Vampire Players Guide — source revision

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• Affective Empathy
• Animal Messenger

  Send a spoken message through a famulus.

• Animalism

  Control and communication involving animals and the Beast.

• Arms of Ahriman

  Direct shadow extensions to grapple, strike, or perform simple tasks.

• Ashes to Ashes

  Dissolve a corpse by introducing your Blood.

• Aura of Decay

  Spread damaging decay around yourself.

• Auspex

  Perception that reaches beyond ordinary senses.

• Awaken the Homuncular Servant

  Use a body part or an animal no larger than a small dog, the implement used to remove or kill it, and a mixture of urine, fecal matter, and semen.

• Banu Haqim

  Feeding from another vampire can turn a controlled meal into a frenzy.

• Banu Haqim Bane

  Feeding from another vampire can turn a controlled meal into a frenzy.

• Blood Aegis

  Spend Blood to absorb a limited amount of ranged-attack damage.

• Blood Sorcery

  Ritual and direct magic powered by vitae.

• Blurred Momentum

  Make insufficiently accurate attacks miss, even when you cannot defend.

• Celerity

  Movement and reactions accelerated beyond ordinary limits.

• Chimerstry

  Distract onlookers with a momentary hallucination affecting one sense.

• Coax the Bestial Temper

  Use sustained sound to alter nearby vampires’ resistance to frenzy.

• Covetousness
• Crash Down

  Turn a Soaring Leap landing into an attack against nearby targets.

• Dominate

  Supernatural interference with another person’s thoughts and actions.

• Earth’s Perseverance

  Hold your position against attempts to move you.

• Eyes of the Serpent

  Hold one subject motionless with your gaze.

• Fata Morgana

  Create an elaborate sensory illusion that cannot physically change the world.

• Fatal Flaw

  Identify and exploit a weakness in a subject's defenses.

• Fatal Prediction

  Place a mortal at risk of a future harmful coincidence.

• Fleshcrafting

  Apply Vicissitude's alterations to another person's body.

• Fortitude

  Resistance to harm and coercion beyond ordinary endurance.

• Gift of False Life

  Prepare human corpses with blood, phlegm, and bile.

• Gorgon’s Scales

  Turn the Resonance of your latest feeding into a specific defense.

• Health

  Health measures how much physical injury a character can sustain. Its rating determines the number of boxes on the Health tracker; damage marks those boxes without reducing the underlying rating.

• Hecata

  The bite causes pain, making even an agreed feeding difficult.

• Hecata Bane

  The bite causes pain, making even an agreed feeding difficult.

• Horrid Form

  Assume a monstrous body with temporary Vicissitude enhancements.

• Invigorating Vitae

  Make Blood donated to a living recipient heal more serious injuries.

• Judgment
• Lasombra

  Reflections, recordings, and modern devices respond abnormally to the vampire.

• Lasombra Bane

  Reflections, recordings, and modern devices respond abnormally to the vampire.

• Melpominee

  Carry selected Presence powers through your unaided voice.

• Mental Maze

  Confuse a victim's perception of the exits from their surroundings.

• Messenger's Command

  Deliver a Dominate instruction through Animal Messenger.

• Mind Masque

  Present a false inner identity to supernatural scrutiny.

• Ministry

  Bright light interferes with the vampire, and sunlight is especially damaging.

• Ministry Bane

  Bright light interferes with the vampire, and sunlight is especially damaging.

• Morbidity
• Necrotic Plague

  Inflict a supernatural illness on a touched mortal.

• Obfuscate

  Concealment that interferes with an observer’s recognition.

• Oblivion

  Powers concerned with supernatural darkness and the dead.

• One with the Land

  Merge into your surroundings and perceive nearby events through animal life.

• Panacea

  Help another person recover mental composure.

• Passion Feast

  Slake Hunger by draining a nearby wraith's sustaining passions.

• Plague of Beasts

  Make local wildlife interfere with one visible target.

• Potence

  Physical force amplified by vitae.

• Presence

  Supernatural influence over attention and emotion.

• Protean

  Alteration of the vampire’s physical form.

• Ravnos

  Reusing a sleeping location too soon risks burning the vampire.

• Ravnos Bane

  Reusing a sleeping location too soon risks burning the vampire.

• Relentless Grasp

  Make an established hold exceptionally difficult to break.

• Rush Job

  Compress a non-opposed skill task into a minor action.

• Ruthlessness
• Salubri

  The vampire’s blood attracts dangerous attention; Discipline use reveals the third eye.

• Salubri Bane

  The vampire’s blood attracts dangerous attention; Discipline use reveals the third eye.

• Scour Secrets

  Search a collection of material for particular information using your Blood.

• Shadow Cast

  Create a persistent supernatural shadow from your own body.

• Shadow Cloak

  Use nearby shadow to conceal yourself or appear more menacing.

• Shadow Perspective

  See and hear from a shadow while retaining awareness around your body.

• Shadow Servant

  Send a detached shadow to observe and report back.

• Shadow Step

  Travel from one sufficiently large shadow to another you can perceive.

• Skuld Fulfilled

  Restore an old affliction to a mortal or strip a ghoul's protection from aging.

• Slavish Devotion

  Protect your existing Dominate influence from another vampire's interference.

• Stygian Shroud

  Cover an area in supernatural darkness that also harms mortals within it.

• Subtle Hammer

  Apply your full strength through a small movement.

• Suffuse the Edifice

  Project Awe, Daunt, or Majesty through the building you occupy.

• Sway the Flock

  Influence the behavior of animals throughout an area.

• Tempting Fate
• Tenebrous Avatar

  Become a moving shadow that can pass through extremely narrow openings.

• Thin-Blood Alchemy

  Prepared formulas that turn ingredients and vitae into supernatural effects.

• Thrown Voice

  Project your voice from a visible location.

• Touch of Oblivion

  Inflict a crippling injury through direct physical contact.

• Transgression
• Tzimisce

  Daytime rest must take place among a specifically defined charge.

• Tzimisce Bane

  Daytime rest must take place among a specifically defined charge.

• Unburdening the Bestial Soul

  Help a vampire recover moral stability while temporarily binding part of their will to yours.

• Valeren

  Heal another vampire by sharing your supernatural endurance.

• Vicissitude

  Reshape your body by reallocating its physical resources.

• Weaving

  Maintain your defense against repeated ranged attacks.

• Where the Veil Thins

  Determine how strongly the local boundary separates the living and the dead.

• Willpower

  Willpower measures a character's capacity to maintain control, commit to a difficult choice, and withstand mental or social pressure. Its tracker records both deliberate expenditure and the strain inflicted by conflict.

• Wrecker

  Concentrate Prowess on destroying a stationary object.

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