Spending XP

Source: https://vamp.bynightstudios.com/vampire/library/spendingxp

Initial XP

Your character begins with a minimum of 30 initial XP. Your Storyteller may award more than the standard 30 if she wants her chronicle to include more experienced characters. You may have spent some of your initial XP on merits, and you may have gained more initial XP by purchasing flaws. Any remaining initial XP should be spent now.

With your initial XP, you may:

Purchase more attributes, skills, or backgrounds.
Purchase additional dots of Generation. You must purchase the Generation background at the XP cost of the new Generation. For example, if you assigned one of your starting background dots to Generation, and would thus be a Neonate, and you wish to play a Pretender Elder, you would need to spend XP as follows: Neonate to Ancilla (new level x2) costs 4 XP, Ancilla to Pretender Elder (new level x2) costs 6 XP = 10 XP to go from Neonate to Pretender Elder.
Purchase more dots of your in-clan disciplines.
Purchase up to 3 dots in common out-of-clan disciplines.
Purchase in-clan elder powers (if your Generation allows them).
Purchase techniques (if your Generation allows them, and you meet the prerequisites).
Purchase another dot of Morality.

You cannot purchase more than the 3rd dot of an out-of-clan discipline with initial XP. When purchasing out-of-clan disciplines with initial XP, you can only purchase common disciplines: Animalism, Auspex, Celerity, Dominate, Fortitude, Obfuscate, Potence, and Presence. You do not require a teacher to learn out-of-clan disciplines at character creation, as long as you can justify being taught in your character's backstory. (Your Storyteller has final say over whether or not you can justify discipline instruction in your backstory).

If you do not spend all of your initial XP during character creation, you may bank up to 5 points. Banked experience becomes earned XP. You may not bank more than 5 of your initial XP. If you complete character creation with more than 5 unspent XP, the remainder is lost.

Earned XP

As you play your character at games, you will earn experience points (XP) with which you can enhance your character sheet. You can spend XP to purchase new attributes, skills, backgrounds, merits, and disciplines, improving your character and allowing her to "learn" as she goes through stories and experiences in the game.

Remember that there are two items you cannot buy with earned XP: dots of Generation and bloodline merits. These two items must be purchased during character creation with initial XP, and cannot change during the course of a chronicle except under rare circumstances, such as diablerie.

Earned XP may be used to purchase out-of-clan disciplines above the 3rd dot and may be used to purchase uncommon and rare out-of-clan disciplines. To purchase an out-of-clan discipline with earned XP, you must have a teacher.

XP for Playing

Storytellers should award between 3 and 5 XP per game. For large chronicles that run multiple games per month, XP should not exceed between 8 and 10 XP per month.

System Rules

XP Chart

The costs for improving attributes, backgrounds, skills, merits, and disciplines are the same for both earned and initial XP.

All

Attribute: 3 XP each
In-Clan Discipline: New level x3 XP
Regain Lost Humanity: 10 XP each
Merit: XP equal to merit rating
Ritual: Necromancy or Thaumaturgy Level of ritual to be purchased x2

Neonate

Background: New level x1
Skill: New level x1
Out-of-Clan Discipline: New level x4 XP
Technique: 12 XP each

Ancilla

Background: New level x2
Skill: New level x2
Out-of-Clan Discipline: New level x4 XP
Technique: 12 XP each

Pretender Elder

Background: New level x2
Skill: New level x2
Out-of-Clan Discipline: New level x4 XP
Technique: 20 XP each
In-Clan Elder Power: 18 XP (limit one total, whether in-clan or out-of-clan)
Out-of-Clan Elder Power: 24 XP (limit one total, whether in-clan or out-of-clan)

Master Elder

Background: New level x2
Skill: New level x2
Out-of-Clan Discipline: New level x4 XP
In-Clan Elder Power: 18 XP
Out-of-Clan Elder Power: 24 XP

Luminary Elder

Background: New level x2
Skill: New level x2
Out-of-Clan Discipline: New level x5 XP
In-Clan Elder Power: 18 XP
Out-of-Clan Elder Power: 30 XP
In-Clan Luminary Power: 24 XP