In reply to Angel Asutilla (msg # 31):

It seems that the answer is Yes, I asked that myself.

White Wolf designers must have hated bilingual people.  6 points just to carry on a decent conversation? sheesh

I am sad I have to take a virtue. Can't I just have two vices? :)

Daeva Drama already. LOL

Sorry for the delay. It was my time to sleep! As far status in more than one Covenant, I’m gonna have to say no at this time. It is something that can be pursued IC once game starts, but dual Covenant Status can get a bit crazy so I’ll probably need to figure out some house rules around that.

@Nefertiti — sorry if I gave you a different impression! I realize you were asking about merit cost breaks for Carthians, which I thought was odd since you are an Acolyte but didn’t realize you were trying to ask about holding status in 2 Covenants.

I just updated the house-rules section on Status to go more into detail about holding Status in two Covenants at once. Feel free to read over those so you get a sense for how it can be accomplished in game and the limitations I've put in place.

With this new ruling are you going to allow us to purchase a second Covenant now?

No. The house rule does state you cannot start with a second Covenant and that you can earn the right to purchase dots of Status in a secondary Covenant with proper IC justification once play has begun :)

Hey roomie.

Get ready for a lot of RP so I can  smooch a point out of you. LOL.

Keep in mind that proper IC justification will likely require more than "I'm in a Coterie with a member of that Covenant."

You can definitely start to foster a relationship with another Covenant that way, but there will be more RP involved since there are other established members of each Covenant that you would likely need to curry favor from in order to be accepted into their ranks :)

Using me for my contacts.  I knew we would be a good fit;)

Since its come up a couple of times, I wanted to give folks a heads up about the Language Merit. Originally, this was set up as a 3-dot scaling Merit, but there's an errata out there somewhere--too busy with work stuff to look for it now--that changed it to being a 1-dot Merit.

So rejoice, you can just buy a 1-dot Merit to be fully fluent in any language of your choice! Each language is purchased separately of course, but it only costs 1 merit dot/2 XP to do so.

We've got a new addition to the game, so now that makes 3 Daeva and 3 Mekhet!

Also, just wanted to give folks a heads up that I tend to be much more scarce in my posting/replying to things on RPOL during weekends. Especially this one, since I'll be traveling. But not to worry, I'll respond to any PMs or questions posted here once I'm back Sunday evening/Monday morning.

Welcome to our newest addition! Not a Daeva, nor a Mekhet!

Welcome all

Gasp, a trend breaker walks among us

I actually submitted a bloodline member of one of those two, but was persuaded to keep the character and ditch the bloodline and switch to a different clan.

were you a Daeva or a Mekhet originally? I am just curious who nearly won the tie :)

Who won? The Nosferatu! All show bow before the Haunt! Regardless, Nathan 1.0 identified almost exclusively with his bloodline and would only have introduced himself as his clan to keep his bloodline secret.

So, if you want to guess then try to think of the greatest most impressive bloodline of all.

I see another new Kindred has entered into DC..

Welcome Leslie

You already said you're not Daeva, so that can't be true.

In reply to Angel Asutilla (msg # 54):

She is not wrong

shaking her head.

I see Daeva's are not smart or listen well.

But don't you worry.  I'm here to help you both.


The Mekhet have the BEST and TRUE bloodlines.

Hey guys! I'm back from my trip. If anyone is ready for me to review their character sheet, let me know so I can get you approved for play. I hope to get at least some sort of social scene started this week for you all.

Since I've had a couple of people ask me about PCs owning businesses in games, I've given it some thought and have established the following under our house rules:

Owning a business IC
In order to represent the fact that a character owns a specific business in the game, they will need to purchase the Staff Merit found in p. 74 of the Ghouls book. The number of dots required will depend on the size, complexity and other factors relating to the PC-owned business. Unlike the Merit published in the book, I'll allow for this Merit to be shared if 2 or more PCs are "partners" and own the business together. However, every PC contributing dots towards the Staff merit still needs to meet the Resources prerequisite (e.g. Johnny and Laura want to own a large sports stadium/arena, which will require them to have 5 dots in the Staff Merit. Johnny has Resources 5 and is able to spend XP to contribute dots towards sharing Staff with Laura. However, Laura only has Resources 3, and thus unable to spend XP to contribute dots towards sharing Staff with John until she has enough Resources to meet the prerequisites).

Let me know if you've got any questions about this.