Creation Rules

Vampire or Mortal (excluding Ascension Mages, Hedge Mages, or otherwise) Characters only. As a general rule, if you have been allowed to play it in previous Vampfest, you’ll be allowed to again. But always check to be sure. Character Creation is BY-THE-BOOK. No Exceptions. Traits must fall within the limits of a character’s generation and freebie points/experience points. All submitted character sheets are counted for correct point expenditure. Rejected character sheets will be returned to the player for correction, or rejected outright.

General Rules:
1) Anything that you were allowed to play in a previous Vampfest will be allowed.
2) Any Trait, Background, Merit, or Flaw that does not appear in a book that you are playing a character type from is prohibited. (Meaning that things used in creating a vampire character, must come from Vampire books) Things coming from The Laws Of The Hunt may be excluded from this rule, at the discretion of the Lead Storyteller.
3) Generation cap is now at 7 gen, but ONLY with appropriate history. In the event of too many 7 Gen C apps, the cap will be raised.

3) The Following are Prohibited:

• CLANS: Kiasyd, Blood Brothers, Salubri, Nagaraja, True Brujah, Giovanni, and Kindred Of The East.
• TRAITS: True Faith, Numina, Arcane and Hedge Mage.
• DISCIPLINES: Any from Dead Bloodlines or Prohibited Clans.

4) The Following are Restricted (Meaning they will only be allowed with permission of the Lead Storyteller):

MERITS & FLAWS: Iron Will, Age, Maturation, Unbondable, Nine Lives, Luck, Werewolf Companion, Mage Companion, Mummy Companion.

5) Paper-game Coversions:

For players wanting to incorporate rituals or disciplines that have no published MET rules, but appear in the paper-game books, here is how it is being handled. Most rituals are acceptable to be used "as-is" from the paper-game rules, with a few exceptions. I will address these on a case-by-case basis, and will be compiling a list of those rituals that require some form of conversion, and those that are not allowed to be converted. For disciplines and Thaumaturgy paths in paper-game, these all require conversion of some type. If there is a power, or path that you are wanting to use in your character that does not have MET rules, please get in touch with the Lead Storyteller. I will be compiling a file of converted powers that will become Vampfest custom rules. Below is the list of what has already been converted, and what I have already ruled out for conversion, as time goes along, I will update this list. If you have others that you would like converted, please gfet hold of me (Bryon).

Converted Rules:

Setite Sorcery: Path Of The Dry Nile
Setite Sorcery: The Snake Within
All Setite Sorcery rituals
Select rituals from Abyss Mysticism, and Koldunic Sorcery

Prohibited Rules:

Koldunic Sorcery: Way Of The Spirit

 

We prefer that payers keep their same character from year-to-year (unless the character is killed), it simplifies storytelling and reduces abrupt changes in the SL. But any player wanting to change characters is not barred from doing so.

Contact Bryon (see contact page) for XP from last year, he can email it to you.

Character Submission Deadline Change:

Oct 1st:  Character Sheets and Histories.  If you want XP for your history before Vampfest, your history and character sheet must be in by this date.  Experience Points for histories recieved after this point will be given with regular experience after the larp.

Oct 15th:  Final Submission Deadline.  No character sheets or histories will be accepted after midnight on this date.  If you have not submitted by this point, you will be given a pre-generated character at Vampfest.

Please note:  You do not have to have purchased tickets to submit characters.  Characters and histories can be turned in whether you have gotten tickets or not.  But no history will be accepted for points without an accompanying character sheet.

Character sheets can be emailed, snail mailed, or given to either Bryon or Veronica.  Bryon is at the Wickliffe Inn every Wednesday night for a larp there.  Information, tickets, and character submissions can be done there also.

****PLEASE NOTE: Anyone planning on sending character sheets or histories done on the Grapevine larp program....You must zip those files before attaching them to e-mail, they will download as corrupted files if you don't!!!!