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Retainers specialize in a skillset that would assist the Vampire. Think of them as an employee. You must maintain some control over your retainers by:

• Salary
• Use of Presence or Dominate on them
• Giving them your vitae once a month. This will make them your Ghoul. Your Vampire will need to feed more to account for the loss.

Retainers and Ghouls are not characters used for roleplay with other characters besides your Vampire.

At any time the Storyteller’s feel your Vampire’s Retainer or Ghoul is being mistreated in any way, they will be taken from them. Your character will lose their dot(s) in their background with no compensation for the loss.

Purchasing Retainer(s)
Maximum dots in Background: 5
Maximum Individual Retainer’s: 3
Maximum skill level/education per Retainer: 3

Additional dots can be invested into a single Retainer, raising the capability to assist the Vampire. Each Retainer’s maximum dots allowed 3.

Invested in a Single Retainer
1 dot - High School graduate
2 dots - Bachelor degree (4 yrs)
3 dots - Master’s degree (8 yrs)

Step One: Character Concept What do you want your Retainer to do. Why would you hire them as an employee?

Step Two: Select Attributes 6/4/3

Step Three: Select Abilities 13/9/5 (Nothing higher than three at this stage)

Step Four: Select Advantages

• Backgrounds: 5 dots. Max 3 dots in any one Background. Resources, more than 1 dot will lower the amount of time the Retainer can spend with the Vampire.
• Virtues: 5 dots (start with 1 dot in each)
  

Step Five: Finishing Touches

• Calculate and record Humanity. Add Conscience and Self-Control.
• Record Willpower, which is equal to Courage
• Spend Freebie points (10).

Retainer to Ghoul add; 1 dot of Potence 1 dot of the Vampire's In-clan Discipline (Common and Uncommon only) Additional 15 Freebies

may invest multiple points in this background into one Retainer, creating a far more impressive servant.

The rules for this are as follows:

• A Player Character must spend the first dot of the Retainers background on a Retainer itself; whether this is animal or human is at the discretion of the PC.
• Any subsequent dots in the Retainers background may be used to do one of the following, they may either:
  • Invest another dot(s) of the background into an existing Retainer (each additional dot invested will add 5 Freebie Points to that Retainer).
    
  • Add an additional Retainer to their retinue (at the normal cost of 1 dot).
    

Start with building a Mortal

Step One: Character Concept What do you want your Retainer to do. Some examples: Driver, Body Guard, Attorney, Researcher, Assistant

Step Two: Select Attributes 6/4/3 Step Three: Select Abilities 13/9/5 (Nothing higher than three at this stage) Step Four: Select Advantages

• Backgrounds: 5 dots
  

(Max 3 dots in any one Background. Resources, more than 1 dot will lower the amount of time the Retainer can spend with the Vampire, they will have to work to pay for their home. Max 10 dots into Freebies)

• Virtues: 5 dots (start with 1 dot in each)

Step Five: Finishing Touches

• Calculate and record Humanity. Add Conscience and Self-Control.
• Record Willpower, which is equal to Courage
• Spend Freebie points (10).

Creating a Ghoul

• Add 1 dot in Potence and 1 dot in a clan Discipline. (Will not include rare or clan only Disciplines.)
• Maintaining a Ghoul requires feeding them. More blood the Vampire will need.

Freebie Points
Attribute 5 per dot
Ability 2 per dot
Discipline 10 per dot
Background 1 per dot
Virtue 2 per dot
Humanity 1 per dot
Willpower 1 per dot

Contingencies
This all said, there is one very important thing to keep in mind when you are creating, and further running your Retainers/Ghouls. All sheets must be submitted to the responsible Vampire STs, before the Retainer can be submitted.

Additionally, if it is discovered that you are abusing the Retainer rules as listed above, you will immediately lose access to all Retainers/Ghouls you have acquired thus far, and will be prohibited from acquiring any new Retainers for a period of time that the Vampire STs see fit.

*reference for creating a mortal Hunter the Hunter.