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[Realmfighter]

I'm in UTC -6 which would seem to discourage me staying up late and actually playing. I'll roll a character in the hopes that the timing works out.

[Grakelin]

Do I have carte blanche to choose a location for the City? I might do a real place so we can mark out locations using Googlemaps, but I know most of you guys are probably more familiar with different cities than I am. If it was solely my own decision, it would be Toronto.

Also a thing is editions: I have 2nd, you have anniversary, I don't know what everyone else has, and I don't know the differences. If you want anniversary, I can find it, though.

I have a very old copy of 2nd ed. as well, but Anniversary is an improvement, imo. I can retrograde if that is what most players have.

[Simmura McCrea]

My knowledge of most major cities is nil, so go ahead and pick anywhere. I'll wing it.

[Leatra]

If people find they lack some resources, pm me.

I hear you're a man who knows how to get things...

Anyway, I'm cool with any kind of edition as long as it's popular enough to... never mind.

Maybe we should send our available times on GMT + 0 time to the GM and let him set a time which works for as much as players as possible.

[mcclay]

I'm available 3-5 in afternoon on most week days and all day on staurday. On Wednsdays I can go from 2-5 and on every other Sunday I can't do it from 12-4.
I'm in Pacific Time US

[Grakelin]

I'll compile people's available time slots and try to find the best one. To make my job a bit easier, I'll only do it for people who actually post up a character in here beforehand, so I know who is and isn't already on board. If you've got friends on another forum, just paste all their info in here.

If you need any help making a character, let me know and I can work with you.

[Simmura McCrea]

It's 2nd edition and missing some details, but here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34537718/daughter%20sheet.pdf

[Simmura McCrea]

So I guess I'm all alone? ;_;

[Leatra]

Well, I kinda had to drop out (without even starting) after finding a great Pathfinder campaign. Two campaigns is too much for to juggle for me.

[LordBucket]

I'll compile people's available time slots and try to find the best one. To make my job a bit easier, I'll only do it for people who actually post up a character in here beforehand, so I know who is and isn't already on board. If you've got friends on another forum, just paste all their info in here.

If you need any help making a character, let me know and I can work with you.

Suggestion: whomever is in charge of this, decide on and announce the following:

 * Day and time of gameplay
 * Game format: Text chat? Skype? Third-party program like maptools?
 * Game version and which supplemental material will be used
 * Campaign setting. What year is it? What part of the world?
 * Any clan/age/generation/background/etc requirements/restrictions or house rules

GMing is going to be difficult if the coterie contains both an elder Giovanni and a fledgeling Nosferatu, half the players are unwilling to download third part software they hadn't realized would be necessary to play, and the other half are in incompatible timezones.

[Leatra]

You don't have to download Roll20, it's browser-based. You just create an account and join the game. GM only has to draw a map. You can create macros (like, 1d8+1+(@Strength*1.5) for your melee damage roll or something like that) to roll quickly.

I played a campaign with several Bay12 members. Roll20 is the easiest way to play tabletop online. It allows for webcams and mics so other softwares are unnecessary.

[LordBucket]

Ok. That's fine. Simmura proposed both roll20 and maptools. Whichever is used is ok...but if this is going to happen, somebody needs to say "X is what's going to happen, and T is when it's going happen. If you want to play, you need to do A, B and C."

Right now we don't know who is GMing, who is playing, when the game will be, whether or not the game will be 2nd or anniversary edition, or for sure which of two software packages will be used to play.

Whomever's goign to actually run the game needs to decide these things and say so.

Grakelin offered to deduce a suitable play time based on character submissions, but it's difficult to submit characters if we don't even know which edition of the game we're playing.

[Simmura McCrea]

Well, Grakelin did offer to GM, so it's largely his choice of edition unless someone has a massive bone to pick with one of them.

[Grakelin]

Honestly, I threw out the request for characters to gauge actual interest. You don't actually need an edition to come up with a concept for a character. Since nobody asked "Hey, would this be okay?", I can only assume only Simmura was interested. I'm not going to spend a great deal of time writing a chronicle for players that don't exist.

I'm not exactly new on the boat here, either. An elder Giovanni and fledgling Nosferatu team would actually not be hard for a GM to work with. But it would be pretty difficult for that match-up to happen amongst reasonable players, since all the core books in every edition have some pretty clear rules on how to make a character. If I was running D&D, I wouldn't need to specify to my players that they can't start at level 20, after all.

I'd ask that, unless your intention is to join in on a game of Vampire, you refrain from posting in here. There's no point in making the thread look crowded.

[LordBucket]

Ok. Here's a character submission. Couple things still to be resolved, specializations to decide on, might want to re-evaluate some of the numbers, etc. But hopefully this will get us started.

I used 20th anniversary rules, because that's what I have.

Character
Name: Vincent Proveaux
Concept: Socialite
Clan: Toreador
Generation: 8th
Archetype: Bon vivant

Spoiler: Attributes, Disciplines, Virtues (click to show/hide)

Stat block
Physical: (3)   Social: (7)   Mental: (5)
Strength:  2   Charisma     5   Perception   3
Dexterity: 2      Manipulation 1   Intelligence 3
Stamina:   2   Appearance  4   Wits         2

(Charisma/Appearance Specialization: To be determined)

Disciplines
(Clan) Auspex   0
(Clan) Celerity   3
(Clan) Presence   0

Virtues
Conscience   2
Self-Control   5
Courage      2
Humanity   7
Willpower   3 (Bon vivant: Regain 1 willpower whenever you really enjoy yourself)   
Blood pool   To be determined: 1d10 (15max, 3max per/turn)

Spoiler: Talents, Skills, Knowledge (click to show/hide)

Talents: (13)
2 Alertness
3 Athletics
0 Awareness
4 Brawl (Specialization: To be determined)
0 Empathy
0 Expression
0 Intimidation
4 Leadership (Specialization: To be determined)
0 Streetwise
0 Subterfuge

Skills (5)
0 Animal Ken
0 Crafts
0 Drive
5 Etiquette (specialization: To be determined)
0 Firearms
0 Larceny
0 Melee
0 Performance
0 Stealth
0 Survival

Knowledge (9)
0 Academics
1 Computer
5 Finance (Specialization: investing)
0 Investigation
3 Law (Specialization: corporate law)
0 Medicine
0 Occult
0 Politics
0 Science
0 Technology

Spoiler: Background, Merits/Flaws, Freebie Points (click to show/hide)

Background
 * 5 Resources
 * 5 Generation (8th generation)
 * 1 Herd (3 vessels)
 * 1 Retainer (Christina Forester)
 * 2 Status (Camarilla)
 * 3 Domain (Size)
 * 2 Domain (Security)

Merits/Flaws
 * None

Freebie point expenditures:
 * 5 in (background)generation
 * 3 in (background)domain(size)
 * 2 in (background)domain(security)
 * 2 in (background)status(Camarilla)
 * 1 in (background)herd
 * 1 in (background)retainer
 * 1 willpower

Spoiler: Character Background, Childhood, Embrace (click to show/hide)

Background, Childhood
In 1796, several members of the Proveaux family, well known in France for Proveaux wine, immigrated from France to Virginia intent on spreading fine French wine to the New World. Sadly, while the wine business was fruitful, it was quickly discovered that there was a great deal more money to be made in cotton and tobacco. Consequently, over the years the grape fields were reduced and replaced.

Two generations later, Vincent was born in 1835.

Growning up in the 1840s, Vincent's childhood was a time of tremendous growth. Texas, Iowa and Wisconsin joined the union and the spread of rails for the powerful steam locomotive enabled an ever-growing ease of transport. The electric telegraph was becoming ubiquitous and for an attractive young man from a rich, upper class family, anything seemed possible.

The Embrace
By 1858 at age 23, Vincent had become a strikingly attractive young man and extremely eligible bachelor. He'd caught the eye of several beautiful and well-bred ladies and was taking his time in choosing among them. However, this was not to be, as he himself had caught the eye of an equally beautiful Toreador vampire, who seduced and embraced him. And within a month completely lost interest and disappeared back into the night.

These first few years were difficult for Vincent, as he'd only been given a cursory introduction to vampire culture, leaving him to stumble through many of the details on his own. Fortunately, being a well-educated man with a great deal of money and charisma behind him, he was able to manage his way through and undeath began looking up for him.

Spoiler: Characater Background, Adult Years (click to show/hide)

The US Civil War
In 1861, when Republican upstart Abraham Lincoln won the presidency, 11 states seceded from the union to form the Confederate States of America. With a great deal to lose from the abolition of slavery, the Proveaux were staunch supporters of the Confederacy, and Vincent went to war. Serving in a regiment led by his own father, and with the benefit of family funded guns and horses, Vincent partook both in many battles as well as in the blood of many northern soldiers.

Sadly, it was not enough. In 1865 the war was lost.

Post war years
Ultimately, though the family fortune was vastly reduced, very little changed. Neither Vincent nor his father had ever had any interest in cruelty, and after the war, blacks who had once worked the plantations as slaves were generally willing to continue working as employees. However, it was the end of an era, and when Vincent's father died in 1872, he sold his land to a relative and set out on his own.

It was only then that Vincent discovered other vampires and was introduced to Elysium.

1872 to today
These years were spent alternately being an irresponsible playboy and casually investing and building an empire. When one has tens of thousands of (1870s) dollars in cash from the sale or a large estate, and is in contact with rich and powerful people, it's easy to do well. When John Rockefeller showed up at Elysium in the 1870s offering investment opportunities with Standard Oil to his fellow vampires, Vincent was one of many who accepted. When Henry Ford showed up seeking investors for his Model T, again Vincent was one of many to participate. And when Rockefeller returned in 1902 offering another opportunity for investors to help him consolidate the US steel industry, again Vincent participated.

Not all ventures were so lucrative as these, but overall it's pretty easy to stay rich when you know the right people and already have a foot in the door. And when one has no immediate family to support and it's not strictly necessary to buy food, one can afford to take many risks. And for those with connections, even things like world wars become merely opportunities to make yet more millions through investments with the military industrial complex.

Spoiler: Character Background, Today (click to show/hide)

Today
Having invested in a number of industries over the previous century, today, Vincent is most well known as a real estate investor as well as founder and CEO of Proveaux Hotels Corporation, an international hotel company headquartered in

Do I have carte blanche to choose a location for the City?
If it was solely my own decision, it would be Toronto.

...Toronto. With a mere couple hundred million dollar net worth, Vincent is unlikely to make any Forbes lists, but is sufficiently rich to be a recognized name. However, while you would easily recognize the name Hyatt, do you have any idea what Mr. Hyatt himself looks like? Or even what his first name is? In the human world, Vincent shares this sort of fame. In the kindred world, he is a well known and generally respected Ancilla of the Camarilla. Among elders the general consensus is that he is "simply not ripe yet" and needs probably another century or two to work out his attachment to humanity before joining their ranks.

Vincent's herd consists of three college age girls who are completely smitten with him. While they believe they are in love, and third party onlookers believe the girls are simply gold diggers, the truth of course is that they are enraptured by The Kiss.

Vincent's Retainer is Christina Forester. Known publicly as his executive assistant, Christina is an attractive woman with both accounting and law degrees. While she presents the appearance of a 120 pound woman in her late 20s, she is actually a ghoul approaching her mid 40s. Though eager and capable of serving her master, she is a non-combatant. Most of Christina's service takes the form of procurement and management, whether that be simply booking hotels at vacation resorts and arranging transportation, relaying messages to the board while her master is away, or arranging meal delivery. Christina is a former herd member who has grown to become a respected and well-treated servant, not only receiving a weekly dose of vitae, but also drawing a quarter of a million dollar a year salary. Unlike the herd, Christina is fully aware that her master is a vampire, and hopes one day to meet his Embrace.