Reno by Night
What this chronicle actually runs
No licensed V20 book was in hand while this was built. The sheet enforces a creation reading that secondary sources agree on. Where those sources disagree, or where the book was not checked, the mechanic stays pending. This is not full V20 compliance.
Clans
Brujah
Rebels and ideologues with a short temper. This chronicle's court does not seat them. The Lasombra hold the chair the Brujah used to have. That replacement is house history, not published V20 metaplot.
Not seated in Reno. Disciplines: Celerity, Potence, Presence (secondary consensus). Page reference left blank. Frenzy comes easier. Public V20 summaries add a +2 difficulty and say Willpower cannot buy the Brujah out of it. Those modifiers are recorded here and are not applied automatically until a storyteller confirms them against a licensed copy.
White Wolf Wiki, Discipline (VTM), traditional clan list
Gangrel
A clan of the roads and the wild. Revised-era metaplot has many Gangrel leave the Camarilla. This chronicle keeps a Gangrel primogen and a Gangrel sheriff in the Reno valley. That is the table's premise.
Seated in Reno. Disciplines: Animalism, Fortitude, Protean (secondary consensus). Page reference left blank. Frenzy leaves animal features. Sources disagree on whether each feature is temporary, when one becomes permanent, and whether Social traits fall. The sheet keeps a note. It does not change traits by itself.
White Wolf Wiki, Discipline (VTM), traditional clan list
Lasombra
In published V20 the Lasombra are a Sabbat clan. This chronicle seats them in Reno in the place the Brujah held. The sheet uses the traditional in-clan trio and does not import Sabbat rites.
Seated in Reno. Disciplines: Dominate, Obtenebration, Potence (secondary consensus). Page reference left blank. Their faces do not hold in mirrors. Public summaries also speak of trouble with recordings. The portrait grade on this site is a separate chronicle treatment applied to every uploaded photograph. It is not an encoding of this curse.
White Wolf Wiki, Discipline (VTM): Lasombra traditionally Dominate, Obtenebration, and Potence. Camarilla membership here is house chronicle, not a V20 metaplot claim.
Nosferatu
The Embrace ruins the face. This chronicle does not put them in Reno. There is no Nosferatu primogen and no warren under the river. New sheets cannot take the clan.
Not seated in Reno. Disciplines: Animalism, Obfuscate, Potence (secondary consensus). Page reference left blank. Appearance is 0 and cannot be raised. The creation check enforces that reading.
White Wolf Wiki, Discipline (VTM), traditional clan list
Toreador
Artists, patrons, and sensualists. Extraordinary beauty can stop them in place. They keep a primogen and the harpy in Reno.
Seated in Reno. Disciplines: Auspex, Celerity, Presence (secondary consensus). Page reference left blank. A Self-Control or Instinct roll may be required when beauty overwhelms them. Published summaries do not agree on the difficulty, so no difficulty is hardcoded.
White Wolf Wiki, Discipline (VTM), traditional clan list
Tremere
Blood sorcerers organized in a strict pyramid. Thaumaturgy paths and rituals are not encoded. Reno seats a primogen and a seneschal from this clan, two different people.
Seated in Reno. Disciplines: Auspex, Dominate, Thaumaturgy (secondary consensus). Page reference left blank. The blood bond is said to take hold after fewer drinks than for other clans. The usual figure is two draughts. The sheet does not track bonds yet.
White Wolf Wiki, Discipline (VTM), traditional clan list
Ventrue
The clan that treats rule as a duty and a privilege. Each one keeps a narrow taste in blood. The prince of this chronicle is Ventrue, and so is a primogen who is not the prince.
Seated in Reno. Disciplines: Dominate, Fortitude, Presence (secondary consensus). Page reference left blank. The character can feed only from a chosen kind of mortal. The restriction is required text. Feeding itself is not simulated.
White Wolf Wiki, Discipline (VTM), traditional clan list
House actions
Durations are initial assumptions for this chronicle. They are not rules from the book.
- Precinct gossip — Ask what fictional precinct talk says about a person or place in this chronicle. House assumption: one Reno night. Not a V20 rule.
- Case jacket — Request a fictional case jacket from the chronicle's police files. House assumption: three Reno nights. Not a V20 rule.
- Buried file — Ask for a deeper fictional reconstruction. The storyteller still decides what exists. House assumption: six Reno nights. Not a V20 rule.
- Word on the street — Spend street influence for fictional rumor from the chronicle corpus. House assumption: one Reno night. Not a V20 rule.
- Call a chronicle contact — Spend a chronicle-contact dot, not the V20 Contacts background. The reply is fiction the storyteller releases. House assumption: two Reno nights. Not a V20 rule.
- Discipline question — Ask how a discipline should work in this chronicle. No dots are spent and no power is granted. Power lists are not encoded. House assumption: one Reno night before the question is ready for review. Not a V20 training time.
- File a combat scene — Describe a fight for the storyteller to adjudicate. The server does not roll dice, apply damage, or change the sheet. Ready for review immediately. Combat mechanics are not encoded.
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