Neonate
Less than 100 years old
Attributes: 7/5/3
Abilities: 13/9/5 (max 3 before freebies)
Backgrounds: 15 (All should be in mortal-tied backgrounds)
Disciplines: 4 (3 must be in clan)
Virtues: 9 (first dot of Conviction or Instinct must be bought)
Path: Conscience/Conviction + Self-Control/Instinct
Willpower: Courage
Freebie Points: 15 + up to 7 in flaws
Rarity Points: 30
Downtime Actions: 20
Starting Experience Cap: 100xp
Neonates gain an additional advantage over the ancillae and elders. They understand the modern world in a way that those from previous eras simply cannot grasp. All experience costs and learning times to purchase modern mortal related abilities are halved, rounding up. This includes Academics, Computers, Crafts, Drive, Finance, Firearms, Medicine, Science, and Technology. This reduction also applies to most Aptitude merits that relate to these Abilities such as Computer Aptitude, Crack Driver, etc. This applies to the use of base dots and freebies as well as experience. For example a Neonate wishing to begin with Computers 4 need only spend 2 of his base dots or 4 freebie points to get there. Neonates also learn new ideas and things faster and as such pay only 1 experience point per additional Specialty they wish to buy, and purchase secondaries at half experience cost, round up.
They also grow relationships faster and are more connected with the way the world works, and downtimes for a neonate on gaining or maintaining backgrounds are halved, round up.
However as a Neonate they are the lowest players of the Jyhad. It is unlikely a neonate character will ever hold a court position or truly be listened to in important matters. To represent this, all Camarilla Neonates automatically begin play with the negative status trait Neonate. This is almost never capable of being earned off until the character is old enough to have earned it, though there have been rare circumstances of exceptional Neonates who have proved themselves capable beyond their years. While the Sabbat and most Independents do not officialize the discrimination against neonates in the same way, the stigma is still present and a neonate is no more likely to rise to take a Bishopric than they are to take Praxis.
