Tell Me About Your Characters

[propergoffick]

Forget about the pages of rules and the handfuls of dice. Close the book, turn out the lights, and tell me a story about dark desires and relentless hunger. Tell me about a vampire: about her talents and her weaknesses, and you tell me what kind of challenges she faces, what rewards or perils come her way.
-- Vampire: the Masquerade (Revised)

 

Since we're all new here: let's do what used to be not the done thing at all, when I was a lad. Tell me about your characters! Open your hatch and disgorge that nourishing vampire tea.

Comments

[propergoffick]

An interesting crew! I like the scholarly Brujah tradition manifesting itself in Connor (who seems like a good lad), I always like to see Tremere from non-spoopy backgrounds (people always forget that two out of three Tremere Disciplines are to do with MIND WHAMMY and they look for smart people, not just edgy Wiccans), and - well, I've always liked the name "Mallory" anyway, even before you bolt it on to a willing convert to the Sabbat cause. I wonder how you're planning on depicting that final fall/rise into True Sabbat status - it's not something the game itself has done particularly well.

[eternal_life_sentence]

Thank you! It seriously made my day to see people interested in my characters :) I'm still working on Mal's storyline, trying to figure out how to pace it out across the broader workings of the Sabbat within the plot, as well as the precise mechanics of what goes down. I've been way more focused on the Camarilla plotlines recently


On the subject of Tremere: I 100% agree with you. The way I've always seen it, you can teach Hermetic symbols, ritual preparation, and Latin vocabulary. What you *can't* teach is intelligence, ambition, drive, or loyalty. Get someone with the right personality, and you can indoctrinate them into the rest. Especially since not all Tremere are straight thaumaturgists anyway, anymore than all Giovanni are straight necromancers.