Playing a Ghoul (either V:tM or V:tR)
Mar 29, 2016 14:30:15 GMT -8
Post by G.I. Joe on Mar 29, 2016 14:30:15 GMT -8
Hey all,
So I will start by saying that I have not played either Vampire game, just listened to the actual play, and had an idea for a character and was wondering if building it would be possible using the rules of one of the Vampire systems.
The character that I want to build is a ghoul who has survived with his Lady from the time of the Dark Ages, named Dietrich Van Helsing (explained below). His story is as follows: he was a knight in the Orden der ewigen Morgenröte (Order of the Everlasting Dawn; which was tasked with hunting down monsters and other supernatural heretics); and was actually the brother of the Grandmaster of the Order (Manfred Van Helsing; ancestor of Abraham Van Helsing). Dietrich was betrothed to Countess Brigitte Richtenstein, who had a small holding in the mountains of Southern Germany. Upon returning to his betrothed after a particularly long campaign, he found that she had been Embraced. Now torn, he decided to forsake his oaths to his Order and to stay with the Countess. The countess offered to embrace him as well, but he refused, instead saying that he should always serve his lady. So she made him a ghoul.
Now, Brigitte was not very happy with being turned into a vampire and sent her new ghoul to capture her sire, which he did by killing the sire's ghouls and staking him during the day. Brigitte then deablerized (sp?) her sire. Not long after that, Manfred led a contingent of knights to kill the countess, but Brigitte and Dietrich managed to convince him that they could be of use to the order.
In the span of time between the modern day and then, Brigitte has operated from the shadows and now has a not small contingent of mortals, ghouls and even a few like-minded vampires. They mainly feed on other vampires, which are procured by the ghouls. She also likes to meddle in the politics of other vampires. She is known by the name the Spider Countess.
The reason I think this would work power level wise is that even as a ghoul, he is REALLY old. I remember them discussing ghoul power levels and how the old ones could actually match a vampire; so I'm wondering if it would be possible to create this character using the rules. I have some more on Dietrich's backstory if anyone is interested. Thanks! Oh, one more point; Dietrich and Brigitte are now "married" so her true name is Countess Brigitte Van Helsing.
So I will start by saying that I have not played either Vampire game, just listened to the actual play, and had an idea for a character and was wondering if building it would be possible using the rules of one of the Vampire systems.
The character that I want to build is a ghoul who has survived with his Lady from the time of the Dark Ages, named Dietrich Van Helsing (explained below). His story is as follows: he was a knight in the Orden der ewigen Morgenröte (Order of the Everlasting Dawn; which was tasked with hunting down monsters and other supernatural heretics); and was actually the brother of the Grandmaster of the Order (Manfred Van Helsing; ancestor of Abraham Van Helsing). Dietrich was betrothed to Countess Brigitte Richtenstein, who had a small holding in the mountains of Southern Germany. Upon returning to his betrothed after a particularly long campaign, he found that she had been Embraced. Now torn, he decided to forsake his oaths to his Order and to stay with the Countess. The countess offered to embrace him as well, but he refused, instead saying that he should always serve his lady. So she made him a ghoul.
Now, Brigitte was not very happy with being turned into a vampire and sent her new ghoul to capture her sire, which he did by killing the sire's ghouls and staking him during the day. Brigitte then deablerized (sp?) her sire. Not long after that, Manfred led a contingent of knights to kill the countess, but Brigitte and Dietrich managed to convince him that they could be of use to the order.
In the span of time between the modern day and then, Brigitte has operated from the shadows and now has a not small contingent of mortals, ghouls and even a few like-minded vampires. They mainly feed on other vampires, which are procured by the ghouls. She also likes to meddle in the politics of other vampires. She is known by the name the Spider Countess.
The reason I think this would work power level wise is that even as a ghoul, he is REALLY old. I remember them discussing ghoul power levels and how the old ones could actually match a vampire; so I'm wondering if it would be possible to create this character using the rules. I have some more on Dietrich's backstory if anyone is interested. Thanks! Oh, one more point; Dietrich and Brigitte are now "married" so her true name is Countess Brigitte Van Helsing.