Predator Type.

Additional Experience

• TBA Depending on Addendum, Players may be granted extra experience at character creation

Trait Costs: Experience

Trait	Experience Cost
Increase Attribute	New Level x5
Increase Skill	New Level x3
New Specialty	3
Clan Discipline	New Level x5
Out Of Clan Discipline	New Level x7
Caitiff Discipline	New Level x6
Blood Sorcery Ritual	Ritual Level x3
Thin-Blood Alchemy	Formula Level x3
Advantage	3 per dot
Blood Potency	New Level x10
*Humanity	New Level x10

* Pending Addendum, Humanity Experience cost is an optional rule.