Sample Rules for the sheet:
Attributes: Divide 7, 5, and 3 points among the three categories (Physical, Social, and Mental). Each attribute starts with 1 point, and you cannot allocate more than 5 points to any single attribute. The attributes are:
Physical: Strength, Dexterity, Stamina
Social: Charisma, Manipulation, Appearance
Mental: Perception, Intelligence, Wits
Abilities: Divide 13, 9, and 5 points among the three categories (Talents, Skills, and Knowledges). You cannot allocate more than 3 points to any single ability during this step. The abilities are:
Talents: Alertness, Athletics, Brawl, Dodge, Empathy, Expression, Intimidation, Leadership, Streetwise, Subterfuge
Skills: Animal Ken, Crafts, Drive, Etiquette, Firearms, Melee, Performance, Security, Stealth, Survival
Knowledges: Academics, Computer, Finance, Investigation, Law, Linguistics, Medicine, Occult, Politics, Science
Advantages: Allocate points to Disciplines (3), Backgrounds (5), and Virtues (7).
Disciplines: Choose three disciplines available to your vampire's clan, and distribute the points among them.
Backgrounds: Select up to five backgrounds for your character and distribute the points among them. Examples include Allies, Contacts, Generation, Haven, Herd, Influence, Mentor, Resources, Retainers, and Status.
Virtues: Distribute points among the three virtues - Conscience, Self-Control, and Courage.
Humanity: Calculate your character's Humanity by adding their Conscience and Self-Control scores.
Willpower: Set your character's Willpower equal to their Courage score.
Blood Pool: Determine your character's maximum blood pool based on their Generation (found in the Backgrounds section). The lower the Generation, the larger the blood pool.
Freebie Points: Spend 15 freebie points to further customize your character. The costs for increasing different traits are:
Attributes: 5 points per dot
Abilities: 2 points per dot
Disciplines: 7 points per dot
Backgrounds: 1 point per dot
Virtues: 2 points per dot
Humanity: 1 point per dot
Willpower: 1 point per dot
Merits and Flaws: You can also choose to take Merits and Flaws to further define your character. Merits cost freebie points, while Flaws give you additional freebie points to spend elsewhere.