Conversion

Here are game mechanics for when a PC changes race and/or subrace due to IC events.

• If you were approved as your "new" race/subrace and just want to RP through your IC change, then go ahead and do so.
• The remainder of these rules are for PCs who were approved as something else.
• This is a work in progress, based on past practice as best we can remember or reconstruct it, and is subject to adjustment.

General principles:

• See relevant cheat sheet for context.
• See '+rules multiclass' for limits on multiple power sets.
• "Refund" means that you lose a stat, and gain the same amount of XP that you would have spent to raise that stat from 0 to its previous level (regardless of whether you actually got it via baseline points or freebies or XP or a mix thereof).
• Backgrounds and merits that would become relevant can be bought with staff approval (merits: 3 XP per dot).
• Backgrounds and merits that would become irrelevant are refunded.
• Flaws that would become irrelevant must be bought off (2 XP per dot).
• Flaws may be gained with staff approval.
• Things that "must be declared at chargen" are generally also okay to declare during conversion (e.g. if you're Embraced as an Assamite, you can choose to become an Assamite sorcerer)
• Banality and/or Faith should be updated if appropriate, either immediately or over time (does not cost XP).
• Free Lore from '+rules lores' does not apply to your new race, you must buy it up with XP (does not require additional IC justification).
• Old incompatible powers (if any) are refunded. New powers must be bought up from 0 with XP. Ignore normal chargen baselines; all old powers are refunded, and all new powers must be bought.

Mortal to supernatural

Mortal to vampire

• Update Race, Sire, Faction, Clan
• Allocate 3 dots to one or more in-clan disciplines
• Can buy Generation background with XP at the usual rate (not the higher rate in '+rules generation')
  • If Embraced by another PC, must buy Generation background as needed so that your Generation Rating is one removed from theirs. (Example: if they're 10th, then you would be 11th, so you must buy two dots.)

Mortal to Kuei-jin

TBD

Mortal to shifter

• Update Race, Subrace, Faction, Breed, Auspice, Tribe, Rite Name (optional), Gnosis, Rage
• Start with Shifter Rank 0, no renown and no gifts
• When you undergo a successful Rite of Passage (staff discretion what qualifies), you gain 3 gifts for free (1 breed, 1 auspice, 1 tribe)

Mortal to mage

See IC Awakening Guidelines Sketch

Mortal to changeling

• Update Race, Seeming, Kith, Faction, Court, Legacy Seelie, Legacy Unseelie, Fae Name (optional), Banality, Glamour
• Allocate 3 dots to arts and 5 dots to realms

Mortal to Nunnehi

TBD

Mortal to inanimae

n/a, inanimae are entirely inhuman

Mortal to demon

• Update Race, Faction, House, Apocalyptic Form, Celestial Name, Faith, Torment, virtues (will decide on specifics if/when someone actually tries it)
• Allocate 3 dots to in-house or common lores; primary lore (determined by apocalyptic form) must be highest (or tied for highest)

Mortal to wraith

TBD

Mortal to Risen

TBD

Mortal to mummy

• Update Race, Amenti, Hamartia, Inheritance
• Allocate 3 dots to hekau, including at least 1 in primary path (determined by Amenti), Balance, Sekhem

Mortal to mortal+

Mortal to ghoul

• Update Race, Subrace, Domitor, Faction, Clan
• Allocate 2 dots to disciplines (1 Potence, 1 in-clan)
  • Ghouls raising disciplines above 1 requires 4+ dots in Domitor background (decoupled from Domitor's generation, '+rules ghouls')

Mortal to kinfolk

• Update Race, Subrace, Faction, Tribe
• No inherent powers

Mortal to sorcerer/psychic

• Update Race, Subrace
• Allocate 5 dots to numina, plus starting rituals as usual for sorcerer/psychic chargen

Mortal to kinain

• Update Race, Subrace, Seeming, Kith, Faction, Court, Legacy Seelie, Legacy Unseelie, Banality, Glamour
• Allocate 3 dots to arts and 5 dots to realms

Mortal to possessed

• Update Race, Subrace, Type, Faction
• Select powers, taints, and Autonomy per possessed chargen
• Kami: Set +notes per possessed chargen

Mortal+ to supernatural

Mortal+ to vampire

• Ghouls retain their disciplines and gain 1 more dot, otherwise same as mortal to vampire
  • If Embraced into a different clan, any dots in restricted disciplines must be transferred
  • Domitor is removed, background gets a refund
• Kinfolk TBD
• Kinain TBD
• Sorcerer/psychic gets a refund along the lines of IC Awakening Guidelines Sketch
• Possessed TBD

Mortal+ to shifter

• Kinfolk to shifter is same as mortal to shifter
• Ghoul TBD
• Kinain get a refund for arts/realms (if any) and must buy Kinain merit (4 dots = 12 XP)
• Sorcerer/psychic gets a refund along the lines of IC Awakening Guidelines Sketch
• Possessed TBD

Mortal+ to mage

See IC Awakening Guidelines Sketch

Mortal+ to changeling

• Kinain to changeling just update Race, Subrace, Fae Name (optional)
• Ghoul TBD
• Kinfolk get a refund for gifts/Gnosis (if any) and must buy Kinfolk merit (4 dots = 12 XP)
• Sorcerer/psychic gets a refund along the lines of IC Awakening Guidelines Sketch
• Possessed TBD

Mortal+ to demon

• Ghoul TBD
• Kinfolk get a refund for gifts/Gnosis (if any) and must buy Kinfolk merit (4 dots = 12 XP)
• Kinain get a refund for arts/realms (if any) and must buy Kinain merit (4 dots = 12 XP)
• Sorcerer/psychic gets a refund along the lines of IC Awakening Guidelines Sketch
• Possessed TBD

Mortal+ to wraith

• Ghoul TBD
• Kinfolk TBD
• Kinain TBD
• Sorcerer/psychic gets a refund along the lines of IC Awakening Guidelines Sketch
• Possessed TBD

Mortal+ to mummy

• Ghoul TBD
• Kinfolk get a refund for gifts/Gnosis (if any) and must buy Kinfolk merit (4 dots = 12 XP)
• Kinain get a refund for arts/realms (if any) and must buy Kinain merit (4 dots = 12 XP)
• Sorcerer/psychic gets a refund along the lines of IC Awakening Guidelines Sketch
• Possessed TBD

Supernatural to wraith

Vampire to wraith

• Buried Secrets page 27: Possible unless they were diablerized or reached Golconda
• Details TBD

Shifter to wraith

• Buried Secrets page 27: Only "certain werewolves with a Wyrm taint" (or Fera)
• Details TBD

Mage to wraith

• Buried Secrets page 27: Possible, but their Avatar doesn't cross the Shroud with them
• Details TBD

Changeling to wraith

• Buried Secrets page 27: Only possible if they were killed by cold iron
• Details TBD

Demon to wraith

Probably disallowed

Mummy to wraith

• A mummy who dies but will be resurrected is not re-statted as a wraith in the interim
• Details TBD

Add mortal+

Add ghoul

• Buy Ghoul merit (5 dots = 15 XP)
• Update Domitor, Faction, Clan
• Allocate 2 dots to disciplines (1 Potence, 1 in-clan)
  • Ghouls raising disciplines above 1 requires 4+ dots in Domitor background (decoupled from Domitor's generation, '+rules ghouls')
• Supernaturals cannot be ghouled (+rules multiclass)
• Subrace:Kinfolk TBD
• Subrace:Kinain TBD
• Subrace:Possessed TBD

Add kinfolk

• Buy Kinfolk merit (4 dots = 12 XP)
• No inherent powers
• Non-Risen wraiths disallowed (requires a body)
• Subrace:Ghoul TBD
• Subrace:Possessed should take Skinchanger Kinship power instead

Add kinain

• Buy Kinain merit (4 dots = 12 XP)
• No inherent powers
• Subrace:Ghoul TBD
• Subrace:Possessed TBD

Add sorcerer/psychic

• Update Subrace to Sorcerer-Psychic, then use the procedure to add the merit corresponding to your old Subrace
• Kinain to sorcerer/psychic-plus-kinain: arts/realms are refunded

Add possessed

TBD