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Successes	Effect
1 Success	Can distinguish only the shade.
2 Successes	Can distinguish the main color.
3 Successes	Can recognize the color patterns.
4 Successes	Can detect subtle shifts.
5 Successes	Can identify mixtures of patterns.

Creature	Aura Shades
Vampire	Pale, Muted
Ghoul	Pale Blotches
Mage	Brilliant, Sparkling
Mortal	Bright
Werebeast	Vibrant, Blinding
Ghost	Weak, Faded
Changeling	Rainbow
True Faith	Gold / Silver Halo
Psychic Mortal	Arcs of Electricity
Hedge Magician	Ripples of Fluid

Emotion/Mental State	Aura Colors
Afraid	Orange
Aggressive	Purple
Angry	Red
Bitter	Brown
Calm	Light Blue
Compassionate	Pink
Conservative	Lavender
Depressed	Gray
Lustful	Dark Red
Distrustful	Light Green
Envious	Dark Green
Excited	Violet
Generous	Rose
Happy	Vermillion
Hateful	Black
Idealistic	Yellow
Innocent	White
Lovestruck	Blue
Obsessed	Green
Sad	Silver
Spiritual	Gold
Suspicious	Dark Blue
Anxious	Scrambled Static
Confused	Mottled, Shifting
Diablerist	Black Veins
Daydreaming	Sharp Flickering
Frenzied	Rapidly Rippling
Psychotic	Hypnotic, Swirling

We treat blood bonds a little differently than described in the V20 core or Ghouls and Revenants to give those who want to play ghouls a little more autonomy. As long as each drink is at least a month apart, the blood bond level will not increase. Meaning: if you play a ghoul, they can remain bound at the first level indefinitely unless points of vitae are taken from their domitor before that month is up. To increase a bond's level, each point of vitae still must be drank on different nights. Below is a rough summary of what each level is like. It's recommended you read the full descriptions starting on page 286 of the core to get a full idea of what each step means.

• First Step: Amplifies whatever feelings were already present for the regnant, whether positive or negative.
• Second Step: Heavily biased towards the regnant, but still has full control over themselves.
• Third Step: A full bond; Completely infatuated with the regnant, they take priority over anyone else in their life, whether they were a lover, child, or close friend.

To learn a new language, the character must make an extended Intelligence + Expression roll. The difficulty is equal to 9 - the number of people helping them learn, thus having one teacher would lower the difficulty to 8. Once 15 successes are reached, an update can be submitted to purcahse the language for 2 XP. Botched rolls subtract from their total equal to the botch severity, though Willpower can be spent to avoid this. Natural Linguist applies so long as the language is written or spoken.

To learn blood sorcery rituals, an extended Intelligence + Occult roll must be made (difficulty 7, +1 for Abyss Mysticism), with a target success goal of 5 x the ritual level. Once the number of successes is reached, an update can be submitted to purchase the ritual for 3 x ritual level XP. The character must have some sort of material to study from (the chantry library, a mentor) in order to learn rituals. The Grand Library or Occult Library Merits don’t lower the difficulty of this roll, but Precocious would.

You can take more than one action during a turn, however, multi-tasking is never as effective. You must use the lowest pool out of the rolls you're intending to make, and divide it up between however many actions you're taking.

Example: Aero the Nosferatu wants to eaves drop on a pair of Toreador while picking the lock of the Keeper of Elysium’s office. They have Dexterity 4, Larceny 3, Perception 3, and Alertness 2. The roll to pick the lock (Dexterity + Larceny) has 7 dice, while the eavesdropping roll (Perception + Alertness) has 5. Thus, Aero has 5 dice to split between both rolls.

• Walking: seven meters per turn
• Jogging: 12 + Dexterity + Celerity meters per turn
• Running: (20 + [3 x (Dexterity + Celerity)] meters per turn)
  • During combat a character can move half of this rating and still take an action. Excessive injuries will limit this.
• Jumping: Strength (or Strength + Athletics for a running start), difficulty 3. Each success correlates to 2 feet vertical or 3 feet horizontal distance.
• Swimming: A character must possess Athletics 1 to know how to swim. Half the below values for characters who are encumbered or in a blatantly unaquatic form (Shape of the Beast’s Wrath, Crinos), and double them for characters with proper gear (such as flippers). Characters who alter their body for a streamlined, aquatic shape swim at four times the listed value.
  • Athletics 1-2: 1 meter per turn
  • Athletics 3-4: Strength/2 meters per turn
  • Athletics 5+: Strength meters per turn

Humanity/Path	Hours After Sunset/Before Dawn
10	+3 hours before / -3 hours after
9	+2 hour before / -2 hour after
8	+1 hour before / -1 hour after
7	at sunset / at dawn
6	-1 hour after / +1 hour before
5	-2 hours after / +2 hour before
>=4	-3 hours after / +3 hours before

The values below are what a character is capable of deadlifting without a roll. In order to lift greater weights, a Willpower roll (difficulty 9) can be made. Each success moves them up one rating on the chart.

Strength	Feats	Lift (lbs/kg)
1	Crush a beer can	40/20
2	Break a wooden chair	100/45
3	Break down a wooden door	250/115
4	Break a wooden plank	400/180
5	Break open a metal fire door	650/295
6	Throw a motorcycle	800/360
7	Flip over a small car	900/410
8	Break a lead pipe	1000/455
9	Punch through a cement wall	1200/545
10	Rip open a steel drum	1500/680
11	Punch through 1"/2.5 cm thick sheet metal	2000/910
12	Break a metal lamp post	3000/1360
13	Throw a station wagon	4000/1815
14	Throw a van	5000/2265
15	Throw a truck	6000/2720

A vampire is considered hungry when their blood pool is a third full (rounded down). At this stage, they will need to make a Self-Control roll (difficulty 9 - Self-Control) in order to avoid Frenzy when feeding from a vessel.

Should their blood pool reach half this rating, the hunger is unbearable. At Storyteller discretion, proximity to any potential vessels, whether living or dead, may continue prompt Self-Control rolls until sated.

Example: Stephen the 9th Generation Toreador has a maximum blood pool of 14. He hasn’t fed for a few nights, and has dwindled down to only 4 blood points left. With a Self-Control rating of 3, he must make a Self-Control roll with a difficulty of 6 (9 - 3) in order to avoid frenzying on whoever he feeds from next.

When the situation feels appropriate to a Storyteller, they will ask a player to resist a Frenzy. This might be counter to what the player would desire, as it could very well derail an entire scene. To make such an interruption more unlikely, players can police their character’s Beasts themselves with Impulses.

Whenever something might get the Beast’s attention, but wouldn’t warrant a full Frenzy (such as a scathing insult or being physically threatened), the player rolls Self-Control/Instinct. The difficulty is usually 4, but can be as high as 6 for particularly egregious circumstances. The degree of success (or failure, such as in the case of a botch) determines just how much the Beast influences their immediate response.

While in a Frenzy, characters…

• Ignore wound penalties
• Apply their Generation dots to all Physical (Strength, Dexterity, Stamina) rolls
• Increase the difficulty of all mind control (such as Dominate) by two, and reduces the difficulty to resist such powers by two
• Automatically succeed on Willpower rolls (such as those to resist Presence)
• Are immune to Rötschreck

Provocation	Difficulty
Smell of blood (when hungry)	3 (or higher in extreme cases)
Sight of blood (when hungry)	4 (or higher in extreme cases)
Being harassed	4
Life-threatening situation	4
Malicious taunts	4
Physical provocation	6
Taste of blood (when hungry)	6 (or higher in extreme cases)
Loved one in danger	7
Outright public humiliation	8

Rötschreck (a fear frenzy) is resisted by everyone with Courage.

Provocation	Difficulty
Lighting a cigarette	3
Sight of a torch	5
Bonfire	6
Obscured sunlight	7
Being burned	7
Direct sunlight	8
Trapped in a burning building	9

Provacation	Difficulty
Scent of Domitor's vitae (when hungry)	3
Sight of Domitor's vitae (when hungry)	3
Taste of blood	3
Threatened verbally by Domitor	3
Use of narcotics or hallucinogens	3
Beaten by Domitor	4
Domitor endangered	4
Domitor showing favor to another ghoul	4
Not administered dosage of vitae	4
Sight, smell, taste of human family members blood	4
Attacked by Lupine	5
Overdose of Domitor's Vitae	5
Humiliation in front of mortals	5
Humiliation in front of Domitor	6
Abandonment	6

• Max Trait Rating: This indicates the highest permanent Trait ratings (excluding Humanity/Path and Willpower) a vampire of the given Generation can have. This is especially with regard to Disciplines or Attributes.
• Blood Pool Max: The maximum number of blood points a vampire may keepin her system. Remember that elder vampires concentrate blood—while the volume of blood in theri bodies is no greater than any other vampire’s, each pint of blood is worth more than one point.
• BP/Turn: This indicates how many blood points a vampire can spend in a single turn.

Generation	Max. Trait Rating	Blood Pool Max.	BP/Turn
Third	10	???	???
Fourth	9	50	10
Fifth	8	40	8
Sixth	7	30	6
Seventh	6	20	4
Eigth	5	15	3
Ninth	5	14	2
Tenth	5	13	1
Eleventh	5	12	1
Twelfth	5	11	1
Thirteenth+	5	10	1

Health Level	Dice Pool Penalty	Movement Penalty
Brusied	0	Character is only bruised and suffers no dice pool penalties due to damage.
Hurt	-1	Character is superficially hurt and suffers no movement hindrance.
Injured	-1	Character suffers minor injuries and movement is mildly inhibited (halve maximum running speed.)
Wounded	-2	Character suffers significant damage and may not run (though he may still walk). At this level, a character may only move or attack; he always loses dice when moving and attacking in the same turn.
Mauled	-2	Character is badly injured and may only hobble about (three yards/meters per turn).
Crippled	-5	Character is catastrophically injured and may only crawl (one yard/meter per turn).
Incapacitated		Character is incapable of movement and is likely unconscious. Incapacitated vampires with no blood in their bodies enter torpor.
Torpor		Character enters a deathlike trance. He may do nothing, not even spend blood, until a period of time has passed.
Final Death		Character is killed permanently.

Trait	Cost
New Ability	3
New Discipline	10
New Thaumaturgy/Necromancy Path	7
Attribute	Current rating x 4
Ability	Current rating x 2
Clan Discipline*	Current rating x 5
Other Discipline	Current rating x 7
Thaumaturgy/Necromancy Path	Current rating x 4
Virtue**	Current rating x 2
Humanity or Path of Enlightenment	Current rating x 2
Willpower	Current rating

*Caitiff have no Clan-based Disciplines, just as they have no Clan. For them, the cost of raising all Disciplines is the current rating x 6. This is both the curse and the blessing of being Clanless.
** Increasing a Virtue through experience does not increase Traits based on that Virtue (Humanity, Path, Willpower).

Trait	Cost
New Ability	3
New Discipline	20
New Blood Magic Path	20
New Bloodright	7
Attribute	Current rating x 4
Ability	Current rating x 2
Virtue*	Current rating x 2
Humanity	Current rating x 2
Willpower	Current rating
Discipline**	Current rating x 25
Blood Magic Path	Current rating x 15
Bloodright	Current rating x 5

*Increasing a Virtue through experience does not increase Traits based on that Virtue (Humanity, Path, Willpower).
**Dhampir buy all Disciplines for the same rate.

Trait	Cost
New Ability	3
New Discipline	20
New Numina	10
Attribute	Current rating x 4
Ability	Current rating x 2
Clan Discipline*	Current rating x 15
Other Discipline**	Current rating x 25
Numina	Current Rating x 7
Virtue***	Current rating x 2
Humanity or Path of Enlightenment	Current rating x 2
Willpower	Current rating

* As a general rule, a ghoul attains a cost break to learn the Disciplines of their sponsor’s Clan.
*It is much more difficult for independent Ghouls to learn Disciplines than any other Ghoul, and this is reflected in the cost required.
** Increasing a Virtue through experience does not increase Traits based on that Virtue (Humanity, Path, Willpower).