Premise
You are a fledgling vampire. Your coterie
seeks to be unrecognized, anonymous, yet you
yearn to freely hunt. You try to balance a
semblance of normality against your ravenous
nature and supernatural capabilities.
Life and Blood
Your duality is represented by a number from
2 to 9, the balance between Life (performing
normalcy, mitigating vampire vulnerabilities)
and Blood (feasting, savagery, other vampire
powers). A low number tends toward Life, a
high number toward Blood. When you begin,
pick a number from 2 to 5. It will change as
you take risks.
Your History
Before you were vampire, you were mortal.
Name your human occupation. You are an
expert in its skills and knowledge. When you
want to use the skills and knowledge that you
retain from life, or when you want to avert
vampiric vulnerabilities, roll for Life.
Your Present
Now you are immortal, and with immortality
come certain gifts. You sometimes can restore
your health by drinking living blood, and are
expert in one other vampiric power. When
you want to exercise any supernal power, roll
for Blood.
Life/Blood adapted BY Tibbius from Lasers & Feelings
If you have three points or more, Fate favors
you. Something unexpected happens to your
benefit.
Your Hunger
When you feast on Lifeblood, raise your
number by one, heal your physical injuries,
and become expert in another vampiric
Your
power.
Style
Are you cautious, charming, cruel, deceitful, When you roll doubles less than your number,
forceful, greedy, haughty, insolent, jocular, you must feast before you can count more
lazy, mischievous, punctilious, reckless, than one point for Life.
scheming? Pick one or invent another.
When your number is 10, you have become
Your Fate only your hunger and you must leave play.
When you take a risk, roll d10. Roll additional
Master of Fates
d10 if your history or your present makes you
When setting a scene, make sure to give the
an expert in what you attempt, if the action
characters options and levers to alter events.
matches your style, and/or if you have
There should never be a situation with no way
prepared for the action. Each character trying
out. Be ready to accept unexpected solutions
to help you also may roll d10 if they are an
or actions. Be kind to the players. Go lightly
expert in the action.
where they might be sensitive, and respect any
If you roll for Life, gain a point for each die feedback they give you.
on or higher than your number. If you roll for
Scenarios of Life and Blood
Blood, gain a point for each die on or lower
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than your number.
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No points mean failure. Suffer a consequence. Wants to… Slaughter Interview
Enthrall
One point means partial success, with a Capture Exorcise Cure
drawback. You do not entirely achieve your Your coterie Rival coterie A cult
goal, and you suffer a consequence. A killer A victim A werewolf
Two points or more grant entire success,
without any drawback.
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