Vampire House Rules

• These House Rules are in addition to the official Errata.
• For guidelines on Vampire specific Character Creation, see Character Creation for Vampire
• For assistance with setting up a minisheet please see the Mini Character Sheet walkthrough.

Scenes

A Character may be in five (5) concurrent Scenes^[1].

• This total includes, Plots, Socials, Court, Clan, and Covenant meetings.
• This does not include Comms or Shards.
• Clan Prisci, Reeve/Deputies, and the Harpy are allowed +1 Scene (6 max rather than 5) only to accommodate their functions.

Wiki Pages & Signatures

All vampires need to create a wiki page. Vampire Players are also required to set up either a Mini Sheet or Signature line for your character. The Signature line must contain the following:

• Blood Potency unless Mask of Tranquility is active
• Persistent effects which affect others (Obfuscate 2 for example)
• Status (Domain/City, Covenant, Clan)
• Striking Looks Merit (including dots and a single word summary)
• Nosferatu Curse
• Daeva Vice (can be in Minisheet)
• Traits such as Health, Vitae, Willpower and their current state (can be in Minisheet)

Ex:

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BP 9 | Striking Looks (Gene Simmons Tongue) | Nos: Drools | Clan 1 | Covenant 2 | City 3
Scene 1 - Cocoa Butter Oil
Scene 2 - Vigor
Scene 3 - 3L -4 WP
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Systems

Resistance

Resistance is changed as follows:

• Resolve or Composure + Supernatural Tolerance (Contested Resistance) becomes Resolve + Composure + Supernatural Tolerance.
• Stamina + Supernatural Tolerance (Contested Resistance) becomes Stamina + Resolve + Supernatural Tolerance.
• Resolve or Composure only (Automated Resistance) becomes Resolve + Composure.
• Stamina only (Automated Resistance) becomes Stamina + Resolve.

Predators Taint

Predator's Taint is generally role-played versus rolled in social Scenes. We do ask that you be mindful of it; ignoring it repeatedly may necessitate a roll.

• Taint rolls may also be called for in plot Scenes
• When making Social Skill tests, modifiers are applied for Predator's Taint

Testing against a weaker Predator gains a +1 to the test pool

Testing against a stronger Predator penalizes a -1 to the test pool

Only tangible Predators modify rolls; for example, testing against a stronger predator who is Masked incurs no Penalty.

Use of Aspect of the Predator removes the penalty for testing against stronger predators.

Vitae Pools

All Vitae expenditures in Scenes should be noted with Power Icons.

Average Vitae Pool

Blood Pool Base amount equal to Humanity -1 (for Rising)

Bonuses:

• +2 for Rack access
• Herd: +1 for ● thru ●●●, +2 for ●●●●, +3 for ●●●●●
• +1 per dot in Haven (Location)
• Coil of Blood 1: Blood Seeps Slowly: +1 for Resolve ● thru ●●●, +2 for Resolve ●●●●, +3 for Resolve ●●●●●
• +1 Coil of Blood 3: Perspicacious Blood

Penalties:

• -1 Glimpse of Feeding not written for the month (until 3 total written)
• -3 Exiled to Barrens
• -1 for every 2 Ghouls, rounded down

Hunting/Feeding Roll

Hunting / feeding rolls performed will net 1 Vitae per Success rolled. A Hunting Roll can only be made once per month to supplement the Average Blood Pool; otherwise, Feeding must be role-played or done via Glimpse. The month is counted per calendar -- not IC, Scene, or from the last Hunting roll. The Hunting Rolls are:

• Strength + Subterfuge, not capped by Humanity
• Presence + Persuasion, capped at Humanity

Willpower

Attributes

• Attribute improvement is limited to one dot per month.

Skills

• Skill improvement is limited to one dot per month.
• Skill improvement is capped at a value equal to Resolve + 2. This represents that the top tier of self improvement in a Skill will require higher-than average ability to focus one's Resolve.

If your Resolve is ●, a Skill cannot be improved beyond ●●●

If your Resolve is ●●, a Skill cannot be improved beyond ●●●●

A high Resolve rating (●●●, ●●●●, ●●●●●) will obviate the Mentor requirement for improving Skills.

• The following Skills have been House Ruled in some fashion:

Occult Skill

Merits

• Merit improvement is limited to one dot per month.
• Learning a fighting style above three dots requires either the purchase of the Mentor merit, or for them to be taught in character. For more information please see the Mentor page.
• The following Vampire specific Merits have also been House Ruled:

Coder Clique, Crucible Ritual, Current Events Circle, Debate Club, Encounter Group, Geomantic Nexus, Geomantic Nexus Potency, Geomantic Nexus Size, Haven, Lab Section, Meditative Mind, Mentor, Necropolis, Noble Heritage, Occultation, Pack Blooded, Retainer, Right Bar, Sanctum Materials, Shadow Cult Initiation, Status, Study Group, Theater Society

• The following Vampire specific Merits have also been Banned:

Altar, Boneless, Dream Visions, Haunted Channel, Haunted Hand, Kindred Medium, Masquerade Merit, Requiem, Swarm Tactics, Unliving Anchor, Unyielding Mask

Status

Status is played with Mind's Eye Theatre rules.

Disciplines

There are rules for learning Disciplines:

• In-Clan Disciplines (including Bloodline) require no teacher.
• Out-of-Clan Disciplines (-not- including Clan 'signature') can be 'activated' by a character without a teacher. Each month, the player may roll Blood Potency; once they attain successes equal to twice the total 'dot' level of the Discipline being activated, they may develop/purchase it. The player MUST have the XP required to purchase it before they can begin rolling, and it remains 'in escrow' until the Discipline development is completed. Having a teacher skips this requirement.
• Clan "Signature" Disciplines always requires a character teacher.
• Clan "Signatures": Auspex, Dominate, Majesty, Nightmare, and Protean must be learned in-game from a teacher if the character is not a member of the Clan. They cannot be taken at creation and 'backstoried'.
• Clan "Signatures": Auspex, Dominate, Majesty, Nightmare, and Protean can only be taught by that Clan's respective members.
• Bloodline Disciplines are not teachable to non-bloodline members unless the text specifically states otherwise.

The following Disciplines have been House Ruled:

Auspex, Beasts Hackles, Cruac, Dominate, Dread, Gilded Cage, Heightened Senses, Monstrous Countenance, Mortal Fear, Obfuscate, Obtenebration, Resilience, Serendipity, Shatter the Mind, Spirits Touch

The following Disciplines have been Banned:

Abjurism, Asphyx, Bhumisparsa, Blood Tenebrous, Blut Alchemie, Cachexy, Carrefour, Choronzon, Dementation, Hypnagogia, Linagem, Lithopedia, Memento Mori, Merges Sorcery, Nburu, Phagia, Sakti Pata, Spiritus Sancti, Sunnikuse, Tezcatl, Vodoun, Web, Xinyao

Cruac

Only rituals from the core Vampire: The Requiem book are allowed. Non core rituals may be converted into Devotions.

Theban Sorcery

Only rituals from the core Vampire: The Requiem book are allowed. Non core rituals may be converted into Devotions.

Devotions

Devotions may be developed by a character without a teacher. Each month, the player may roll Int+Occult*; once they attain successes equal to twice the total 'dot' requirement of the Devotion, they may develop/purchase it. The player MUST have the XP required to purchase it before they can begin rolling, and it remains 'in escrow' until the Devotion is completed. Having a teacher skips this requirement.

• Gangrel Clan Weakness does not apply.

Bloodlines

The following Bloodlines have been House Ruled:

• Architects of the Monolith, Cimitiere, Galloi, Gethsemani, Iltani, Libitinarius, Malkovian, Norvegi, Tismanu

The following Bloodlines have been Banned:

• Adroanzi, Amara Havana, Apollinaire, Asnam, Azerkatil, Bohagande, Brothers of Ypres, Canda Bhanu, Caporetti, Carnival, Children of Judas, Corajoso, Dragolescu, Empusae, En, Eupraxus, Geheim, Kinnaree, Les Gens Libres, Lynx, Mayarap, Morbus, Moroi, Mystikoi, Nahualli, Noctuku, Order of Sir Martin, Osites, Rakshasa, Sangiovanni, Septemi, Shepherds, Sta-Au, Tianpan Xiao, Usiri, Vedma

Covenants

There are currently no house rules regarding Covenants.