Good Breeding

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Your character is part of a bloodline or family line regarded as admirable, classy, refined, dutiful or otherwise noble according to Ventrue tastes (and the customs they promote throughout Kindred society). This counterpart to the Bad Breeding Merit carries with it a distinct connotation of poise and excellence to those Lords who concern themselves with ancestry and parentage, but that connotation is subjective – Kindred expect a certain decorum from a well-bred vampire.

Mechanically, your character can get a bonus up to the number of dots in Good Breeding to Social rolls at Storyteller's discretion. This bonus is applicable when your character might get away with passing deceit or perversion of politeness and extravagancy because of their refined lineage.

A Note on the Breeding Merits

The Good Breeding and Bad Breeding Merits do not describe any actual quality of your character’s blood. They do not represent any predisposition to a particular behavior in the way that the Inherited Resistance Merit does. They do not measure how well bred or how trashy your character is thought to be, to any degree. These Merits reflect a binary state – good or bad – but do not measure how far from center your character’s reputation is, either way. What these Merits describe is your character’s capacity for taking advantage of that good or bad reputation.

It is not somehow more scandalous for a character of Good Breeding to be caught with a hooker, for example. It may be scandalous for a character of good or bad breeding, but a character with the Good Breeding or Bad Breeding Merit knows how to spin his reputation to protect himself from scandal. With these Merits, your character is better able to escape some of the consequences of his actions by hiding behind his breeding.

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