Experience Spending

      As you Role play your character will earn Experience Points. These points can be used to improve your character. Experience will be awarded out every other week. You can earn EXP in one of 3 ways.

1. By Role playing with one of the STs in a scene.

2. By playing with fellow players on your own and send the ST staff a log of the scene.

3. By making posts on the Message board.

     As you get your experience you can save it to by increasing levels on new Disciplines, Skills, Attributes or other Trait you might want to improve your character in. When you go to spend your experience we ask that you make s list of what you spent your EXP on and how much some where on your CS. A list at the bottom works fine. There are a few guidelines We ask as you spend your EXP.

• You can by no more then one dot at a time in a particular area. ie. if you want to increase your driving skill from a 1 to a 3 you first need to buy it at level 2. Then the following time you spend EXP you can then increase it from a 2 to a 3.
• To raise Traits like Attributes and skills requires a teacher or lots of practice. A Character does not suddenly become infused with an ability or skill simply because they now have earned sufficient EXP to purchase the ability. To learn a new Ability, skill or Discpline requires a teacher ( with some exceptions, ie Potence, Celerity, Fortitude, willpower . To show training you can..
  • find another player for the Sake of Disciplines. and send logs of the teaching to the STs.
  • For various Abilities they can be improved through simple practice which posts work great for ( and earn more EXPs) or you can sit in a room and log it and send us the log. I would prefer the former.
  • Other traits can be improved in similar manners. Please use your best judgment and if your not sure ask one of the STs. We'd be happy to help.

• A trait can be raised once a week. for example to go back to my drive example. After Raising your Drive trait from 1 to 2 you must wait 7 days. This is to make it more realistic. You don't sit in a car for the first time and then win the Indy 500 the next day. it take time and practice.

The experience chart we are using is found on page 143 of the VtM 3rd edition main book for those that don't have it here it is as follows:

Experience Costs

Trait	Cost
New Ability	3
New Path (Necromancy or Thaumaturgy)	7
New Discpline	10
Attribute	current rating x 4
Ability	current rating x 2
Clan Discpline	current rating x 5*
Other Discpline	current rating x 7*
Secondary Path (Necromancy or Thaumaturgy)	current rating x 4
Virtue	current rating x 2**
Humanity	current rating x 2
Willpower	current rating

* Caitiff have no real clan based Disciplines, just as they have no clan. For them the cost of raising Disciplines the current rating x 6 for all Disciplines. This is both a blessing and a curse of being Clanless.

** Increasing a Virtue does not increase Traits based on that Virtue (Humanity, Willpower).