Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Description: When using this power, the user emits an aura of intimidation to those around them. This feeling permeates through the core of one's being and into their soul. The power draws the ire of those who are engaged in combat towards the user making them the focal point of their assaults.

Mechanics: The user must spend one Willpower to activate this power and then engages the target(s) in a Social challenge. A Social Trait must be bid for each target and each test is made individually (retest with the Intimidation ability). This power allows the user to force a target(s) who has initiated an aggressive challenge in the previous round to attack him instead of their previously intended target. The user may not dictate the means through which his attackers assault him. The user may only attack those individuals who are attacking him while this power is active. A target may spend a Willpower and make a Social challenge against the user to attempt to negate the effects of this power each round. As with Majesty, this power extends from line of sight or at least ten feet from the user and must be perceived. This power lasts for a scene or an hour or until the user becomes incapacitated, succumbs to torpor, or death.

The Gangrel are a Clan of survivors and wanderers. Some among them have deep ties to the wilderness and the many, varied realms that lie beyond the notice of most. Gangrel who spend their time frequenting these other realms often find a need to understand the strange and frequently dangerous rules which govern these lands. The insight they require is delivered to them by a combination of their Beast’s survival instincts and the preternatural awareness of even the most basic practices of Auspex.

System: The moment the character enters the boundaries of a different realm, the player may make a Static Mental Challenge, retest with the Cosmology Ability, against a difficulty determined by the character’s knowledge of the realm. For example, a realm the character is intimately familiar with would be a 6, while a realm they have heard of second hand would be an 8, and a realm that is completely foreign to them would be a 10. If this Challenge is successful, the player then makes 5 simple tests. Each win or tie on these Simple tests grants the character a relevant fact about the realm, in order of most important to least important. The Storyteller determines which facts are most relevant; for example, if the player wins only a single Simple Challenge in a unique pocket realm, the Storyteller might feel that the most important fact is “while you are in this realm, everything you do can be — but not necessarily is — seen by its creator.” This power only functions once per visit to a realm, and future visits may very well yield the same answers, unless something about the realm has changed. Storytellers should be wary not to allow a character to traipse back and forth across the borders of a realm merely in an attempt to gain a higher number of Simple Challenges. This power is considered always active once learned.

A vampire who follows the path of Caine is a serial diablerist. Their hope is to strength their own blood to grow in equal power to Caine.  As Caine has no clan and mastery of all disciplines; members of the Path developed this combination discipline to work towards the same goal.  By devouring the souls of other the Noddist can steal some of their power they knew in life for their own.

System:  Whenever the character diabolrizes another vampire they spend 1 permanent willpower trait to activate this combination discipline.  If they do so, the character may change one of their in clan disciplines for one the victim possessed instead.  This ne discipline will replace the previous in clan discipline chosen by the user.  A Character may do this a number of times equal to their permanent willpower rating.

This combination discipline only works if the character is on Path of Caine.

With this power, the Gargoyle has honed his connection with structures to the point that he can subsume a single building with his emotional state and impress it on any visitors, the air becoming filled with a sense of dread or security. He may also use a more forceful variant of this power, allowing him a full emotional switch to all its occupants, inflicting on them bursts of rage, fits of hysterical joy or pangs of ravenous hunger.

System: The more subtle use of this power is in effect as long as the Gargoyle is in the structure and wishes it receive his ambience; no roll or expenditure is needed to activate it. Any individual observing or occupying the building in question will feel a palpable sense of the Gargoyles emotional state, irrespective of what emotion they’re feeling. This phenomenon is always in place, and the Gargoyle may not turn it off. Multiple Gargoyles with this power and either viniculum or blood bond to each other can affect the same place. The active use of the power requires the Gargoyle to spend a Willpower point and one social trait per intended target and make a static Social challenge, retest empathy, vs 9 traits If successful, this causes a number of targets in the building, selected by the user, to make a self-control/instinct or courage check based on the intended emotional state. If the intended effect of this power is to cause frenzy, whether Rotschreck or otherwise, the challenge must be opposed by the intended target, rather than static by the user. Those who fail or are unable to resist immediately feel a change in emotion to that of the Gargoyle’s choosing. The floors being targeted must be connected to the Gargoyle’s own story as the emotional shock wave bursts forth. Judicious use of Ambiance may only require the top floor of a building to be affected with fear in order to clear the entire structure, however, as herd mentality takes over and kine flee from the unknown threat that the power’s victims seem to be running from. Gargoyles can also attain a level of security from this power while outside of their Eyrie, as any allies in their Eyrie will receive warning of a change in his emotional state whenever the Gargoyle becomes endangered, and can move to respond to the threat.