Humanity Rating

The Humanity stat is an indicator of how morally good your character is. This stat is tabulated by adding your character’s Conscience and Self-Control ratings together producing a number between 1 and 10. For Vampyre characters, this stat is crucial for explaining how close your character is to loosing themselves to the ravenous beast inside them wanting to destroy and devour everything. If a Vampyre character ever has fewer Humanity traits than they have Beast Traits, they descend into a permanent frenzy known as the Wassail—becoming a creature that exists only feed without rational thought.
Humanity traits can be gained or lost based entirely on your character’s roleplaying choices. If you desire a higher humanity rating, the character must actively and consistently pursue actions commiserate with the level of morality they are hoping to achieve. To lose humanity traits, a character must commit acts of evil below their current Humanity rating. The GM will usually make it easier to lose humanity traits than to gain them—after all, bad habits are easier to form than good ones. Use the chart below to determine what sort of criminal (or sociopathic) actions are commonplace for your character based on their Humanity rating.
For non-Vampyre characters, the Humanity stat is also crucial for resisting mind control powers. In general, only truly powerful mind controlling powers can cause a person to go against their personal code of ethics. For example, characters with an 8 in their Humanity rating would not indiscriminately injure a stranger so a power that causes them to attack a stranger automatically fails.

Path of Humanity Hierarchy of Sins

Humanity Rating	Moral Lines Your Character Will Resist Crossing
10	Acting on your selfish thoughts. Settling for the lesser of two evils. Accidently causing harm to humans or animals.
9	Refusing to act when you know you should. Lying to protect your own image. Theft for survival.
8	Self-Harm. Using violence to achieve a positive end. Lying for monetary gain. Actively supporting causes that harm others but benefit you.
7	Causing injury without just cause. Verbal Abuse. Lying for fun or sport. Vigilante Justice.
6	Theft for personal gain or fun. Mental Abuse. Stalking. Perjury in a legal context. Killing a person “in the heat of the moment.”
5	Theft, robbery, or white-collar crime as a lifestyle, Physical Abuse, Sexual Assault, Intentional damage to property for gain or fun.
4	Premeditated Murder. Framing a person for a crime you committed. Torture as a justified war crime.
3	Sacrificing the innocent to achieve a personal gain. Killing anyone who gets in the way of your affairs. War crimes committed for gain or fun
2	Serial Murder. The ends always justify the means. Torture or sadistic practices for fun or pleasure.
1	Completely Amoral—there is no line you wouldn’t cross.