Breaking Down Your Character Sheet

We used Larpweaver for Nelly’s By Night to both provide pre-written characters and allow players to have some control over the aspects of the character they choose. Larpweaver is still in beta testing, so later versions will likely implement more features and fixes. In this post, we break down the character sheet to ensure all players understand what’s on it and what it all means.

If you need to make any changes to your character, email us at info@fairescapestudios.com and we’ll sort them out!

Above, the top of the character sheet. Your Character Name is at the top. Next comes your Feeding Prediliction, if you are a vampire. If not, this space should be blank.

Next comes your Character Type. You have some information about that type, along with Other Members of that Character Type – people who are possibly a similar age or station in society.

If you are a vampire, your Clan will come next. There is Common Knowledge about your clan known to most vampires, as well as Secret Information only known to clan members. Other Members will tell you who the others in your clan are.

If you are a vampire or ghoul, your Discipline will come next, along with the general description and suggested effects. The next are Connection Groups – they do not exactly replicate ‘influence’ in mortal society, but are areas of mortal society that your character might move in. The others in this group are people you may know through this area. Next is your character’s Conviction, the way by which they live their (un)lives.

If your character is part of a vampire family, it will be listed next. Afterward will be your Character Group information – this character group is now defunct, so can be displayed. Again, there is Common Knowledge about the group and Secret Information known only to the group.

Next is the Character Seed that your character is based on. Much of this is up for change, as long as you keep any people mentioned in your information apprised. Again, there is Common Knowledge – that is more or less known, depending on the situation – and Secret Information. Themes & Guidance discusses how you might like to play the character or what you might like to play on. Content Notes are there to let you know any potentially problematic content that you may play out or play around through this character.

Last, are Connections. These are the character and player names of all characters that your characters are connected to – by age, clan, family, character type, and more. These are suggestions for connections – you do not need to know all these people, but you may know of many of them.

We know the character sheet is not as intuitively arranged as would be ideal, but using Larpweaver is a learning process that is also helping the creator – so we appreciate your patience and hope this is helpful!

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