Hunting

LAiA - Hunting

Hunting

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Rolling to Hunt

Rolling to Hunting

Hunting is a vital part of Vampire: the Masquerade. Unfortunately, because of the amount of players, Storytellers aren't able to narrate every single hunt that happens on the server. To keep things running smoothly players are able to construct a roll from tables below and hunt with relative autonomy.

Important

The minimum hunting difficulty is 4, even if backgrounds, location, and other factors make it lower.

Process

Choose a location
Pick an Attribute and Ability to roll. They must logically work together to convey how your character is hunting.
Decide if a discipline is being added. Recognize that there can be consequences depending on the power used.
Calculate the difficulty
Roll your pool of dice against the difficulty. Specialties do not apply to any hunting rolls.

You can take as many blood points from a hunt as you get successes, which can be from different vessels.

Please inform the Storyteller or an Assistant before rolling if:

This is your first hunting roll on the server
Your character is a fledgling and has never hunted before
Your character is at or below their hunger threshold
You have already hunted the same evening and would like to roll again
You plan on taking more than 2 BP from a single vessel

Backgrounds

Only the following backgrounds can be applied to hunting rolls:

Domain: Reduces the difficulty of the roll by one per dot as long as the character is hunting inside of their domain
Herd: Adds one die to all pools per dot as long as they are attempting to feed from their herd specifically
Fame: Reduces the difficulty of the roll by one per dot as long as their fans would realistically be within the area they are hunting.

Disciplines

While many disciplines can be used while hunting, we only allow abilities that can be activated without a dice roll.

When applying a discipline to a hunt, the power doesn’t lower the difficulty, but adds more dice to your pool so the likelihood of success is higher. The abilities currently able to be applied to hunting rolls are: Heightened Senses (Auspex), Unseen Presence (Obfuscate), Eyes of the Beast (Protean), The Eyes of the Serpent (Serpentis), and Flight.

When using disciplines:

You must spend the required blood or willpower before making the hunting roll. These resources will not be refunded if the hunt fails.
Serpentis will always result in a masquerade breach. Please contact the Storyteller or an Assistant before making your roll.

Feeding Restrictions

Ventrue automatically suffer a +1 difficulty to any hunting rolls
Giovanni automatically suffer a +2 difficulty to any hunting rolls
Healer Salubri must hunt with social dice pools; Warrior Salubri must hunt with physical dice pools
Flaws that restrict hunting preferences (Prey Exclusion, Selective Taste, etc) but don’t give a specific value in their description (such as Uncommon Vitae Preference) increase the difficulty by half of their value, rounded up. Meaning: someone with Prey Exclusion would increase all hunting difficulties by 1 (1/2 = 0.5), whereas someone with Selective Taste would increase all difficulties by 2 (4/2 = 2).

Risks

Blood Loss

Blood Points Taken	Vessel Condition
1-2 BP	Safe: Lightheaded; not in any immediate danger (Class I Hemorrhage)
3-4 BP	Warning: Confusion, rapid heart rate; will require medical attention eventually. (Class II Hemorrhage)
5-6 BP	Danger: Unconscious, cooling extremities; immediate medical attention required. (Class III Hemorrhage)
7+ BP	Death: Comatose; death eminent without immediate transfusion. (Class IV Hemorrhage)

Botches

All dice rolls come with the inherent risk of failure, and hunting is no exception to that rule. If your roll comes up negative, the Storytellers will be alerted to resolve the hunt with you. It’s important to note that botches will play off of the circumstances of the hunt taking place. Discipline use might warrant a masquerade breach, you could attract hunters to your domain, or the vessel might be killed.

Important

A botch isn’t a failure — it’s considerably worse. Because the outcome of the scene is already dictated by this roll, there’s no escape of these consequences.

Locations

Bottle Feeder

All characters without specific feeding restrictions are assumed to have access to a number of blood points per night equal to their Resources rating. This is to abstract the difficulty of acquiring bagged blood on a moment’s notice during a scene. This blood can be dubiously acquired blood bags, bled from a morgue, or other grisly methods, though most characters receive unmarked wine bottles from Requiem, the Barony of Angel’s Elysium.

These blood points can not be stored night-to-night. Either you use them that evening or you do not.

Downtown

The downtown streets of Los Angeles seem to never be empty, making it ideal to lure victims away without making a scene.

Default Difficulty: 7
Recommended Roll: Smooth Talker — Manipulation + Subterfuge

Attribute	Difficulty Modification
Strength, Dexteriy, Stamina	+1
Charisma, Appearance, Perception, Wits	0
Manipulation, Intelligence	-1
Ability	Difficulty Modification
Animal Ken, Survial	+3
Brawl, Larceny, Melee, Performance	+2
Athletics, Intimidation, Streetwise	+1
Alertness, Empathy, Expression, Stealth	0
Subterfuge	-1
Discplines	Additional Dice
Auspex, Protean	N/A
Obfuscate, Flight	1
Serpentis	2

Inner City

The greater Los Angeles area isn’t normally crowded, allowing opportunities to stalk and catch victims unaware without interruption, provided you avoid any cameras.

Default Difficulty: 6
Recommended Roll: Opportunistic Predator — Wits + Alertness

Attribute	Difficulty Modification
Charisma, Manipulation, Appearance	+1
Strength, Dexterity, Stamina, Intelligence	0
Perception, Wits	-1
Ability	Difficulty Modification
Animal Ken, Survial	+3
Expression, Melee, Performance	+2
Brawl, Empathy, Subterfuge	+1
Atheltics, Intimidation, Streetwise, Larceny, Stealth	0
Alertness	-1
Discplines	Additional Dice
Protean	N/A
Auspex, Obfuscate, Flight	1
Serpentis	2

Hollywood

One of the hotspots of LA, there are always tourists who make exceptional seduction targets.

Default Difficulty: 7
Recommended Roll: Seduction — Appearance + Empathy

Attribute	Difficulty Modification
Strength, Dexterity, Stamina	+1
Manipulation, Perception, Intelligence, Wits	0
Charimsa, Appearance	-1
Ability	Difficulty Modification
Animal Ken, Survial	+3
Atheletics, Brawl, Melee	+2
Intimindation, Larceny, Stealth	+1
Alertness, Expression, Streetwise, Subterfuge, Performance	0
Empathy	-1
Discplines	Additional Dice
Auspex, Protean, Obfuscate	N/A
Flight	1
Serpentis	2

Outskirts

Beyond the city are prime locations for catching animals, or the unfortunate mortal who took a wrong turn.

Default Difficulty: 6
Recommended Roll: Feral Hunter— Stamina + Survival

Attribute	Difficulty Modification
Charisma, Appearance, Intelligence	+1
Maipulation, Perception, Wits	0
Strength, Dexterity, Stamina	-1
Ability	Difficulty Modification
Performance	+3
Empathy, Expression, Streetwise, Larceny	+2
Melee	+1
Alertness, Intimidation, Subterfuge	0
Animal Ken, Athletics, Brawl, Stealth, Survial	-1
Discplines	Additional Dice
Serpentis	N/A
Auspex, Obfuscate, Protean	1
Flight	2