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

Thin-Blood Alchemist (•••)

Tremere characters may add Thin-Blood Alchemy to their in-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.

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, pg. 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

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.