Downtimes
Experience points are used to advance your character in Sabbat. It is spent by submitting an email to the Refs (or contacting them in some way if you're offline) in which you detail your character's exploits in the weeks between the games doing things like learning things and following the plot. A character played for the majority of a game will gain 2 XP. Downtimes gain your character 1 XP which can be used to buy:
- Attribute / Ability / Ability Specialisation: 1 XP
- Buy Off Negative Trait: 2 XP
- Buy Off Flaw: Double the flaw bonus
- Willpower: 3 XP
- Path / Humanity: 2 XP
- Virtue: 3 XP
- Disciplines: Basic 3XP / Intermediate 6 XP / Advanced 9 XP (Costs +1 XP if learnt Out of Clan)
- Rituals: Basic 2 XP / Intermediate 4 XP / Advanced 6 XP
It sometimes takes time to achieve things in downtime. You can use them as an opportunity to work towards a goal such as raising an Ability, but depending what you are doing it may take longer than one downtime to achieve.
If you write a background for your character and submit it to the Refs you will gain 1 XP. Backgrounds and Downtimes can be emailed to the Refs at sabbat_sts@yahoogroups.com.
All existing characters are stored on the Ref's database and you will be provided with a complete character sheet at the beginning of each game, which will reflect any XP expenditure and new stats from the previous Downtime.
All starting characters are required to pass the Refs a copy of their character sheet after their first game so that they can be logged in the database.