Character Development Document

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Sabbat Character Development Document

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E-mail address or Ppint-of-Contact:

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Chapter Coordinators E-mail:

Lead Storytellers E-mail:

Character Name:

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This Character Development Document is for use with all characters in the sanctioned US Camarillachronicle. By completing this document, you will earn 8 Experience Points to be spent on theCharacter outlined in this document.

This document is designed to help the player flesh out the character, filling in background andrelevant character ties, and provide their ST with important information that can be used to involvethe PC during the chronicle.

In addition to answering the questions below, a full Character Sheet must be attached, along with abrief history summary – not to be in excess of five pages. This summary is to be in simple timeline(bullet-point) format of the most important events of the character’s history.

Players are encouraged to expand upon this for themselves and the benefit of their local STs, butthat is not required for CDD completion. The CDD may be completed only once per character.

Players are encouraged to update this document as their character evolves.

This CDD is created for use in the MES Vampire chronicles: Sabbat. It is notappropriate for other supernatural venues.



CONCEPT

Discuss the basic concept for your Character: how he/she fits in to theWorld of Darkness genre. Explain the overall theme of the character’s

story, and describe how you intend the character to be played .

1. What is your Character’s original (birth/true) name? List any significant or long-term pseudonyms

the character has used.

2. When and where were you born? How long was your mortal life, and when were you Embraced?Were you ever a ghoul? If so, to whom?

3. Who was your character’s Sire, and what was their relationship before and after the Embrace? (Ifthis is a PC, please list their player name and contact information.)

4. Have you ever Embraced? Created a ghoul? If so, how did your character treat their underling?What grudges or debts do they have toward you now? (If these are PCs, please list their playername and contact information).

5. What grievances, debts, or enemies did you make before you were Embraced? After? How doyou plan to bring these issues to light to promote political and social conflict in the venue?

6. To which political faction does the character belong, and how dedicated or hypocritical is theirloyalty? What could cause your character to abandon their faction and choose another one?

7. What positions has this character held in the past? Do they hold any positions now? What, if any,positions are they aiming to step into, and how do they plan to get there?

8. Where is your character’s primary Haven? Do they live alone, or with others? How is that havenprotected? How is it vulnerable?

9. What are the character’s ties to the mortal world? Do they have living family members ordescendants? Individuals they are considering for the Embrace? Favored mortal retainers? Whatwould the character do if these individuals were harmed or disappeared?



THE MORTAL WORLD

This section deals with the character’s interaction with mortals,technology, and our rapidly changing modern world.

1. What is the character’s date of birth? Do they maintain a mortal identity, and if so, as whom? Dothey have records, identification and so forth?

2. When did the character begin to utilize their current mortal identity? How was their last identityruined, and how did they abandon it? How could any loose threads of that identity be used forplot?

3. What habits, hobbies, addictions, vices or routines does your character have? How could thesebe used against them by others?

4. Are you or were you famous in mortal society? If so, why, and how recognizable are you as thatindividual?

5. To what degree was your character educated as a mortal? Was that normal for their gender andera? Have they continued to educate themselves after the Embrace, and if so, how and on whattopics?

6. How comfortable is your character with modern technology and the rapid advancement of themortal world? To what degree have they been unable to adapt?

7. Does your character answer their own phone? Do they have assistants to handle their email? Ifsomeone unfamiliar tried to contact the character, how would they do so?

8. How does your character acquire money? If they have the background Resources, what does thatbackground represent? How does it replenish itself month-to-month?

9. If the character has the background Herd, Contacts, Allies or Retainers, what does thatbackground represent? How did the character acquire those colleagues, and what do they knowabout your character?



MOTIVATION

What are your character’s ambitions? How far will they go to achievethose ambitions, and what do they have to lose? How is your character

proactive in creating conflict, alliances, and plot within the game?

1. Why does your character venture out into the Kindred world? What are they hoping for; what is

their current purpose from night to night?

2. What are your character’s long-term goals in the chronicle? What do you see as the greatestobstacles to those goals, and how will you confront those obstacles?

3. Why is your character located in their current city? What do they hope to achieve while there?

4. What are the character’s most precious things – items, position, or individuals? What would theybe willing to do to protect those things?

5. What does your character hate or want to destroy, and what would they be willing to risk to seethose things fall apart?

6. What is the character most ashamed about? Resentful of? Have they been cheated of somethingthey desired?

7. How will you visually distinguish your character through costuming, props or movement? What aretheir quirks, physical peculiarities, or object fixations?

8. What are the character’s bigotries or biases? What prejudices or rigid opinions do they have?How do you plan to inflict these on the chronicle, and to what extent will you persecute othervampires based on those intolerances?

9. What would be a particularly satisfying reward if the character did well at an IC task? What wouldbe a particularly hurtful punishment if they fail?



HISTORY

What historical events have transformed your character, and what pivotalmoments have shaped your character’s existence?

1. What historical events did your character participate in as a mortal, if any? What were the mostimportant concerns of your mortal life?

2. What historical events was the character involved with after the Embrace? What have been thegreatest failures and successes of their Kindred existence?

3. Has your character ever interacted with other supernatural creatures (Werewolves, Fae, Mages)?

4. What are your character’s favourite or least favourite places in the world? Are they drawn to anycities or types of locations? What memories haunt them when they think of (or visit) those sites?

5. What is your character’s greatest crime? Has it been discovered? If not, how could someoneprove they were complicit in that offense? If so, how could someone use that against you?

6. Has the character ever been in torpor? What torpor nightmares or dreams did they have, and howdo those images haunt them in these waking nights?

7. Has the character ever lost humanity? Under what circumstances? How do they show theirregret? Have they ever been on a path? If not, what do they think of characters and NPCs whohave sacrificed their humanity to follow an alternate morality?

8. How does the character feel about the ravenous Beast that lives inside them? Have they everfrenzied? If so, do they fear it? Relish the Beast’s release? How close to the surface is their Beaston any given night?

9. With what PCs have you created background ties? What areas of your history have you left openfor future ties with characters created during the chronicle?

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