Vampire/Approval Procedures

These are the approval procedures for the Vampire sphere on From Dusk Till Jawn.

Background Review

It is permissible (and ideal) for a background to be as short as a handful of bullet points as long as the following items are covered:

1. Where the character was born and grew up
2. Embrace details
   1. What city they were embraced in
      1. If Philly, was the embrace with or without permission? If without, and after 1891, their sire is probably dead.
   2. The age of the character when they were embraced
   3. How and why the character was embraced
   4. The identity of their sire (name, covenant, bloodline)
   5. Whether their sire still alive
3. How did the character join their covenant? Is it the first covenant they joined?
   1. If the character was previously part of another covenant, what were the circumstances of their changing?
4. Which family is the character a part of?

Sheet Review

1. Status is capped at 3
2. If the character is from another city and not part of a family, Status (City) is capped at 1
3. Purchase of Auspex, Dominate, Majesty, Nightmare, or Protean if it isn't a clan or bloodline discipline requires a teacher who knows it.
   1. Who did they learn each dot from?
   2. If their Blood Potency is less than 6, they must roll Resolve + Composure - 1 to check for vitae addiction for each such dot of Disciplines.
4. Check for their free dot of Attributes based on clan or bloodline
5. Check the math on the sheet
   1. 2.0 has flat costs.
6. Check Willpower, Defense, Speed, and Humanity
7. Review mundane equipment
   1. All custom mundane items (unless direct CoI) must be reviewed by DadHoc. Use the custom item guide for prelim review.

Finishing Steps

1. A basic wiki is mandatory for approval.
2. Must have:
   1. Name (whatever name or names other characters will call them)
   2. Clan (and dots of Status)
   3. Covenant (and dots of Status)
   4. Dots of Status (City)
   5. Family
   6. Categories set for Clan, Covenant, Family, and Bloodline, so the page populates in all the right places
   7. Please make sure they haven't copied the template from the NPC page -- that's only used for NPCs.
   8. Any easily-seen/understood/noticeable merits/effects (If you can see its effects when you look at a character or if they affect most/all interactions, it should be on the wiki. We don't need someone's Resources 5 on there, but we DO need stuff that other characters will easily notice. This includes how the Nosferatu curse manifests, for Nosferatu)
   9. 3 RP Hooks. They don't have to be much, but they should be SOMETHING for other players to say 'ahha, we can RP together because you sometimes hang out at Bob's Bar/you're from New York and I was once there'
   10. Any covenant positions.
3. Once the sheet is ready, make a copy of the sheet to the FDTJ Google account
4. Make sure you've reviewed the Beat Tracker help file with the player
5. Set the 'approved' role on the Discord