Creation Guidelines

Standard Creation
The city in Chicago: Ashen Night reflects a diverse assortment of Kindred. They are the young and old, the Chicago natives and the newcomers. To reflect this diversity, every new character is given bonus experience points with which to enhance their character after the standard creation process.

The steps to creation are identical up to the point of experience expenditure. Select your attributes (5/4/3), skills (11/7/4), Virtue and Vice, Merits (7 points), and Disciplines (3 dots, 2 of which must be in your in-clan discipline selection).

Bloodlines may be selected at character creation. If the bloodline the character is joining is the bloodline his sire belonged to, the character must be Blood Potency 2. If the character is joining a bloodline other than that of his sire, his Blood Potency must be 3 (this differs from the book, which requires BP 4).

Maximum Blood Potency at Creation: 4 with background.

Free Experience Points
After standard creation, each new character is given 40 points of experience to spend. After attending a 2nd game, the character receives 5 additional experience for a total of 45 bonus experience for a character. They are spent in the following manner:

Attribute Increase: New Rating x 5

Skill Increase: New Rating x 3

In-Discipline Increase: New Rating x 5

Other Discipline (including Coils, Sorceries, etc): New Rating x 7

Willpower: 8 experience per dot

Merits: New Rating x 2 (For variable level merits such as Resources, Allies, etc, each level must be purchased separately; e.g. If you wanted to purchase Resources 3 from scratch with Xp, it could cost 12 points-- 2 for level 1, 4 for level 2, and 6 for level 3 = 12)

Purchasing Blood Potency: If purchased with Experience Points, each level of Blood Potency costs 6 points (up to a maximum of Blood Potency 4).

Restrictions

 * 1) Characters may not have a starting Discipline over level 4.
 * 2) Bloodlines are approved on a case-by-case basis.
 * 3) Maximum starting Blood Potency: 4
 * 4) Maximum starting Skill rating: 4
 * 5) Players can make their own bloodlines, but in no case shall a bloodline have a new discipline that has not been put into print by White Wolf in the nWoD system. Additionally, all player-created bloodlines subject to Storyteller approval.

Bonuses
Characters can receive a few points in skills or merits due to turning in a background for their character. These bonus points will not exceed a maximum rating 3 three in any stat (save on special circumstances), nor will more than 5 dots be granted to a sheet (save for special circumstances).

Characters will receive 1 dot of Covenant Status for free at creation.

Characters who have been established in Chicago will receive 1 point in City Status for free. Newcomers to the city will not get this bonus, but may purchase City Status at creation.