I have collected what I hope will be a useful set of in-game resources (charts, tables, etc.) in the hope that the players won't have to constantly refer to the White Wolf books during play.

The idea is that if you need to check a stat for something while working on a post you just pop over to these pages and then you're away again. 

There are a number of steps to creating a character. The steps range from the esoteric: "I want to play a doctor", to the pedantic: "he has two dots (an average skill) in computers, but no dots (no ability at all) in medicine". The steps are:

Merits & Flaws add depth and detail to a character.

Backgrounds are things of note that relate to the characters background - things they already have: Read more

Abilities are the things your character is able to do, either because of same capability they were "born" with or because of some training they received at some point.

There are three types of ability:

To record the details about a character players use "Character Sheets", much like this one: Read more

Simply put, the world of darkness is a setting for a series of role-playing games and it describes an alternate reality. White Wolf created the setting, and it is huge.