Emerald City Chronicles

Rules Corrections and Clarifications

One of our main goals as Staff for the Emerald City Chronicles game is to build a world for our players that is both genre accurate and adheres as closely as possible to the rules as presented in the V20 books. No system is perfect however, and there are times when the Staff feels that rules need to be clarified or corrected from previous ambiguous or conflicting rulings to better fit the LARP environment and our game.

Table of Contents

Books and Boundaries        2

Character Creation        2

Feeding        2

Downtimes        3

DOWNTIME ACTIONS        3

DOWNTIMES THAT AREN'T        4

VARIABLE INFLUENCE USES & TIMES        4

DOWNTIMES & RETAINERS        5

Character Advancement        6

Spent Experience Cap        6

Character History        6

Increase Dots and other Character Sheet Aspects        6

Learning and Teaching        7

Research Rules        8

Research        8

Mastery        9

Clans Errata        10

Attribute Errata        12

Ability Errata        12

Athletics        12

Crafting        12

Discipline Errata        13

Auspex:        13

Potence:        13

Presence:        13

Background Errata        14

Pooling/Coterie        14

Merits/Flaws Errata        21

System Errata        24

Damage and Healing        24

Switching to a Path of Enlightenment In-Game        24

Changing your Nature        24

Miscellaneous        25

PERK CARDS        25

HOUSE RULES        26

Character Retirement, Death, and Hiatus        27

Out of Game Rules:        27

Appendix 1: Magic Errata        29

Blood Magic        29

Hermetic Magic        29

Necromancy        31

Abyssal Mysticism        32

Infernalism        32

Appendix 2: Equipment        33

Appendix 3: Clan Titles        36

Appendix 4: Hand Signals        46

Books and Boundaries

The following books are used by Emerald City Chronicles (if the book is not listed here we do not use it in ECC)

• Vampire the Masquerade v20 Core Book
• Vampire the Masquerade v20 Companion Book
• Lore of the Clans (A character gains access to their Clan section only)
• Lore of the Bloodlines (A character gains access to their Bloodline section only)
• Anarchs Unbound (Anarch PC’s only)
• Rites of the Blood
• Dread Names

Character Creation

• A character’s Status is limited by what they purchase as available at Character Creation.
• Willpower costs 2 Freebie Points to raise instead of 1.
• Starting Willpower may not exceed 8.
• New Characters gain 2 free Common Lores.

Feeding

All vampires have a feeding score which determines, essentially, how good at being a vampire they are. By the book, feeding scenes are a series of checks that are made in sequence to determine if your character was successful in cornering her prey. Naturally, doing this for a game of this size individually wouldn’t be very time-effective. Instead, we will be using your character's feeding score to determine how much blood your character, and everyone else's characters begin with en-masse each month.

• To calculate your character's monthly starting blood pool Add:

• Your character's Perception Attribute rating (from 1-5)
• Plus A single relevant Ability rating (from 1-5): Whichever is highest of the following: Animal Ken, Medicine, Streetwise, Subterfuge, or Survival
• Plus Relevant backgrounds that affect feeding per the V20 core book: From 1-5 or with Pooled Backgrounds, up to 10: Herd, Fame, Domain-Feeding
• Plus or minus Merits & Flaws: Merits that positively affect feeding add its value to your score. Flaws that affect feeding reduces it by its value. Efficient Digestion will give +3, Grip of the Damned will give -4, etc.
• Certain Clans/Bloodlines have feeding complications as part of their Curse. These Clans/Bloodlines will receive a -4 feeding to their pools.

• Example Feeding score:

• Perception 2
• + Subterfuge 3
• + Herd 1  + Fame 1
• - Prey Exclusion 1 point Flaw (children)
• = 6 starting blood per month

At the start of the month, staff will create a percentage to determine how much of your total blood pool is available to your character at the start of the month.

Your character may also utilize Influence to gain blood. While this takes a downtime action and a check as per Influence, the benefit is that you don’t need to necessarily drink this blood right away.

Feeding represents the lifeblood of the city in a very real way. There will be times where IC actions make the above harder or nearly impossible for a period of time. The city only has so much blood to go around before mortals start to notice; if everyone spends downtime actions to begin play full every month, you can expect the mortal populace to begin showing the wear of these actions in-game, and other actions may affect feeding as well.

A hungry vampire is more inclined to hunt, even if they have more than one blood point remaining — a Kindred can generally be considered hungry when they have fewer blood points than (7 minus Self-Control or Instincts). pg. pg. 366 - V20 Core Book. You may not enter the in character space until the scene has happened, nor can you override the scene by using the feeding perk or spending a card.

Blood can be gained a number of ways during the course of the month if your feeding results are bad, or you burn through a bunch of blood due to a combat or the like. Below are listed a few:

• You may expend a downtime action to begin the following game at full blood.
• You may step out-of-game for 60 minutes - 10 minutes per dot of Herd you have to feed 3 Blood. Minimum of 10 minutes. This represents that you, as a vampire, know how to vampire, and as your Herd increases feeding becomes easier.
• Your character may buy blood from those characters who have the Blood perk on their businesses, or Blood stored away somehow.
• Once per game session, a character may instantly (out-of-combat) receive it’s Herd rating in Blood.

Downtimes

DOWNTIME ACTIONS

Game takes place from 10pm to 2am on Saturday evenings. Your character, however, doesn't exist in a vacuum and therefore can realistically perform other actions while not at game. While we as a staff understand that, we also understand that your vampire should also be spending a goodly chunk of their time hunting, covering up minor mistakes, paying rent (or avoiding such things), etc, etc. As the world can be a hard place to operate in for those allergic to sunlight, and as your character is only active for a set amount of time each day, a characters total number of Downtime Actions will be limited to half of your Path rating (Roundup for Humanity, round down for everything else) per month.

Staff will respond to these as they come in within about a week to a month, depending on the downtime. On occasion you will ask to do something, and Staff might scratch their heads for a minute before saying 'Sure, but that takes a Downtime Action'. The following actions will always take a downtime action:

• Starting at full blood.
• Patrolling or canvassing a particular Domain or area.
• Crafting an item.
• Engaging a Mentor.
• Researching things of note via documents, books, etc.
• Researching things of note via computers, internet, etc.
• Researching things of note via experimentation
• Researching and mastering a new combo-discipline, rituals, paths, or lores.
• Learning something from a text (as opposed to an actual teacher).
• Using an Influence

This is not particularly a downtime just a conversation with staff at game, where the applicable attribute will be rolled with your influence dots and the number success you get will determine the ‘effectiveness’ of calling on the influence.

• Growing Influence (no roll is required it just takes a month)
• Growing a Business. (For the duration of the Grow)

Growing a business (how it works): If you are not using a retainer with finance as one of their specialties the die pool is Intelligence + finance. (If you do not have finance you cannot do the grow) Diff is 3 + the level that is being grown to. Total success needed is 5 x current level.

• Forcing an Oracular Vision. (costs a willpower)

DOWNTIMES THAT AREN'T

Downtime Actions are generally restricted to information gathering type activities or engaging in systems that don't otherwise cost XP. In the case of your downtime action resulting in a scene, that action will not cost downtime. For example, if in the course of your character investigating Bainbridge Island, they are assaulted by Sabbat, you would be told to contact staff for a scene rather than being given the results of your action and it would be considered that you hadn't spent that downtime action.

VARIABLE INFLUENCE USES & TIMES

Growing Influence is a use of influence (Read, it takes time), and all uses of Influence take 2-4 weeks depending on staff assessment of the request. For example, getting back simple information from your Logistics Influence guy about the amount of contraband traffic at the port of Seattle is much easier (and takes less time) than arranging a shipment to be re-routed from Belgium.

DOWNTIMES & RETAINERS

Retainers are sometimes able to perform downtime actions depending on the task you are requesting. A retainer can, for example, patrol your character's domain, albeit somewhat poorly if they are not good at such things. Your retainers can make the checks associated for growing a business, but you must still expend the actions to build up the infrastructure. However, if you assign a retainer to contact a mentor, you should expect to lose both. Likewise, your retainers cannot activate things on your character's sheet associated with your character's personal presence or powers, such as Influence or Oracular.

Character Advancement

Spent Experience Cap

        Characters are capped at spending 400xp on their character. This is in addition to the experience gained from the Character Creation Points. Once a character has spent 400xp the character sheet is considered to be frozen.

        Experience spent towards raising Humanity does not count against the Spent Experience Cap. This is an exception given only to Humanity since ECC is a Camarilla game.

Character History

In order to be able to spend earned XP on your character, you will need to complete a character background. Your background should answer the following questions for us (and if you want to skip the fluff and just answer these questions, that's also acceptable).

• How old is your character?
• Where was your character born?
• Where was your character embraced?
• As a human, what was your character good at? What separated them from the herd?
• Why was your character embraced?
• Tell me a bit about your sire and how he/she treated you.
• Tell me about your experience with your sect.
• Tell me why you've come to Seattle.
• Give me three character goals.
• Give me three character flaws (not flaws on your sheet, character weaknesses that I can exploit for story).
• Address the basics of being a vampire (if you're in a coterie, where you haven, how you feed, etc).

Increase Dots and other Character Sheet Aspects

        Attributes, Abilities, Disciplines, Backgrounds, Virtues, Humanity/Path, and Willpower may be increased no more than 1 dot per week per characteristic. Example: A player may increase Strength, Dexterity, Potence, and Herd each by 1 dot within a given week.

Backgrounds use the same experience progression as Abilities.

Merits costs 3xp per point value of the Merit. Buying off Flaws costs 3xp per point value of the Flaw. Note that Languages and Lores are the only Merits that can easily be purchased. Any other Merit purchase or Flaw Buy-off requires a significant amount of roleplay and or questing, and is subject to ST approval. See the Merits/Flaws Errata for more information.

Acquiring rituals uses and expands definition from V20 Rites of the Blood page 137.

• If the Magic is In-Clan, then Rituals cost 2xp per level of the Ritual
• If the Magic is Out-of-Clan, but the Clan has an affinitiy for Magic, then Rituals cost 3xp per level of the Ritual.

• Non-Sorcerer Caste Assamites
• Followers of Set
• Lasombra
• Tzimisce

• For everyone else, Rituals cost 4xp per level of the Ritual.

Learning and Teaching

Attributes and Abilities: The 4th and 5th dots of Attributes and Abilities requires a teacher who has at least the level you are learning. At this point you will also be required to pick a specialty as well, such specialties are listed in the character creation section of the Core rule book.

Languages: Learning a language requires you to be taught by a character who understands the language. Languages can however be learned without a teacher and would follow the  regular research and mastery process.

Out-of-Clan Disciplines: All out of clan disciplines require a teacher who has the discipline you want to learn as an in clan discipline. The student must take one drink the vitae of their teacher to attune their bodies to the new discipline. This cannot be learned via the regular research and mastery process and cannot be learned higher than dot 3. You also cannot teach Out-Of-Clan disciplines to others.

Virtues: Virtues (Conscience, Conviction, Self-Control, and Instinct) may be purchased up to dot 3 without ST approval. Dots 4 and 5 require ST approval, generally through story or repeated success of using the relevant virtue.

Humanity/Path: Raising your Humanity or Path rating requires ST approval. This approval is generally acquired through RP and other actions demonstrating your character is consistently adhering to higher ratings.

Willpower: Increasing your Willpower requires ST approval. This is generally acquired through strong RP and demonstration of your character’s Nature, such as consistently receiving Willpower Points returned, or a significant success in-line with your Nature.

Research Rules

Research

The first step to learning a combo-discipline, new path, ritual or lores is to research the solid existence of the power. Kindred lore is filled with myths and legends about powers and how they work. A character learning a combo-discipline, or new path, ritual or lores from another character may bypass this the research step and proceed to mastery.

Phase One (Research) is Intelligence + Investigation. Phase Two (Mastery) is Intelligence + Occult.

• Combo-Discipline:

• The difficulty is determined by the highest level discipline plus 3. For example, if you were a Brujah learning the combo-discipline Scourge of Alecto (Celerity 2, Presence 4), the highest dots would be 4. Therefore the difficulty to research Scourge of Alecto would be 7.
• The successes required is determined by the highest discipline times 5. For example, if you were a Brujah learning the combo-discipline Scourge of Alecto (Celerity 2, Presence 4), the required successes would be 20. Presence 4 x 5 = 20 Successes.

• Secondary Magic Path:

• Secondary Magic Paths may not be Researched. They require a Mentor to “research”. Once the student has learned the first dot of the Secondary Path a Mentor is no longer required.

• Ritual:

• The difficulty is determined by the level of the ritual, +3. Therefore a level 2 ritual would have a difficulty of 5 to research while a level 5 ritual would have a difficulty of 8 to master.
• The successes required to master a ritual is the ritual level X5. Therefore a level 2 ritual would require 10 successes to research, while a level 5 ritual would require 25 successes to master.

• Lore:

• The difficulty is determined by the rarity of the lore. A common lore has a difficulty of 4 with the required successes at 5 per phase, an uncommon lore has a difficulty of 6 with the required successes at 15 per phase, while a rare lore has a difficulty of 8 with the required successes at 25 per phase.

• Common Lores: Common lores are lores of the characters creature type (Kindred), Clan and Sect. An exception to this is the Giovanni have Wraith lore as a common lore and have no common Sect lore.  
• Uncommon Lores: Uncommon lores expand slightly to include common clans, and sects of Kindred. In addition Lupine lore is uncommon for Gangrel, and Mage lore is uncommon for Tremere.
• Rare Lores: Rare lores are often more esoteric and dangerous to possess. They including things like rare bloodlines and clans and knowledge of supernatural creature other than vampires.

Mastery

Once you have successfully researched an item, you must then master it. The roll to master a combo-discipline, new path, ritual (that are in paradigm for you) or lores is Intelligence + Occult. If you have a teacher, they can assist you with this. If it is a Mentor, you add ½ their mentor rating to your roll (round up). If they are a PC you add half of their Occult rating to your roll (round up). Allies and Retainers do not add a bonus to the mastery portion. The difficulties and successes required are determined by the following:

• Combo-Discipline:

• The difficulty is determined by the +3. For example, if you were a Brujah learning the combo-discipline Scourge of Alecto (Celerity 2, Presence 4), the average dots would be 3. Therefore the difficulty to learn Scourge of Alecto would be 6.
• The successes required is determined by the average number of dots of the disciplines required to purchase the combo-discipline (rounded up) x5. For example, if you were a Brujah learning the combo-discipline Scourge of Alecto (Celerity 2, Presence 4), the average dots would be 3. Therefore the successes required to learn Scourge of Alecto would be 15.

• Secondary Magic Path:

• In order to master a path, you master each of the levels separately. The difficulty would be the level of the path that you are mastering, +3. Therefore, the first level of Lure of Flames for instance would be difficulty 4, the final level would be 8.
• The successes required to master a path is the level of the path, x5. Therefore the first level of a path would require 5 successes, while the final level would require 25.

• Ritual:

• The difficulty is determined by the level of the ritual, +3. Therefore a level 2 ritual would have a difficulty of 5 to master while a level 5 ritual would have a difficulty of 8 to master.
• The successes required to master a ritual is the ritual level X5. Therefore a level 2 ritual would require 10 successes to research, while a level 5 ritual would require 25 successes to master.

• Lore:

• The difficulty is determined by the rarity of the lore. A common lore has a difficulty of 4, an uncommon lore has a difficulty of 6 while a rare lore has a difficulty of 8.
• The successes required is also determined by the rarity of the lore. A common lore requires 5 successes, an uncommon lore requires 15 successes while a rare lore requires 25 to master.

Clans Errata

Assamite

• Ur-Shulgi has awoken (need Assamite Lore to potentially know this if not an Assamite) resulting in a schism between the Assamites of Alamut and all other Assamites
• Assamites have joined the Camarilla.
• Assamite Vizier are the baseline for all Camarilla Assamites.
• Assamite Clan Flaws: All Assamite suffer from The Curse of Growing Darkness. In addition Assamite Warriors suffer from The Baali Curse, Assamite Viziers suffer from The Curse of Obsession and Assamite Sorcerers suffer from The Curse of Prominence. Details of these curses can be found in The Lore of the Clans page 30.

Brujah

• N/A

Follower of Set

• N/A

Gangrel

• Independent Gangrel are the baseline for Gangrel PCs.

Giovanni

• N/A

Lasombra

• N/A

Malkavian

• N/A

Nosferatu

• N/A

Ravnos

• Each time a Ravnos comes into proximity of another for the first time they both must roll to resist Frenzy as the beast tries to destroy its kin.

Toreador

• N/A

Tremere

• Tremere who are part of the Pyramid in good standing do not require the Mentor Background to learn new magic. Instead, they may submit a request up the chain of command (and potentially payment) to gain tutelage. If the Regent does not know the magic, nor any other Tremere in the Domain, the Regent may make a request of the Lord on behalf of the student (with appropriate payment).
• Within the Lore of the Clans book, the Tremere have access to a background called 'chantry'. While staff has vigorously debated the topic, we have found that the majority of this background doesn't fit within the Communal Haven system we have already built, and grants vast and unreasonable advantage to Tremere characters. We have, at this time, elected to only allow the Library background into game.

• Library will function as another branch of the Communal Haven only available to the Chantry (read: ONE per city, no private 'library' perks). It will function largely how the background is printed with the following clarifications, and is only available to Tremere PCs.
• The Library contains no rituals until players spend downtime actions scribing them to the library.
• When a Ritual is present within the library, and the Tremere in question has access to the library (as determined by the Regent), the Investigation step may be skipped. The Tremere may also add the Library's rating in dice to their Occult check for mastery (please note that only ONE background may be added to the Mastery check).
• If a Library should ever fall in level, the Tremere hierarchy comes in and removes all rituals contained in that library of those levels it has lost. For example, if a Tremere dies (or the player quits), and the Library rating drops from 5 to 3, all 4th and 5th level rituals will be lost forever. If these levels are regained at a later time, they will not have access to the rituals lost.
• The Regent (and only the Regent) may petition the Tremere Lord for rituals to be added directly to the library. This will involve questing and it's possible the application will still be denied.
• Paths of Thaumaturgy are far too complex to put down to books alone; Library may not contain Paths of Magic within them, only rituals.

Tzimisce

• N/A

Ventrue

• N/A

Caitiff

• Caitiff may only choose from Animalism, Auspex, Celerity, Dominate, Fortitude, Potence, Presence, or Obfuscate for their In-Clan Disciplines.

Gargoyles

• Gargoyles may obtain “Gargoyle Rituals” per the Lore of the Bloodlines book, but only from Thaumaturgy (only Thaumaturgy) rituals that can target a person or item (as the Gargoyle will always be the target), up to Level 5. If learning from another Gargoyle, the student must Master the “Gargoyle Ritual” as if it is a Ritual of the same level. “Gargoyle Rituals” may not be Researched. The XP cost for the “Gargoyle Ritual” must be paid regardless of how it is acquired, or else the ritual will not stick. The cost is clarified as XP necessary to acquire an equivalent new dot rating of an Out-of-Clan Discipline. Example: The Level 4 Ritual, “Firewalker”, would require 21xp to acquire.

Daughters of Cacophony

• N/A

Attribute Errata

N/A

Ability Errata

Athletics

V20 rules only cover firearms and handheld weapons and as such we feel the need to expand to another kind of weapons like bows.

Recurve style weapons use Dexterity + Athletics for the dice to hit. They are Strength +2; they are also not concealable.  

Note: Crossbows are considered Firearms per V20 Core Page 281.

Crafting

Crafting is performed similar to Research/Mastery as it also requires a Downtime (see the Downtime section). For non-technical items, the die pool is Dexterity + Crafts. For technical gizmos, the die pool is first Intelligence + Technology to make the thing, then Intelligence + Computer to program the thing.

Common Items

Creating a Common Item has no special requirement. It is common, and therefore the components to make the thing are easily accessible and the knowledge to make the thing is otherwise freely available. To create a Common item, one must roll the appropriate die pool once per week for four weeks at Difficulty 4, and achieve 5 successes. Successes carry over from month to month in case the character does not succeed in the prior month.

Uncommon Items

A character may create Uncommon Items relatively easily if the components are easily acquired. Similar to Common Items, one must roll the appropriate die pool once per week for four weeks at Difficulty 6, and achieve 15 successes. Successes carry over from month to month in case the character does not succeed in the prior month.

Rare Items

A Rare Item always requires a special component that is not normally available. Generally, this requires a quest to get the component. Sometimes, it will take research just to learn what the component is, then a quest to get the thing. Either way, leg work needs to take place before a character can begin to manufacture the Rare item. Then, the rolls begin. One must roll the appropriate die pool once per week for four weeks at Difficulty 8, and achieve 25 successes. Successes carry over from month to month in case the character does not succeed in the prior month.

Discipline Errata

• Auspex: 

• Seeing the Unseen: Per V20 Core Page 142, Seeing the Unseen is only used when a character is actively trying to pierce an illusion/Obfuscate.

• If Auspex is lower than the defender’s powers, the defender automatically wins.
• If Auspex is higher than the defender’s powers, the Auspex user makes a Perception + Awareness check at difficulty 7 minus the number of dots Auspex exceeds the defender’s dots.
• If Auspex equals the defender’s powers, a contested roll is performed. Auspex user rolls Perception + Awareness, defender rolls Manipulation + Subterfuge, both at difficulty 7. Higher number of successes wins.

• Heightened Senses: This discipline lowers the difficulty on non discipline Perception rolls only.  (No lower than 2, a 1 will always be a failure on a die). This power can also be used to see if the character perceives a threat. In this case, rolls of the character’s unmodified Auspex rating are made; applying whatever difficulty the ST feels best suits the circumstances.

• Potence:

• Per V20 Core page 192, Potence in combat only applies to damage (either as extra dice or automatic successes). Potence does not add to attack rolls.

• Presence: 

• Summon: The character summoned must present themselves to the summoner. This means they must be unobfuscated or unhidden by other powers while presenting themselves. A character summoned can however, approach the summoner in obfuscate or similar power and then reveal themselves in front of the summoner. This also does not prevent the summoned character from fleeing immediately after presenting themselves.  
• Majesty: The resistance rules of Majesty are in addition to the resistance rules in the preamble of Presence.

Background Errata

While ECC uses most of the rules from the noted V20 books, the following Backgrounds are considered to be Out-of-Scope and therefore not allowed for PCs.

• Armory
• Black Hand Membership
• Rituals (Sabbat)

Additionally, there are a few Backgrounds that represent a character’s power in the city in which they reside. Therefore, PCs may not start with any dots in the following Backgrounds. Instead, characters must grow them through RP and systems once they enter play.

• Business
• Domain
• Influence

Pooling/Coterie

The following rules are errata to the Pooled Background rules found in V20 Core Page 118.

Backgrounds may be pooled together only within a Coterie, except Haven. Haven may be pooled with other characters without being part of a Coterie. You must contribute to the Anchor Background of the Coterie in order to be part of the Coterie and take advantage of the Coterie Backgrounds. Neither Haven nor Domain may be an Anchor.

No more than 7 characters may contribute to a Coterie at one time.

Allies, Contacts, Domain, Haven, and Retainers are all cumulative. All other Backgrounds use the highest dot value being contributed. If multiple characters are tied for the highest dot value, then the Coterie's rating for that Background is the highest +1 per extra character tied at that value. For instance, Resources 3 + Resources 2 = Resources 3, but Resources 3 + Resources 3 = Resources 4.

Alternate Identity: Per V20 Core Page 111. As there are many different ways to defeat an Alternate Identity the STs will determine the difficulty and number of successes required based on the strategy being employed.

Allies: Allies are mortals who support and help you. They will help you willingly without coaxing or coercion, but may not always be available. Allies are one person. But allies don’t always help you for free and may ask for something in exchange for their help. Allies get 2 things they are good at that they receive 8 dice for. Either 2 Abilities, a Major Influence and a Minor Influence, or 1 Ability and 1 Major Influence.

Anarch Information Exchange: Run per pg. 98 Anarchs Unbound. Each character with this background may ask a number of questions equal to their rating. Questions refresh Monthly (once per month). Please keep a notecard with dates for tracking. The rarity level of information available to any given character is limited by Anarch status (Rep in the case of an Anarch PC). Nosferatu Information Network works in the same manner and questions are limited by the Nos Clan Titles (In the case of a Nosferatu PC) of the asker.

Business: (This is not available at character creation it must be bought and grown in game) Businesses are a unique background that we created to enhance the roleplay aspect of the game. Like other backgrounds, they range from 1 to 5 dots. All businesses begin at 1 dot. A business in this system may represent particular perks or incoming cash, but is separate from the resources background. In the same way, what your character's business is, story-wise, largely doesn't matter, per se. You can roleplay that the business is a chain of hot dog stands and a money laundering operation with a side of used car sales and prostitution, but you still get only one perk, and only one track of the business background. The mechanics can be a little bit separate from the story (within reason) and that's ok. Just remember that this system simply serves to offer a few concrete extras that Resources don't.

The levels of a business roughly:

0              Strip mall store, small workshop

00            Boutique outlet, Sawmill

000          Destination store with thriving E-Business, Iron Foundry

0000    Franchised big box, Shipyard

00000 Ubiquitous All Purpose Retailer, Industrial mega-complex

Existing mortal enterprises may be able to be purchased in game, but control of them is only as complete as the level of the business purchased with XP and still takes a Downtime Action. Businesses represent Seattle and World-based industries, franchises or corporations; but what they are and where they are located can be totally fabricated (we are playing a game of make believe after all). Businesses remain persistent in the world once created unless destroyed through plot and story. Like all backgrounds, if purchased with XP, they cost the same as Abilities on the V20 XP chart.

PAYOUT OR PERK

The benefits of owning a business can only be called on once per month, either in the form of money taken off the top, or a special perk unique to the format of the business (player selected). You can choose to use one or the other once per month.The ‘Perk’ option can be anything from extra blood, bonuses to crafting or certain rolls, asking to get weapons/drugs, etc. etc. If you choose the 'payout', a business pays an amount in cash equal to 1⁄4 of the Resource background of the same level if you elect to not use your Perk. In-game, this is represented by a signed and stamped by an Storyteller (ST) notecard with the amount of cash printed on it, which represents a stack of bills equal to that amount.

Communal Haven: Run as written on pg. 100 of the Anarchs Unbound book, though we clarify the unique security feature mentioned as Storyteller discretion in the books. This is the de-facto background used to create Tremere Chantries, Nosferatu Warrens and any other haven, whether communal or not.

        To define your character's Communal Haven, pick an address in the area of the city you want. It doesn't have to be a real home/office building/warehouse, etc. In our fictional world of Dark Seattle, there can be a brooding mansion where in real life there is a Quick Mart. We do ask that you give us an actual address however, which we'll make a note of. Then have everyone else that is going to contribute to the haven mention they're putting in as well. Finally, distribute the dots among Size, Luxury, and Security. No more than 7 characters may contribute to a Haven at any time.

        Tremere players sharing a Communal Haven that has been designated the Chantry may aso add another track called Library, found in the Lore of the Clans book. Only Tremere may add this.

        Multiple Havens: A character may buy multiple tracks of the communal Communal Haven background to represent multiple havens if they wish.

Moving between Havens takes a downtime action. If you ever completely move an actual haven or where you're staying permanently for some reason, we will need to know the new address and the haven dot configuration.

        2 Point Merit - Unique Clan Security Feature
        Level 5 Security on a communal haven discusses a unique security feature. Those features must be purchased separately as a 2 Point Merit. Their effectiveness is based on the Luxury rating of a given haven and is based on the Clan of the character to purchase the merit. Only one Merit per haven may ever be purchased. All Clan security features are 2 point Merits purchasable based on what your character's true clan is. Other clans do not inherently gain a specific perk, therefore characters without the infrastructure and support of these clans will have to rely on other members of their coterie for this availability. A Communal Haven clan perk is active where the purchaser of the merit is staying at the time.

Contacts: Each level of this background gives you one major mortal Contact. Each Contact is tied into one sphere of Influence and the Player Character (PC) will receive passive information from them from time to time. A character can also call on his network of minor contacts outside of his major contacts spheres of Influence by rolling Contacts (diff 7). Although they might not know the the thing you are looking for or may not know how to get it.

Domain: Unlike other Backgrounds Domain cannot be bought through experience points and is not available at character creation. Domain points are given or taken away by the Prince at their pleasure. Domain cannot be an anchor for a Coterie and are capped at 10 when pooled with a Coterie. Finally when a character receives Domain they must allocate it between Size and Security.

Herd: In addition to operating per V20 Core page 114, Herd is used for calculating a characters Feeding Score, and is used for Feeding in a couple different ways. See the Feeding rules for more information.

Influence: Influence is per V20 Core page 114 rules. Influence - every other level grants an influential mortal contact in a sphere of Influence that your vampire can leverage to get certain actions performed on their behalf. All influence actions are indirectly made via mortals. Your characters' Influences (and the hapless humans behind them) may be lost, taken, or raised through the course of the game. Usually uses Downtime to grow or utilize. Growing an influence (from 1 dot to 2 dots, for example) counts as using the Influence.

Influence cannot be purchased at Character Creation. It must be purchased once a character has arrived in the city she wishes to influence. Like all backgrounds, the cost of Influence with XP is the same as Abilities.

·         INFLUENCE RATINGS

o        Influence 0 - A Major Influence

o        Influence 00 - (no change, just the extra die to roll)

o        Influence 000 - Gain one Minor Influence

o        Influence 0000  - (no change, just the extra die to roll)

o        Influence 00000 - Gain one Major Influence

As shown above, a single individual character can only have at maximum 2 major and 1 minor Influence (with Influence 5), unless they have access to Allies with Influences. It's not particularly useful to 'double up' on an Influence sphere. Though staff will take that into account, there is no mechanical advantage.

·         INFLUENCE USES

o        Acquiring Things - Weapons, Armor, Blood, Books, Cash, Businesses, Bodies.

o        Learning Things - Investigating People, Events, Actions, Holdings.

o        Hiding Things - Covering Up Actions, Holdings, Events.

o        Stopping Things - Hindering Actions, Events, People, the City.

o        Investigating Things - Patrolling, Canvassing or Research feats.

o        Moving Things - Populations.

·         To use an influence, staff will roll a single check:

o        Applicable Attribute+influence diff 8 for a Minor influence contact

o        Applicable Attribute+influence diff 6 for a Major influence contact

                Generally the Charisma or Manipulation attributes are used (whichever is highest) to roll

along with the Influence rating. Successes required are generally equal to the level of influence action for each influence.

Memento di Morte: The benefits of Memento di Morte only affect Necromancy Rituals.

Mentor: Start by reading the Mentor background on pg. 115 of the V20 core book. Mentor and mentor level must be defined at purchase. That mentor will always be that level (unless story dictates otherwise).

        Supernatural knowledges and traits such as Lores (which we treat like Languages, in V20 and are Merits) Disciplines, Combo-Disciplines, and Paths and Rituals (if applicable to a given sorcerer class) may be taught by Mentors. High level mentors may opt to send someone else to teach disciplines or abilities.

        To use a mentor, you must spend a boon each time. (First use is free - you already paid for it)

Passively a mentor will always attempt to look out for your character's well being from their perspective. Passive does not cost XP. You may purchase multiple mentors (though never above 5).

Resources: This background is treated per the book. For clarification, a guideline for general monthly pocket money for a Kindred with Resources is listed below; this is a guideline for how much cash on-hand that Kindred would have without dipping into their assets, kind of like a monthly salary or allowance. While a Kindred’s actual worth is likely 10-100 times that value, those assets may not be easily liquidable and would take time to actually be useful.

0                 $1000

00                $2500

000                $20,000

0000                $100,000

00000                $250,000

00000 0        $1,000,000

00000 00        $2,500,000

00000 000        $20,000,000

00000 0000        $100,000,000

00000 00000        $250,000,000

Retainers: Each retainer gives your character the services of one extremely loyal mortal or ghoul retainer. Your retainer has three abilities they are exceptional in. They receive 8 dice for these three abilities and 3 dice for all others. A player may substitute abilities for a Merit at ST discretion. If the retainer is a ghoul they automatically receive Potence 1 and a second Discipline chosen from their domitors in-clan Disciplines.  

Spirit Slaves: Spirit Slaves use the same mechanics as Allies listed earlier. Except they are ghosts.

Merits/Flaws Errata

Merits do not affect Disciplines unless specifically stated otherwise in the merit writeup.

Since EC tends to promote court positions being filled by PCs, most of the merits that would give you a benefit for a court position are inappropriate for play in a player character driven LARP setting. The following Merits/Flaws are not used: Lawman's Friend, Primogen/Bishop friendship, Bully boy.

Prestigious Sire and Infamous Sire are used to break ties in social/status challenges.

Additional Clan Discipline: The additional Discipline must be chosen from the following list; Animalism, Auspex, Celerity, Dominate, Fortitude,  Obfuscate, Potence and Presence.

Infertile Vitae: Rebalanced for Cam-LARP play. This was originally a Sabbat flaw and comes up much more frequently in that Sect. As Camarilla vampires need to undergo a lengthy approval process in order to secure the rights to Embrace a Childe, and then rear that Fledgeling within society, the frequency that this comes up is dramatically reduced. It is impossible to police the meta-game aspect of this flaw (your character not knowing they have it, for instance, and gaining Right of Progeny only to lose their favored retainer to exsanguination), and is often seen as 'free points' in a LARP of this type. Therefore, this flaw will only award a single point to those that purchase it to account for its reduced visibility.

Early Riser: This Merit gives a character 1 additional downtime per month.

New Arrival: Only available to new players to ecc

Oracular Ability: Costs permanent willpower to use. We understand the cost for forcing a vision is high, so we will work very hard to answer your question directly and as non-confrontational as possible, however, some questions are well beyond the scope of this ability and we will tell you that at the time you ask the question, but before you have spent the Willpower. You will still be out a downtime action while your character is reading their tarot cards in the woods with their hooker Herd doing orgy stuff in the background.

MERITS & FLAWS FROM LORE OF THE CLANS BOOK

Broken Antitribu (Assamite): Not Appropriate for setting

Setite Initiate: A character with this Merit has passed the gates and is considered a full member of the Follower of Set faith and Clan. As such should their faith not falter they are given access to have a teacher for Serpentis (although it is still considered out of clan for them).

Note: This Merit can be purchased by a character of any clan and is an exception to the rule that a character can only purchase items from their clans section of the Lore of Clans book.

Court Favorite (Lasombra): Not appropriate for Camarilla vampires.

Light WIthin Shadow (Lasombra): Won't affect Mysticism rolls

Comforting Darkness (Lasombra): Won't affect Mysticism rolls

Claiming the Dark (Lasombra): Won't affect Mysticism rolls

Vision of Shadow (Lasombra): Unavailable for play

Spawning Pool (Nosferatu): Must be purchased after character creation

Keys to the Library (Tremere): Not appropriate for a PC run chantry.

Quartermaster (Tremere): Not appropriate for a PC run chantry.

Promethean Clay (Tzimisce): Unavailable for play.

LANGUAGES ARE MERITS

Per the V20 core book, pg. 484, Languages are purchased per Language at the cost of a 1 point merit per language.

Lores are Merits

Lores are simply a specialized knowledge about a subset of something supernatural. They represent a wide variety of encyclopedic knowledge encompassing the history, powers, and relevant interests of various supernatural groups, creature types and hidden histories. Therefore we've chosen to treat them as Merits, similar to the Languages system in the V20 core book.

        Lore merits cost 3xp, 6xp, or 9xp based on how rare they are from your character build. Lore rarity follows the same Common, Uncommon and Rare motif that most of our game does.

        For example, if you are playing a Camarilla Vampire in the Brujah Clan, Kindred Lore, Camarilla Lore and Brujah Lore would be Common to your character. Anarch Lore, Sabbat Lore and Toreador Lore would be considered Uncommon to your character and Get of Fenris Lore, Black Hand Lore and Daughter of Cacophany Lore would be considered Rare to your character.

        Common Lores are precisely what your character is. Their clan, their sect, their supernatural template. These are common to you. Wraith Lore is Common to Giovanni

        Uncommon Lores are things that are similar to your build, and fairly commonplace to the world your character lives in. Other major Sects of vampires, such as the Anarchs or Sabbat, other clans in your character's sect, or aged, forgoten or antagonistic bloodlines in your Clan, other major Clans, and some other major supernatural templates might be uncommon, depending on your specific build. Werewolves are uncommon to Gangrel and mages are considered uncommon to Tremere.

Rare Lores are things that are vastly different from your build, or represent a very minor presence in the world you live in. Specific bloodline lore, unique supernatural groups or even political groups inside groups of other supernaturals, minor supernatural templates, or very obscure political groups within your supernatural type, such as Inconnu or Tal Mahe' Ra are all rare lores. Additionally, certain lores are expressly hidden by other powerful supernaturals. Noddist Lore, the history of vampire origins, for example is described in the source material for being purposefully obscured and hidden by powerful methuselah-aged vampires. Therefore, although it directly pertains to vampires, it's still considered a rare lore. Certain other creatures may have their own version of the 'masquerade' as well, meaning that the difficulty of certain checks pertaining them could be higher than average, or require a peculiar focus, or multiple checks to obtain detailed information about them.

WHAT LORES DO
        Lores provide your character the ability to make a check to learn a piece of supernatural knowledge in-character. Without an appropriate lore, characters may simply have no chance of learning the answer to a question about a given supernatural type of event in-game, short of personal experience with the subject of a given lore.

        Without an appropriate Lore, characters will tend to justify these events within their own in-character framework rather than assume an event is uniquely tied to some other supernatural type. The check could be Wits+Academics for an on-the-spot remembrance of a Kindred's lineage, or it could be Perception+Awareness to recognize a Changeling's powers at work, but whatever the check is, without the lore, players may only gain general occult insight into a supernatural event they are investigating.

The difficulties of Lore checks are based on how esoteric the question is that is being asked of the ST to be recalled or researched by the player. Having a lore doesn't grant free knowledge, nor does it guarantee a set difficulty on those checks.

USING LORES
        There are two ways of engaging your lores; an on-the-spot recall, or an in depth study. Recalling something on the spot usually requires an Wits + relevant attribute check to see what your character recalls in the moment. Knowing someone's history within an organization (like a Sect of Vampires such as the Camarilla, for example) would require having access to that lore and then rolling your character's Wits + Academics. Knowing their Status or affiliations would likely require a Wits + Politics check. Knowing what supernatural woojee they have displayed could require a Perception or Wits + Occult or Awareness check. The difficulty will vary depending on how abstract the knowledge you are seeking is. For example, knowing the last year of someone's history with an organization like the Camarilla when you're both playing Camarilla Kindred would be a relatively low difficulty, where as knowing their Sire's history would be substantively harder.

        In-depth study takes a downtime action and allows you to extend the above checks. Each month spent researching a thing will afford you 4 checks, that you can tally the results of. This still might not be enough to know truly abstract facts about a creature, but it will provide a good guideline.

Buying Merits with XP:

Merits may be purchased with XP at the rate of 3xp per point value of the Merit. Though it is generally rare to buy Merits after character creation, learning new languages simply require a teacher, and the appropriate amount of XP. Learning a new Lore requires Research and Mastery as defined in the Character Advancement section.

BUYING OFF FLAWS

Merits and Flaws represent inherent weakness or aptitudes of a person's greater character. Merits and Flaws will not be purchasable (or bought off) after initial character creation without exceptional story, effort, and ST approval. Players shouldn't expect either at any point; but can talk to staff about possible options if they feel it is necessary.  It is this is the purview of staff to rule on this on a case by case basis. As a very general and non-binding rule, flaws of a social nature may be bought off with appropriate story if the verbiage of the flaw represents a way to end it (Probationary Sect Member is possible, Former Prince is not, etc).

System Errata

Damage and Healing

Per V20 Core page 284, bullets do Bashing damage, except when aimed at the head (difficulty 8) in which case they do Lethal.

        Per V20 Core page 285, Bashing damage is halved AFTER soak, round up.

Per V20 Core page 285, neither Bashing nor Lethal damage may Final Death a vampire. If a vampire is Incapacitated from Bashing or Lethal, then receives a single level of Aggravated damage, then they meet their Final Death.

Per V20 Core page 268, 1 Blood may be spent to heal either 1 Bashing or 1 Lethal damage. A character must be resting and relatively inactive for this healing to take place. Per V20 Core page 258, spending Blood to heal while performing other actions (such as in combat) requires a Stamina + Survival reflexive roll (difficulty 8); failure results in Blood spent with no effect, a botch results in another level of damage.

Per V20 Core page 285, a vampire may heal 1 Aggravated damage after a full day’s rest and spending 5 Blood. Additional levels of Aggravated damage may be healed that same day for 5 Blood and 1 Willpower Point per Aggravated Damage healed.

Switching to a Path of Enlightenment In-Game

        Per V20 Core page 315, switching to a Path of Enlightenment requires at least 1 year of tutelage. If being taught by a PC, notify the STs at emeraldcitychronicles@googlegroups.com that it is occurring with a start date as well as who your teacher is.

Changing your Nature

        Occasionally, a character is no longer representing the Nature that is listed on their sheet. To change a Nature requires a month of contemplation (Downtime) resulting in 4 rolls of Conscience/Conviction at Difficulty 8, which requires 20 successes. After the period of reflection the character’s Nature changes.

Miscellaneous

PERK CARDS

What are Perk Cards, and How Can I Earn Them?

Perks are Potions - Perk Cards are special 'potion-like effects' spendable and tradeable during game that take the form of cards. Perk Cards are available to Players who perform exceptional service to the game and are recognized for this by the Storytellers, by taking actions that benefit the game as a whole in an out-of-character way, such as:

• Recruiting new players, and helping them become long term players.  
• Decorating the gaming space, bringing atmosphere to the game.
• Donating useful items, such as notecards, pencils, blank character sheets, and other consumables that we use every night.
• Assisting with the annual Haunted House, planning, building, acting, cleanup.
• Taking time out of game to assist with other game needs
• Donating to the NOTR nonprofit organization (which is how we pay our rent!) (max of $20 per game can be spent on cards)
• Serving as a Storyteller or Assistant Storyteller
• Storytellers are the ultimate arbiters of what actions deem worthy of Perk Card draws. If granted a perk card draw, players are afforded the ability to draw randomly from a deck of cards offered by the Storytellers, which may have Common, Uncommon, Rare cards, or a combination of each, at storyteller discretion.

When Can I Use Perk Cards?

• Most of the cards are usable during live play, however the cards themselves state when they may be played. Examples would be some cards are usable during combat, while others are not, and some take effect immediately, while others must wait for certain circumstances to occur first, such as an initiative order, when a target character is in torpor, or during a downtime action.

How Do I Use Perk Cards?

• Perk cards may be played (turned into a Storyteller during game) using a few simple rules. Most of the rules for each card are listed in the text of the card, however, for general guidelines, players may use:

• 3 Commons, 2 Uncommons and 1 Rare per game
• Only 2 cards at character gen for 5 bonus build points each.
• Limit of 1 card per round.

Do Cards Exist In-Character?

• Cards are considered out-of-character items and usable by players to lend subtle story effects to in-character stories and actions. Perk Cards may never be traded in-character, because the cards do not exist to the characters in the game, but act as mysterious hands of fate moving behind the scenes of the story. Players may offer feedback on the results of these cards, however the ultimate effects are always up to the storytellers.

HOUSE RULES

The vast majority of the rules we intend to use can be read in the V20 core book. There are a couple of other books we use as well for V20, as seen in Books & Boundaries, most notably the V20 Companion & Lore of the Clans.

WHY HOUSE RULES EXIST

They're common sense additions that aren't covered elsewhere related to general play style (don't play your dead character's Sire, fade to black if people get uncomfortable with darker content, site rules, etc.).

They clarify 'storyteller discretion' for a specific case where storyteller discretion is called for in the core rules. We'd rather share a standard, agreed-upon call with you for consistency and transparency. This includes adaptations to some rules for a LARP setting.

They are a specific attempt to limit (or completely exclude) a mechanic for a Camarilla Modern Nights LARP as opposed to a Sabbat-oriented LARP or a tabletop game, etc. We don't want to run a larp with 50 Gargoyle Toreador Clan infiltrators who all have the Enchanting Voice Merit, all with Infernal Sorcery, for example.

WHEN WE WON'T MAKE A HOUSE RULE

When the Storytellers are alerted to an individual player is using a or group of powers over and over and over to 'troll' another character. We'll just kindly ask the player trolling the other PC to stop 'button mashing'. If they refuse, we'll enact disciplinary action as related to the game charter's code of conduct. We don't anticipate this one much at all, if ever.

A perceived exploit is sometimes found where a power doesn't specifically exclude a secondary effect. No power or ability in the game has a secondary effect that is not directly written. This also covers 'Voltroning' of powers, merits or other abilities or 'stacking' powers or bonuses. By default, powers and bonuses will not stack in our game, both for fairness sake to the game at large, and to avoid rules bloat. (SEE Like bonuses below)

Just for kicks. Nobody wants a ton of custom rules. The core-book for V20 alone is 500+ pages long, and that's plenty. Adding rules must address a specific gap in the rules or maybe a call that comes up a lot. If at all possible, we'll stick with the V20 rules by-the-book, and we humbly beg you to agree.

EXAMPLE (ACTUAL) HOUSE RULE
Like Bonuses Don't Stack. Unlike Things May:

Bonuses are 'typed' - for example if you have two Merits that both add dice or reduce diff towards rolls, the highest one is the only one that applies. Example, if you have Friendly Face (1 point Merit reduces -1 difficulty to social rolls) and Enchanting Voice (2 point merit lowers social rolls -2 diff) then only Enchanted Voice will apply. However if you have a way to lower social diffs via Disciplines or a Background, each of those is it's individual type and that's ok. Type Categories:, Backgrounds, Disciplines, Merits & Flaws etc…

Character Retirement, Death, and Hiatus

ECC only allows one character per player at a time. If a player wishes to play a new character they must retire their old character.

When a Character retires or is killed, and the player is graceful about it, the player receives ⅓ the XP Spent on that character.

Torpor has the potential to equate to character retirement or death depending on how long the character will be in Torpor. If the character will be in torpor for greater than 1 month then the character is considered to be force retired. For torpor of 1 month or less, a player may choose to create a 5 point character as a temporary character until their torpored character awakens.

In some circumstances, a player may need to set aside a character for story reasons. In such a case, the player should coordinate with the STs to facilitate a “break” for that character. The player may then create a 5 point temporary character to play in lieu of the primary character for a grace period of 1 month.

Hiatus: If a player will not be able to attend game for an extended period of time for out-of-game reasons they may put their character on Hiatus. This allows the player to shelve that character until they return. The Hiatus can be indefinite. If the character is using any slot limited attributes (i.e. Clan, Merits, etc.) they will be held as occupied for up to 3 months. After the 3 month period those slots become available to the public. If they slots the Hiatus character was using get filled before the Hiatus character returns then the character may need to be force retired and the player should consult the STs. The 3 month period may be extended for extenuating circumstances (such as Military service or medical reasons).

Out of Game Rules:  

Cheating and unsportsmanlike conduct: As a reminder to our players and the community as a whole. This is just a game. There is no winning or losing in a LARP the goal is to have fun and challenge yourself with wonderful and intense roleplay. A LARP also functions largely upon the trust between players and with staff. As such cheating or unsportsmanlike conduct is unacceptable in ECC.

Disciplinary actions will be kept private by staff between those players involves. Our goal is not to shame players but to remind them that the action taken was not in accordance with a fair and civil game environment.

We understand our players are passionate people and often put a lot of emotional weight into their characters. As such If tempers rise at game staff may ask the player(s) involved to leave game early so the conversation can be held at a later date after the player has had time to calm.

Staff has created the following guidelines for dealing with situations where a player is found to be cheating or has shown unsportsmanlike conduct.  

• 1st Offense: The player will be warned by staff that their action was unacceptable and why. Our goal is to keep this conversation civil and among friends while stressing the severity.
• 2nd Offense: After a player has been warned and they are found to be cheating or exhibiting unsportsmanlike conduct a second time they will be banned from game for one month. After this time they will be welcomed back by staff with our hopes that they have had time to think on and correct the issue behind their ban.
• 3rd Offense: If a player is found to be cheating or exhibiting unsportsmanlike conduct after a one month ban whatever character they are playing is forcibly retired by staff.  
• 4th Offense: If a player is found to be cheating or exhibiting unsportsmanlike conduct for a fourth time they will be permanently banned from game. This step is not taken lightly by staff and we are alway saddened to see players leave however, it is unfair to the other players to allow a player who has become a toxic element to the game to remain.

Appendix 1: Magic Errata

Blood Magic

A character can only have one Discipline of blood magic. Each Discipline of blood magic draws their power in vastly different ways. As such to someone who is trained in traditional Thaumaturgy the practices of Setite Sorcery make no sense whatsoever. This applies on the metaphysical level as well. Once a Kindred has opened their awareness to a magical discipline others seem to be blocked from them. This also means that even if the practitioner of Thaumaturgy wishes to teach, say, Lure of the Flames to a practitioner of Dur-An-Ki, they cannot; the way the varied magic Disciplines manifest their magic is too different for one magic Discipline to learn a Path or Ritual from another.

Types of Blood Magic: The source books are unfortunately vague and worse sometimes contradictory on what Paths and Rituals each Discipline of blood magic has available to learn.  For simplicity, magic is defined as either Hermetic Magic, Necromancy, Abyssal Mysticism, and Infernalism. Each category of magic may use Paths and Rituals from any of the magic Disciplines defined as inclusive to that category, with exceptions. Some magic Disciplines have Paths and/or Rituals that are unique to their Discipline.

Additionally, per V20 Rites of the Blood page 130, the activation of Hermetic Magic, Necromancy, and Infernalism requires a Willpower roll of the Magic Path at a difficulty of 3+Path Rating, or an Intelligence + Occult roll for a ritual at a difficulty of 3+Ritual Level.

Note: The following Magics, Paths, and Rituals are not available in ECC.

• Path of Praapti (Path of Mercury)

Hermetic Magic

Hermetic Magic includes Thaumaturgy, Assamite Sorcery (Dur-An-Ki), Setite Sorcery, and Anarch Thaumaturgy. For the purposes of Combo-Disciplines, any of the noted magics count as “Thaumaturgy”.

Thaumaturgy Unique Paths and Rituals:

• Level 2 Ritual: Ascension of the Blood (V20 Lore of the Clans Page 221)
• Level 3 Ritual: Brotherhood of the Cup (V20 Lore of the Clans Page 221)
• Level 3 Ritual: Sanguine Trail (V20 Lore of the Clans Page 221)
• Level 3 Ritual: Amulet of Mnemosyne (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 25)
• Level 3 Ritual: Dante’s Urban Legend (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 26)
• Level 4 Ritual: Summon Blood Imp (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 28)
• Level 4 Ritual: Vigil of the Stone Guardian (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 29)
• Level 5 Ritual: At Our Command It Breathes (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 106)
• Level 5 Ritual: Mirror of Blood (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 107)

Assamite Sorcery (Dur-An-Ki) Unique Paths and Rituals:

• Awakening the Steel (V20 Core Page 440)
• The Hunter’s Winds (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 159)
• Level 5 Ritual: From Marduk’s Throat (V20 Lore of the Clans Page 31)
• Level 3 Ritual: Blood and Bane (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 37)
• Level 1 Ritual: Rite of Reclamation (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 76)
• Level 2 Ritual: Blade of Smoke and Shadow (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 77)
• Level 3 Ritual: Bound by Oath (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 77)
• Level 1 Ritual: Horoscope (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 162)
• Level 2 Ritual: Infusion of Kalif (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 162)
• Level 3 Ritual: Bull of Heaven (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 163)
• Level 4 Ritual: Direct Ahriman’s Lance (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 163)
• Level 5 Ritual: Seeing with the Sky’s Eyes (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 163)

Setite Sorcery Unique Paths and Rituals:

• Ushabti (Akhu Path) (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 163)
• Level 1 Ritual: The Word of the Dark God (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 83)
• Level 1 Ritual: Typhon’s Brew (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 84)
• Level 2 Ritual: To Lace with Hidden Nectar (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 84)
• Level 3 Ritual: Rings Like Chains (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 84)
• Level 5 Ritual: Creation of the Shabti (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 109)
• Level 1 Ritual: Armor of Diamond Serenity (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 167)
• Level 2 Ritual: Craft Gris-Gris (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 166)
• Level 3 Ritual: Scorpion Sending (V20 Rites of Blood the Page 166)
• Level 4 Ritual: Dismemberment of Osiris (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 167)
• Level 5 Ritual: Shackles of Blood (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 167)

Anarch Sorcery Unique Rituals:

• Level 1 Ritual: Sanctify the Temple (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 62)
• Level 2 Ritual: Haruspicy (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 62)
• Level 3 Ritual: Craft Dream Catcher (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 62)
• Level 4 Ritual: Houngan’s Doll (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 62)
• Level 5 Ritual: Skinwalker’s Belt (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 63)
• Level 1 Ritual: Water Walking (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 63)
• Level 2 Ritual: Blood Crystal (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 63)
• Level 3 Ritual: Enfolding the Believers (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 64)
• Level 4 Ritual: Transcending Barriers Through Love (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 64)
• Level 5 Ritual: The Pursuit of Apotheosis (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 64)
• Level 1 Ritual: Calling Card (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 65)
• Level 2 Ritual: Beat Your Way to Glory (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 65)
• Level 3 Ritual: BFU (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 66)
• Level 4 Ritual: Baron Zataguin’s Sting (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 66)
• Level 5 Ritual: Bloody Mary (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 67)
• Level 1 Ritual: CCTV (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 67)
• Level 2 Ritual: Self-Executing File (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 68)
• Level 3 Ritual: Telecommunication (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 68)
• Level 4 Ritual: Non-Disclosure Clause (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 69)
• Level 5 Ritual: Ghost in the Shell (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 69)
• Level 1 Ritual: Flatline (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 158)
• Level 2 Ritual: Iron Body (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 158)
• Level 3 Ritual: Hell’s Calling (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 158)
• Level 4 Ritual: Ward versus Vitae (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 158)

Necromancy

Necromancy includes all forms of Necromancy. They are all the same stuff, the trick is finding the right person to teach you. Generally, PCs only have access to the Sepulchre Path, the Ash Path, and the Bone Path.

• Ghiberti Family: Members of the Ghiberti family gain access to the Cenotaph Path. Characters of this family can start with this at character gen, characters not of this family can learn them in game either through a mentor that is specifically of this family or finding a teacher that is a member of the Ghiberti family.
• Pisanob Family: Members of the Pisanob family gain access to the following rituals. Characters of this family can start with this at character gen, characters not of this family can learn them in game either through a mentor that is specifically of this family or finding a teacher that is a member of the Pisanob family.

• Rituals

• 1st level

• Ritual of the Smoking Mirror

• 2nd level

• The Ritual of Pochtli
• Divine Sign

• 4th level

• Ritual of Xipe Totec

• Other more obscure varieties of Necromancy still exist in the modern nights. These dark arts however, are jealously guarded by nearly extinct bloodlines and kindred who learned their powers from other more sinister sources. These Necromancies are unavailable to players at character generation because of their rarity.

Abyssal Mysticism

Abyssal Mysticism includes only the Lasombra magic. Abyssal Mysticism performs as defined on Rites of the Blood page 37-39 and Lore of the Clans page 125-127.

Infernalism

Through the invocation of your dark masters, Infernalism (Koldunic Sorcery and Dark Thaumaturgy) can grant access to any Path or Ritual from any other magic Discipline. Additionally, the following are unique Paths for Infernalism.

• The Way of Earth (V20 Core page 448)
• The Way of Wind (V20 Core page 449)
• The Way of Water (V20 Core page 450)
• The Way of Fire (V20 Core page 452)
• The Way of the Spirit (V20 Rites of the Blood page 156)
• The Way of Sorrows (V20 Rites of the Blood page 157)
• Level 1 Ritual: Reawakening the Dead Water (V20 Rites of the Blood page 157)
• Level 2 Ritual: Invoke the Lesser Sign of Power (V20 Rites of the Blood page 157)
• Level 3 Ritual: Cowing the Servant (V20 Rites of the Blood page 157)
• Level 4 Ritual: Ties that Bind (V20 Rites of the Blood page 158)
• Level 5 Ritual: The Inmost Tug (V20 Rites of the Blood page 158)
• The Fires of the Inferno (V20 Rites of the Blood page 167)
• The Path of Phobos (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 168)
• The Taking of the Spirit (V20 Rites of the Blood Page 170)
• Level 1 Ritual: Curse of Oedipus (V20 Dread Names: The Red List Page 124)
• Level 2 Ritual: Video Nefas (V20 Dread Names: The Red List Page 124)
• Level 3 Ritual: Felis Negrum (V20 Dread Names: The Red List Page 125)
• Level 4 Ritual: Plague’s Secret Domain (V20 Dread Names: The Red List Page 125)
• Level 5 Ritual: Close the Ways (V20 Dread Names: The Red List Page 125)
• Level 5 Ritual: Into the Inferno (V20 Dread Names: The Red List Page 125)
• Level Variable Ritual: Call Forth the Host (V20 Dread Names: The Red List Page 126)
• Level Variable Ritual: Bind the Interloper (V20 Dread Names: The Red List Page 126)

Appendix 2: Equipment

Dark Seattle can be a dangerous place. Outfit your vampire or ghoul with the latest and greatest gear here. Weapon, Armor, Vehicle & Equipment cards are needed if you wish your character to rely on their mechanical effects in any dramatic situation. Any other item that you may wish your character to rely on in a dramatic scene should also have a stamped notecard. Melee and Ranged weapon and armor stats are per pg. 280-281 of the V20 core rule book.

Item Rarity

Common Items: Items that are readily available and not controlled in any way are typically considered to be “Common”. This includes things like cell phones, cars, basic weapons, clothing, craft supplies, computers, property, etc. Typically, all that is required to acquire these items is a comparison of your Resources to the value of the item to make sure your character can afford it.

Uncommon Items: These are typically the same as a Common item, but made of something special, higher value, or is otherwise controlled. Things like special medical equipment that requires a license to acquire, large volumes of drugs, something made by a specific artist, and exotic animals are all examples of Uncommon Items. Uncommon Items provide no mechanical benefit as a rule.

Rare Items: Masterpieces, one-of-a-kind artifacts, magic items, and more fall into the category of “Rare”. Almost always, these items are made of such magnificent craftsmanship that they trip the Toreador Curse. Rare Items provide some sort of mechanical benefit in either a +1 die to the die pool or a -1 difficulty to the test. Examples of Rare Items includes a Schreknet Terminal, a sword that does +1 damage, armor that provides 1 less Dexterity penalty, or boots that reduce the difficulty of Athletics by -1.

OBTAINING WEAPONS & ARMOR
        Simple things like baseball bats and over-the-counter handguns are usually no problem. Semi-automatic and automatic weapons may require some Influence with those that can get a hold of them (Criminal or Law Enforcement Influences, or Allies with those Influences). If your character doesn't have the influence dots for it, fear not! Doubtless there are those in game with the hook up. Seek them in-character out and contribute to the Boon economy in exchange for the schwag your character desires.

Track your character's armor, items, vehicles and weapons with a 3x5 card that shows it's stats and has been stamped and signed by the storytellers.

Common weapons and armor: Most weapons can be purchased by characters at your local all-nite sporting goods store or katanaemporium.com or whatever, for the appropriate Resources rating. Anything without an * (asterisk) in the core V20 book is considered common. You need only write those stats on a notecard and obtain a stamp from the storyteller to use it in game.

Uncommon Automatic Weapons: Items from the Firearms chart with a * (asterisk) are considered illegal weapons by mortal authorities. (Those are the ones that go full-auto). These are considered Uncommon. Gaining illegal weapons require Influence over the Criminal sphere of mortals, whether that be by your character having the Criminal Influence themselves, or by having a mortal Ally with that Influence that they can turn to their advantage. Contacts in the Criminal world could also point a character in the right direction, but will stop short of obtaining them on the character's behalf. (Alternately, your character could track down a criminal in-game and try to take their automatic weapon from them, but they tend to have friends with automatic weapons.) Entering the game with an Uncommon automatic weapon costs Concept Rarity.

Uncommon "Clean" Weapons: Swapped serial numbers, missing maker's marks, etc. are considered Uncommon items and automatically +1 diff to aquire when using Influences or Allies with Influences in the ways described above for illegal weapons.

Uncommon "Odd Metal" Weapons: Functional Silver, Gold, Cold Iron or other 'supernatural killer' weapons can't be purchased 'off the shelf' (and must be specially crafted to be at all usable) are considered Uncommon as well. This includes a single clip of 'silver bullets', which must be declared for a specific caliber of bullet and can only ever be fired from the kind of weapon that fires those rounds (shown in the core book). Entering the game with an Uncommon weapon costs Concept Rarity.

DO I NEED A CARD FOR THIS?
        If it has a mechanical effect in-game, get a card for it.

        Weapons, Armor, Vehicles, Technology (cell phones), Computers. "But my character would have had," is not an excuse once they have entered play.

        Per V20 If you foresee your character needing to rely on an item in a dramatic situation, (like a combat scenario) get the stats for it (in our game, a stamped card). Is it dramatically interesting to be without a cell phone at an inopportune moment? Totally! Is that the drama you want? Up to you.

        Prior cards with old stamps from previous iterations of the game will not be accepted. Feel free to save them as keepsakes, but those are all considered void.

VEHICULAR PARTICULARS
        Cars, vans, trucks and such have the only vehicle stats in the core book.

        There are no stats for motorcycles in the V20 books, however as a sole exception, we've lifted the stats for them from the W20 core book (pg. 276). These are the only items relevant or usable from any non-V20 book.

EXPLOSIVE MOTIVES
        The V20 Companion wisely states on pg. 58: "Of course, such weapons of mass destruction are better handled as plot devices than as inventory items in most Vampire chronicles."

        We take that to mean that explosive devices are plot devices, which make them the sole realm of the storytellers, as such, they may never be purchased or used by PCs.

MUNDANE SECURITY GADGETS
        If your character wants to secure a location without using the Communal Haven background, you can purchase store-bought cameras and locks for a location (though the Communal Haven background is far more robust in terms of security). Store bought security tech can be overcome at diff 3+ the level of the Resources rating used to purchase it, but requires only a single success to breach. Character's die pools for breaching security gadgets depends on what they're doing, like using Stealth to sneak by cameras, picking locks with Larceny, or hacking motion detectors with Technology.

Appendix 3: Clan Titles

Clan Titles are mentioned vaguely in the book. Unfortunately the books give very little detail on how each clan is organized and what titles are available to member of a clan. Staff has drawn from the genres of each clan to create the following list of clan titles.

Usually the first clan title to be determined in a city is the clan head. Each clan determines a clan head in their own way. The Toreador for example vie for their clan head with politics and popularity while the Brujah and Gangrel are straightforward contests of combat or ability. The clan head then gives titles to other members of his clan. The various ways these titles are given and the titles themselves depend on the clan in question.

Clan titles above 4 pts are outside of the scope of ECC and are unavailable. Clan titles cost a number of experience points equal to the title. For example a clan head title would cost 4 xp.

• Miscellaneous

• Caitiff (0): This negative title is applied to any clanless Kindred automatically by the Camarilla upon public knowledge of their lack of clan status. While a character has this title they can gain no status in the Camarilla. While it is the usual practice to bar Caitiff from positions among the Camarilla as well some rare Caitiff gain enough respect in a city to be named Hound or Scourge and once even Keeper of Elysium. No Caitiff has achieved higher position in the Camarilla however, and many would find even the idea scandalous. This title can only be lost on the very rare occasion that a Caitiff is adopted into a pillar clan of the Camarilla.

• Assamite

• City Clan Head (4): "The Eagle of <insert city>". Usually the Eldest and most blooded of the assassins in a city. Primary duty involves communicating with the Sisila to negotiate contracts and enforcing the Laws of Haqim.
• Castellan (3): The lord of the local Eagle's Nest, charged with managing the communal resources of the assassins, in particular, their Communal Haven.
• Rafiq (2): The Clan's lorekeeper and scholar. Also keeps the names of the dead and keeps a formal accounting of the blood taken in by a Nest.
• Fida'i (1): A blooded assassin, a Title given to one who keeps the Laws of Haqim and has successfully completed Release as a Kindred allowed by the Sisila in Alamut to accept Contracts they approve of.

• Brujah

• In-City Clan Head (4): Commander, The Boss, The Guy, The Chick in Charge, The-one-holding-the-chain-of-command, which-is-the-chain-I-use-to-beat-you-with-until-you-understand-who-is-in-command. There's not a set Title for the Brujah in charge of the Rabble in a given city, yet when you say the Title out loud, every Brujah in the room knows instantly whose in charge. Only charisma and prowess stands to be in common between one city and the next in the Brujah Clan, and that's just the way they like it.
• Warrior (3): Say what you will about the vaunted philosophers of the Brujah Clan, there are few who gain more instantaneous respect than a Brujah Warrior. This title exemplifies the established fighter that is the first to put themselves in harms way and the last to leave the battlefield. Usually is only awarded when a Brujah survives a protracted, life-threatening campaign. A ready majority of the Brujah Clan aspires to this Title, regardless of Sect.
• Troubadour (2): History is replete with epic poems and songs that recount the battles of mighty warriors. A modern troubadour recalls the list of the fallen, and reminds the Brujah why they are known as the warrior poets.
• Rugged (1): Individualist Brujah that know their way around the Clan and can speak clearly about their camp are often spoken of as Rugged, for defending their viewpoint from the other two camps is a constant struggle.
• Bombast (1): Iconoclast Brujah are classically results-driven and status-quo averse. A member of this camp that has made a flashy name for themselves is sometimes referred to as a Bombast, or, in certain urban circles, that trait starts to slide into what others commonly mistaken as 'bomb ass'.
• Jutting Chin (1):  Idealist Brujah have a way of sticking their neck out for the underdog, a dangerous proposition for a Kindred considering the cost of decapitation. Those in the Idealist camp who actively foster justice and stick to a strict code of honor (whatever that means to them) earn this title.

• Follower of Set

• In-City Clan Head - Hierophant (4): The Hierophant is the leader of a Temple, and a Temple is the de-facto name given to any allied group of Setites. Since Followers of Set have multiple castes and may serve any number of Gods beneath Sutekh, often, the Hierophant's duty is simply to hold regular prayer meetings and suggest a focus for future meetings and activities. For a Hierophant with a vision, however, this is often not enough. Many Hierophants ultimately yearn for a method of veneration of Sutekh that rivals the very Pyramids at Giza, but such a vision takes time and draws enemies. At the very least, the Hierophant must be that one that puts together a temple's Blasphemy Shrine, or oversees it's creation, if a more sorcerous Setite is willing to perform the rite. The existence of a Blasphemy Shrine is the central focus of the Setite religion, and a temple just isn't a temple without one. Aside from that, a Hierophant must develop his temple, and those within it as well.
• Purifier (3): Mortals are the backbone of any good Follower temple. They are it's slaves, it's worshipers, it's very life's blood. A wise hierophant knows that only those Setites who are masters at corrupting mortals toward their vices are capable of calling the appropriate chosen to serve their gods. The purifier's duty is tantamount to maintaining a Temple's power in a city, through Herd, Influence and control over the most deeply initiated mortals.
• Divine Scribe (2): The knowledge of the Aeons is shrouded in the mists of time and hidden by the shadows of fallen empires. When a city's Hierophant dedicates a Follower to transcribing the ancient texts, faded papyrus and crumbling tablets, it requires a studious mind, and a deep commitment to Sutekh. A scribe must collect, translate and protect all of the hidden teachings of the Aons.
• Prophet (1): To be fair, every Setite claims to feel the hands of the Aons slithering inside them, but it takes a special kind of crazy to admit that out loud to the members of outside Sects, such as the Camarilla, Anarchs or Sabbat. Still, open recruitment is seen by some as more 'honest' than sly manipulation and deceit, and every con-artist knows that a good distraction can be worth its weight in stolen Roman gold. No real prophecy comes to most with this title, but plenty of attention does. It's the duty of a Prophet to actively recruit from outside of the Setite Clan.

• Gangrel

• In-City Clan Head - Alpha (4): A city's Alpha keeps the local Gangrel in line, pure and simple. She tells it like it is, she assigns other Gangrel to forward the local Clan's agendas according to their skills and prowess, she shares information and sometimes even blood with those less capable of hunting it up on their own, though often for a favor. Clan is Clan, after all.
• Beta (3): Its about 50/50 to find a city Alpha with a chosen Beta. Sometimes they work great together, and strong allies or broodmates are often a powerhouse combination that sets the Clan in line. Other times the Beta is just waiting for a chance to take the top spot and challenge the Alpha for her position. Either way, against out of Clan antagonists, an Alpha/Beta combo of Gangrel is a potent combination that most would rather back down from than fight head on.
• Mother/Father Bear (2): Sometimes through leadership sometimes through stubbornness, sometimes through soft-heartedness, a Gangrel with this Title is in charge of the cubs. There are always some Gangrel wandering through the city looking for the Sire that made them, sometimes a hair's breadth from causing a Masquerade breach or an inter-clan throwdown. It's the Gangrel way to leave newly Embraced out on their own for awhile. No need to get mad about it, it is what it is. Nobody said you couldn't teach them how to survive. They've got it hard enough as it is.  
• Skald (2): Respected by most Gangrel are the tale-tellers and the loremasters. That which is primal and tribal about sitting around with blood and telling stories is alive in Gangrel with this Title. Though the expression may be scholarly, mystic or a just plain, down-home, jaw-jacking gift for gab, those with this title are driven by the need to follow the stories they hear and collect them to pass on as wisdom later.
• Trailblazer (1): Nobody trusts a drifter, but in the various Sects of the Kindred world, they almost universally respect the need for one. Simply put, the open road is this Kindred's haven, and remarkably, to spite the many mundane and supernatural dangers in a cosmopolitan world of darkness, the Kindred with this Title seem to know which roads to take and when to be safe in a journey. Noone is sure what their Gangrel secret is, and noone wants to wait around in the Barrens and get eaten by werewolves or cursed by fairies long enough to find out. Ironically one of the most 'boon rich'  Gangrel, considering how most Kindred consider them a necessary evil for safe travel between domains.
• Omega (0): Not so much a Title as it is a lesson. Some Gangrel grant this to any newbie that comes into their city until they do something worthwhile to help the Clan, others save it to teach a lesson to disobedient Fledgelings who don't fall in line. Can never be granted while any other Clan Titles are in place.

• Giovanni

• Anziano/Anziana (4): The catchall term for elders. The anziani vote to steer the family when Augustus doesn’t set down specific direction. An elder may also be a padrone or nonna, but if you don’t know a member of the family and she seems powerful, anziana is the safe way to go.
• In-City Clan Head - Don/Donna (4): Traditionally, this is actually a noble title, but you’ll find it used for leaders and people with loads of money, too. You wouldn’t call someone “Don Giovanni,” unless his given name was Giovanni. Antonia Giovanni would be Donna Antonia.
• Consigliere (3): There are certain Kindred who are wiser than others. Vampires who are respected not because of their fists or ability to provide profits for the Family, but because of their knowledge and counsel. Rarely does a Don or Donna make a decision without first having the issue pass the ears of their consigliere, often their closest ally. He represents the Don and is often sent out to the rank and file to settle disputes, or give out orders. This is done for psychological reasons, and legal reasons. Add an extra layer between the dirty work and you, and you give the 'feds' an extra headache as well.
• Nonno/Nonna (3): Grandparents. The eldest members of the family generally carry the most power in a specific household, even if they aren’t technically anziani. If any visiting anziani are about, of course, they get their way, but even then, in most cases, it’s considered polite to appear to defer to the nonni.
• Capo/Capa (2): The boss most Giovanni see. This is the local guy on the street, checking in with your household, making sure things are running smoothly and giving marching orders.
• Crypt Keeper (1): Someone has to keep the local corpses in line and care for the crypts. For the Giovanni, this is a necessity.
• Enforcer/Associate (1): Your basic leg-breaking muscle, and a title carried with an almost suspicious amount of pride by a great number of mafia-associated Giovanni. Enforcers are not usually titled because of their brains. Particularly staunch allies of the Giovanni have been known to have been given the Title 'Associate' as a message of respect and Clan friendship.

• Lasombra

• In-City Clan Head - Praetor Noctis (4): Policing a city's Lasombra comes down to one tenant only: That they have done nothing that would reduce the respect of the Lasombra Clan. Rules are elegant and worthy of following because they are a symbol of recognizable civility, but they are only there to ultimately give flavor to the blood of one's enemies. Self-restraint engages the appetites, after all. In all things up to, but not including the Final Death, the Praetor Noctis is judge and jury for the Clan in-city, unless that tenet is broken. It is then the responsibility of the Nocti to contact the Friends of the Night and call for a Blood Court.
• Faithful Paragon (3): A Title granted only to those Lasombra who prove resistant to the powers of Faith displayed by mortal hunters, who have dedicated themselves to faithfulness in certain Christian ideals. As reknowned for their resistances as they are shunned for their oddity and piety. Primarily a Sabbat Title, as many Lasombra Titles are the Faithful is a faction within the Sabbat Lasombra.
• Senior Abyss Childe (2): A ranking member of the Abyss' Children faction of the Lasombra, whose duty is to explore and study the primeval darkness of the Abyss itself.  
• Senior Fatalist (1): A leader among the Fatalist faction of Lasombra. The Fatalists firmly believe that all vampires are the playthings of the elders and Antediluvians. The course of your life has been set, will is futile, freedom is an illusion. It is therefore the duty of all Fatalists to seek any lore they can find about the ancient ones that they might find answers or be free of them.
• The Doomed (0): A negative Title given to those Lasombra who act purely on instinct, reveling in their vampiric nature to an extent even the Sabbat considers ill-advised, making groups like the Fatalists look like they have foresight. Mortal authorities often catch up with these — usually inexperienced — vampires, often on a tip from their elders. In the meantime, no form of excess or debauchery is too much for the Doomed. They drink today for tomorrow they may die, likely at the hands of a very irritated sire.

• Makavian

• In-City Clan Head - Lunatic (4): Lunatics act and the Clan follows. A careful word, a slight gesture sets all the dominos. Lunatics are the clocks by which Malkavian Time chimes. They say the Great Prank was hatched by a coterie of lunatics. They literally created one egg for each city where Malkavians were located and hid them, like Easter Eggs. The Malkavian that found them got the strongest dose of mental mind twisting power and everyone else got those echoes.  
• Madman/Madwoman (3): A Madman is a lean, mean, insightful, politically savvy machine. The best mad men don’t shoot to kill; they shoot to teach. This is when plans become elaborate lessons meant to teach more than one Kindred at a time. A Madman's pranks are for shaking Kindred to their core. These are the teachers of the Malkavian Clan, and they take that duty seriously.
• Maniac (2): The curse of madness hits maniacs hard, causing mental, emotional, and physical pain the likes of which surpass anything a mortal could survive. The only way to make it through to the other side is to lash out. Sometimes, the pranks at this stage leave an impression simply because of their violent consequences. Your clan is likely to point you at something they don't like and watch you eat part of it and paint with it's innards
• Fool/Fish (1): They don’t have much time for activities above and beyond their insanity. It’s hard to campaign to be Sheriff when you’re trying to find out where all the voices are coming from, you know? No, I guess you don’t know. Well, listen to the voices for once and they’ll tell you, okay? Other Malkavians find their randomness useful to cut their own chatter or to remind themselves that insight can come from anywhere. 'Talking' stuffed animal not included.

• Nosferatu

• In-City Clan Head - Undergovenor (4): The Nosferatu who wields this title may also be the Face of the Clan, hob-nobbing with the Camarilla Elders and whispering advice to the Prince, or they could never leave the warrens, choosing instead to delegate and manage from below. The fact is, there is a lot to manage and maintain for the Nosferatu Clan to reach its full potential in a City, from politics to information control. Often held by a Face, someone with the ability to move among the court without offending the sensibilities of the 'high' clans.
• Warrensmaster (3): As the rest of the Kindred leave the Nosferatu to their own devices and happily grant them dominion over the sewers of the city, the Nosferatu have free reign to make the places their own. The Warrensmaster oversees the security of the Communal Haven and shared resources of the Nosferatu, including any Spawning Pools or unique features of the Warrens.
• TechOps (2): Pretty much any Nosferatu in good standing with the Clan has access to the SchreckNet. Those that aren’t in good standing just don’t get the new passwords whenever there is a periodic change. In a short time, the network has become more than just a database: it has become a social network as well. Some of the younger Nos have even started calling it Filthbook and Garbage. TechOps keeps the city's servers running and manages any new projects that relate to technology. Without it, the Nos couldn't dominate the information market.
• Loremaster (2): For some Nosferatu, secrets are not enough. They seek to learn more about their condition, often so they might better understand it. With the Nosferatu gift to sift fact from fiction and see the truth behind the lies, they make excellent scholars. Many expand their studies outside vampiric lore and latch on to the history and society of other supernatural creatures.
• Garbage Man (1): Sometimes things or people just need to go away, and sometimes people and things need collecting, whether they want to be collected or not. For reasons that should be fairly obvious, this title is most commonly held by a leatherface. Almost no self-respecting Undergovenor is without one of these all-purpose Nosferatu.
• Spawning Poolboy/Poolgirl (1): A Title often granted by the Warrensmaster, and just as often by the Undergovenor, this Nosferatu is usually held by someone gifted with Animalism. Their duties include ensuring the appropriate blood tithes for the maintenance of the Clan's Spawning Pools and caring for the creatures within.

• Ravnos

• In-City Clan Head (4): - The Clan head is named for the Ravnos' Caste, that is, whatever the Ravnos' Caste is, becomes the Caste of the Clan Head, and therefore the title of the Clan Head. This is most commonly Brahmin or Vaishya (the most common), with Kshatriya being uncommon, and Chandala almost unheard of. Still the nights after the Week of Nightmares have decimated the population of the Ravnos so greatly that it's not impossible to have a mere Phramulo as a Clan Head, in a city of one. This 'leader of no one' phenomenon is also known as a 'tin crown' among the Elders of the Clan.
• Brahmin (4): the religious caste of the Clan, charged with the spiritual enlightenment of the clan, specifically in helping her fellow Ravnose achieve progress along her path of svadharma. Brahmin are responsible for keeping the wisdom and lore of the Clan, performing the duties of educators and advisors.
• Kshatriya (3): the military caste of the Clan, the Kshatriya make war on our behalf, or served as a defense in dangerous times. They create strategies of battle, watch for the asuratizayya, and offer protection to members of the Clan who are in need.
• Vaishya (2): the management and organizational caste of the Clan. The Vaishya protect the silence of the blood, maintaining mortal influences and keeping an eye on the Clan’s herds. They handle interactions with wealth and physical things, focusing their attention on the material world.
• Kumpaniya/Phralmulo (1): A Ravnos with Rroma lineage in her blood. A Ravnos with this Title is often better respected among the Rroma, and is often granted this to acknowledge that connection with her mortal family.
• Rakshasa (1): A Ravnos with Egyptian lineage, or simply an accomplished trixter. These things are interchangeable among the Ravnos, due to ancient prejudice.
• Carnie (1): Ravnos from the Vaudeville era of the Americas are granted this Title to denote their lineage, or simply to underscore ability to shill mortals out of their hard earned valuables and currency.
• Chandala (1): The lowest caste of the Clan; the Ravnos consider them nearly Caitiff. The weak, those punished for crimes among the Clan, or those who have failed in some meaningful manner. They perform the tasks that no other caste wishes to touch. Its members are forbidden to Embrace, and they are expected to spend much time in meditation and attempt to improve their standing through performing onerous or unclean duties.  
• Sudra (0): (also “shudra”) the lowest caste, composed of ghouls and mortal servants. This carries with it no prestige, but it serves to remind the Ravnos of their duty to protect the lowest caste of creatures associated with their mortal lineages.

• Toreador

• In-City Clan Head - The Rose Elect (4): The ability to whisper in a Prince's ear and be heard may be all that is all that is needed in some cities to gain the Primogenship, but to herd the cats of the Clan of the Rose in a given city may be considered one of the most difficult posts a Toreador can aspire to. The duties are legion, and the accolades almost always difficult to come by, but the Elect must believe that it is all worth it, for she is the gardener of the roses in her city. She must clip and nurture each of them as they need to grow, giving and taking away titles as it benefits their temperaments and skills. How can they survive in the greater Sect that they serve without first learning from within the Clan?  
• Elite (3): Why are some people famous and others obscure? If the Elites know the answer, they aren't telling. Those among Clan Toreador that have mastered the balance between keeping the Masquerade and maintaining mortal Fame belong among the Elites. Their duties to the clan often fall to managing the mortals and the Masquerade for their fellows as well. Often a Keeper of Elysium cut her teeth as an Elite among her own Clan first.
• Artiste (3): To be a true artiste in the eyes of the clan of artistes is no small thing. It means submission to criticism, it means the gathering of acclaim from those who know what beauty is. It may be in the eye of beholder to most, but to the Toreador, they simply understand what is exceptional, and what is merely pretty or well-crafted. Only a member of Clan Toreador who has created a truly Rare object d' arte or craftsmanship may hold this title, but the prestige that comes from it among other Toreador is nearly as immediate and instantly recognizable as the bliss of the Toreador curse itself. An artiste knows it is her duty to craft art to elevate the Clan, and to teach those with the talent to learn.
• Critic (3): To know what is beautiful is a terrible burden, and the ever-present curse of the Clan of the Rose. Not all who carry this curse carry the talent for artistic endeavor, however, and some consider this a tragedy. Not so, for the critic. Their weapons are words, and they consider it a duty to use them to carve away the lies of others and leave behind only bare, beautiful (or ugly) truths. Professional tastemakers, a critic's art is in dissecting beauty, not in creating it. Often a Harpy, or harpy in training has this title among the Roses. A Critic must herd her cats among the roses toward excellence in etiquette and urge them toward the titles they are most suited for in both Clan and Sect.
• Prized (2): A Tite often granted to artistic Toreador who have developed enough skill to craft an object of art or great craftsmanship considered to be of Uncommon value. A Prized artiste seeks to constantly increase her skills, and knows it is her duty to craft art to elevate the Clan, and the Sect she serves by creating art.
• Poseur (2): Not a negative title among the Clan of the Rose, per se, though there are always factions of evolving thought among the artistes and the critics of the clan, a Poseur is a title granted to a Toreador who shows no particular proclivity for artistic endeavor (has not crafted a Rare or Uncommon item) and isn't a particularly good critic (Not Harpy material), but is an otherwise useful and productive member of the Toreador Clan. Perhaps they are simply good at anticipating the needs and desires of the Elect, or has a knack for locating the rare components needed for certain kinds of art. Whatever the thing is, a Poseur is useful to the Clan, and as such, may gain the notice of the Elect.
• Blossom (1): A Toreador with potential is often granted the Clan Title of Blossom by the Elect. This kindred may show promise at a particular art, or may show surprising wit. There is an assumption of a certain degree of naïveté about the title as well however, and for a kindred of great age or Status to receive it is most certainly an insult worthy of a thorny response in most cases.

• Tremere Each rank in the Tremere system of Titles has seven degrees, or sub-rankings, with 1st degree being the lowest and 7th degree being the highest. Per Lore of the Clans, it's not necessary to raise each degree to go up in Title.

• In-City Clan Head - Regent (4): The Regents are each master of an entire chantry, often making them the de facto leader of the Tremere in a given city and possibly a member of the Primogen. Both Lords and Pontifices often have their own staff and household, usually basing themselves in a chantry for convenience. Many Regents rankle at having their boss running a separate department in their domain, but to complain would bring their loyalty into question.
• Magister (3): The title of Magister (from the Latin for “teacher”) is granted to the Tremere who run their chantry and educate the Apprentices under the direction of their Regent. It is also a title granted to older and more distinguished members of the Clan who have not sought power but instead have become trusted advisors. Magisters tend to oil the wheels of the Clan, organizing training and seeing to disputes and punishments. Magister has also become a term of respect to an elder Tremere or a teacher.
• 2 dot - Apprentice (2): When officially presented as part of Kindred society, a Tremere becomes an Apprentice. Many never rise higher than this, but you would be warned not to underestimate a seventh-degree Apprentice. They have earned their status serving the Clan and advancing their magical studies.
• Acolyte (1): At the bottom of the pyramid (but above the ghouls and Gargoyles) are the Acolytes. These are Kindred not fully released, and as such rarely gain degrees.
• Trimira (1): Among the Acolytes are also counted a group Tremere refer to as the Trimira. These are Kindred of other Clans who have proved their loyalty, and have drunk Tremere blood as initiates of the Tremere — originally a group of Ravnos and Nosferatu who understood an ancient Indian blood magic called Sadhana. They could never be fully part of the Clan, but we were pleased to accept their loyalty and skills. Nowadays, the term has spread to include several agents and Caitiff who often work as deep cover agents on our behalf inside Clans no full Tremere could infiltrate.

• Tzimisce

• In-City Clan Head - Zhupan (4): The zhupans carry the more immediate power through the Clan. They are the wisest, though not necessarily the oldest. Knowledge and demonstrated ability in battle proves the worth of a zhupan. Other Tzimisce often heed their suggestions, and it is considered rude to ignore a zhupan outright. As per the old laws, one must awaken the zulo shape before attaining this rank.
• Childe of the Dracon (3): The knightly order exists to atone for some past sin of the Tzimisce. Politically, they act contrary to nearly every major decision of the Clan proper, always sitting as angels or demons upon our shoulders. Their elders prefer the Children to remain active in the Sect, rather than cloistering themselves. The order produces many templars and no few members of the Sabbat Inquisition.
• High Exsanguinist (2): A leader in the Exanguinist camp of Tzimisce. Unlike other blood cults who gorge on gore, the Exsanguinists practice feeding abstinence. This Metamorphosist offshoot has developed ignoblis ritae to avoid drinking blood for as long as possible. They teach meditative techniques. They throw themselves into distraction. If they can increase the length of time between each feeding, perhaps they can unlock the secret to transcend the curse.
• Romanian Legacy Foundation Member (1): Its board of trustees include names such as Bratovitch, Obertus, Grimaldi, and Zantosa, and is composed of Cainites who came from revenant houses. The Foundation keeps the families in touch, hosts gatherings, and welcoming revenants into undeath.
• Neofeudalist (1): Neofeudalists seek a return to the nights of kings and serfs. They claim vast domains, sire large broods, are the most gracious hosts, but demoniacal to any who trespass uninvited. As a point of honor, they are self-sufficient from the Sabbat, whom they are at odds with nearly as often as the Camarilla.
• Exsanquinist Acolyte (1): An in-training member of the Esanguinist camp of Tzmisce on the Path of Metamorphosis. It is their duty to learn the meditative techniques and Ritae used to delay feeding.  

• Ventrue

• In-City Clan Head - Praetor (4): The head of the city's Board of Gerusia is the called the praetor (or sometimes simply “manager,”. The praetor is the highest-ranking Ventrue in the city, unless a Ventrue who is also the Prince or the Primogen plays that role and she delegates the praetor responsibility to a subordinate. The praetor chairs all Board meetings and is responsible for finding a place big enough and secure enough to host those meetings.
• Tribune (3): Tribunes are the spies, errand boys, and toadies for the Directorate. In other words, every Ventrue who will reliably ask how high when told to jump by a lictor or a strategos.
• Aedile (2): The praetor is assisted in her duties by Ventrue informally called “supervisors” and formally called aediles. Typically, aediles are competent and well-regarded ancillae who are happy to suck up, well, because they’re Camarilla Ventrue ancillae and that’s just how they are. In some domains, the praetor presides over Board meetings but an aedile actually runs things, usually because the praetor wants to nap through the meeting or otherwise can’t be buggered to pay attention to what’s going on.
• Peerage (2): Only slightly below the tribunes are the peers (collectively the peerage), which is basically a list of every reasonably competent Ventrue who has any standing or influence of any kind. Curiously, being a part of the peerage doesn’t really give you any benefits. Rather, it simply means you don’t carry the stigma of not being a peer.
• Quasitor (2): The questors or foremen are young Ventrue who have obtained some degree of status from the Board in exchange for loyalty and obedience.
• Eiren (1): The eiren or associate members, sadly for them, are so young and inexperienced that they have no real status at all beyond that which all Ventrue accord to one another as peers. To compare it to the Mafia, think of questors as “made men” and eiren as rank-and-file gang members. Or, to compare it to a fraternity, the eiren are the freshman plebes and the questors are all arrogant sophomores who have been appointed to the membership committee and think that entitles them to haze the newbies.

Appendix 4: Hand Signals

Obfuscate:

Auspex: This is the hand signal for listening using the heightened senses (sight and sound), You must also point to where your character is currently located with your other hand.

( Sound/listening)                (Sight)

Out-of-Game: ECC Accepts several types of OOG hand signals, when a player has these up they are currently OOG/OOC

Other stuff:

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