Raising Backgrounds

Starting after this most recent time-roll I will instituting these new rules for raising backgrounds.

Maturation may not be spent to raise backgrounds, instead a character may raise a Background for every 5 years of time-roll. To raise a Background, roll the current rating of the Background at the difficulty listed for that Background.It takes 1 success to raise the rating by 1. For two additional successes, the rating can be increased by another dot. Should the player wish, he can ask to use any additional successes to improve a Background related to the one being raised instead. This also applies if the Background is currently capped (Mentor 5, for example). On a failure, the character fails to raise the desired Background. On a botch the Background loses 1 from its rating.

Characters are Inactive if they are in Torpor. They cannot raise Backgrounds.

Active characters can raise Backgrounds without penalty.

Allies - difficulty 7 to raise.

Contacts - difficulty 6 to raise.

Domain - difficulty 7 to raise.

Herd - difficulty 6 to raise.

Influence - difficulty 8 to raise.

Library - difficulty 8 to raise.

Mentor - difficulty 7 to raise.

Resources - difficulty 8 to raise.

Retainers - difficulty 6 to raise.

Status - difficulty 8 to raise.