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Step-by-step guide

Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition character creation

Learn how to create a Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition character. Use this guide as a checklist, then build your character in RPG Stack.

Steps

  1. Choose concept, clan, predatorType, sire, chronicle, generation (usually 13th).
  2. Distribute Attributes: 7/5/3 across Mental/Social/Physical (any order). Max 4 per Attribute at creation.
  3. Distribute Skills: 11/7/4 across Mental/Social/Physical (any order). Max 4 per Skill at creation.
  4. Pick 1 Specialty per Skill category (Physical, Social, Mental).
  5. Assign 3 Discipline dots among clan Disciplines (max 2 in any at creation).
  6. Apply Predator Type bonuses (usually +1 Discipline dot, a Background/Merit bonus, a Flaw/Feeding constraint).
  7. Assign Backgrounds: 7 dots total (typical cap 3 per Background at creation; ST may allow >3).
  8. Choose 1–3 Convictions and 1–3 Touchstones tied to those Convictions.
  9. Record Clan Bane and Clan Compulsion.
  10. Set starting Humanity 7 (unless chronicle says otherwise).
  11. Complete your character's biography: true age, apparent age, birth/death dates, appearance, distinguishing features, and history.
  12. Compute Health = Stamina + 3; Willpower = Composure + Resolve; Blood Potency = 1 (new neonate) unless older.
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