Rules

HOUSE RULES

Blood Surge: If you increase in Hunger as a result of Surging a physical attribute, the Surge lasts for the whole scene instead of just one turn.

Merits

Eat Food (•)

You can consume food without effort and might even enjoy it, though it gives no nourishment and must be expelled before resting for the day.

Thin-Blood Alchemist (••)

Tremere characters may add Thin-Blood Alchemy to their clan disciplines at character creation, but gain the Status: Suspect (•) flaw for doing so, and may not purchase positive Status during character creation.

Shifts in the Blood (••••)
Kindred of the Hecata may purchase their Bloodline's Discipline as a fourth in-clan. Hecata of the Giovanni line may gain Dominate, Samedi may gain Obfuscate, Lamiae may gain Potence, and Nagaraja may gain Dominate. Note that this option may make certain Amalgams unavailable to these vampires.

Flaws

Mythic Flaw: Stake Bait (•)
Any long, sharp wedge inserted into your heart — such as swords, knives, fire pokers, etc — inflict the effects of a wooden stake in the heart.

Feeding Flaw: Agonizing Bite (••)
Your fangs do not cause the rush of pleasure and blurred memory of the Kiss. Instead, when you bite a mortal, they’re aware of exactly what’s happening — and feel exactly as much pain as one might expect from half-inch fangs being forced into their neck. Victims caught unawares will violently resist unless restrained, and few people submit willingly to the torture that is your Kiss.

When drinking directly from a victim, you may only take harmful drinks, resulting in blood loss ^{(Vampire: The Masquerade, p.212)}. Unwilling mortals not restrained will try to escape, and even those coerced or willing must succeed in a Stamina + Resolve test against Difficulty 2 + Bane Severity in order not to recoil. Coerced or willing vampire victims of your bite must make a frenzy test against Difficulty 3 to avoid falling into a terror frenzy.

Backgrounds

Mask — Newly Dead (•)

You haven't been a vampire for very long. Your driver's license and other such documents are still legitimate, and you can pass for your actual age. You have no more difficulty passing background checks than you did before your Embrace. This also counts as Mask — Flaw: Newly Dead (••) as this is your real identity, and all information discovered by people/agencies looking into your records will be true.

Only fledglings may take this Background, and they may take it for free during character creation. This does not stop them from taking additional Masks during character creation and subsequent play, but it can never stack with Mask Flaws.

Bloodline

You have been Embraced into a distinct bloodline with unique qualities. This gives you access to a second Loresheet that only members of your bloodline possess. All other rules and limitations of the Loresheet Background (Vampire: The Masquerade, p. 190) apply — "Bloodline" is a distinct Background, and as such you can possess an Advantage from both it as well as the Loresheet Background.

Storytellers might decide that previously-published bloodline-related Loresheets (such as “Descendant of Hardestadt” and “Descendant of Helena” — Vampire: The Masquerade, p. 390-391) count as Bloodlines, allowing characters with those Loresheets to take an additional, non-lineage-related Loresheet.