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.
• A PC who goes through this type of conversion must wait at least one month before going through another one. If it ICly happens sooner, then they fall into torpor or something until the OOC time limit has passed.

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 - if a PC Domitor, it should be a discipline that the Domitor has)
  • 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
  • Ghoul merit is removed without refund (but you still retain all your discipline dots and gain 1 more)
• 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 - if a PC Domitor, it should be a discipline that the Domitor has)
  • 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

Add possessed

TBD

Ceasing to be supernatural or mortal+

In any of these cases:

• You lose all relevant stats with no XP refund.
• If you were multiclassing, then you convert to an appropriate type of mortal+ instead of becoming mortal.

Mage

A mage targeted by a successful Gilgul becomes mortal, though they'll probably be targeted for PK immediately afterward.

Changeling

A kithain may become mortal, handwaving that they succumbed to Banality before they could be rescued.

• This also makes them subject to the Mists, though they may still remember another kithain or kinain as "a friend from work" or the like.
• Inanimae can't do this. Nunnehi / hsien / any other subrace will be reviewed if/when someone actually requests it.

Ghoul

A ghoul ceases to be a ghoul if they run out of vitae and go a month without being fed more.

• Feeding ghouls is almost always implicitly handwaved, same as vampires hunting.
• If your PC is approaching this state, then you should submit a +request before the month is up, as ICly you would be driven to seek out more vitae.

Possessed

A possessed who survives exorcism becomes whatever they were before becoming possessed. If that's something that wouldn't normally be playable as a PC, then it doesn't remain playable in this situation either.

Kinain

A kinain may become mortal, similar to kithain.

Falling to the Wyrm

While this is not a conversion into another sphere exactly, taking a character that is say Gaian and falling to the Wyrm, or a Mage that becomes a Nephandi is more a storyline thing. But there are some conversions that need done codewise. Be sure to open up a +request with staff when this looks likely to happen, or that you would like to have happen.

Nephandi

• Type = Infernalist, Malfean, or K'llashaa
  • Non-Nephandi with Faction = Wyrm (e.g. BSD kinfolk) should set a +note to that effect
  • Non-Nephandi infernalists should set Type = Infernalist but Faction = something else, and also set a +note
  • See house rules for context

Paradigm Shifts:

• Why do you believe the world should be destroyed?