Custom Combination Discipline / Technique
Some chronicles allow for their players to develop customized powers for their characters. The following is a compilation of player created custom content in OWBN. At this time, custom content that is created and/or used by vampire PC's is required to be listed.
| Discipline Name | Discipline Level |
|---|---|
| Auspex | 4 |
| Dementation | 2 |
| Dominate | 3 |
This was developed by the PC, Thornton. In order for another character (PC or NPC) to learn this power, they must be able to trace their knowledge back to Dr. Thornton. While psychology over time has shown how the mind reacts to stimuli in interestingly variable ways, this discipline takes advantage of the basis behind muscular use controlled by the brain. By the sheer overwhelming of the mind's control through the nervous system, the subject finds their body fighting against itself from the inside, with no way to resist the internal damage without completely locking up the body; causing muscles to pull against each other, tearing at tendons, and locking up joints. Blades and bullets are not the only weapons when one’s mind can be convinced that its own body is the enemy.
System: To unleash this power upon another, line of sight (unaided; it will not work through remote cameras, rituals, etc., but while manifested from Psychic Projection or while in Possession) from user to target must be established, expend a Blood Trait and a Willpower, entering a contested Mental Challenge with your target, retests being Psychology.
If the Challenge is successful, the user may then expend a number of Mental Traits up to half their permanent Willpower rating (rounded down) to cause that many levels of Lethal damage to the target, which only one point can only be soaked (i.e. Resistance, as all the damage is considered from a single source), but may be prevented with powers that grant an immunity from damage.
Limitations are that it is ineffective against non-bodied beings (Astral Projecting, Soul Stolen, Wraiths, etc.), and has no effect on those in an incapacitated state. Their mind is too dormant to cause it to fight against the body. It also has an interesting side-effect on those possessing a being; all damage done to the “suit” with this power is not sympathetically taken by the possessor.
NOTE: Access to this power through Possession would be at the 4-Trait level along with Dementation.