FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 All it takes is an Easy Bake Oven – Bloodlines and their exotic Disciplines aren't only a way to extend the vampire myth, but a way to customize Vampire: The Requiem to better suit your playing style and make the game unique for your troupe. Putting aside the rules and game systems involved, creating a compelling new bloodline is a matter of determining the lineage's origin and the role it will play in the chronicle. Bloodlines do not appear from nowhere. New bloodlines can appear in a number of different ways, from the deliberate plans of a Kindred founder, to strange curses and tainted embraces. Even in the latter cases, there's still a vampire who started the bloodline – who bore the first curse or was the first victim of an aberrant Embrace. You should design him (or her) with as much care as you would any other character in your chronicle. Even if the founder is destroyed or in torpor, he remains the most important figure in the bloodline's history. Having sketched out its origins, you should think about the bloodline's position in Kindred society. Any vampire might say that he founded a bloodline, but do others believe him or care? Has the bloodline grown to any size, or is it a brood hiding in the shadows of the city? A bloodline might take centuries to build up respectable numbers beyond its place of origin. Next Week: Getting Antagonistic – Next week, we'll explore a few of the fiends characters will be facing from both the World of Darkness Rulebook and Vampire: The Requiem. |