This guide is intended to provide mechanics and methods for player characters who wish to change their path of morality in play. This change should be something that no character enters into lightly and the risk of losing oneself to the madness of wassail is very, very present.

Presiding STs should never “hand-wave” this process, even if this means a player loses their character. Loss of self to wassail is a very valid and realistic end to a characters story and not fully living in the risk and avoiding the consequences makes a deeply meaningful experience trivial.

Making the Change

Changing paths always requires a willing teacher with a rating of at least x3 in their Morality Path. If the teachers path rating goes below x3 during the instruction process, another teacher must be found and no progress can be made.

Once the character has a willing teacher for a path of enlightenment, they make a static Virtue test against their lowest virtue at a difficulty of 4 each month to strip away their current morality.

Success means that their current morality goes down by one, failure or tie means no progress is made that month.

This should be represented with fairly intense role playing scenes/downtimes. This is represented by their teacher identifying the easiest way to eat away at their morality.

Once the character is reduced to 0 morality, they are completely bare against the ravages of the beast. At this stage, if they frenzy for any reason the character immediately goes into wassail and is unplayable. Usually individuals at this stage live apart from vampire society to prevent “accidental” frenzies.

At Morality 0, the character makes a static willpower test versus 10 traits (-1 for every path trait their teacher has above 3). If they succeed, they have the first dot of their new path for free. Any virtues that change with their new path are changed (any that do not get the free dot are lowered by 1, to a minimum of 1). Failure or tie means no progress is made that month.

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