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Half Damned. From Onyx Path Publishing. Selected Option:. Hardcover, Premium Color Book. Hardcover, Standard Color Book. Average Rating 24 ratings. My mother would show up every few years and suddenly be very into my life. To say that I resent her is an understatement. Mechanics for creating Half-Damned characters. Information for creating and running chronicles using the various Half-Damned character types, both with vampires and alone.

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Half-Damned Average Rating: 0. Playing a dhampir character takes the vampire by surprise. I know the damn difference between my period everybody but the dhampir believes. Maybe the kid stays with and a nightmare so real it literally comes true. Nobody believes me about him for a weekend every few months and wonders why his the guy I saw lurking around school, either.

Maybe she constantly begs attention. Or high. He mom was he locked himself in the bathroom for like an hour. He keeps a close eye anything. Maybe she turns to religion to save her soul, or drugs on them to make sure the Masquerade stays intact.

Maybe and alcohol to make herself forget. Danger forces her to use her powers, or If she stumbles across the truth too soon, he might have to do the local prince hears about a dhampir in the area and stops something unfortunate to keep her from ruining everything. Perhaps in trying to keep herself safe Or he might just welcome her with open arms, consequences from the Kindred — and herself — she ends up tangled up in be damned. Big family he wants her to see.

She takes Kindred lovers, delves deeply gatherings are exercises in smiling politely and enduring into the secrets of blood magic, and addicts herself to the veiled questions about the torrid affair that produced her, Kiss on purpose. She on her face. She devotes herself worms that puts herself and everyone she knows in danger to hunting down the vampire that spawned her, and after from barely-understood supernatural threats.

The rest of them need to go, too. Burn it all down, salt If the vampire gave his kid up for adoption or put her through the earth. She hates the parts of herself that came from dead the foster system, her childhood starts out less disturbing blood, but she needs them, too.

Her power and her fate are but ends up even more restless. Foster families, out how to purge her own soul of this rotten curse. Then she adoptive families, and orphanages are wholly unprepared for can be like everybody else and have a normal life. These half-damned are often the loneliest of their kind, desperately seeking someone who understands them or giving up the effort in favor of flagrant iconoclasm that Playing House draws the attention of the supernatural like light draws moths.

I had to lie to the police again this morning. My birth certificate is totally legit, I promise. Ugh, this is getting old.

She runs The ghouls are no help, they all hate me. Like I can stay up all day and night. I do feel guilty. Fuck me. In any case, her life is dhampir children perpetuate cycles of lies and trouble — and irrevocably changed.

Does she keep his secrets, or Kindred parents inevitably bring their stormy undead drama expose him? Does she fight to preserve his Humanity and home. His banes and uncontrollable urges The vampire struggles to process parental feelings and make her feel like the real adult in the room half the time. His callous behavior and violent lifestyle teach her to either He overcompensates with smothering codependent affections, disregard human life just as much or value it highly, forcing alienates his son with his cold and distant demeanor, or enforces her to think about mortality at far too young an age.

Her father discipline as the tyrannical patriarch with the iron claw. He is a Beast in human guise, and she loves him anyway. His dependence on blood and inability to truly live, but shows contempt for her mortal weaknesses. If she goes to school and violent outburst to the year-old looking on. She surrounded by adults and rarely sees the sun, home-schooled watches him with his thralls and concludes that all human by ghouls or the vampire himself and preparing for a life of relationships boil down to obsession and dominance.

A hunter midnight intrigue. All her role models see people more or less swears vengeance against him and he drags his kid from haven like her as food and servants; what does she take away from to haven to stay a step ahead, upending her social circles and that? The Kindred view her powers as simultaneously lesser progress at school every time.

She might own. Her human parent and abilities reveal it soon enough, and then she must decide half-siblings might be ghouls, teaching her that lopsided power what to do with the knowledge.

His Masquerade becomes dynamics between loved ones are normal. On the other hand,. She may gain a unique organization that raised her. Or does she seek escape stories that date back centuries. A dhampir working gets stranger. A dhampir who tries to leave that life behind and start a new one Fitting In among mortals has no idea where to begin and drags trouble Still, beneath all the drama and the lies, the dhampir has to along in her wake.

Any way she slices it, the final confrontation with her parent ends up messy. The Circle of the Crone often raises a dhampir to prioritize: collectively, using her for powerful rites and treating her like an idol or cultist. In each case, the dhampir must form her own opinion of what she was See p. Half-Lives and Deaths The position of the dhampir in Kindred society is always power they hold over their full-blooded half-kind can only be strange and uncertain.

They are not ghouls, and certainly not hand-waved away so far. They are half-damned, and As a rule, dhampir make Kindred uncomfortable. The a dhampir is rare enough to be a curiosity most nights, he.

The night is already Dhampir in Kindred Politics dangerous without adding this strange creature with unfamiliar Dhampir are not always content in the All Night Society. Sometimes, they just want to burn it all to the ground. The ever- In general, Kindred want dhampir to know their place, and present threat of a rogue dhampir becomes a reality when one gets stay in it.

They make rules to minimize and control dhampir, disgruntled enough and leaves. Some vampires treat dhampir as equals, hoping to social circles, and some have even attempted to go public. The Ordo Dracul and the Invictus in the dhampir remain safely controlled by their betters. Kindred with a so slightly, distracted by their imaginations. Many vampire reputation of abusing dhampir find themselves with targets parents deliberately cultivate this, using their children for this on their backs, as other vampires exploit that reputation to psychological effect by bringing them to social gatherings or gain dhampir patsies and footpads for strikes against their having them act as servants to visitors.

A hunter cell or werewolf pack looking Dhampir themselves also find power in this. They can hold for take a bite out of a troublesome vampire presence can find it over other vampires, or even their own parents. They usually a willing ally in a jilted dhampir, if they can hold their noses know they are useful, and when asked on an errand, they can and ignore her undesirable heritage and quirks.

Some dhampir slip their leashes and turn away visitors who wish to talk to his vampire mother. By become independent. The out undesirable contact with the outside world, but he can also social power they hold is a double-edged sword, the worries demand payment or favors in return for letting someone in. A dhampir skilled at brinkmanship can get permanently or on a case-by-case basis, as a lieutenant or quite a lot of mileage out of careful threats and maneuvering, bodyguard to some established vampire who wants to show but one night, his luck will run out; and when that happens, fangs.

Such positions can pay handsomely, especially when a he finds that many of the Kindred he moved against in the past traditionalist elder wants some appropriate muscle of a slightly come together to bring him down. Few things unify Kindred more refined class than a ghoul.

These positions also provide like a common foe. This fact is lost on almost none of them, so such a dhampir can To dhampir, Kindred are a persistent minefield, a thorn in expect discreet surveillance.

However, a dhampir bodyguard their sides they can never remove, no matter how much they is still more prestigious than a ghoul — in fact, creating such try. Their heritage is a curse, setting them apart, aside, taking bodyguards and hand servants is a popular reason to have them out of the mortal world and placing them somewhere dhampir children — and that prestige can be everything for a in between, not mortal and not vampire.

A valued dhampir subordinate makes a good target for reprisals or blackmail against his mother, as well. It takes a long Few dhampir can truly say they see vampires as equals.

They time to replace a dhampir — in fact, 20 years, more or less — so are superiors, or inferiors, and if they are superior, then the even when the loss is not exceptionally emotionally resonant, he dhampir is inferior because of what she is not… and if vampires is still hard to replace, much more so than a ghoul or hireling.

It is a part of her, a dark and shameful thing which she can or blackmail attempts to try to secretly extort his mother. When a dhampir looks in the mirror, she sees her vampire father reflected, and through him, Kindred- kind. It is little wonder that the dhampir view of vampires is so neurotic, then.

Nights Amongst Monsters A typical day in the life of a dhampir will look very different for a dhampir deeply immersed in the All Night Society, compared to one who instead spends her nights hunting.

And for those who know nothing of their heritage founded St. Some dhampir hunt like normal humans do, fighting with a group of like-minded sorts, while some hunt solo, relying on Dhampir in the Dark their own cunning as well as Breaks and Malisons to provide Dhampir have carved out their own place in the nocturnal the needed edge over their Kindred quarry.

Whatever the case, world, though they always stand apart from — and the covenants dhampir hunters draw upon their tainted blood often and often place them beneath — Kindred. Most statuses Kindred early, either from natural inclination, or from having learned can achieve are also achievable for dhampir, with the notable the hard way how close a thing their chosen path often is. They exceptions of joining the Invictus, along with a few specific roles stand with one leg in the daylit world and one leg in damnation, in the Circle of the Crone and among the Sanctified.

Relatively few Known dhampir hunters not only face the fear and hatred of dhampir hunt vampires though proportionally more often than the Kindred, but are viewed askance by fully human hunters as mortals, their low numbers mean dhampir hunters are still few well.

And perhaps measure of wary respect from their wholly damned family. But then again, is it worth the risk? Of course, this protection gifts. The name comes from the fearsome reputation a comes at the cost of independence, as these dhampir mostly dhampir hunter can enjoy among vampires, and is symbolic have their whole lives regimented by their parents, who after all of the irreverent, sometimes reckless, tactics they use.

Each city generally has at most one cell, and its Parentless dhampir have more freedom, but pay for it in members can usually be counted on one hand, with the total danger. They have given up a bit of safety for a great deal of number of cells probably numbering roughly a dozen. For this reason, independent Society dhampir which keep in touch via highly secure online channels, forming usually cultivate strong friends, often trying to find a coterie more of a movement than a true organization.

This allows the to fit into or enough minor vampires to lean on to secure Boogeymen as a whole to survive despite the elimination of a their places. They accept mortal members as well, but in a distinctly because they ran dry of blood. The Boogeymen also willingly provide help and support for Dhampir at Dusk independent dhampir hunters, though association with other Though those dhampir who hunt their full-blooded kind are hunter groups is often enough to make them cut the connection.

To the Kindred, it recalls the stories of the 70s with making absolutely sure they have the right target. No Boogeymen parties are quite as raucous as their wakes. Even a life entirely untouched out for no reason and every reason because something else took by anything else still takes on a decidedly vampiric shade, as over for a bit. Adult dhampir with no idea of their heritage tend to suspect It all begins in the teenage years.

Already difficult enough something. Therapy can are going through. Dhampir who know of, but reject, their ancestry fare slightly When her mother dies in a car accident, the young dhampir better. A few resources exist for dhampir she knows it before she is told, and that argument she had with to cope with their rare state, online and in the form of dhampir her mother last night?

She knows things occasionally just happen around her obscure. A dhampir needs to be clever and resourceful, or be when she wants them to — did she kill her mother? Most Ominous events surround a dhampir even when fully adult. Sometimes, she can feel something family can sometimes be difficult both in terms of keeping deep and dark inside her stirring, something monstrous — to a partnerships and raising children.

Often dhampir choose to be dhampir, the idea that everyone has a dark side is much more child-free for fear of messing someone else up as much as they direct and immediate, and that dark side is terrifying.

Sometimes two dhampir will try to make a family together, Dhampir tend to end relationships and lose jobs. Even the but the rarity of two being in the same place at the same time makes this unlikely in the extreme. Dhampir Character Creation To play a dhampir is a question of choice. Dhampir are always true nature? Fight the vampires, or embrace them? And these decisions Moreover, dhampir are natural centers of attention in mixed shape who they are.

The most compelling dhampir stories are groups. They can bring the Kindred into any chronicle without the ones where the dhampir in question is pulled between both focusing the story on vampires.

They also serve as excellent sides of his nature, and has to learn how to cope with both, glue, keeping Kindred together with other characters, and the and maybe even draw strength from both. It is an idea that interact with many different parts of the Chronicles of Darkness presents itself easily to a player who wants to play a character without feeling shoehorned in. The Concept A coterie of Vampire: The Requiem Kindred can easily With all that in mind, dhampir concepts are varied and contain a dhampir, whether as an equal or in a more servile many.

Ask yourself if your character being a dhampir is core position. This character is likely to face conflict and opposition, to her concept, or simply adds some more flavor and depth with the vampire members having a distinct edge of discomfort to a character who could have been something else instead.

Dhampir The latter is a perfectly acceptable way of creating a dhampir cannot be Embraced, nor commit diablerie. You might have a Dhampir also fit in excellently in games of Hunter: The Vigil character who lacks a certain something to connect the as comrades-in-arms, whether they use their powers openly or Chronicles of Darkness around her more solidly, and in that keep them hidden.

The question of trust is a major theme of case, playing a dhampir gives many such hooks without being this concept — does the dhampir trust his companions with his too mechanically or conceptually imposing. When making your fulfilling that goal, or directly away from it. Simply choosing dhampir character, you must choose that reason. Was she made not to follow her Destiny is not enough. Did her father want a servant, or a haven, or he would earn one for handing her a list of ways mask of mortal life to hide behind?

Or was she created to be someone could breach that haven. He would earn nothing for dissected in a laboratory, or cross-bred with sleepwalkers and simply not killing his mother — that places the goal no closer stigmatics? Then, you must decide how the character relates to that Only one point of Willpower and one Beat may be earned role. Whether she still fulfills it or not, her intended purpose this way per session.

If the Destiny is ever fulfilled or rendered somehow marked her life and upbringing. Even a dhampir impossible, the dhampir recovers all Willpower and takes a infant stolen away in the night by a scared mother to raise far Beat. At the start of the next story, the player then chooses a away from her frightful father must still deal with the knowledge new Destiny for her character.

If Daniel either slays his mother, that her father had a purpose in mind for her, and that he or his mother meets her Final Death without his help, he regains might return to try to impose it upon his prodigal daughter. A Destiny choosing Abilities and Specialties in particular.

An angry, antisocial vampire killer might still have a give-and-take between doing what he is meant to do and dots in Socialize from when her father tried to turn her into the denying it. A dhampir is even day-to-day life.

She might have a formal profession within more or less aware of his Destiny. Indeed, the relationship is much more mutual an enemy instead. These dhampir live up to the most threatening stereotypes of their kind, and will face The Chronicle added danger because of this, so reasonable grounds for such In general, most dhampir characters fit within one of a few a character joining a coterie might involve a particular threat categories.

These are servants to Kindred, who usually serve from a powerful enemy Kindred or faction. These characters fit a cell or coterie; blessedly ignorant citizens, whose ancestry in well alongside mortal characters in a chronicle involving is all but guaranteed to come back and haunt them; and the their exposure to the supernatural. They are especially well dhampir who reject their heritage and live among mortals, suited as a player option in chronicles involving minor in full knowledge of what they are.

Each of these represents a templates such as psychics, stigmatics, or sorcerers. This is potential chronicle, or particular characters within chronicles a versatile option suitable for many games dealing with the following different themes.

In a chronicle featuring Kindred a coterie member fighting to regain his independence without heavily, whether as protagonists or Storyteller characters, the pissing off mom too much. Their abilities also make them well to Kindred characters, and fit into the same sorts of suited as player characters in other chronicles, including chronicles. They usually have to stay in the good graces Beast: The Primordial and particularly Changeling: The of some Kindred, any Kindred, to remain safe unless they Lost.

They are also a natural fit for chronicles which cross have some significant resource at their disposal. If neither over various Chronicles of Darkness game lines. Furthermore, the section on creating ghoul characters on pp. Step One: Concept. Choose a concept and three Aspirations. Step Two: Attributes. Then assign three Specialties. Step Five: Dhampir Traits. Gain Blood Sense p. Choose a Destiny. Step Six: Merits. Select 10 dots of Merits. Remember the new dhampir-specific Merits introduced in this chapter on pp.

Unseen Sense is not available to dhampir characters. You may spend Merit dots to buy Malisons, at a cost of 3 dots per Malison. Integrity is 7.

Size is 5. Defense is Athletics plus the lower of Dexterity or Wits. This gives them a versatility and freedom of movement psychology baked into their minds. If someone truly also their parents, in a sense, and they inherit from that side wants to see as much of the World of Darkness as possible, of the Kindred as well.

The well-traveled dhampir can also call on more varied something that can be separated out and named like the Beast. This ability makes dhampir then it is probably him. This ability to bring outside-context excellent blood hounds and hunters, whether working with solutions to occult problems makes dhampir dangerously others or on their own.

It can also be used by unscrupulous unpredictable adversaries. Destiny protects its wards, means that dhampir who are aware of their heritage must get good at making allies, or at least at setting up contingency and dhampir blood still contains a trace of the power of the plans.

An ability to make allies plus a less odious nature blood bond, though twisted and warped. The fact curse that gives the dhampir power over those who partake of that dhampir have a sixth sense for the stranger creatures of her semi-Vitae.

The dhampir in question may then reflexively Dhampir fit in, though somewhat poorly, most places. They spend a Willpower point to place the assailant under the effect can run with werewolves or brush shoulders with mages with of his Doom, inflicting something akin to but different from.

At the Daeva: The blood is powerful and seductive. Some tell the player what his character finds out, whether true or Daeva deliberately arrange to have themselves placed under this false. The results of the roll apply to every individual character Doom for the sheer thrill of it. The character who drank the in a scene, but can only be used against single characters — if blood gains the Swooning Condition Vampire: The Requiem faced by a crowd, the dhampir can only sense whether there Second Edition, p.

Gangrel: The Beast is invigorated and intoxicated, rearing up and ready to pounce. It will suffer no submission and accept Action: Reflexive or Instant nothing but complete dominance. Shadowy cobwebs infiltrate stand.

The character who Failure: You sense nothing conclusive, one way or the other. Requiem Second Edition, p. The character who a person is a vampire, you can tell what their clan is.

If this drank the blood gains the Shaken Condition Vampire: The ability targets a crowd, then you can sense approximately how Requiem Second Edition, p. The blood binds her to him, and she feels the telltale strains of the Vinculum begin to play, but weak and soft, as if from a great distance.

Though dhampir are no more capable of but does not suffer memory loss after the Condition resolves stomaching raw blood than regular people are — blood, being or fades. Once ignited, it kicks in and stays.

Dhampir cannot become ghouls, but they can Dhampir can sense monsters, and especially Kindred. How be blood bonded like anyone else, and they become addicted this sense manifests is personal, and partially based on parent to Kindred Vitae just like vampires do.

Part of the reason why dhampir have a the surface. Those of Gangrel blood can smell that something is reputation for hunting vampires is this craving that only their off, setting their hair on end. Serving a vampire dhampir feel a fearful chill and thrill run down their spine. Dhampir are also often found in the BDSM subculture, especially those parts involving blood and blood play.

They feel that part of their mind that descends from the natural progression for dhampir to start getting the wires mixed Beast stir and shift. But sometimes, it just gives you something Tolerance trait. Twist opposes another supernatural power directly and provokes a Clash of Wills, the dhampir rolls Very few dhampir manage to sleep soundly.

The innate human sleep clock is individual, ranging from somewhere just short of 24 hours up to 26 at the extreme. This natural cycle does nothing to dhampir, at all. They are Blood Sympathy disconnected from it, their bodies setting their own paces, and Dhampir also suffer blood sympathy to their parents. A if that pace does not roughly match the day—night cycle, then dhampir is as close in the Blood as a childe, and is subject they are not going to match it, either.

As a result, dhampir can to tracking or targeted blood sorcery just like Kindred blood have trouble keeping down a nine-to-five job, always miserably relations are. However, unlike Kindred, dhampir have no way tired and sleepy throughout their days.

They can have trouble to turn it around in their favor — they lack the tools to take setting schedules, knowing that there is no way to know when advantage of it, and have no knowledge of their blood sympathy they will be awake.

Conversely, many have trouble getting to unless told. It can come as a nasty surprise. Marks of Damnation: Twists, Malisons, and Afflictions Most kids inherit traits like brown eyes and freckles from are through living flesh and fate.

The trace amounts of Vitae in their parents. Twists manifest instead in broad humans, and dangerous but valuable tools among vampires. Dhampir command two types of supernatural abilities: Twists Each clan grants its dhampir access to three Twist themes, and Malisons. Some Twists cost Willpower to use, and all as follows: Malisons require self-inflicted blood sacrifice to activate. She can clan. The more dots she has in her Theme, the more of the universe.

He takes every opportunity to show off, and powerful some of her Twists become. Most Twists are available to all dhampir, but each clan also grants a unique Twist that only dhampir descended from that Desire clan can use. He knows what you want and what he wants, and Twists cost 1 Experience per dot. His prophecies speak of unrequited Theme dots cost 2 Experiences each. Using Twists Submission Dhampir use their subtler powers instinctively. They can When you win, he wins too.

In letting you have whatever practice improving their facility as with any other skill, and you want, he condemns you. He gives and gives, and everything employ them whenever they like, but even those who try not to you receive draws you inevitably closer to him. He knows your use their tainted gifts can do so without meaning to.

Just prepare to regret it later. His Twists reward him for makes it happen, though not always in the way she planned. Of course, will make it tenfold. The Storyteller may offer the player a Beat in exchange for letting her character use a Twist unintentionally in a way that complicates her life. Twist is the origin of that tale. For the rest of Unless otherwise specified, using a Twist is a reflexive action the scene, she can contort herself into impossible poses and and has no cost.

She has effective armor equal to her highest-rated Gangrel Theme against bashing damage, but attacks that deal Daeva Themes lethal damage gain the 9-again quality against her. See me. Want me. Take me. The Children of the Living and the Dead They are born with the torment of Yomi in their veins and the hatred of the living as their birthright.

They are destined to be servants to those who should call them kin, and monsters to those who should embrace them. But they will not be denied their birthright.

Their Age Is Here What does it take to be one of the mortal children of the walking dead? The answers are in this book, from character generation to the final fates of the dhampyri. If you want to include the children of the Kuei-jin in your Kindred of the Eastu?

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