Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Many see Brujah as nothing more than physical fighters, however that is not the case, they will use anything they can in a fight and they know that to be effective they must be able to use everything to their benefit. By exerting their physical prowress they can use their strength as a means to temporarily bolster their social presence.

Mechanics:
To activate, the user spends a willpower to gain one appearance related social trait per dot of potence they currently possess. The power remains active for a scene or hour, whichever is less.
Once active, the user may expend an additional willpower during combat to gain a Willpower based retest in a social challenge for the round, maximum one such use per challenge.

After working long and hard with his knowledge of the kindred Beast Anthony Brewer looked to combine that with his true skills of presence.  He realized that he could use his presence powers to bypass the kindred and get right down to their beast level.  He found that he could pull on a kindred beast to bring it back to the form it knew best, it’s human form.  This is just a quick deception to the beast as he was only able to make it last a round.  Anthony was able to in fact get the kindred beast to return from any form changing powers the kindred was using back to this human form.
Mechanics:  The player must be able to see the person he would like to affect.  They engage their target in a social challenge retest with leadership.  If successful the target immediately leaves all form changing powers they have in use.  They may reactivate and return to any form changes after the turn has ended.

Description: Through your meditations, you have mastered the Qigong technique known as Golden Bell Cover, making the fibers of your muscles and the layers of your skin as hard as iron and the color of bronze.

Mechanics: This power is always active. When you test down damage using fortitude, you may test down damage equal to your level of fortitude/2, rounded up. In addition, you may grant the effects of this power (based on their fortitude level, not yours), for one scene/hour, to up to as many allies as you have levels of Fortitude. Doing so requires you to spend one willpower, and then one blood per target, and touch them to align their chi for them. This turns their skin a bronze color until the power wears off.

Restriction: This power may only be taught or learned by Buddhist characters with Martial Arts 5 and Meditation 5.

This power only works on metalworking.

Description: The craftsman becomes one with the metal as they can sculpt metal with their bare hands. Working the metal from the combined heat of the forge and their hands allows the Brujah to press the metal with their fingers as if it was a hammer strike. The Brujah's hands, which are as hard as steel, combined with the forge allow the Brujah to craft like never before, elevating their craftsmanship and quality.

System: By spending one blood and one temporary willpower, the Brujah can craft metal objects one level greater than their normal level during the item's crafting. Example: A Brujah with crafts metalworking x5 can create craft x6 items. (Please note, this only works on crafting metal items.)

Requirements: Potence 5, Celerity 5, Self-control 5, and at least 1 flexibility-focused merit.

If it walks like a man, and talks like a man...In a time when the masquerade is all important and the quest for humanity is espoused in so much Kindred art, it can be easy to forget that Kindred are not, in fact, living, breathing creautes. They are supernaturally animate undead corpses, more akin to zombies than men. This truth may be unappealing, and even hard to stomach at all, but it has its advantages on the perilous streets of the final nights.
Developed by a stoic Tyrant martial artist intent on pushing every fibre of his body to its vitae-enhanced limits, this technique is not for the faint of heart. Only those prepared to shut out the pain, and (often permanent) damage such exertion exacts upon the body can even begin to master it.
Through the use of this discipline the Kindred pushes their body to its limits in the space of a heartbeat through sheer force of will. The result is the seemingly miraculous ability to twist and contort oneself out of harm's way at the last instant. The cost, however, as one's body screams in protest, is tearing sinews, popping tendons, and even snapping bones. There can be a long road to recovery for the Kindred brave enough to employ this power, but to the iron mind of a Tyrant such burdens pall in comparison to the prospect of surviving another dark night.

SYSTEM: This power functions like aegis, with the following changes;
1. It costs both a permanent Willpower and a permanent Physical Trait to use.
2. It negates only a single attack or power rather than functioning for a full round, but avoids all physical consequences of the triggering effect, rather than damage only.
3. The permanent traits used to employ this power are noted and cannot be used for any other permanent expenditure, (including further uses of this power) but are not otherwise lost until the end of the scene, and may still be used and refreshed for comparisons of ties, temporary expenditures, etc. Just after the scene ends, if the kindred has survived, the full toll of this power washes over them in an awesome wave. They expend all traits spent on this power in a single massive loss, and are down a number of traits on all challenges equal to the number of times this power was used from the blinding, disorienting pain. This Trait penalty eases by 1 every hour as the Kindred adjusts and works it out, and may be ignored for 1 minute through the expenditure of a Willpower per trait.