Types of Boons:

Trivial Boon (1 Status)

• Protecting someone for the evening
• Aiding someone with the use of a discipline
• Providing a minor piece of information
• Expending a small amount of your resources for someone

Minor Boon (2 Status)

• Allowing safe passage through a hostile city
• Providing a piece of crucial information
• Teaching someone a Basic discipline*
• Supporting a Minor political maneuver
• Expending a large amount of your resources for someone

Major Boon (3 Status)

• Teaching someone an Intermediate discipline*
• Supporting a Major political maneuver

Blood Boon (4 Status)

• Teaching someone an Advanced discipline*
• Shedding your blood in someone's defense
• Saving someone from physical harm

Life Boon (5 Status)

• Saving someone from mortal danger

* NOTE - Clan specific disciplines are excluded as many are taught only on pain of death and in the rare occurances that they are, treat the equivilant boon at the next highest level.

It is a given that you will guarantee each point of a boon with a point of your status. For example, If you do not honor a minor boon you loose two points of status. You are also expected to treat the person you owe the boon to as if they have two more points of status then they actually do.

Combining Prestation:

You can combine boons for increased power over an individual (though at the cost of decreasing the amount of status that may be risked by that individual if he decides to break prestation). I think it is kind of silly in the old rules that if you owe someone 5 Trival Boons that it is the equivilant to a Life Boon. Use the following as a guide for determining how many lower boons must be combined to increase the overall Prestation.

• Trivial Boon = 1 Pt
• Minor Boon = 2 Pts (equal to 2 Trival Boons)
• Major Boon = 4 Pts (equal to 2 Minor, 4 Trival or 1 Minor & 2 Trival Boons)
• Blood Boon = 8 Pts (equal to 2 Major or 4 Minor Boons... you get the idea)
• Life Boon = 16 Pts

Negotiating Prestation:

Two Kindred who agree upon a boon have the option of registering it with the Harpy. How much information you decide to give to the Harpy surrounding why the boon was granted is up to the individual characters (just stating that a boon is owed is good enough). If they do not register the boon there is no guarantee that the Harpy will enforce the boon. If you believe that someone owes you a boon for what you have done for him or her and they do not believe they do or you disagree on the degree of the boon owed, the dispute can be brought to the Harpy to resolve. Be warned though, that in doing this you make yourself subject the whims of the Harpy. For purposes of enforcement the Harpy's word is binding. A boon held in private is still expected to be honored. Unlife becomes very difficult for a Kindred known to break Prestation.

Trading Prestation:

Prestation cannot be traded between Kindred. If you wish to pass your Prestation over one Kindred to another the person who owes you must agree to the exchange otherwise it cannot occur. If a Jim the Ventrue holds Prestation over Bob the Toreador, he can have Bob do something specific for Larry the Brujah but he can never transfer the respect given as a result of the boon or the open ended boon to Larry the Brujah without the permission of Bob the Toreador.

Breaking Prestation:

If you are found to have broken Prestation to an individual on a boon that has been registered with the Harpy, the harpy will more than likely strip you of a number of status traits (how many depends on the size of the Boon). If you do not have enough status that the Harpy can strip (due to holding a position), often the Prince will remove you from that position and/or punish you in other ways (i.e. force you to turn over influence or something similar). If the boon broken is of the Minor rating or higher, you also run the risk of having either the Harpy or the Prince grant you the negative status trait "Untrustworthy". This effectively cancels out your "Acknowledged" status (even though you still technically have it, you just can't use it in Social Challenges and the like), which could possibly give you an effective status rating of zero. Prestation is the foundation on which Kindred society functions and few Kindred will tolerate an individual who breaks Prestation. It is not uncommon for a Prince to give the life of an individual who breaks a life boon to the individual that he owed.

Note:

As you see Kindred will go out of their way to not owe and to be owed. May things are done without the use of formal Prestation to avoid this cumulative effect and to avoid the scrutiny of the Harpy.