Mortal Creation Rules

“When the game is over, the King and the Pawn go into the same box.” - Italian Proverb

Mortal creation stats from 3.5 VtM: 6/4/3 attributes, 11/7/4 abilities. Backgrounds: 5, virtues: 7 (Path Humanity), Freebies: 21

Fair warning: Mortals are subject to those vampire pcs and npcs around them. That being said, the mortal game is a secondary subgame of vampire: pc mortals could be subject to feeding, ghouling, death, and more. If a player is uncomfortable with crossover Vampire themes in relation to their mortal, this game is ideal for them.

Character Types Allowed
*Giovanni Family members (and sub families)
*Ghouls (PC ghouls require a PC dom). A player can not play both the PC dom and the PC ghoul. This is a serious conflict of interest.
*Plain mortals (mediums, and other occult types welcome)
*Low ranking Church concepts
*Generic Gypsies (street level fortune tellers, etc)
*Low level Police (restricted to players who have been on the site over a month)
*Hunters (Very restricted to long term players on the site, not created at submission so much as through long term rp)
*Low level criminals, and street life

Character Types NOT Allowed
*FBI / CIA / KGB / Police / FEMA / Ect
*Real celebrities or high profile figures (Paris Hilton, Brad Pitt, etc)
*High Ranking Politicians (the Mayor, Governor, or President)
*Mafia King Pins / Criminal Overlords / Arms & Gun dealers
*Any character under the age of 16 (Characters under the legal age may not be involved or implied in any sexual fashion )
*High ranking Church / Inquisition
*Hedge Mages, and other similar types of characters
*Kinfolk for any shifter breed.
*Numina and the like.
*Rogue ghouls - while it is an interesting concept, it is a over done concept. Something like this should come about through rp, not the character creation process.

Stats on Mortals
*Starting mortal characters should not have any stats at 5
*Mortals should not have Vampire paths of Enlightment
*Only GHOULS may have basic disciplines, these should be according to the dom's clan and generation.
*No influences higher than 1 at creation, some exceptions allowed
*Please limit combat stats to no higher than 3 (firearms, brawl, etc), no more then 5 total combat stats at creation.
*At creation stat ratings of 4 requires an explanation.
*WP for character creation is restricted to 6 and below. Characters wishing to obtain a WP of 6+ must have good reasoning in their background to justify it.
*Ghoul characters who are embraced need to have been a ghoul for at least 3 months prior to the embrace to keep their disciplines gained while as a ghoul. This is to prevent abuse of the system to create zerg stat neonates.

*Changing stats on an unapproved character sheet*
While your sheet is in the 'pending' status you can make changes to your sheet. Once a sheet has the 'approved' status a player can no longer change the sheet.

*Clone Characters*
Since 2005 PL has had a rule against 'cloning'. That meaning, players are not welcome to play a character here, if someone is playing the exact same character elsewhere. A person can change the character name, and tweak the concept to get around this. However the exact same character, on actively played on several sites is not okay here.

*Derangements*
Players should only select derangements from the books. At this time, we would like to request that players not make up their own derangements. Additionally, a starting pc should have no more then one or two derangements. In the past we have seen starting characters submitted with up to six derangements, this is a bit excessive and broken. For the players enjoyment and other players, please think about the quality of such long term rp. A derangement is not an excuse to act wildly, and have a character who acts without thought or foresight. Derangements are role play tools meant to reflect the inner horrors of bad mental health: not bad rp.

*Influences* List of the current Influences PCs can attain: Bureaucracy, Educational, Entertainment, Finance, High Society, Media, Legal, Medical, Occult, Police, Political, Street, Transportation, and Underworld. Characters may only start with an influence of 1 in any area, and begin with a maximum of 3 influence dots combined. Banned Influences: Military, and Government.

*Lores*
Mortals are mortal. At creation, with very few exceptions, mortals should not start with lores. Starting with lores on a mortal sheet requires special ST approval. An occult rating is not the same as a lore rating. There are exceptions for this rule, please discuss them with the Mortal ST at creation. Occult ratings of ANY level does NOT mean a character is truthfully aware of the existance of vampires, and other major game elements such as werewolves. Factual awareness of supernatural creates is represented by lores. If you would like to learn more about lores, please visit the vampire creation page.

*Merits & Flaws on Mortals*
Merits & Flaws should be from the 3.5 vampire system. Please do not submit mortals with merits and flaws taken from systems such as Demon, Mage, and Werewolf. A bit of common sense should be applied to these merits and flaws, obviously a merit like 'Powerful Childe' would not be a suitable merit for a mortal. Please visit the vampire creation page for a quick list of banned/restricted merits and flaws. You can find a list of ALL merits and flaws from ALL systems here: http://bluwiki.com/go/Vampire/Dhampir/Ghouls/Mortals/Others_Merits_and_Flaws_list . Again, we only accept merits and flaws from 3.5 ed and 3.0 editions of VtM. When a merit or flaw is present in 3.5 format the 3.5 rules will be used.
(Not all the merits and flaws listed are from Vampire. We list them because they are commonly asked about.)

Animal Magnetism (Banned)
Bards Tongue (Restricted)
Blaise (Toreador exclusive, restricted to only Toreador PCs)
Bullyboy (Banned, this is something that is earned through RP not at creation)
Charmed Existence (Banned)
Child (Banned)
Common Sense (Restricted)
Corporate CEO (Restricted)
Cursed (Restricted)
Dark Fate (Restricted)
Disease Carrier (Restricted)
Enchanting Voice (Restricted)
False Reflection (Nossie exclusive, Banned)
Huge Size (Restricted)
Iron Will (Banned)
Jack of All Trades (Banned)
Kinfolk (Banned)
Lawman's Friend (Banned, this is something that is earned through RP not at creation)
Lucky (Restricted)
Lunacy (Restricted)
Magic Resistant (Restricted)
New Bloodline (Banned)
Nine Lives (Restricted)
No Internet Access (Banned)
Powerful Childe (Restricted)
Precocious (Banned)
RedList (Banned)
Sexy (Banned)
Silver Intolerance/Vulnerability (Banned)
Spirit Mentor (Banned)
Super Natural Companion (Banned)
True Faith (Restricted)
True Love (Restricted)
Unbondable (Banned)
Vengeful (Restricted)
Virulen Strike (Banned)
More as seen fit by the ST at creation. Please pair suitable merits and flaws with the pc concept. Restricted merits and flaws are only available to long term exceptional players who have a worthy character concept.

Merits & Flaws should only come from the vampire system. Please do not submit vampires with merits and flaws taken from systems such as Demon, Mage, and Werewolf. If in doubt about a merit or flaw, just ask an ST. You can find a list of ALL merits and flaws from ALL systems here: http://pen-paper.net/wod.php?op=merits&merittypeid=8 Again, we only accept merits and flaws from 3rd edition Vampire.

*Making Yourself As A Character*
From time to time a player wants to play them self as a PC in the WoD: Experience has shown us this is a bad idea. Players should not submit themselves as a pc, or use themselves as an actual core concept for a pc.

*Min Maxing*
Min/Maxed sheets (social, mental, combat, whatever) will be denied. There is a great wealth and variety of ways to spend creation points to create a well rounded character that reflects a life time, please do not limit pcs to just min maxed stats.

*Transfers*
At this time we do not accept characters transfers from other games (we have seen character with over 1,000 exp try and transfer here). We have no future plans on changing this rule. We do welcome players to recreate an old character from another site that the player longer plays the character on, and play its concept here.